In the early 1970s, my parents took me to see The Sound of Music at Radio City Music Hall. This soundtrack would become the gateway album for musical theatre and many future shows that I would passionately fall in love with such as My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and Oklahoma. It should also be mentioned that The Sound of Music became the film, with its open-air scene of the glorious Swiss Alps, that began whetting my appetite for travel. Oklahoma, with its Big-Sky-country scenes and endless blue sky, was another such film.
In my pre-pandemic world of Broadway outings, I was lucky enough to see absolutely fabulous productions of The Pajama Game, Most Happy Fella, and Guys and Dolls, with none other than Nathan Lane and Peter Gallagher.
Sigh…