welcome, roger!
i think i'm seeing hairspray soon, my dad recently asked me if i'd seen it when he asked what CR i was listening to, and i said hairspray. he seemed genuinely interested, especially after i went on about how i love the movie and the music and it won the tony for best musical and all my friends who have seen it have loved it.

c'mon, i had to milk it while i had his attention.
my dad isn't a big broadway person, and he's seeing wicked for the first time on 1/1, and he doesn't seem all that excited. i pulled up the week in review on playbill.com and showed him that wicked has been at 100% FOREVER and has the second largest theater on broadway. i also said that people would KILL for his ticket, and that he should enjoy it. then i showed him the prices of wicked tickets on e-bay. and of course he's already heard the CR from my endless playing of it. i think he'll appreciate it a lot more now.