We’ll celebrate our 25th anniversary next
September. We’ve thought lots about what we’ll do – but after our celebration
of #24 two weeks ago, I’m thinking we should just hang up the celebration shoes
and count it good for the rest of our anniversaries.
Yes. It was that good.
We went to the Big Apple and saw all the major sites –
The Statue of Liberty, the Freedom Tower, 9/11 Museum, Rockefeller Center, The
Empire State Building. We walked the Chelsea High Line and miles and miles and
miles of the city’s sidewalks. We rode the subway from north to south and back
again. We packed in so much in three days that we needed a break from our
break.
And did I mention we saw this show – maybe you’ve heard
of it:
OH MY WORD WE SAW HAMILTON
AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I ACTUALLY SAW IT WITH MY VERY OWN TWO EYES.
Okay, y’all. I am not one to jump on bandwagons. Usually,
if I know something is popular I will be less inclined to like it. When my mom
took me shopping as a kid, the kiss of death to whatever clothing she was
trying to get me to buy was saying, “This is so in!” Back to the rack.
I say that because there is nothing so popular, so hot,
so on-freaking-fire right now as Hamilton. This does bother me a little, but I console myself by remembering
that I fell in love with the show long before tickets cost a kidney.
Thankfully, Sean got our tickets months ago, before they
were as obscenely expensive as they are today. But you know what: that show is
worth whatever pretty penny you pay. The choreography, the score, the costumes,
the staging – this show is going to revolutionize musicals. Revolutionize. Don’t
want to take my word for it? How about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s – you know, the
guy who did this little show called Phantom
of the Opera:
Just seen #Hamilton; it raises & changes the bar for
musicals. Brilliant lyrics, staging, cast. Creator/lead @Lin_Manuel is special.
ALW.*
Oh, y’all. So, so good. And I got to see two of my
favorites from the Broadway cast recording, Okieriete "Oak" Onaodowan
(Hercules Mulligan/James Madison) and Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury/ Ensemble).
It’s been two weeks and I can’t stop thinking about how
amazing that show was…
So that was three hours of our three days. Here’s a look
at what we did the rest of the time;
What would a Duffy vacation be without a visit with some shiny sheet metal? Cadillac recently moved their marketing headquarters to Manhattan. Sean has a friend there so we visited the offices and got a look at the cars on display in the lobby.
A trip to Trinity Church was a must for this Hamilton devotee (the man this time). Right next to Hamilton's grave was this one, which Sean thought was wonderful:
Robert Fulton. His memorial was erected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
And here's Hamilton's and his wife Eliza's:
:
We had a celebrity sighting - Steve Higgins of Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show fame:
We visited NYC's first Chick-fil-A!
We struggled to get this selfie. We are not good at the selfie.
I got to catch up with my first college friend, Scott!
The Empire State Building at dusk - gorgeous! (We did better with this selfie.)
At the Grange, the house Hamilton built for his wife.
Our step-counter for Day Three:
A few final shots of the stage at the Richard Rodgers Theater:
GO SEE THIS SHOW!
*The grammatical mistake in this tweet makes me a little crazy, but I guess even the best of writers can be grammatically challenged after seeing Hamilton. It is that good.
