Sounds like it was a wonderful Opening Night at the El Portal indeed! I wish my Friday theater-going experience was one sixteenth as good as yours last night. It was not even close.
It was not an opening, but I was courted to see this new musical due to a friend in it. Two of us gritted our teeth through it. It was only 2 hours and 45 minutes long...zzzz. Every number was too long, tons of writing 101 mistakes all over the place and no direction (lots of bad acting class self-staging throughout). Other than that it was fine haha. But someone threw a ton of money at it and is still doing so. Lordy, can we have some of that for better projects, please??
Tonight I will be going to see the opening of that show that has the 23 yr old Applegate. Why, I ask myself? Because I have other friends in it who will be wonderful, like the lovely Cynthia Ferrer. Hopefully I will escape without strangling anyone.

I long for one of those opening nights like you had last night.

Oh and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CILLALIZ!!!