Posted: 12/19/24 at 10:11pm
Woof, always wanted to do one of these.
I was in New York City from November 12 - 15 after 6 years of extensive planning, saving, a pandemic, Hugh Jackman and Britney Spears closing the one show I wanted to see and failing a math test because of my excitement, I made it.
The first day there felt genuinely unreal, a smile did not leave my face, the moment I hit Times Square tears froze on my face. I couldn’t believe that ****, but that’s not what this is about.
My first show was Sunset Blvd.
My parents and little brother were at the pizza place next to the theatre, and I got in line at 5:30 because I was so damn excited. holy **** what a first show. Mandy Gonzalez is a force and a hell of a woman, I wish she could be nominated for the tony. Yes. Yes. Yes. I saw Diego as joe and genuinely thought he was a bit better than Tom Francis from the bootleg I saw, every other principal was on and they were amazing. The number one for this show was Pierre Marais, the emcee at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. I Met the man, he signed my asf playbill, and more tears were shed that night, damned my parents yelling at me because it was 40 something degrees. 10/10 would go again.
November 13. My second show was Romeo and Juliet, which was a number one experience as well, since circle in the square is my favorite Theatre, Just looking at photos made me wanna see and experience something there. And oh boy this didn’t disappoint. The whole ensemble was amazing, but it was Romeo and Juliet. I would see this again, especially with the 40% off return code I got. 8/10
Cabaret. This was the main reason i came, and it didn’t disappoint. Sure, this production has some choices that I wouldn’t make and as someone who’s seen it 17 times before it kinda took me out. But not for long since this is the best thing I’ve ever seen in a theatre. The preshow consisted of me and my little brother running and watching and exploring the theatre, and we were told by the staff that they loved us and we seemed way to happy and young to be at cabaret. They were right. But the actual show made my jaw drop, I’ve seen bootlegs of the first 5 west end casts but the show live was the best thing I’ve ever seen, the set, everyone in the show, Adam Lamber, Alya as sally, Bebe neuwirth, Stephen Skybell, I came out this show wanting to give up my stereophonic ticket to see this again. I was going to eat that 150$ and see cabaret again, but alas my mom said no. Love you mom. <3 17/10 will see again if it lasts.
November 14. The outsiders.
this was a show. One I wouldn’t see again. 5/10.
My last show was stereophonic, which was a show I didn’t get. I liked it, but I feel like I’d love it if I were older. I was told by someone here and a few people in a discord server that they’re surprised I actually sat through the show, and I can admit it was the longest 3 hours ever. But I wanna see this go on some kind of tour, or some kind of regional theatre spree. I wanna get this show, I wanna understand this show, I wanna love this show. But alas, this isn’t the time. 7/10. It was good, I’m waiting for it to be great.
On Friday November 15 I saw 10 minutes of swept away since my mom needed to run into their bathroom. 12/10 please don’t close swept away.
This trip I would consider a success, I’m saving again to go by myself after my senior year. This trip helped me realize this is what I wanna do with my life, I didn’t get lucky and get math brain but I wanna make cool stuff, to hell if anyone doesn’t like it, I want people to see what my brain can create. And I wanna entertain them, I wanna shock them, I wanna make people think, I don’t want my name in lights or tony awards. But, it would be cool to have my name in a playbill, and that’s all I’d be happy with :)
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