We started our day's adventures by taking the subway over to midtown near Broadway to visit the TKTS booth. Since we were seeking tickets for a non-musical, our line was small and moved quickly (though the whole place was pretty fast, it seemed).
We got matinee tickets for August: Osage County without any problems, and had about 45 minutes to grab a quick lunch and get into the theatre (which was nearby). We grabbed a couple of sandwiches from a Starbucks and eat them standing on the sidewalk outside, watching the throngs of tourists go by.
We hustled into the theatre and sat down. Again, much like the place where we saw Chicago, the firast thing that struck me was how small the theatre seemed compared to the Imperial. The second thing that struck me was how immense the set was! It basically half of the inside of a three-story house. The main area was at stage level, with a study, living room, and dining room, with no real walls between them, plus a kitchen in the back, and a porch off to one side. The mid level had a sort of sitting room and a rear exit to what looked like they would be bedrooms, and the top level was basically an attic bedroom. It was huge and incredible.
The play was phenomenal. Without a doubt the best thing I have ever seen on a stage. It was incredibly long, but I didn't feel like it wasted any of the time it took. Everyone in it was fantastic. I really enjoyed seeing Jim True-Frost, or "Prez" from The Wire, as Little Charles. I don't know why it's somehow cooler to see an actor that's known to me on stage, but it just is.
Once we got out of the theatre, we walked over to Times Square, practically fighting our way through the tourists -- yes, we've been in town two weeks and we're already natives, complaining about the damn tourists -- and popped in to the Virgin Megastore to scope out their extensive DVD selection. We ended up picking up a few cult horror movies for Suzy, and a copy of Clerks II for me (don't know why I never got that before).
We battled our way through the Times Square crowds again to get to the subway, which we took to Madison Square Park, down around 34th Street. We were crossing a street to the park from the subway stop when Suzy suddenly said "Look, it's the Flatiron building." And sure enough, it was. This was probably the single biggest "cool" moment spotting landmarks I've had yet; it was probably a combination of the fact that it's just a really neat, iconic bulding, and the fact that I wasn't expecting to see it.
We got over to the park and looked around for our destination: the Shake Shack. Supposedly a source of some of the best burgers in the city, the Shake Shack is also legendary for its big lines. The legends were true: there was a huge a line. We looked at the line, looked at each other, and opted to get back on the subway for Brooklyn so we could grab something simple for supper at a market near home. The Shake Shack would still be there tomorrow.
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