"To the theater!"

If you are in the Nashville area and you enjoy live theater, but on a small and inexpensive level, you need to check out The Boiler Room Theater. It is at The Factory in Franklin. It's absolutely delightful. A charming little theater built in the old boiler room (thus the name) and there isn't a bad seat! It's small so you don't miss anything and they do musicals as well as plays. This is my third year in a row to get season tickets, and I really appreciate how they do the season tickets. You don't have to pick say every 2nd Friday performance or every first Sunday matinee for the entire year up front. Before each play opens they send you a postcard with all the performance dates (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) and you call in to reserve your date for that particular play only. Then they send you a postcard when it's time to reserve for the next show. It really is great for flexibility and I've never not been able to get in on the night I chose.

The actors and actresses do a fantastic job and the prices for the season tickets come out to be about $12 a seat per play! This is great! It allows me to see 7 shows a year instead of one or two shows at some big fancy theater. Last season's finale was Disney's Beauty and the Beast and I was a little unsure about how they were going to pull it off on the small stage, but they did a truly phenomenal job! This year I've already seen Anything Goes (which was hysterical) and last night was Angel Street (for those who don't know, this is the play that the old movie Gaslight was done from). Once again I had a terrific evening.

I wouldn't be caught dead going to a movie theater by myself, but I've been going to the real theater by myself off and on for 8 or 9 years. I did a couple seasons at a theater in Fort Worth when I lived there also. So if this is your kind of thing, be sure to check it out - or if you know of any other similar places in the area, please share your info!!

Forever Plaid... coming next....