NYC=Broadway

Sure there's the Statue of Liberty. There's also a little thing called the Empire State Building. Times Square? Yeah, heard of that one, too. But for this Midwesterner, there's only one reason to visit New York City:

BROADWAY!

We were only supposed to be able to see one show, but husband was so generous that we got to see two. Now that might not seem a lot to you, but two shows in three days is pretty good odds, yo!


Xanadu might just be a failed 1981 musical starring Olivia Newton-John, but it's found a new home on the Great White Way. And, it was absolutely FANTASTIC. It was so much more entertaining and wonderful than it had any right to be (considering it's humble failing roots). So funny, so lighthearted, so big, bright, and bold: it was made for Broadway! If you don't leave the theater with a smile glued onto your face, then you just don't have a bone that can be entertained in your body...or you could've been the dude sitting next to me.


And what's visiting Broadway without a little Stephen Sondheim...and what if that Sondheim starred Miss PATTI LuPONE!?! Would you just die??? Well, you probably wouldn't, but I almost did when Martin gave me permission to pick a second musical and said it could be Gypsy, Broadway's tale of the original stage mom(/monster). Oh, Miss Patti, hot off her Tony win, was simply beautiful...even if she was in Isotoners the whole time. I was in musical heaven.