A Weekend in the City
Oct. 6th, 2010 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
surrealestateI never did write much about our trip to NY besides the photo essay. (Which reminds me that I should post the sillier part two of that.) It was pretty low-key overall. We arrived very late Saturday night, having left Boston after sufficiently filling ourselves following end of Yom Kippur, stopping only to pick up bagels.
Sunday we went into the city to take in a show then returned home to go to an amazing Italian dinner with my mom. At the restaurant, we ran into some family friends celebrating a birthday and my mother happily introduced my spouse-to-be. On their way out, they stopped at our table to once again congratulate us, and one of them noted, "I'm sure it won't be long til we hear some good news!" Seriously, people still *say* stuff like that? I mean, I realize he's old, but gimme a break. (FTR, we were amused, but still.) Then we went up to visit DSister at her place and had a nice long walk with the dog, Tillie, a real sweetie.
On Monday we went for a run (always fun to zip around and point out where everyone lives, where I had my first cigarette, etc), adventured in Brooklyn only to find the neat place we were looking for inexplicably closed (with no posted hours, I guess you never know), but went by what I call "Vegetarian Corner" at Bedford and Church where we popped into three Afro-Caribbean veg places for a small assortment of food and beverage of the type it is not nearly as trivial to find up here, including sorrel drink. Nummy!
We passed my HS on the way back and I was surprised to see a new overpass crossing Bedford Ave to a building labelled "Science Annex". Cool! I would have loved to stop in for a visit but we didn't have time, since we had to meet back up with my mom to go meet with DSis for dinner, followed by a coffee shop we randomly stopped into which ended up having an assortment of vegan baked goods. Go figure.
Tuesday was our Avenue J adventure chronicled in pictures and then the long drive back to Boston. And of course the entire weekend was also filled with plenty of crosswords. My mom saves the NYT magazines for me and whenever I go down there, I bring a pile back with me. (I love working on them with other people, too, so if you ever want to come over and crossword, let me know!)
So overall, a mellow but excellent time. I hadn't told anyone I was going to be down there because I knew it'd mostly be family time and I didn't want the stress of trying and failing to get together with people (even though I would love to see them -- there just weren't enough hours). Hopefully next time I can make more of an effort on that.
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We headed to Broadway with just a vague idea of which shows we were interested in seeing, planning to get in on rush ticketing and just see where it went. (We could have gotten going much earlier for TKTS, but sleep and snuggles were important, too.) We were also going on the assumption that most shows started at 3pm, but at the Fela box office (our first choice), found out some started at 2, so we missed that one, alack. So we wandered a bit, figuring we'd see what struck our fancy and lo, there was A Little Night Music, which neither of us had seen before.
They still had tickets, but we were told their rush prices were only for students. We sighed unhappily but decided to go ahead and get them, anyway. But DD signed the credit card slip absent-mindedly and as we were being seated, I noticed the number printed on the ticket and had him double-check the receipt. Yep, $27 each. Score! And just as well, since we were so high, it was a bit vertigo-inducing.
But the show was a lot of fun, and oh, did I mention the cast? Bernadette Peters portrayed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
desireearmfeldt with Elaine f'in Stritch* as her mother! That alone was quite a thrill for a musical theater dork such as myself, and though I'd never seen the show before, I was familiar with a good bit of the music thanks to Standing Room Only. Even if I do often forget which song is from which show, which caused me to squee gleefully (is there any other way?) when I realized *this* was the show with A Weekend in the Country, which, even out of context, I've always considered to be a near-perfect example of what a musical theater song should be. Yay!
[* This also gave me the opportunity, while on the long line during intermission to use the Ladies Lounge (that's what the sign said), to sing "Here's to the ladies who lounge..." to the amusement of my fellow queuers. Around here in my usual theater group, it's rare for anyone to get my silly musical theater jokes. Score another one for New York. ;]
Sunday we went into the city to take in a show then returned home to go to an amazing Italian dinner with my mom. At the restaurant, we ran into some family friends celebrating a birthday and my mother happily introduced my spouse-to-be. On their way out, they stopped at our table to once again congratulate us, and one of them noted, "I'm sure it won't be long til we hear some good news!" Seriously, people still *say* stuff like that? I mean, I realize he's old, but gimme a break. (FTR, we were amused, but still.) Then we went up to visit DSister at her place and had a nice long walk with the dog, Tillie, a real sweetie.
