1. When a popular musical comes to your country theatre for a strictly limited season, book early.
2. Entertainment with mass appeal knows exactly how to target its audience.
3. Playing to the cliches works; they are cliches because they're truths.
4. Universal truths carry powerful emotional resonance, even when those truths are hot flushes, night sweats, forgetfulness, slow thinking, sagging bits, wrinkles, and mothers' little helpers.
5. There is nothing wrong with using archetypes as shorthand to establish character.
6. A theatre full of middle aged women creates considerable warmth.
7. Laughing at yourself is good.
8. Laughing at yourself along with several hundred other women is even better.
9. Some men are very brave...they laughed, too.
10. At the end of the day, it's attitude that counts. We should never forget that we're all smart, sexy women no matter our age, size, shape or perceived status.
Labels: girlfriends, live theatre, Menopause the Musical, my everyday life
