Clear Space Productions: Annnie Get Your Gun!

$25 to see Annie Get Your Gun at a high school? I thought my girlfriend had lost her #10 hot pad-thai noodles. In my head I had visions of wonderful performances mixed in with the bad. I assumed this would be really, really bad. But hey, I wanted a night outta Dewey Beach.

The Lewes High School is GORGEOUS!!!! It is a great soaring space that makes you happy to be inside when you know all the kids want is to be outside on the beach! I marveled how this building surpassed nearly all my college campus buildings. I continued to gasp as I entered the auditorium.

I gasped again when the orchestra appeared! Live musicians!!! Oh, and were they ever good when they struck up the opening.

I audibly gasped and sighed again when the lead, Ted Keegan playing Frank Butler, sang his first two lines...... I instantly knew he was an Irving Berlin "specialist".

I nearly whopped out loud for joy: this was gonna be great!!!!

Thus it was: a perfect performance, an Irving Berlin "Love Fest".

Clear Space: is a treasure. Can't wait for 2011's, "Chicago"!