Out of character behavior for Namo, Part 547:
I just asked a person I do not know, in a place I do not work, if it would be possible to use her computer "for a sec" to check on something "very important." Trusting soul, she.
I don't have much time to scroll back, but let me see if I can answer the questions I remember to the best of my ability (and within my mysterious limits).
I have to say that whatever the first Broadway show I saw doesn't leap out at me in one of those gay boy epiphanies that so many other people report, you know, "the curtain went up, I saw the dance belts, and I KNEW I was a fan for life" type of thing.
And in my brain, I can't exactly separate the years, cuz they all blur together. As a really little kid, I tended to be really into pop music, there is a photo of me as a three year old in my crib that was affixed with a Beatles bumper sticker and my fourth birthday cake was a Beatles cake.
What I recall is seeing a Little Theater production of Fiddler on the Roof as a young boy and finding it EXCRUCIATING. Just the doleful word "Anatevka" is enough to give me anxiety.
I remember begging my somewhat Auntie Mame-like Auntie Marge to take me to Jesus Christ, Superstar when it first ever toured. My mom came too. But it wasn't the stage show, it was Jesus Christ Superstar in concert, before it was mounted as an actual show on Broadway. Auntie Marge and my mom thought it was LOUD.
Seeing a road company of Godspell, however was a personal highlight. I suppose I was 11 or so. I was obsessed with the show from about sixth grade on. While recently going through some items I found the program and the insert with the cast I saw.
Okay, the name FindingNamo came about strangely. At Broadway.com for a long time I was Machoman. Because I had picked the little cop avatar. Then, Machoman got in "a little trouble." So I rejoined the sight as Namohcam, which was Machoman backwards. People called me Namo for short.
Then that sight went away, and I joined this one and I didn't want the same exact name but I wanted something linked to it. That Pixar movie was out and I thought, "I may regret this in two months, but I'll use FindingNamo." And the funny thing is, I haven't got sick of it yet.
And a belated tip of the hat to Joey for passing the crownlette to me, you REALLY shouldn't have. But what's done is done, and the nomination speech was very kind. I have some reactions to it, but that will have to wait til later. But it may shed some light....
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