Good News

Look out New York, the queen is coming! I found out yesterday that my companion needs to go to New York the week of the 16th for work, so we decided to fly out early in the morning on Saturday the 14th andcan take advantage of a matinee, and then we'll be back on Wednesday the 18th. I've looked through playbill.com, and it looks like we'll be seeing Deuce, Xanadu, 110 in the Shade, In the Heights, Gypsy (with Patti!!!), and a Saturday matinee to be determined, most likely Frost/Nixon, Old Acquaintance, The Year of Magical Thinking, or A Chorus Line. Tickets for the 5 definite ones are all available and I'll be buying them tonight when I get home. We're remaining flexible for the Saturday matinee and are going to wait until we get there to buy tickets because if anything gets fucked up with the flight we probably won't make it to the show, and we don't want to spend a couple hundred dollars for tickets and not be able to go (and you know we're not getting a refund either from the theatre or American Airlines should that happen). We're supposed to arrive around 10:30, so we'll go to the hotel and then head to TKTS. I'll also print out any playbill.com offers and if the TKTS line is too long we'll just go directly to the theatre of the show we choose. My companion accuses me of being a little bossy when it comes to selecting shows, so I'll let him decide what the 6th show will be. However, I also remind him that if I left it up to him, we wouldn't get to see anything because he'd never get around to deciding and buying tickets, and also he's the one that wanted to see The Threepenny Opera, which is 2 and a half hours of my life that I'll never get back. So, tentatively the schedule will be:

Saturday Matinee: TBD
Saturday Evening: XANADU!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday Matinee: Deuce
Sunday Evening: In the Heights
Monday: Gypsy (the only one with a Monday performance)
Tuesday: 110 in the Shade

Since Saturday and Sunday will be filled with shows, I plan on spending Monday doing the Circle Line speedboat tour around the Statue of Liberty, having lunch at the Carnegie Deli, walking through Central Park and ducking into the Met or Guggenheim if it gets too hot, and going to the Broadway New York store and snatching up any and all Grey Gardens memorabilia. Tuesday I will attempt again to go to the Aquarium in Brooklyn and possibly seeing Coney Island. I'll need to update the playlist on my phone though, I don't want to get bored listening to the same shows over and over on the subway ride there. Then Wednesay morning, very early, we leave to come back and I can go directly to work. At least this time it won't be so cold and I should be feeling a lot better. Aquavit here I come!