If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know that Ryan loves “The Music Man.” Here is a previous post explaining how he came to love this movie so much.
I have been trying to find a theater in our area that would be presenting “The Music Man,” for a while now. We discovered a dinner theater about half an hour away which was finally showing this musical.
So today Ryan, his Nana (my mom), Uncle Jeff, and Aunt Mara escorted Mr. Ryan to his first play/musical performance.
Ryan was SO excited all week for this. Today when he woke up he said with a big smile on his face, “Today we get to go see Music Man Mommy!”
I wasn’t quite sure how he would do- if he would get bored, or fidget, or just not get the whole play concept. But, I could not have been more pleased. He was just perfect. He ate his lunch, using the best manners I have ever seen, and his eyes never left the stage for the entire performance. He was enthralled with it all.
He was such a little gentleman- it was really fun to see him be a big, grown up boy. During the intermission, I took him to the restroom, and on the way out, he held the door open for all the ladies entering and exiting.
While the performers were serving dessert, he said a line in the play, “Ya wild kid-ya!” I saw a few of the performers laugh when they heard him say that- he mimicked the line very well.
Here is a picture of Ryan “reading” the program before it started:
We had a great time, and it was really nice my mom, brother and sister could come with us. I know Ryan will always remember the first time he got to see “The Music Man” in person. As his mother, I will too, but more that that- I will remember this as the first really grown-up event Ryan went to as a big boy.
Now he can go back to just being a little boy- as great as today was, I don’t think I’m ready for him to act so grown-up every day- not yet.