The Birth of a Broadway Baby!!

Super excited about the show

Last night Abigail got to enjoy her first Broadway show.  We did not make it all the way to the Great White Way, but the Lion King was at the Kennedy Center and we have had tickets since the day they came on sale.  (First Row Mezz: Best seats in any  house, I swear by it!)  In fact, the tickets went on sale the same time we accepted Joseph's file, so we had no idea when we would travel to China and wanted to guarantee that we would be in town for the show, we bought TWO sets of tickets:  one for the 1st week and one for the the last week of the run!!


For those of you who may now know, until Abigail entered our lives, we have had a slight Broadway obsession, seeing over 33 shows each in NYC, plus numerous traveling shows.  Abigail has put that on hold, but we were both over the moon last night to share this love of ours with her.


AND SHE DID AMAZINGLY!!  She was polite and rapt way past her bedtime!

Family pic (sans Joseph)
outside the Kennedy Center before the show

Abigail behaved better than many older children we saw there.  When we told her that people usually dress up for theatrical shows, she said that she wanted to wear her Chinese silks!  (We met a family outside the Kennedy Center with a now 14-year-old who was adopted long ago in Guangzhou and they delighted in seeing Abigail and her chosen outfit!)


Abigail now can correctly use the words "playbill" and "intermission" in a sentence.  She said she wants to see more Broadway shows, which, of course, warms the hearts of her theatrephile parents!  Her favorite part was when Mufasa died.  She wanted to stay to the end because she wanted to see the "human in a costume" who played Mufasa come back for a bow.  Her second favorite part was when Scar died.  She explained matter-of-factly that she loves when things die.  (Do we need to see a child psychologist with her?  There have been so many times that I have deeply missed my father-in-law and now if one of those times!)

"Look Mama!  I fold up!"

We absolutely cannot wait until she is 5 or 6 and we can take her to Times Square and catch a show in NYC and go to Pomme Frite on 2nd Avenue!!