Put your hands together for Bill and Kathy Booth's wunderkind son, Steve. Who opens on Broadway in the lead role in the rock musical "Glory Days" on May 6. Steve cut his teeth as a thespian on Sandra Seaton's stage at Lake City High and has performed in a number of roles with the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre. Now, he's getting a variety of write-ups for "Glory Days," from the Washington Post to Playbill, from USA Today to Theatermania. Which provides this capsule about the play: "The show is about four high school buddies reuniting for the first time about a year after graduation. While they banded together for mutual support during high school, they find that they've now changed." Nick Blaemire (music and lyrics) and James Gardiner (book) produced the play of 15 songs that runs for 85 minutes without a break. Ticket cost: $97.50. You can preview the music and hear brief interviews with Booth and the other cast members (Andrew C. Call, Adam Halpin and Jesse JP Johnson) on YouTube by searching for "Glory Days" and "Steven Booth." In an e-mail exchange, Bill Booth reminded me that I once wrote that Junior was the CdA summer theater cast member "most likely to play Broadway." Dang, I love it when I'm right/DFO, Handle Extra Huckleberries. More here

Question: What play did you see when you last attended a local theater production, including high school, community theater on up to the traveling Broadway shows that come to Spokane?

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