NYC - Our Weekend

What a great tourist-y weekendend in NYC. Ok, not really a weekend - it was just Saturday. But we did enough for the whole weekend!

Friday night we went to see 'Burn After Reading' - it is an 'effed up' Cohan Brother's movie but it is very clever and a good time. It was nice to see a movie with no subtitles or intermission.

Saturday we got up and went into the city. We got tickets for 'Wicked' from Craigslist for the 2 pm show so we wanted to get downtown early enough to have lunch. We had pizza for lunch in Times Square and then saw the matinee performce. I've seen it before (with the original cast thankyouverymuch) but Kyle hadn't. It is such a great show and I love how it flows with the story fo the 'Wizard of Oz'. It is such a production show and there is so much to look at and watch move. I had to buy an 'I heart Oz' shirt...for lots of reasons.

After our matinee show we walked a couple blocks to see if we could get tickets for 'Spring Awakening'. It won 7 Tony Awards in 2007 including Best New Musical but they are thinking of closing it soon. Once we got tickets for a second Broadway musical that day we went to Junior's for dinner. Two giant milkshakes and 2 plates of ham, cheese, and bread later (I had grilled ham and cheese, Kyle had a ham and cheese sandwich) we were off to our next show. Of course it started to rain so we decided to go right to the theatre and not walk around...

'Spring Awakening' is very edgy - think the stage version of Rent (if you've only seen the movie it's just not the same). The music was written by Duncan Sheik, the same guy that had a couple hits in the late 90's. Again, it was a great show but it wasn't quite a PRODUCTION like 'Wicked' was. I think if we had seen them in the other order Kyle would have been able to appreciate 'Spring Awakening' a little more.

The show is set in Berlin so occasionally they would throw in a couple German words...oh yeah, we knew what they were saying!

We then took the subway back to the train and got home about 1 am....it was a long, and busy, but great day!

Sunday we got up late and went shopping for clothes for Kyle. On our way to the mall we found a street festival. There were lots and lots of blow up toys and other fun things we watched others play with. Unfortunately, all we found for him is jeans. So, we still have some shopping to do...

After shopping we went and saw the 'Dark Knight' again. Still a good movie - even better without subtitles and an intermission!

Then back to the hotel and straight to bed...it was a busy, busy weekend!