The Big Apple
Well! I got back home this morning after a whirlwind trip through NYC in three full days and viewing four shows! It was a BLAST! (as was expected) And everyone who went had an awesome, AMAZING time!
We left for the city on Monday night and got there at around one o'clock or so on Tuesday. We were able to go into our hotel, The Edison, right away and freshen up from our trip up. Some of the group then split up and went ahead to do their various activities around the city while the rest of teh group and I went to Rockefeller Center for sight-seeing and lunch. I re-visited St. Patricks Cathedral on 5th Avenue. It is really a breath-taking sight to see. The flying butresses, the stained glass windows, the statues of saints, and even just the grand scale of everything there... It is an impressionable feeling. But the fact of the gift shop in the place always bothers me a little. I feel like they're "selling Jesus." But I don't know. SO! After leaving the cathedral I browsed through some of the 5th Avenue shops: Banna Republic, Mexx, and H&M before going to the concourse at under the G.E. Building for lunch. There I ate two hefty slices of NYC, brick oven pizza over a bottle of San Pelligrino while watching the people out in the restaurant area (which serves as the ice rink in the winter) through the large glass windows. God I love New York! SO! At a set time I met with the rest of the group in front of the G.E. Building to head back to the hotel. There was a lady with NBC there handing out tickets to a taping of Last Call with Carson Daily. Some of the group went to that and said they had a blast. They saw the cast of the new Comedy Central show Stella and watched a performance by rap star Fat Joe. Ayway, I went back to the hotel with the rest of the group so I would have time to get ready for the show and enjoy Times Square. That night we all saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theatre. I believe everyone truly enjoyed this show. And Norbert Leo-Butz's performance is one to be remembered by all! So after seeing this amazing show (my favorite) we retired to our hotel two blocks up and had a nice sleep considering the bus ride the night before.
The next morning I woke up and met the group in lobby at 9 a.m. to see everyone off to their daily plans. Since I had tickets to The Pillowman later that day, which I got myself, I decided to head down to the TriBeCa and Buisiness District areas. Since I was not as farmiliar with that area, it would give me a chance to explore and discover, even though I had stayed there before when I went on the chorus trip; we never saw the area in daylight so there was no exploration time. Anyway, my friend Meghan Kennedy - from Tennessee High School - decided to accompany me and hang out with me for the day, since I have her the other ticket that I had to The Pillowman. I originally got it for my friend Meghan Groves, but she was burned before the trip and ended up not being able to go with us. So I gave her Pillowman ticket to Meghan from THS. And we headed downtown on the red 1 train. We got off and ate breakfast at a cafe called Pecan where I had a cucumber and egg bagel with a grape juice. Yum. Then we walked around on Lafayette Street, going into Loftworks and Century 21. Good discount stores in the business district! At around 1:15 we took the train back to 42nd Street, had lunch at The Olive Garden, and then walked up to the Booth Theatre to see The Pillowman, which I did truly enjoy. Many people don't like it, for various reasons. I can see their reasons and agree, but at the same time, I really liked it. A very radical show. Dark. But it makes you laugh, even in the most greusome of circumstances. BUT after the show Meghan and I waited at the stage door, got ALL of the leads autographs AND had our pictures taken with Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, The Life Aquatic...). Very cool. Later that night we met back with the rest of the group in the hotel lobby to make sure we were all there before heading out before seeing the show that night. Some more people from the group joined Meghan and I and we all headed uptown to Caprice Cafe on Columbus Avenue for dinner. They have really good food there, sort of a French/Deli infusion. I remembered it from having eaten there when I went up for my college auditions in the winter. However, we went up there kind of late and had to really hurry so that we could get back down to The Palace theatre before the show started. So after we finished our meal we bolted out the door and ran back to the subway station at Lincoln Center then ran to the theatre. We were only five or so minutes late, which didn't matter at all! We saw All Shook Up that night. It's fun and has good music. But that's all. I had seen it before with the chorus on that trip, but I wasn't worried about missing the first bit or so. After the show we had a meet and greet with the cast where we got to meet and ask questions. We spoke with Cheyenne Jackson, Jen Gambatesse and some other from the cast. Very fun and enjoyable. Then we all left for the hotel, but some of us decided to go out for a while. We went down to Greenwhich village and hung out at a cafe called French Roast until about 2 a.m. mainly because our service was so slow. But we finally got back to the hotel and slept in preparation for another day in NYC.
