Steven Skelley

 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