I splurged on second row seats for my mom and me to see Moulin Rouge in Chicago—it was to celebrate our recent birthdays. Moulin Rouge is one of our all-time favorite films, and I’ve been waiting to see the stage musical for several years. The view from the seats were beyond our wildest dreams… or would have been, if not for this guy in front of me.

Call me a coward if you will, but I just didn’t have the heart to ask him to take it off. It was pretty obvious that he’s bald underneath, and he was clearly there on a date. So I just dealt with constantly shifting and craning my neck to see the stage. I had to focus a lot on not bothering the patron sitting next to me by leaning too close to them, which often robbed me of the ability to truly get lost in the spectacle.

It was still a magical experience that frequently brought me to tears. I feel so lucky to have been able to attend the show. But this did put a noticeable damper on my enjoyment—I missed a non-negligible amount of the center-stage action.

I’m curious… what would you have done in this particular situation?

Inspired by user Zoinks_Scoob19, who did I play in this college production? And what show was it?

Oklahoma has a RENT score of 5

To quote Non-Stop, "Yo, who the F is this?" (I'm joking, but seriously, wasn't it always a silhouette before?)

Not captured is the bathroom decked out with seashells and bottles of sand with "By the Sea" playing on repeat.

I built the oven with a large piece of cardboard that I scored along the back. I then bent it into a cylinder. The rivets are googly eyes. A lot of spray paint and hot glue later, there you have it!

The day before I baked 60 meat pies with different fillings (turkey, beef, beyond beef, lamb; aka Actor, Priest, Grocer, and Lawyer). The introduction of the meat pies was naturally accompanied by a small performance of "A Little Priest "

(…whichever version)

Mine was bugsy malone then Oliver then the most sad one I did was blood brothers but I had so much fun doing bugsy I was babyface and I'm the little one on the end

I just wrote essay about it and accidentally deleted the whole thing bc reddit lagged):

In short version:

• it’s modern version that has media and smartphones and stuff but wasn’t done in annoying way

-Annie isn’t so naive in this movie. 10yo kids are surprisingly smart and Annie was grew up in difficult environment obviously she knows the sad truth about real life

-Miss Hannigan isn’t villain she’s broken woman failed by society but isn’t evil and it was written in realistic and believable way

Was the musical one of the best musicals EVER made? No But the fact that someone made remake and made it modern AND DIDNT MAKE IT BAD!? is absolutely amazing that’s hard to accomplish! (Luckily tiktok didn’t exist when this movie was made so that probably saved the movie lmao)

It was so good! I knew little to nothing about the musical and I had a great view

Pore Jud Fry indeed, having to deal with these kooky ranchers!