Introduction

Welcome to my blog: Curtain Up! Light The Lights!

My name is Jon Rosen, and some of you may already know me (from being friends and/or family, from theatrical productions we may have worked on together, from Facebook or other myriad social media sites that I belong to).  Or maybe you just stumbled on this blog and don't know me from Adam!  

In either case, welcome aboard and I am excited to share this journey through the amazing world of local as well as regional and national musical theater that I am both a contributor to and a huge fan of (and please no comments on the dangling prepositions!)  I hope you will enjoy the ride and I look forward to not only providing you with my $.67 worth of input on various local productions and musical theater news from around the country (and maybe even the world) but also getting feedback from you on where you agree with me, and also where you disagree with me (that is welcome too!)  

The [title of blog] :-)

As a bit of trivia, you either already know (or will in about 150 microseconds) that my blog title comes from the first verse of the song Everything's Coming Up Roses from Gypsy! Gypsy is one of my favorite musicals for many reasons (I may elaborate on this in a later post) and these words are prophetically sung by Louise's (Gypy's) Mama Rose as she prepares to figure out how to make Louise a star after being abandoned by her other daughter, Louise's sister June.  These words just felt like some of the best words to define a blog about musical theater productions because virtually every show ever performed starts with "curtain up, light the lights!"  (Of course these days, more and more shows are done without a curtain, but fortunately, except for shows done outdoors, lights will probably be required for a long time to come!)

Until Next Time...

It seems standard to use an early blog post to provide a little background for your audience and explain where you come from, what brought you here and what you are planning on doing with your blog.  I will leave that exercise until next time, but I hope you do come back and before long, we will be plunging into the world of musical theater, both big and small, and hopefully having a great time along the way.