Curses!

Foiled again! I haven't been this frustrated since I tried to see Avenue Q over the course of about 3 trips to NY in late 2004/early 2005. My trip has been confirmed for the 26th-29th, we've got the plane tickets and hotel room. We're not leaving until about 8:00 pm on the 26th and getting there about 11:30, so we don't get a show, but since I don't have much vacation time yet, that's fine. We're staying at the 57th St. Holiday Inn again, which is also fine, it was very nice and conveniently located. However, I was planning on the biggest convenience being on Sunday the 29th, we could go see South Pacific at Lincoln Center four blocks away then be able to quickly come back to get our luggage and hop in a cab to LaGuardia for a 9:00 pm flight back. Well, I was doing my pre-ticket-buying ritual last night, checking to see what availability there was on each day for each show, and was able to find tickets for Gypsy on Friday night (3rd row!), Young Frankenstein on Saturday matinee (there are orchestra seats but I think I'm going to save money and just go for balcony since I'm not crazy about the show, I just want to see Megan), and Adding Machine on Saturday night (5th row), but then when I went to South Pacific on Sunday at 3:00, I got a message that there were no tickets available. Ok, that's why I do this checking before I actually buy the tickets so I don't get to the last day and get a nasty surprise and am unable to rearrange my schedule. I plugged in Saturday matinee thinking we could start there on Saturday and then make our way downtown for Adding Machine, and again, no tickets. I checked Saturday night, although that would require some more serious rearranging, and again, no tickets. I urgently typed in Friday's date, crossed my fingers, and. . . no tickets. Since it's already sold out for the entire weekend, I don't think I can count on TKTS. Apparently a lot of the queens coming in for gay pride that weekend find Matt's bare torso a bigger draw than the parade. I am extremely disappointed, but maybe later in the summer or fall I can try again. He just seems to have a habit of leaving shows as soon as his contract is up, so if he has a standard 6 month contract, that will only give me until about August to get back and try again. For this trip, I may have to content myself with Harvey Fierstein, which is not quite the same. I told my companion and gave him the choice of Little Mermaid (almost certainly a no for him, he's not a Disney queen like I am), Sunday in the Park with George (another almost certain no, he hated Ravinia's production a few years ago), August: Osage County (most likely), or A Catered Affair (the one I'm hoping for, since it's only an hour and a half we can see it and still have plenty of time to get back to the hotel and get to LaGuardia and maybe get on an earlier flight like we did last time). I'm very disappointed, but it does give me a good reason to go back.