One and a half plays

[cowgrrl]

I'm back from my whirlwind 3-day trip to New York. We got in late last night, yet I am somehow upright and pretending to be functional at the office. Here's a tidbit of my trip summary, with much more to come later.

We went to New York to see Spamalot but nearly missed the play entirely. Here is what I learned on this trip: When you buy theater tickets, always take a close look at them. Look at the date on the ticket. Look at the time on the ticket. We were sure we had evening tickets, but when secret_willow looked at the tickets to double-check the time before making dinner plans he was horrified to see the tickets said 2pm not 8pm as he'd thought. The current time was 2:45pm. Luckily we were at our hotel which was only three blocks from the theater so we ran out of the hotel, wearing our grubby traveling clothes rather than the nice clothes we'd intended for our trip to the theatre, and managed to arrive just as intermission was taking place. So we were able to see the second half of the play, and see Tim Curry on stage. *sigh* What we saw was great. *sigh*

As consolation, after the half-a-play we passed a theater where Harvey Fierstein was starring in Fiddler on the Roof and on a whim managed to buy tickets for the show that evening -- way up in the back of the balcony (the "cheap" tickets). Since secret_willow played Tevia in Fiddler on the Roof when he was 11 years old, he enjoyed it immensely. I enjoyed the second act more than the first, but more on that later. And more on autographs, photos with stars, (no not Tim Curry, sadly) and other insanity later.

Comments

[iluvdaphne.livejournal.com]

Fiddler on the Roof I have only seen the movie but I am sort of biased being Greek. My kind of movie!

Glad you two got to see half of the play. Better than none. Yep. Plus the whole one. Sounds like it was a good trip all in all!

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

The ethnicity in this play is actually Jewish (Eastern European) but I'm sure there is MUCH similarity in the cultures! And oddly enough, I've never seen the movie. I knew most of the music though. :) Great play!

And someday I want to see the first half of Spamalot! :) It was a very good trip and I'll have photos and more details when there is time.

[logisticslad.livejournal.com]

Very sorry to hear that you missed half of Spamalot. I recommend buying the CD to at least hear what you missed. I'm thoroughly enjoying the music.

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! And it's likely to be among the first things I upload to the new ipod I haven't bought yet (but really need to buy since I managed to spill ginger ale on my cd player during the bus ride home and now it's not working so well! :( )

I loved the music during part 2 so I'm sure I'll also love the music to part 1. :)

[secret-willow.livejournal.com]

All the music lives in my computer so you can hear it as soon as you wish.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

"the tickets said 2pm not 8pm as he'd thought"

OMG! I'm glad you got to see some of it!

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Me too! I checked ticket prices today (in case we wanted to go back and try again) and the prices have gotten completely insane! Like, more than double what they were when we first bought our tickets. So, half a play is better than no play. *sigh*

[grltalk.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

A little Tim Curry is better than none at all.

On our recent visit to the Village, one of the members of the Blue Man Group patted my kid's afro during the show. I believe that makes him famous. ;)

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must have been an exciting moment for the kid! :)

And yes, a little Tim Curry is always better than no Tim Curry!