Hell's Kitchen - Quiet Day and Double Show

Lazy morning today. The boys headed out, I pottered about before heading out and around to the Drama Shop - great shop with lots of plays, scores, song books and books about theatre. They have CDs and DVDs, lots of leaflets advertising agents and vocal coaches. One guy asked at the counter for a recommendation for monologues, to which the shop keeper suggested some authors and let the guy choose his own - he didn't want the responsibility of picking the one!

Snuck in a couple of surreptitious photos...

 

Found a little cafe for an omelette and an ordinary coffee then headed around to Mood Fabrics from Project Runway - quite a few tourists there, and I became one by snapping...

 

The window

So many fabrics!

And trims.

And of course, Swatch, the dog...

Couple of typical New York scenes...

You wouldn't want to have your burning down or need an ambulance coz they just sit there, not moving for ages...

I'm on the hunt for an Obama bobble head - thinking it should be pretty easy - but no, apparently they stopped making them months ago and so now, they're all gone! The hour I have  left before heading to the theatre is spent scouting around, asking at all the souvenir shops. At one place, the guy said, "we don't have Obama but we do have Trump." To which I replied "oh, no!" Lots of people around me, I just hoped none of them were Trump supporters!

Our first show today is Aladdin. We're at a matinee so there are lots of kids! Very large, lovely theatre.

Enjoyed it, loved the Genie and the three friends, but it wasn't as lavish and spectacular as we were expecting. Still very good, just not as good as we anticipated. 

We also had every cliched annoying audience member around us - the loud-talking child, the person kicking the back of the seats, the loud lolls bag eater, and loud eater, and worst of all - the seats in front of us were empty for the start and we were hoping no one would sit in them, or if they did, it's a matinee, they might be kids. When they did arrive, the person in front of me was a six foot black guy with high curly hair. Poor Brett got the six foot six guy with a high-top hair style!

The city is massively busy after the show - it's Saturday night in Times Square!! Unfortunately we have to go right into Times Square to the cheap ticket box, to get tonight's tickets. So we race in, as much as you can, and then find a nice bar to sit and have dinner and a drink. Raff joins us for a drink between his two shows. Obviously, this photo was taken before he joined us...

We then popped back to home to escape the craziness for an hour and then out again - tonight's show is Something Rotten and it's fantastic!

This show is absolutely hilarious!!! So very funny, fantastic performances, great sets, costumes, extremely funny show with so many jokes about musical theatre. Just loved it!

Because this has been a quiet day, here's a tour of our home...

The street...

We are just down from here, next to the carpark with elevated car spots.

321 is our place, on the right is the wheel from the canon outside the military shop.

Hallway where the rubbish is dropped and people leave their prams and stuff.

We're on the fourth floor and the door opens to this...

My room is on the left. Tiny!

The boys are on the right.

Then the bathroom, next to my room.

Then the living area/kitchen at the end.

And that's about it!