New York, New York, A wonderful town....

 My spring break won. 

The end:

Stonewall (Famous Gay Bar in Greenwich Village) 

Late Night Bodega runs

Bagels

Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks (Venti Iced Coffee, Sweetened, With Soy)

Subways (L train, R train, A train)

Taxi-cab

How I Learned to Drive with Norbert Leo Butz

An Illiad

Staten Island Ferry with LeAnna

Cart Food

Washinton Square Park

East Village

Christina Ricci Sighting

Times Square

Central Park

FAO Schwartz

Brooklyn Bridge

SLEEP NO MORE- 

(Lady Macbeth took my hand during her "Out Damn Spot" mental breakdown)

ONCE- front row rush ticket. This show... ugh. Perfection.

The Best Man starring Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, John Laroquette, Michael McKean, Eric McKormick, Kerry Butler, Candice Bergen... yeah.

Shopping
Food

Walking
Bloody Shoes
Manhattan: East & West Village, SoHo, Canal Street, Times Square, 5th Ave.

Brooklyn: Bushwick, Sunset Park
Queens.

Andrew's Coffee Shop ("Coffee and, Andy")

Never once got lost
Never once took the wrong train

Got asked for directions like a local would

Met some of my favorite actors

Saw a new musical that stole my soul

Experienced incredibly intense theatre

5 shows- 5 days

Left another huge piece of my heart in the city that never sleeps.

I want to live in Brooklyn. The Sunset Park area was lovely. My cousin lives in that area and it was quite nice.

I need to get employed at a Starbucks ASAP. That will be the easiest ticket to getting there with a pre-existing job I think.
This trip made moving there seem more like a reality, less like a fantasy. And I am SO SO SO excited about that fact.

Seeing 5 whole shows in 5 days was amazing. Even more amazing was the fact that every single one of them was WONDERFUL. Not a complaint anywhere in my book.

I only saw one musical- Once: A New Musical- and I'm thoroughly obsessed. They were in previews when i was there, so I saw a preview performance. Their official opening was last night and I'm crossing my fingers that they have an incredible, long, run and win lots of Tony Awards. I havent seen a musical so honest and heartfelt and beautiful in a VERY long time. And Cristin Milioti in the part of 'Girl' was captivating. She needs an award. NOW. 

Listen to their cast recording on Spotify, the link above will take you there, and if it speaks to you I suggest buying it. I'm all for supporting this show. They started at the New York Theatre Workshop, which is where I saw An Illiad, and it's a theatre company interested in creating and producing new and developing talent. 

I want to talk about Sleep No More, but it kindof deserves its own post... so maybe later this week.  :)

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In other news- Come see CRADLE WILL ROCK at WSU this weekend and all next week (no show monday). We're all super excited to share what we've been working on, it's an amazing show that speaks to some really relevant topics. Come check us out!