On Monday we went for a run (always fun to zip around and point out where everyone lives, where I had my first cigarette, etc), adventured in Brooklyn only to find the neat place we were looking for inexplicably closed (with no posted hours, I guess you never know), but went by what I call "Vegetarian Corner" at Bedford and Church where we popped into three Afro-Caribbean veg places for a small assortment of food and beverage of the type it is not nearly as trivial to find up here, including sorrel drink. Nummy!
We passed my HS on the way back and I was surprised to see a new overpass crossing Bedford Ave to a building labelled "Science Annex". Cool! I would have loved to stop in for a visit but we didn't have time, since we had to meet back up with my mom to go meet with DSis for dinner, followed by a coffee shop we randomly stopped into which ended up having an assortment of vegan baked goods. Go figure.
Tuesday was our Avenue J adventure chronicled in pictures and then the long drive back to Boston. And of course the entire weekend was also filled with plenty of crosswords. My mom saves the NYT magazines for me and whenever I go down there, I bring a pile back with me. (I love working on them with other people, too, so if you ever want to come over and crossword, let me know!)
So overall, a mellow but excellent time. I hadn't told anyone I was going to be down there because I knew it'd mostly be family time and I didn't want the stress of trying and failing to get together with people (even though I would love to see them -- there just weren't enough hours). Hopefully next time I can make more of an effort on that.
--
We headed to Broadway with just a vague idea of which shows we were interested in seeing, planning to get in on rush ticketing and just see where it went. (We could have gotten going much earlier for TKTS, but sleep and snuggles were important, too.) We were also going on the assumption that most shows started at 3pm, but at the Fela box office (our first choice), found out some started at 2, so we missed that one, alack. So we wandered a bit, figuring we'd see what struck our fancy and lo, there was A Little Night Music, which neither of us had seen before.
They still had tickets, but we were told their rush prices were only for students. We sighed unhappily but decided to go ahead and get them, anyway. But DD signed the credit card slip absent-mindedly and as we were being seated, I noticed the number printed on the ticket and had him double-check the receipt. Yep, $27 each. Score! And just as well, since we were so high, it was a bit vertigo-inducing.
But the show was a lot of fun, and oh, did I mention the cast? Bernadette Peters portrayed
desireearmfeldt with Elaine f'in Stritch* as her mother! That alone was quite a thrill for a musical theater dork such as myself, and though I'd never seen the show before, I was familiar with a good bit of the music thanks to Standing Room Only. Even if I do often forget which song is from which show, which caused me to squee gleefully (is there any other way?) when I realized *this* was the show with A Weekend in the Country, which, even out of context, I've always considered to be a near-perfect example of what a musical theater song should be. Yay![* This also gave me the opportunity, while on the long line during intermission to use the Ladies Lounge (that's what the sign said), to sing "Here's to the ladies who lounge..." to the amusement of my fellow queuers. Around here in my usual theater group, it's rare for anyone to get my silly musical theater jokes. Score another one for New York. ;]
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Date: 2010-10-06 02:53 pm (UTC)(And I am amused & bemused by how the statement "Bernadette Peters played
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:13 pm (UTC)And yes, there are indeed tons of folks who would get the jokes, it's just that I've found that the pseudo-random sampling of whomever happens to be around me here often does not, which I sometimes find weird because it's already a theater context. Whereas in NY, the random strangers around me at the theater seem much more likely to get it.
Given that what this means is that we get a lot of people who otherwise have relatively little theater exposure, I don't think it's actually reflective of anything *bad*. Except that they ought to start listening to Standing Room Only. But really, everyone should.
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:27 pm (UTC)My mom saw it with CZJ and AL and said they were wonderful, too.
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:32 pm (UTC)