'School of Rock' (backdated)

    It’s the end of the month, the last day of the month in fact, Friday, July 31st, 2026, and I still haven’t come up with a subject to meet my quota of four posts per month.

    I know, I’ll post about the 23rd, but backdate the entry to a week ago last Friday, the day after. There is a reason for this and for keeping the time of day 10:36 AM, which it is at the moment.

    First off, I already, have a post for the 23rd of July, which as you know marked the 72nd birthday of my twin sister and I.

    Secondly, had I chosen to write on this subject, involving an evening event, I most likely would have begun doing so the following morning of the 24th. 

    So what happened? My sister Yvette and her friend, Andy Hernandez, decided to treat me on my birthday to see a live theatrical performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical play ‘School of Rock’ based on the 2003 film of the same name. The play was a presentation of Fairfield’s Missouri Street Theatre (MST) and the heart of the city’s Downtown Theatre was the venue.

    However, before I begin relaying my impressions of the production, I want to veer away for a moment to touch upon a melancholy matter having to do with turning seventy two, Genie and I are now older than are late, middle sister Angelica was at the time of her passing, which just a month and a half shy of her seventy second birthday, five years ago. It’s sobering to realize we have outlived her. I wish Angie were still with us instead. Due to our respective ages being similar to her, and our reaching seventy two, whereas she did not, this specific birthday was going to be unavoidably overshadowed by those particular facts. At least for me in part. I was with Angie, helping her when she left us. I cannot forget her.

     Life, goes on, and Angie would have wanted nothing but our happiness, so sure, let’s celebrate cheer, and take in a rock ‘n’ roll musical!

    It should be noted that I as an artist was also involved, among other crafts, in the thespian arts during my schooling. I have been on stage as an actor, as a touring singer and band member, I have worked behind the camera on set both professionally in television and film, so I come to the performance as one already initiated and acquainted with the lively arts.