This weekend, I’m on a girls trip to NY with a few friends. On Friday, Gabrielle and I left via Acela to meet Beth (Weisbach not Monaco) who had flown in from Chicago on Thursday. The train was nice and after all the recent family trips driving through Connecticut it was nice to glance over at the highway traffic from the comfort of our business class seats.
After arriving in NY we failed to find either Zaro’s in Penn Station. We gave up pretty quickly because the station was SO hot and gross and we were carrying our bags. After checking in at the Muse hotel, we ventured out to get pretzels for a snack. Our room is pretty spacious and very comfortable.
For dinner, we went to a Turkish restaurant nearby called AnTalia. We ended up ordering a lot of appetizers instead of main courses. Beth and I got lemonade spritzes which were great. All the food was very good.
Our show for Friday night was Shucked. We had heard good things but didn’t know a lot about the show other than it seemed to be about corn and Alex Newell won a Tony for their performance. While in line to enter, they offered us corn in the cob. We were relieved to find out there were no understudies last night, then went to the bar to get drinks in souvenir cups.
Our seats were great and we loved the show. It’s about a small town that’s economy is entirely dependent on their corn crops. It was hilarious and we were laughing the entire show. The show was very original but had some traditional musical structure. There was an Harold Hill like character, and the story had two couples it followed. Alex was of course amazing and you could tell the cast was having fun. We were quoting some of the more ridiculous lines for the rest of the night. I think my favorite is: “I’m not arguing, I’m right and you’re just saying things.”
After the show we stopped at Juniors for cheesecake slices and black & white cookies before heading to bed.
Today we have 2 shows planned and Nalani will be joining us.
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