In the world there are some things that can be considered to be facts. As in “a statement that can, at least in theory, be checked and confirmed” like the wonderful wizard of wikipedia so eloquently puts it. One universal fact could be that the earth, globe, world – is round. Although previously people have believed that the world is flat, and still there is the question of – is the world a perfectly round shaped or not.

Where was I? Right, facts! The fact of the matter is.. I love musicals. I adore musicals. I worship musicals. I live and breathe musicals. I wish my life was a musical (in fact that and exactly that, is the name of a facebook group I have joined). Recently I came upon a recorded stage version of We Will Rock You, the queen musical (orginal London cast). I have been watching it, listening to the soundtrack, and watching all kinds of material on YouTube and elsewhere of this fantastic musical rock concert.

A year ago I & the family traveled to London for a mini vacation. My number one priority was to go and see a real West End musical (just one, because the shows are expensive – if I’d had my way, we would have seen at least three musicals!). My second thing to cross of my list of things to do was to go to the Disney store. Third was to make a little trip to a HMV store and hope that I would not use all of my money in there…(I actually ended up purchasing about 10 albums, but my excuse was – they were on sale!) Ok, again I am getting sidetracked here. So, musicals. We decided to see Wicked, since it was one of those musicals which haven’t yet reached Finland’s stages – and of which I had only heard of because a friend had sent me a (US) soundtrack a couple of years before.

Wicked is shown at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, in London. Which is right next to another theatre -The Dominion Theatre. What musical plays at The Dominion? WE WILL ROCK YOU. When we went to see Wicked, we also saw the wonderful golden statue of Freddie Mercury above The Dominion Theatre marquee. You see where I am going with this? We Will Rock You is now, currently, the no.1 musical I want to see. Sure, I’ve seen the spectacular videotaped version (a rehersal tape recording for new cast members) of it with the wonderful Tony Vincent as the leading man. But nothing truly beats seing a musical live. Feeling the music. The atmosphere.

So, I guess what I am trying to explain is that I want to plan another trip to London!!! <3