The Wiz is a better musical than I initially thought. It's not a great great musical, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. There was dancing, so much dancing that I'm jealous and wish I was a year younger just so I could be dancing too. I was quite impressed with the girl who played Dorothy, and the Tinman (though he was out of tune occasionally), and also Colleen, but Colleen has always had good stage presence. And my friend Rob was very good too, with his Tae Kwon Do! He was crying a lot after the show though and I hugged him a lot. I don't usually like hugging, but I really enjoy hugging Rob, even a wet and sobbing Rob. One thing about the show overall that I noticed is that nearly everyone couldn't sing a few parts because their voices couldn't go low enough.
I think the biggest surprise was when, at the end, one of the faculty actors set up a bit of a ruse with the director, and they turned a pretend raffle into a marriage proposal. I have to admit, and I hate to admit, that it impressed me (though if anyone ever tried that with me, I'd kill him later).
To go a bit further into the past, my friend Matt and I went to the mall in search of job applications today. I found that to be quite a bit of fun since we laughed and joked our way from store to store as we filled things out and got paper applications. I came away with quite a handful of pages.