On Thursday, we all awoke kind of sad as we put our luggage into the holding room and left for our last day in the city. A buch of us went to Chinatown for the day where we bought fake stuff and laughed at bargaining with the Chinese people. We ate lunch at some cafe in Little Italy which was fun. Authentic Italian food I guess. But if that's so, I think I like the stereo-type Italian food better. Then around 12:30 Ryan Cury, Karen Hartshorn, and I took the subway uptown. Ryan and I had a meeting with Evalyn Baron and Karn was heading to the Metropolitain Museum of Art where we would meet her later. So Ryan and I left her at 42nd Street/ Grand Central Station where she continued uptown. We shuttled over to 42nd and Broadway then took the subway back down to 18th street. From there we walked three blocks or so and met Evalyn at 18 18th Street where CAP 21 is located, a place where she teaches theatre classes and serves on the board. Once we were all met and had taken a tour of the facilities, we went next door to the Cupcake Cafe and had the best cupcakes in the world! They make them all from scratch there: frosting and all, and they're all sooooooooo good. Each one adorned with a little flower on top. Then we all sat and talked of things theatre while we "cupcaked." It was an hour of very theraputic discussion. Evalyn is such a sweet, sweet, intelligent lady. Very much a mentor figure to me, someone I can look up to and be able to stay focused on my career by doing so. Her and her husband Peter have been doing very well since their return to their home in NYC. Evalyn has been doing many commercials and voice-overs and recently finished a reading workshop of a new play: Kiki, Baby which is broudway-bound. Peter just finished a performance of South Pacific at Carnegie Hall with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell and is really getting into the NYC scene! AWESOME! Such nice people, I'm very privelleged to know them. So anyway, after our cupcake soiree Ryan and I said our goodbye's to Evalyn and headed back to the Met to meet Karen. Once there we explored for a bit. They currently have a really interesting exhibit on Coco Channel. Then we met Karen and went back to Rokefeller Plaza where she had to return something to J Crew. They had some problem with the subway so we ended up waiting 20 minutes or more on a train we never thought would come. BUt it did and we headed off. When we were leaving the subway station we noticed it was raining, so we ran into J Crew where Karen returned the item and then we had dinner at Manchu Wok in the concourse. By the time we left teh G.E. Building it had quit raining. I'm glad that we only had 30 minutes or so of rain the entire trip. It's always better when it's nice and sunny. We all walked to the hotel where we met the group and walked to the Shubert Theatre to see the SOLD OUT Spamalot starring Tim Curry, Sara Ramirez, and David Hyde-Peirce. Very awesome, very "big" right now. So after a thoroughly enjoying performance of watching rude frenchmen throwing cows, knights that say "ni!," and manservants beating coconuts together we walked back to the hotel to get our bags and head out on the bus.
The trip was so much fun and everyone had the best time ever! I'm glad I got to end my senior year having a blast in the greatest city on earth with my favorite people on it! It couldn't have been better and I thank all those who went and helped make it what it was. I'm a very lucky person.
NOTE TO EMILY SWAN: Don't bother leaving a message on here in your arrogance and jealousy. I didn't get mugged and we had an awesome time you stupid pig. I'm getting tired of deleting your rude, little, malicious, ignorant comments.
We left for the city on Monday night and got there at around one o'clock or so on Tuesday. We were able to go into our hotel, The Edison, right away and freshen up from our trip up. Some of the group then split up and went ahead to do their various activities around the city while the rest of teh group and I went to Rockefeller Center for sight-seeing and lunch. I re-visited St. Patricks Cathedral on 5th Avenue. It is really a breath-taking sight to see. The flying butresses, the stained glass windows, the statues of saints, and even just the grand scale of everything there... It is an impressionable feeling. But the fact of the gift shop in the place always bothers me a little. I feel like they're "selling Jesus." But I don't know. SO! After leaving the cathedral I browsed through some of the 5th Avenue shops: Banna Republic, Mexx, and H&M before going to the concourse at under the G.E. Building for lunch. There I ate two hefty slices of NYC, brick oven pizza over a bottle of San Pelligrino while watching the people out in the restaurant area (which serves as the ice rink in the winter) through the large glass windows. God I love New York! SO! At a set time I met with the rest of the group in front of the G.E. Building to head back to the hotel. There was a lady with NBC there handing out tickets to a taping of Last Call with Carson Daily. Some of the group went to that and said they had a blast. They saw the cast of the new Comedy Central show Stella and watched a performance by rap star Fat Joe. Ayway, I went back to the hotel with the rest of the group so I would have time to get ready for the show and enjoy Times Square. That night we all saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theatre. I believe everyone truly enjoyed this show. And Norbert Leo-Butz's performance is one to be remembered by all! So after seeing this amazing show (my favorite) we retired to our hotel two blocks up and had a nice sleep considering the bus ride the night before.
