Fifty Years Ago, Exactly On This Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              Half a century ago, my father and I boarded a Suburban Transit bus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to go to New York, and see the new smash musical "A Chorus Line", playing at the Shubert Theatre.

                               It was a life changing experience.  To his dying day, my father always talked about us going to see that show, and how good it was.  It introduced me to Donna McKechnie.  Need I say more?

                              The show also cemented in me a desire, which four years later, due to my mother's death, became a necessity, to get myself into New York and live the life of a New Yorker.  Which I did.  And "A Chorus Line" helped along the way.

                                Over these decades, I have seen many stagings of this show, even a return engagement for Donna.  And of course I have seen Donna in other shows, and concerts.

                                 But nothing will ever top that first viewing of "A Chorus Line," with my father, exactly fifty years ago today.

                                  As the song says it motivated me into doing "what I had to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"