Steven Skelley

  The Simon & Garfunkel Story review by Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong What an evening of cherished memories! The Simon & Garfunkel Story is simply fabulous! The songs are iconic and story behind the incredible success of one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s is told through an immersive concert-style theater show that supports the music perfectly. Folk-rock duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel began as friends who were fans of The Everly Brothers. Imitating the Everly style at first, Simon and Garfunkel billed themselves as Tom & Jerry.  When they created their own inimitable style and began performing as Simon & Garfunkel, they became one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s with more than 100 million album sales. Simon & Garfunkel’s perfect harmonies and timely lyrics earned them 10 Grammy Awards, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. Their Concert in Central Park r

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 82 Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer! I miss you so much. In February 2024, Tom and I took our first big travel adventure since the 2020-2021 Covid Pandemic. We flew to Paris, France. We booked a hotel very close to the world-famous Louvre Museum. We spent the next 8 days wandering this fabulous city. I took French class in the ninth grade. I had a lot of fun conversing with the French people with my limited Francais. They were very kind and helpful and seemed happy that I was trying to speak their language. I wish that you had been with us. what fun we would have had together. I love you and miss you,  Pawpaw _______________________________________________________ I create these Messages To My Grandsons because I want you to know your Pawpaw as you did when you were little children. I want you to know that I did not abandon you. Always know that Pawpaw didn't leave you. I was banned from seeing you. I hope you find these messages when you

 PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 81 Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer! It is Christmas Eve 2023. I have been thinking about you boys for weeks. I texted your Mom to ask if I could send Christmas gifts but she didn't reply. I try to imagine what you look like now. I wonder how much you've grown and changed. Before bed at night, I picture you boys in my mind and send you loving thoughts that Pawpaw loves you.  Someone told me that your Grandma J is visiting you now. I am banned from seeing you and your parents and have been for the last several years. Before your Mom and Dad married, they were angry at your Grandma and they banned her. She wasn't allowed to attend their wedding. She wasn't allowed to attend your births. I was. I think she was finally allowed back in the family when Connor was 6. Then, when Connor was 8, my husband Tom and I were banned from the family and have been ever since. I miss you every day. I look at old photos I have of you and sometim

  Steven and Tom review the hilarious musical MEAN GIRLS  ​ by Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong ​ It has been nineteen years (OMG) since Tina Fey's brilliant comedy movie about the perils of high school where the apex predator students either grant you a merciful and pitiful glance or viciously tear you apart for the sin of not being them. We loved the film MEAN GIRLS and now we love the MEAN GIRLS musical on stage!  For those of us not as cool as The Plastics, high school is a dangerous place where offending the queen of mean Regina George (Maya Petropoulos) means immediate and complete social suicide because Regina enjoys nothing more than ripping classmates to shreds with insults.  Homeschooled Cady Heron (Natalie Shaw) has just transferred to North Shore High School after having grown up in Africa where she enjoyed the starry skies while learning the hard truths of predators and prey. Innocent, friendly and practically a genius, Cady quickly finds herself a social misfit in e

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE ON STAGE REVIEW BY STEVEN SKELLEY AND THOMAS ROUTZONG I was two years old when the 1965 animated television special A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS first aired. I have watched it every year since. It has become a holiday tradition. Seeing A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE ON STAGE today had us anticipating every iconic line of dialogue, laughing at Snoopy's crazy antics and feeling the holiday spirit as we heard the wonderful giggles of all the children in the audience.  A CHARLIE BROWN CHRIST 1965 animated television special was based on the comic strip PEANUTS by Charles M. Schulz and featuring the hypnotic beautiful musical creations of Vince Guaraldi.   This spectacular new touring production, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE ON STAGE, is based on Charles M. Schulz’s timeless story and features the music of Vince Guaraldi but it also adds joyful choreography and a mixture of familiar and new music. We loved it all. Ethan Davenport's Charlie Brown is ever

  Hi guys, Pawpaw loves you!    It has been difficult for me to write to you lately. I miss you so much that it's painful to think about you and to wonder what you are doing. I I texted your Mom and Dad but they didn't reply again.   Do you have any memories of Frank? Connor and Bryson, you named a gopher tortoise Frank. He was on the vacant lot beside your house that I loaned your parents the money to buy. You named him after one of my best friends named Frank. Frank and his spouse Curt were my best friends. They loved you guys. You swam in their swimming pool when you visited me and Tom. Your Mom did too. They lived in a huge 6 bedroom mansion on a nature preserve.  Curt and Frank bought you guys birthday and Christmas gifts every year.    Frank was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. He battled it courageously but he passed away on October 17, 2023. Curt and I had been with him every day while he was in Intensive Care. We were there for 12 hours on Frank's final day unt