The weather got much colder today. It is in the low 30s and there has been a light dusting of snow all day. Our goal this morning was to head out by 11:30 and begin with lunch at Juniors -- an iconic Times Square diner. The place was packed and we waited a half hour for a seat. It made us Covid nervous as we took off our masks to eat. The food was excellent for diner food.
We had seats for the matinee of Take Me Out, a play about a star baseball player who reveals he is gay and all that ensues from the revelation.
We were warned in an email before we went that there would be full frontal nudity. Our phones would be put in pouches as we arrived at the theater so that no one could record any of the show. When we learned that, Linda was glad we had seats in the Mezzanine. On the way to the theater we found the Naked Cowboy in Times Square, a warmup for what we were about to experience.
I will say that I did see more male nudity in the 2 hours of this show than I have in the whole rest of my life. The first half of the show was delightful and funny. The second half of painful and complicated...and deep and rich. Jesse Tyler Ferguson (from Modern Family) was in the play -- in a non-nude role. We came out of the play needing to process and debrief. We gave it a 95 combined rating.
We had reservations at a Chinese restaurant called Blue Willow. It was about 12 blocks away and we had 15 minutes to get there. We got our phones out of their pouches and rushed out into the cold. We didn't quite make it but we hustled through the crowds and arrived before they gave our seat away. We had a delicious dinner while we unpacked the play.
We slowly ambled back towards our hotel enjoying everything about the Big Apple.
We didn't stay long because we had tickets for another Broadway Show, Hadestown. It is a musical that tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. The stage was so exceptional.
The orchestra was on stage and all were amazing but the trombone player stands out. Hermes was a true star. The Fates could harmonize like nobody's business. The choreography was unmatched. We were in awe, as was the rest of the crowd. We each wrote down our ratings and then shared them with each other. We both put down 97. Linda was so pumped up from this musical she was ready to return to Times Square and pull the cord out of the sound system of the horrible street preacher we had heard the night before.
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