Saturday, December 29, 2012

December 1, 2012-NYC Today was a Triple-Show day! We got to NYC pretty early(gotta love the express train they run at Christmas!) and we went straight to the booth theatre to get Kristin her Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ticket. Then we went to Dylan's Candy Bar, where I had to stock up on my Red Velvet Cake Candy Bars! We had taken the long way to Dylan's, up the gorgeously decorated 5th Avenue, so it took us awhile! We left Dylan's at 11:15 am. I had tickets to the Rockettes @ 11:30. On my way to the Rockettes, I realized that I had brought my receipt for the ticket and not the actual ticket! The Rockettes staff was awesome though, they figured out where my seat was and I only missed the first 5 minutes The Rockettes were amazing, it was their 85th Anniversary show, and they had changed some things which I really liked! I will go back in 5 years probably. Maybe every 5 years is perfect! Though the Rockettes really put you in that Christmas Spirit, I was sad I didn't get to spend more time walking around 5th Avenue and seeing the Christmas Decorations! After the Rockettes, I went over to see the Rockefeller Tree and the skating, and of course the angels and toy soldiers they had set up. Gorgeous as always! I couldn't stay long though, because I had tickets at 2 to A Christmas Story. A Christmas Story was fantastic! This was a new Christmas show for the season, and they didn't disappoint! They followed the storyline impeccably, and the music was fun. The cast was extremely talented! They even had real hound dogs on the stage! One of the best scenes was the leg lamp dance. Hysterical! However, in the show, one of the patrons several rows ahead of me had a stroke. She apparently has TIA, but they had to escort her out of the theatre on a gurney. Scary!! I'd never seen that happen before! Of course, I had to take my picture with the pink bunny suit! Great show! After A Christmas Story, I went over to Macys to meet the Man of the Season himself, Santa Claus! The line wasn't bad, (Though this was Dec 1, at around 430 pm!) The Enchanted Village was wonderfully done, as always! And I got my traditional picture with Santa :) After seeing Santa, I met up again with Kristin for a very special Lion King Exhibit. Lion King is celebrating 15 years on Broadway, so they had set up a pop-up exhibit of costumes and props, and you could take pictures with everything. It was only up for two weeks, so we were lucky to catch it! And it was for free! :) After the Lion King exhibit, we went to the gorgeous Bryant Park to see the tree and skaters, and then we went to see Annie(My third and final show of the day!) Annie was phenomenal! I really enjoyed it! Katie Finneran was awesome as Miss Hannigan!Very good revival! After that we boarded the train to come home. Busy but fun day! And it flew by so incredibly fast!

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