I have kind of a long weird history with this Planet Ann Arbor theatre. My first memory of it was when I was I dunno like 10 or 12. We traveled from the yooperland to visit our FinFam Ann Arbor cousins and we went to see HMS Pinafore. Was I entranced? I dunno. I have never been all that entranced by musicals but I certainly didn’t have a bad time. But I NOTICED THE LIGHTS in the lobby.

Years and years later, living in Ann Arbor, as I do, I was a mother of young children and I was sometimes recruited to play the flute in pit orchestras for musicals in the Lydia Mendelssohn. I REMEMBERED THE LIGHTS! In the lobby. From when I was a child.

My children grew older and I stopped doing pit orchestra gigs but then. My children became actors with YAG. And guess where they played a couple times a year? The Lydia Mendelssohn. I REMEMBERED THE LIGHTS. In the lobby.

I spent many years working to support YAG and my children in plays at the Mendelssohn. I loved ALL of it. I especially loved hanging around with Madame Producer in the green room. We would laugh uproariously (but silently) when things kinda went sideways. As they do. I loved helping the uber costume women in the bowels of the theatre and running front of house.

I will never forget when I got my first Apple laptop (2003 and The Commander helped buy it, thanks moom) and I figured out that I had wifi access at the Mendelssohn. That was a game changer. No more big binders full of papers to haul around.

We had a FinFam steak dinner here tonight and it is snowing but everyone in our family has made it home safely.

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