In the Big Apple: NYC
Sunday, August 14
Beautiful & Historic Brooklyn Bridge
Sue & I
Brooklyn Bridge
A view of the Manhattan Bridge
In a New York Minute..NOT!!!
Waiting and waiting and more waiting..Waited in lines for everything in the Big Apple:
Shakespeare in the Park: Mother Courage and her Children
The story: My day began by getting into the line-up for free Shakespeare in the Park tickets outside the Public. The show that I was lining up to see was called, "Mother Courage and her Children starring Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline. I waited 5 hours to get my 2 free tickets at 1 pm! Later that afternoon, the weather began to get strange. The weather forecast had called for rain, unbeknownst to me AND all of a sudden, it started to pour! Let's hope for the best & hope that the hard rain will stop!?! After a little while longer, the rain stopped only to continue again after a short while. As Sue and I got on the train to Central Park, it had strangely stopped 2 stops prior to where we wanted to get off! The train was being delayed due to train traffic in the tunnels! Man..it was getting awfully close to the 8 pm start time. We thought we'd get out of the station & flag a cab down..NO SUCH LUCK! So..in the end, we trekked by foot down 5th Ave. We walked in sections of the street and in Central Park where it seriously looked flooded with water up to our ankles. I even lost my slipper in the water & had to go fetch it! Ha! Even though we had umbrellas, we were pretty much soaked by now! We walked probably 8 blocks & in through Central Park before we found the theatre where there was a big line-up of people waiting to see if the show would go on! By this time, the rain was only a drizzle and it looked promising! We found out that the show would go on! Start time was around 8:30 pm..or actually, when they finally got the stage, sound, etc. set, it was close to 9 pm. Despite, the rain, the train delay & even semi-floods, we needed to proceed on since I had waited 5 hrs. for those tickets! Unfortunately, even if the show is cancelled, the tickets would not be honoured the following day! Not fair but that's life! In the end, I was sitting in shivering clothes and cold on a measely wipped down theatre chair, however the play was still awesome and Meryl Streep was stellar as usual in her role as Mother Courage!
Maddy with the Cool Shades! Ha! Ha!
Broadway: Avenue Q
Guggenheim Museum
Featuring architect Zaha Hadid
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Clinton Street Bakery
Rockefeller Center
Ball hockey
Williamsburg Bridge
Crosby Connection: Johnny, Joe,
Sue & I
Brunch at Prune
Central Park
Chinatown
posted by © 2013-2014 Sophia Yee. All Rights Reserved at 10:20 PM
1 Comments:
Wow, you had a very busy time in NY. I'm glad you got to see "Mother Courage" since tickets are hard to come by. I went to opening night (last night) and the cast party so I was looking for additional reviews and came across your blog. The play was def. an interesting event since I read it but never seen it staged. Luckily it didn't rain, but my boyfriend Todd is the woodwind player in the show and I remember the day it rained really bad because we both wondered if it was going to be canceled. I was even having trouble coming back downtown from teaching in the Bronx because it took me 2 hours rather than 1 hour by train since the whole West side was delayed. Anyway, Todd didn't get back from the show until way after 12 and I was surprised that it went on. I had also heard that people were waiting for tickets forever and I just couldn't believe it, so I guess it's true since you went through all of that. I'll let him know that you dug it! Have a great rest of your summer.
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