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Provided by the compucert Friday night my wife and I did the wedding anniversary dinner and a show in Times Square thing.
We met at about 6:00 at the corner of 41st and Broadway. The Nederlander Theater could be seen from where I stood waiting for my wife of four years.
THE DINNER
One of her coworkers suggested we head over to restaurant row, that's between 8th and 9th Avenues on 46th Street. So we walk over to find a block of Brownstones with restaurants in almost every single one of them. After going up and down the block a couple times we stopped at and Italian Restaurant called VITA. The place was quite cozy and clean inside. The staff were delightful. The food was great. They had a great dinner deal in which you get an appetizer, entree and dessert with coffee for $22. My wife tried their fried mozzarella, broiled shrimp, and some kind of peanut butter cake for dessert. I had salad, lasagna, and cheesecake. We washed down our meals with their blue sangria. It was delicious and packed quite a punch.
THE SHOW
My wife gave my tickets for RENT. Show was at 8, we were there at 7:30. My wife managed to secure seats in the first row of the mezzanine in the middle. Probably the best seats in the place. Since we had some time before the start of the show, it was a good time to observe this theater. It was not very big. Every seat would offer a good view of the stage. The theater has been around since the 1920's. In many ways it looked that way. The paint and plaster were peeling in several spots and you can see many spots of repairs on the walls and ceiling.
The seats filled in. The band came in. This was something I considered unexpected: the musicians had their own enclosed area ON THE STAGE. All around us was the endless banter of women chattering away about nothing. I might even say that far more than half of the audience were all female. The players start to walk out on stage around 8:10. Finally a hush came over the crowd.
The cast was delightful. The singing, dancing, and how tight it all was, was nothing short of brilliant. It was entertaining for what it was, but it was also depressing how everyone is either homeless, poor, gay, or has AIDS, or combinations of those. I'd even go so far as to say that if some visitor came to NY and saw this show it would give them the impression that everyone in NY has AIDS. It reminded me of that scene in TEAM AMERICA where they did the song, "EVERYBODY HAS AIDS," except not funny AIDS.
It was definitely nice to see this show that has been the talk of the town from some 10 years in New York. Now that I've seen it, I don't think I need to see it again.
In short, a fun evening. Thoroughly enjoyed.
THE SHOW
My wife gave my tickets for RENT. Show was at 8, we were there at 7:30. My wife managed to secure seats in the first row of the mezzanine in the middle. Probably the best seats in the place. Since we had some time before the start of the show, it was a good time to observe this theater. It was not very big. Every seat would offer a good view of the stage. The theater has been around since the 1920's. In many ways it looked that way. The paint and plaster were peeling in several spots and you can see many spots of repairs on the walls and ceiling.
The seats filled in. The band came in. This was something I considered unexpected: the musicians had their own enclosed area ON THE STAGE. All around us was the endless banter of women chattering away about nothing. I might even say that far more than half of the audience were all female. The players start to walk out on stage around 8:10. Finally a hush came over the crowd.
The cast was delightful. The singing, dancing, and how tight it all was, was nothing short of brilliant. It was entertaining for what it was, but it was also depressing how everyone is either homeless, poor, gay, or has AIDS, or combinations of those. I'd even go so far as to say that if some visitor came to NY and saw this show it would give them the impression that everyone in NY has AIDS. It reminded me of that scene in TEAM AMERICA where they did the song, "EVERYBODY HAS AIDS," except not funny AIDS.
It was definitely nice to see this show that has been the talk of the town from some 10 years in New York. Now that I've seen it, I don't think I need to see it again.
In short, a fun evening. Thoroughly enjoyed.
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