SUMMER IN THE CITY
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26th
Janet Miller Haines, our Northern Stage Board Chair, and I are on our annual THEATER FIX trip to New York.
Our base is the Intercontinental Times Square hotel at 300 W. 44 St off of 8th Avenue. Right in the Theater district and across the street from Birdland, the big Jazz venue....
We arrived in the afternoon. The first thing I did was walk up to Vidal Sassoon on W. 56th street for a Summer haircut!!
JAnet and I set off for Dinner at "The Marshal" a small Farm to Table Restaurant on 10th Ave between 44th and 45th streets. Yummy veges at an outdoor table as the sun set over Manhattan.
Audra McDonald was a TOUR de FORCE in her one woman Show, "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" at the Circle in the Square Theater on W. 50th. She was a perfect in every way Billie Holiday. The only problem was that Audra looked healthy ( which I'm sure she is ) and I seriously doubt that at the end of her life Billy looked anything like that.
We had a nice walk back home enjoying that sultry New York Summer night, a night cap, and off to bed.
WEDNESDAY, August 26th
Work in the morning in our COOL rooms. Lunch was at "Marseille" on 44th and 9th, which turned out to become command central. The Matinee was "A GENTELMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER" at the Walter Kerr Theater. Oh my goodness what an inventive story. We had a lot of fun but there were a couple of issues. Jefferson Mays plays many different characters and is outrageous
in all of them. Great performance. We missed Seeing the other main guy, Bryce Pinkham, was off that day so we saw an understudy. Sorry to miss Bryce Pinkham. Also, I didn't love the music. I'm spoiled. But overall do recommend the show!
Our evening show was "BEAUTIFUL" the Carol King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theater ......EXCELLENT. LOVED IT! It was my favorite of the week. Jessie Mueller played Carol very well. Tons of great songs of Carol's and just of the era in general and a very well told story.
After the show we went to a cool Thai restaurant on 9th Ave called "Room Service"... Martinis and Thai!
THURSDAY, August 27th
This was my day to travel to Long Island to have an afternoon voice lesson with my vocal coach and her fantastic husband/pianist. It was a wonderful session. Janet had lunch in the city with her grand daughter. I came back on the train just in time to go back to Marseille to have dinner with Janet and Kevin Loreque, our NYC actor friend.
Thursday evening was the very 1st Preview of a new show, "IT'S ONLY A PLAY" by Terrance McNally. A funny show with a stellar cast..... Mathew Broderick, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham and Stockard Channing. It was truly a love letter to the theater, and very delightful.
We returned home to the real world on Friday morning. 4 Wonderful shows and a good NYC Fix!
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26th
Janet Miller Haines, our Northern Stage Board Chair, and I are on our annual THEATER FIX trip to New York.
Our base is the Intercontinental Times Square hotel at 300 W. 44 St off of 8th Avenue. Right in the Theater district and across the street from Birdland, the big Jazz venue....
We arrived in the afternoon. The first thing I did was walk up to Vidal Sassoon on W. 56th street for a Summer haircut!!
JAnet and I set off for Dinner at "The Marshal" a small Farm to Table Restaurant on 10th Ave between 44th and 45th streets. Yummy veges at an outdoor table as the sun set over Manhattan.
Audra McDonald was a TOUR de FORCE in her one woman Show, "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" at the Circle in the Square Theater on W. 50th. She was a perfect in every way Billie Holiday. The only problem was that Audra looked healthy ( which I'm sure she is ) and I seriously doubt that at the end of her life Billy looked anything like that.
We had a nice walk back home enjoying that sultry New York Summer night, a night cap, and off to bed.
WEDNESDAY, August 26th
Work in the morning in our COOL rooms. Lunch was at "Marseille" on 44th and 9th, which turned out to become command central. The Matinee was "A GENTELMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER" at the Walter Kerr Theater. Oh my goodness what an inventive story. We had a lot of fun but there were a couple of issues. Jefferson Mays plays many different characters and is outrageous
in all of them. Great performance. We missed Seeing the other main guy, Bryce Pinkham, was off that day so we saw an understudy. Sorry to miss Bryce Pinkham. Also, I didn't love the music. I'm spoiled. But overall do recommend the show!
Our evening show was "BEAUTIFUL" the Carol King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theater ......EXCELLENT. LOVED IT! It was my favorite of the week. Jessie Mueller played Carol very well. Tons of great songs of Carol's and just of the era in general and a very well told story.
After the show we went to a cool Thai restaurant on 9th Ave called "Room Service"... Martinis and Thai!
THURSDAY, August 27th
This was my day to travel to Long Island to have an afternoon voice lesson with my vocal coach and her fantastic husband/pianist. It was a wonderful session. Janet had lunch in the city with her grand daughter. I came back on the train just in time to go back to Marseille to have dinner with Janet and Kevin Loreque, our NYC actor friend.
Thursday evening was the very 1st Preview of a new show, "IT'S ONLY A PLAY" by Terrance McNally. A funny show with a stellar cast..... Mathew Broderick, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham and Stockard Channing. It was truly a love letter to the theater, and very delightful.
We returned home to the real world on Friday morning. 4 Wonderful shows and a good NYC Fix!
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