It’s a Wonderful Life – La Comedia

This play at La Comedia was also a Wonderful Musical! We took our Young at Heart Day Trip to La Comedia to catch this great Christmas program. Everything about this was perfect!

• For starters, our seating was great!
• The Buffet was outstanding
• The Musical was one of the best plays that I recall ever seeing at La Comedia.

We had a good group of Young at Heart people go with us for this special event. La Comedia always does a very good job for us. Therefore, La Comedia has become one of our favorite destinations for our Day Trips. Good thing; because we will go three times in 2013!

Our seating has improved significantly since we moved up to the section above the floor level. We can see better and the seating is more comfortable. All tables seat 2 or 4 people rather than the 8 people that we had down on the floor level, last year.

But, it isn’t about the seating; it is a about OUR people!

Of course, a big attraction to La Comedia is also the food! I personally thought the food was even better than normal.

… and service!

But of course, we also came to see the play/musical. “It’s a Wonderful Life!” Good overcame evil once again. The actor/singers did a great job. The finale with the singing of “O Holy Night” was outstanding and received a standing ovation.

For copyright purposes, we were not allowed to photograph of take video  during the program. However, we always get to meet the players after the play. This is a shot that I took of the lineup.

Well done, La Comedia!

Young @ Heart – Christmas Luncheon Program

This month we celebrated Christmas a little early with a very special program and special menu for lunch. I think everyone was very pleased with both the program and the food.

Our program started with a Piano / Organ duet Prelude by Grace Averitt at the Piano and Nancy Jensen at the Organ. Their music was well done but I’ll let you hear it here, too! 

Following this music, I did our normal opening material and jokes.

THEN! We were pleased to be entertained by the Carillon Brass. This group will be doing a similar program this weekend (Friday Afternoon) at the Loft downtown. All five of these brass musicians are also part of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to other duties and jobs such as teaching, etc. Our own Pastor of Worship and Music, Charlie Pagnard did most of the talking and played Trumpet.

Oh, that’s right, they are a Quintet, that means 5.  So here are the other 4. These included a French Horn, another Trumpet, at Trombone, and a Tuba!

I’ll include a couple of YouTube links so you can actually see and hear these men in action:

Carillon Brass at YAH

Carillon Brass at YAH - Dec. 11, 2012 (More Video)

Now, you can also listen to the entire concert HERE.

Finally, if this isn’t enough, we had a fantastic lunch! Last month we had everyone vote on their choice for meals and the winner was – Ham, Potatoes, Fruit Salad, and Pie. Lisa chose the pie and I thought it was great, even though I had never had anything like it before. Egg Nog Pie!  Thank you Lisa and the kitchen and dining room staff for a fantastic Christmas meal!