Sixty Plus and Smiling

We will meet at Upstreet Diner for breakfast or lunch at 11:30 am., before the "Wicked" movie. Anyone can join us, even if you are not coming to the movie.

Upstreet Diner is a few doors down from the theater, on Murray Ave. Parking on side streets are free. I recommend Darlington Ave, but read the signs about street cleaning.

There are omelets, pancakes, and waffles if you want breakfast. If you are ready for lunch, there are burgers, pitas, and salads. Here is the menu: https://www.menupix.com/menudirectory/menu.php?id=32380199

We will have a table for 16, in the back room.

See trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Xubj7lazE .
The movie is $8:50. There is free parking on side-streets.

I will be adding an events page for the bunch before the movie. If you are coming to both the movie and the brunch, you must sign up on both event pages.

The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices.

Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).

Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.

As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives.

As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.

Let's see the final chapter of the epic childhood favorite, The Wizard of Oz.

Wicked for good is playing at the Carmike Westmoreland and Tuesday is discount day.

We can have dinner after the movie at a place of our choosing.