September Cupcakes

We stopped by Main Street Cupcakes today.  From left to right we have Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake, Lemon with a Twist, Caramel Apple, and Maple Chip.

Here is the view from the box when we got them home.

Merrily We Roll Along

We just got back from seeing Merrily We Roll Along: In Concert by Stephen Sondheim.  It was a collaboration between the Beck Center for the Arts, Baldwin Wallace University, and the Musical Theater Project.  I am a huge fan of Sondheim.  I had heard selections from this musical before, but I had never seen the whole show.  My mind is blown.

The story follows three friends, Charlie (a writer/lyricst), Frank (a musician), and Mary (a novelist) and their careers and friendship.  You might be puzzled that I have tagged this show as both a comedy and a tragedy.   The show starts in the most recent time period and goes backwards, similar to the movie Memento.  However, Sondheim produced this back in 1982, so this was ahead of its time.  It starts on a very destructive note, and ends on a very hopeful one where the characters first met.  It's a tragedy if the show is in chronologically ordered.  

This show contains a song that I really love, Not a Day Goes By.  Seeing it in its original context is incredibly powerful and moving. 

Also, note that this wasn't a fully staged show.  It was a concert.  All singers/actors (the senior music class of BW) have scripts and scores available in front of them on music stands.  It doesn't stifle the plot at all to not be fully staged.  I enjoyed the show, and left the theater feeling both happy and sad.

Melt Bar and Grilled's New Menu

Melt Bar and Grilled redid their menu!  Tonight we ordered takeout, because their wait time for dinner was an hour and a half.

Pictured above is one of my favorites, Peanut Butter and Banana.   It has caramelized banana, candied peanuts, peanut sweet cream cheese,  and mixed berry preserves.  The candied peanuts are a new addition.  The bananas before were plain, rather than carmelized.  I have half to enjoy tomorrow, as well as a large bag of fries.

Steve had the New Bomb Turkey.  It's basically Thanksgiving dinner in sandwich form.  It contains roasted turkey, mom’s sage stuffing, roasted butternut squash, homemade turkey gravy, cranberry orange jam, and muenster.  Yummy!  I hope it's a regular item from now on.

Melt has very large portion sizes.  One sandwich can easily serve two people.  I highly recommend splitting sandwich halves with a friend to experience the most variety.