Aida.

I didn't try out for this play-- one because I can't sing worth a damn, and two because I am currently enrolled in track and couldn't/wouldn't give that up to perform.

But I did go see the play. Twice. That's the first time I've ever seen a Rampart production twice, and that is a true testament to what an amazing and incredible job the actors did with their performance.

I think maybe part of the reason this one was so spectacular was because the plotline wasn't too too hard to follow. Like All the King's Men... I could follow that story line, but I had to pay attention a lot more than I did with Aida.

Aida drew me in with PASSION, and LOVE, and true HEARTBREAK, rather than intellectual stimulation. Does that make sense? Like the storyline itself was not complicated, it was the way they played out the emotions that made it so compelling and so easy to watch and to enjoy.

I am ashamed to admit it but I actually CRIED. Legitimately cried. That's how convincing Jessica and Ben and Hudson and Janice (and the rest of the cast) were.

Incredible.
Unbelievable.
Marvelous.