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Six, seven, five, three, oh, nine. Eight, six, seven.
This group of friends is celebrating a girls’ night out.
We were saying that we know as soon as we get in, we’re going to be like, we love
this song, oh wait we love this song. Get up dance, so we had to come, girls’ night.
They’ve come to a theater in downtown San Diego to see Lamb’s Player’*** musical
“miXtape.” It’s now the longest running play in Lamb’s history, and its success
can be attributed to fans like these.
People. Hey, what time is it? It’s time for House.
MiXtape is one long medley of songs, close to 120 in all. Leonard Patton has been performing
in miXtape from the very beginning.
Whee.
It’s a crazy wild fun journey through the 80s exploring all the music of all different
styles. It explores things like cartoons.
Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder cats. Thunder cats.
TV themes.
Turn around, I see the girl who turns my world around.
Some of the things, commercials, and things that were so identifiable with the 80s like
MTV and things like that.
Is that a mixtape? Hold on, I haven’t seen one of these in ages. A mixtape! That is so
80s. It takes me back.
You sat by the radio and you would record for hours when songs came on the radio. So
that’s what I did. And so everybody had mixtapes for every single occasion: for their
boyfriend, girlfriend, for their friends going on road trips.
Tubular.
MiXtape has struck a chord with audiences, some of whom return to see it over and over
again.
Everybody has their genre that they started listening to when they were younger. After
their parents manipulated them with their music, then they found their own, and that’s,
that’s why I think it stays with everybody.
You’re so fine you blow my mind. Hey Mickey.
Another indication that audiences are transported? They sing along with the cast throughout the
play.
I remember the first night it happened, and it just takes a couple and as soon as a couple
people start to sing, and more join in and then they’re all back in the 80s. And I
remember I was singing a Madonna tune and I couldn’t even hear myself sing the audience
was singing for me, I probably could have stopping singing and they would have finished
the song.
Let’s get physical, physical.
Of course, no tribute to the 80s would be complete without neon colors and rubber bracelets,
side ponytails, and shoulder-bearing sweatshirts.
Let me hear your body talk.
Audiences have joined in by showing up in 80s garb, ready to take a musical trip back
in time.
It’s mostly just stuff I had in my closet that I knew if I just put it together something
would come out. I guess I’ve always had a little 80s in me. So it was in there, it
just had to come out.
Feel the power of love, whoa.