The next morning I woke up and met the group in lobby at 9 a.m. to see everyone off to their daily plans. Since I had tickets to The Pillowman later that day, which I got myself, I decided to head down to the TriBeCa and Buisiness District areas. Since I was not as farmiliar with that area, it would give me a chance to explore and discover, even though I had stayed there before when I went on the chorus trip; we never saw the area in daylight so there was no exploration time. Anyway, my friend Meghan Kennedy - from Tennessee High School - decided to accompany me and hang out with me for the day, since I have her the other ticket that I had to The Pillowman. I originally got it for my friend Meghan Groves, but she was burned before the trip and ended up not being able to go with us. So I gave her Pillowman ticket to Meghan from THS. And we headed downtown on the red 1 train. We got off and ate breakfast at a cafe called Pecan where I had a cucumber and egg bagel with a grape juice. Yum. Then we walked around on Lafayette Street, going into Loftworks and Century 21. Good discount stores in the business district! At around 1:15 we took the train back to 42nd Street, had lunch at The Olive Garden, and then walked up to the Booth Theatre to see The Pillowman, which I did truly enjoy. Many people don't like it, for various reasons. I can see their reasons and agree, but at the same time, I really liked it. A very radical show. Dark. But it makes you laugh, even in the most greusome of circumstances. BUT after the show Meghan and I waited at the stage door, got ALL of the leads autographs AND had our pictures taken with Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, The Life Aquatic...). Very cool. Later that night we met back with the rest of the group in the hotel lobby to make sure we were all there before heading out before seeing the show that night. Some more people from the group joined Meghan and I and we all headed uptown to Caprice Cafe on Columbus Avenue for dinner. They have really good food there, sort of a French/Deli infusion. I remembered it from having eaten there when I went up for my college auditions in the winter. However, we went up there kind of late and had to really hurry so that we could get back down to The Palace theatre before the show started. So after we finished our meal we bolted out the door and ran back to the subway station at Lincoln Center then ran to the theatre. We were only five or so minutes late, which didn't matter at all! We saw All Shook Up that night. It's fun and has good music. But that's all. I had seen it before with the chorus on that trip, but I wasn't worried about missing the first bit or so. After the show we had a meet and greet with the cast where we got to meet and ask questions. We spoke with Cheyenne Jackson, Jen Gambatesse and some other from the cast. Very fun and enjoyable. Then we all left for the hotel, but some of us decided to go out for a while. We went down to Greenwhich village and hung out at a cafe called French Roast until about 2 a.m. mainly because our service was so slow. But we finally got back to the hotel and slept in preparation for another day in NYC.
On Thursday, we all awoke kind of sad as we put our luggage into the holding room and left for our last day in the city. A buch of us went to Chinatown for the day where we bought fake stuff and laughed at bargaining with the Chinese people. We ate lunch at some cafe in Little Italy which was fun. Authentic Italian food I guess. But if that's so, I think I like the stereo-type Italian food better. Then around 12:30 Ryan Cury, Karen Hartshorn, and I took the subway uptown. Ryan and I had a meeting with Evalyn Baron and Karn was heading to the Metropolitain Museum of Art where we would meet her later. So Ryan and I left her at 42nd Street/ Grand Central Station where she continued uptown. We shuttled over to 42nd and Broadway then took the subway back down to 18th street. From there we walked three blocks or so and met Evalyn at 18 18th Street where CAP 21 is located, a place where she teaches theatre classes and serves on the board. Once we were all met and had taken a tour of the facilities, we went next door to the Cupcake Cafe and had the best cupcakes in the world! They make them all from scratch there: frosting and all, and they're all sooooooooo good. Each one adorned with a little flower on top. Then we all sat and talked of things theatre while we "cupcaked." It was an hour of very theraputic discussion. Evalyn is such a sweet, sweet, intelligent lady. Very much a mentor figure to me, someone I can look up to and be able to stay focused on my career by doing so. Her and her husband Peter have been doing very well since their return to their home in NYC. Evalyn has been doing many commercials and voice-overs and recently finished a reading workshop of a new play: Kiki, Baby which is broudway-bound. Peter just finished a performance of South Pacific at Carnegie Hall with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell and is really getting into the NYC scene! AWESOME! Such nice people, I'm very privelleged to know them. So anyway, after our cupcake soiree Ryan and I said our goodbye's to Evalyn and headed back to the Met to meet Karen. Once there we explored for a bit. They currently have a really interesting exhibit on Coco Channel. Then we met Karen and went back to Rokefeller Plaza where she had to return something to J Crew. They had some problem with the subway so we ended up waiting 20 minutes or more on a train we never thought would come. BUt it did and we headed off. When we were leaving the subway station we noticed it was raining, so we ran into J Crew where Karen returned the item and then we had dinner at Manchu Wok in the concourse. By the time we left teh G.E. Building it had quit raining. I'm glad that we only had 30 minutes or so of rain the entire trip. It's always better when it's nice and sunny. We all walked to the hotel where we met the group and walked to the Shubert Theatre to see the SOLD OUT Spamalot starring Tim Curry, Sara Ramirez, and David Hyde-Peirce. Very awesome, very "big" right now. So after a thoroughly enjoying performance of watching rude frenchmen throwing cows, knights that say "ni!," and manservants beating coconuts together we walked back to the hotel to get our bags and head out on the bus.
The trip was so much fun and everyone had the best time ever! I'm glad I got to end my senior year having a blast in the greatest city on earth with my favorite people on it! It couldn't have been better and I thank all those who went and helped make it what it was. I'm a very lucky person.
NOTE TO EMILY SWAN: Don't bother leaving a message on here in your arrogance and jealousy. I didn't get mugged and we had an awesome time you stupid pig. I'm getting tired of deleting your rude, little, malicious, ignorant comments.
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