a night at the theater

It should be no surprise to everyone that Tyler and I just love the theater. In particular, we love musicals. Since I work nights, Tyler and I go three days of the week without seeing each other. When I leave for work, he's not home yet. When I get home from work, he's already gone to work. One morning I got home from work and Tyler had a sign on the garage door inviting me to a movie night the following night when we'd both be home. But when I walked into the house there was another sign hanging from the ceiling that read "Now for the real surprise look on your computer". And there it was... Tyler had gotten us tickets to watch Sweeney Todd at the Casa Manana theater in Fort Worth. I had mentioned it in passing that I wanted to see it, but wasn't forceful about it. We had missed it last year when it was showing in Dallas and I was bummed about that. Needless to say I was excited with my surprise!

So on Friday, the 13th we headed over to Fort Worth for a fancy theater date!

We had dinner at Sardine's Ristorante Italiano.

I got spaghetti carbonara

Tyler got a cannelloni

He wasn't crazy about the food he got. But I loved it! It was a dark restaurant, and they had live music. It was a neat atmosphere and we had great service. I'd like to go back again.

We then headed to the theater. It was so cool. It has the coolest dome to it and it is a very nice facility. It's not a huge theater, and I don't think you could get a terrible seat in the house.

The actor that played Sweeney was Norm Lewis. When we went to New York in May and watched The Little Mermaid on Broadway he was the one playing King Triton. He was amazing. But oh my was he amazing as Sweeney Todd. The singing on the entire show was just brilliant. It is such a difficult musical to sing with high notes and dialects. It was very well done.


It was fun. The more I think about it, the more I like it. We were a little lost at first with the story and missed some things, but were able to understand the whole thing during the second act. I'm excited to see more plays at casa manana!