(The economists and mathematicians among us have no doubt worked out that, with an average capacity of 1,000; 7 shows a week, at an average of $70 US a ticket - even at 50% capacity filled, is a LOT of money ...)
So today we spent the day basically watching musicals. OK, that's not true. We started off by standing in queue at the "tkts" half price store ... (here's the queue - in the middle of broadway, with a guy busking while we waited ... for 45 minutes)
... It was only once we reached the end of the queue that I realised it was actually cheaper to buy over the phone than wait in that queue ... doh! and double doh!
Anyway, the first musical we went to see was THE PRODUCERS. It was pretty funny - pretty amazing, actually, given that the central part of the musical was a musical-within-a-musical on the life of Adolf Hitler as a dancer. It was astonishingly funny - but I couldn't believe that such a thing was being parodied!
After that - and a quick dinner - we went to see SWEET CHARITY. Sweet Charity starred two very famous leads - Christina Applegate (of "Married with Children" and "Anchorman" (oh what a movie!) fame) ...
... and, Wayne Knight, aka "Newman" from Seinfeld, starring as a pimp! (looking very much like this actually)
They were both fantastic musicals.
I love Broadway ... can't wait to get the West End!
blessings
john
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Haha, I saw a mate from work in a community production of "Sweet Charity" and it was like Chinese water torture. If it had gone on much longer there would have been a "lockie-shaped hole" in the back wall of the theatre!!
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