Remember the scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts & Richard Gere are at the opera and a woman asks her how she liked the opera and Julia’s response was: “It was so good, I almost peed my pants!”  Yep Wicked was that good.  Wow, it was truly amazing, I would put it up there with Phantom of the Opera on my favorites list (and I’ve seen Phantom four times now).  As my husband loves to point out “yeah she cried again”.  I think I am slowly developing a crybaby reputation, but yes there was a lot of boohooing at the end of it (and no I was not the only one, there were lots of other people crying too! )  It’s currently running in LA, Chicago and New York.  Please please put this on your to do list if you are in one of these cities or plan to visit.  I heard that it might be going on tour, so keep your eyes open for that!

Before we got there I reminded my husband that one of my favorite restaurants is close by so we had dinner at Chin Chin.  Seriously, people, if you are in LA (or in Vegas) you have to eat at Chin Chin and get the chinese chicken salad.  It is to die for.  I am so going to miss that when we leave LA, maybe I can pretend I’m a celebrity and they will have the salad flown by private just for me to Atlanta.  Yeah and then I’ll wake up from that dream now won’t I?  A girl can dream right?

I’m soooo not a food photographer, so my little point and shoot camera photo makes it look sort of gross, but trust me, its heaven on a plate…

We were a little early so we walked around and then we bumped in to Bette Davis and hung out with her for a while.  She didn’t say much..

The Pantages is such a BEAUTIFUL theater and it’s even prettier inside but men in vests come and scold you if you take photos, so you will just have to have a look at this shot of the ceiling from the outside waiting area.

Spencer loved Wicked!  I feel bad about leaving my little one at home but there is no way she would have been able to sit through three hours without having a toddler episode, so she partied with Grandma at home.
Just pretend you don’t see bad flash here and the dreaded red eyes, I was being a Mom not a photographer.  Just a note if you do decide to see the play, don’t buy the cd or the book there, they are like $30 each, same book and same cd on Amazon.com are less than $10 each.  We did buy the program and a tiny little shot of Diet Coke that was like $400, ok maybe it was $6, but it felt like $400.

Outside The Pantages after the show