Marsha and I went to the Pantages today for the 6:30 Sunday performance of MJ The Musical. The timing was perfect because we also got to have an early dinner at Sky Terrace on the 12th floor of the W Hotel just across from the theater.
The food was delicious, the view was great, and the show had a lot to say for itself. Although uneven, we enjoyed it overall, the staging was particularly remarkable, and the last 5 minutes and the curtain call drove the crowd wild. However… the last song was (It doesn’t matter if you’re) Black or White which I think nearly half the audience, the white people, loved and the other nearly half, the Black people, weren’t so sure about.
View out the window including Hollywood Presbyterian Church and the Griffith Observatory.
Time to leave the restaurant, and here’s another view out a different window.
The Pantages is a gorgeous theater. Every time I go in here I tell whoever I’m with, oh, I used to work here when I was a teenager, in the snack bar because I’d been a cashier at Orbach’s, so I made 10 cents an hour more than the ushers.
