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Okay, enough parody because I'm really excited to be seeing Rent tonight. It's one of my absolute favorite musicals (and let me tell you, I love me some musical theater), but I've yet to see it on stage. As much as I love the theater, it can be downright expensive. How did I see Les Miserables? In a high school gymnasium. It was great though! It was no Broadway of course, but the high school drama group's performance was fantastic and made me realize what it is I love so much the stage in the first place - it can go from the flashing lights of NYC to the snowy parking lots of Lima, Ohio.

I was always involved in my high school drama group (more often as chorus girl #9 than as a speaking role, but that wasn't the point) and for my first two years of college before some daunting classes set in, and it was fantastic every time. There's something about the stage, the lights, the smelly costumes, the nerves and the cold sweat that trickles down your back as you stand on a darkened stage, listening to the overture, waiting for the curtain to rise.

I love movies, but they're no match for live theater. Sometime I wonder why we're compelled to pretend to be other people, to tell stories, to capture and portray emotions that aren't ours. I'm no expert, but I think it has something to do with the understanding we all crave. We all want to be understood and to understand each other, and sometimes the best way to do that is with a story and song. That, and there are so many great stories in the world, it seems a shame to waste them.