Thanks for this question. This trip, i was very deliberate about planning ahead. The two I absolutely had to see were “Merrily” and MFL, with Laura Benanti. I picked “True West” and “Kiss Me, Kate’ because I was interested in seeing them and because that made three Roundabout productions and I could get a discount for buying all three at once. I added “Mockingbird” after Telecharge sent me a post card with a discount offer (the first and last time Telecharge had done so). To be fair, I also wanted to focus on current work, rather than things that had been running for a while.
I had two slots that weren’t filled: Wednesday evening, when I arrived, and Sunday evening. The person I was visiting enjoys going to the theatre with me but has a tolerance level that’s lower than mine on this sort of trip. So, the Wednesday slot was filled with a dinner that both of us particularly enjoyed. I vacillated on the Sunday evening slot, until I noticed that “The Band’s Visit” had a 7pm performance. It was tight, going between a 5:45 end to KMK and arriving in time for a 7pm start of TBV, but I made it.
And, it helped that my flight back was late in the afternoon on Monday and that my host had Monday off, so we got more visiting time in.
I do enjoy the challenge of writing commentary on the shows I see as I go, and the people who read my full-blown theatre reviews in San Diego seem to like knowing what I thought about the shows I saw in NYC.
Until next time,
Bill, in San Diego |
