Trip to NYC

My mom, sister and I recently made our first trip to the Big Apple. The three of us went for the main purpose of going to actual Broadway productions. We had seen the traveling performers before, but we were in for a whole new game in NYC.

We got up early the morning of our flight and flew from Austin to Dallas to Newark. When we arrived we took a taxi shuttle to the Marriott hotel on Time Square. After enduring a three hour ride that only covered 17 miles, I will never complain about Austin traffic again. We were incredibly lucky to get a room on the 20th floor over looking the famous ball drop.

After a quick change we dropped back down to street level to get in line for the first of our shows, The Addams Family. Bebe Neuworth played Morticia while Gomez was acted out by Nathan Lane.

The two together were positively hysterical. “With the shirt cut all the way down to Venezuela,” Morticia was as gorgeous as she was side-splittingly funny. Gomez would do his fantastic Spanish accent leaving me roaring.

The next day, Katie and I roamed the streets of Manhattan looking for cool shops and venders. There seems to be an African immigrant selling something about every 30 paces.

My mom and I forced Katie to take pictures with the infamous Naked Cowboy of Time Square. He’s actually even funnier in person believe it or not. The guy really embodies the spirit of NYC in that he’s doing his thing and nobody had better get in his way.

Later in the day we saw a non-musical play called Lend Me a Tenor. There were a lot of big name actors in this one not the least of which is Tony Shaloub of the TV series Monk. The humor of this play made the Addams Family seem, well, Dead.

Every second was spent laughing at Shaloub spitting wax fruit into the audience or Antony laPaglia trying to sound like an Italian opera singer.

The last show of the trip was called Promises Promises. I’ll have to say in wasn’t my favorite. It’s a big 60’s period piece and wasn’t written with musicals in mind. The leading actress was the ever so famous Kristen Chenoweth. She was very pretty and can sing like no other. The play’s choreography blew me away and really saved the show.

On our last day, we spent the entire time riding on the top of a double-decker bus snapping as many pictures as we could of Little Italy, Wall Street, Empire State building and countless more.

The last major adventure of the trip was trying to get home. The flight had been canceled and we couldn’t seem to get onto another plane. Luckily an agent named, and I’m not making this up, Athena truly came to our rescue and got us on a flight all together and really saved the day.
We arrived back in Austin around 12:30 AM very tired and totally taken aback by what an adventure we had had in just three days. I know for sure that NYC has not seen the last of us.