Mama Mia

**Reposted from the first Lair, original date: 12/31/03
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In their continuing quest to torture me while I’m home, my parents dragged me and my brothers out to see the Washington DC production of the hit musical "Mama Mia" at the National Theater today.  They first told me of this excursion about 10 minutes after I got off the plane about a week ago.  Now, I’m not a big fan of musicals, especially ones that have to do with weddings, so I told them I didn’t particuarly want to see that play.  What was their responce?

"You have no choice."

Yep.  My parent’s literally TOLD me I had no choice in the matter.  And they were right, I didn’t.  My mother started laying down the guilt trips on my brothers and I immediately after we expressed our disinterest, eventually forcing us to go.

So we went, and the play was so-so.  The story was pretty stupid, the acting sub-par, and there were only a few songs that were any good in my opinion (I was never a big fan of Abba to begin with).  However, the thing that surprized me the most was the number of WOMEN at the show!  Seriously, there were some really good looking women at the National Theater tonight, and there were TONS of them.  Many of the women were their with their girlfriends, and there were very few men there who weren’t with their family or under the age of 40.

I noticed a lot of chicks there who are what I dub "theater whores."  These are girls who I used to go after in high school where my excessive need for validation lead me to join the theater club.  These are girls who are escapist junkies.  They love to go to the theater for the thrill of it — to get caught up in the lights, glamour, fantasy, song, etc.  They’re the theater equivalent of the "party girls" that you find in bars, looking for the next high (a-la Tyler’s Post).  All you need to do is start talking to them about how great the play is and BOOM!  They’re yours, you’ve opened.  Quick & easy.  And the best part of it is that they are HIGHLY suggestible women, especially since they are into fantasy and escapism.

There are also quite a number of decent looking older women who go to these musicals and plays, all of which desperately need attention.  Another thing I love about it is that these "theater whores" are also usually failed or wannabe actresses, who are SO easy to seduce, because they are naturally suggestable.

This got me thinking that once I get back to LA, I might start attending more theater events.  LA has a large number of small playhouse productions every weekend where you can go and meet these types of women.  Not only that, but at small enough venues, you can even talk to the actresses, which is great because they are attention whores to the fullest and willing to cling to anybody who gives them the least bit of validation.  So I’ll be sure to experiment with this even more.

Also, throw in the "tourist factor" with theater events, and you’ve got some really good prospects.  In fact, I’m quite jealous of guys in New York right now because they probably have the best "theater whores" in the nation to pick on.  Oh well.

I’ll be sure to post field reports of this shit once I’m back to LA and into my old life again.

Thundercat