Broadway

8/1/07 – I slept in this morning since I got home so late the previous night. I ate a good breakfast and then took a walk around the neighborhood. I then came back to the apartment and did some laundry. I wanted to see a Broadway show but they are very expensive so I decided to try to enter a ticket lottery that some shows put on. I figured that I could be in the lottery for the show Wicked and then do another one about a half hour later. I began to get very discouraged when people kept coming until there was a huge crowd of at least a couple hundred people also looking to win this lottery for the twenty eight seats. I began talking to the group in front of me, two ladies and one of their husbands. The three of us came up with a ticket sharing scheme to increase the likelihood that some of us would be able to see the show. As luck would have it, both of the women were winners so they each got two front row tickets for $25 so all four of us were able to see the show. We had about two hours until show time so the four of us went to a restaurant that my aunt Margo gave me a gift certificate for called Havana Central. We went back to the theater and got our seats. I was surprised to learn that my seat was not only in the front row, but I was straddling the very center of the stage. The pit conductor came out and I chatted with him for a minute before it started. The show was amazing. I didn’t know anything about it beforehand except that it was a bit of background on some of the characters from the Wizard of Oz. I expected it to be dopey and mildly entertaining like the movie was but was very pleasantly surprised to see that it was an extraordinarily well developed story with very serious characters. Afterwards, I took the subway back to the apartment and went to bed.