Saturday's Warrior

Last night my family and I went to see Saturday's Warrior. It's the 35 year Anniversary of it's production...it came out the year I was born!!!

I remember seeing it when I was about 10 years old in the theater with my Mom and Dad. At the time it was "just a play"...but this time it was very emotional for me. From the time the music started...I was in tears. Soooo many memories came flooding back about the music. Growing up my dad had a "real to real" of the soundtrack. My siblings and I would fight over who got to lay on the couch in the living room with the honkin' and I mean honkin' earphones and listen to the music. We would be singing along in our own little world ALL the words to the songs. So hearing the music...just brought all that back and it took all I had not to belt it out with the performers.

The other part that was emotional was that every bit of the play resembled something in my life and at 35 I could finally relate. I won't go into it because it's too personal, but this play was AWESOME and I am so glad I got to see it.

We took Landen (he's almost 10), just like when I was 10. He loved the music and he shyly told me that he wanted to cry couple of times. The spirit was very strong...one of those when you want to "stand on top of a mountain and proclaim to all the world"!! Landen didn't totally understand the whole story, but he got the basics. This performance was a recap with all of the songs and led into the second act...White Star...which is a new production.

White Star was the "after"...when Jimmy Flinders becomes an adult, has a family and the trial he has. The soundtrack to this was pretty good too.

The performance just started it's tour...so check out ldsmusical.com...hopefully you can still get tickets. I'm so glad we didn't miss this.

Amen