He made me tapes of (or I made copies of, I forget) his cast recordings of something like a half-dozen shows, including CHESS. I’d seen PHANTOM in Toronto, but that was pretty much it until we saw LES MIZ on Broadway before my senior year of high school.
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I remember typing out the lyrics to several songs, including “Pity the Child,” on the computer and printing them out on a dot matrix printer. (We didn’t have the internet, so by this I mean, I listened to the song enough times to type all of the worlds out.)
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It was all part of the start of my love affair with the magical world of the theater. And, watching someone like Esparza singing one of those songs really just brought back everything I felt back then — we’re talking like 1994 — right to the front of my mind.
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I think I was probably in that mindset because of
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To follow that up so quickly with seeing “Pity the Child” incredibly performed was just like a ton of bricks. ... Anyway, theater is amazing, and so is figure skating. Art and artistry are gifts, and thank goodness for all those who are encouraged to cultivate their gifts.
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Here are my earlier tweets about the
@kencen performance, which is just going on (and already sold out) this week. If you’re going, you’re in for a treat.https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/963937801346707457 …
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Anyway, that was lovely. ... Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.
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That’s one of my favorite musicals and almost no one else I know has ever heard of it! That’s also one of my favorite songs from Chess...I’ve heard it ten thousand times and *still* tear up every single time.

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Thee was a musical thread a while back and I faved every Chess reply. There were several.
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