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Back from NYC
Nov. 22nd, 2009 09:34 pmGood trip. The conference was useful (keeping up to date on new developments & fulfilling continuing education requirements), New York is a lot less intimidating than it used to be, and Zan was able to come up so we could hang out together.
Thursday evening we flew to New York. Zan wasn't going to meet us until Friday but she'd told us about Showgasm because Joe Icanis was going to be performing in it. Our plan was to check into the hotel, then meet Jennie at Showgasm. We were a little worried because our flight was delayed by the FAA's snafu that morning and traffic was slow driving in from La Guardia, but it turned that we had enough time to check in and walk over to the theater in the rain. When we got there, it turned out that the doors didn't open until 10 and we had a little time to kill.
We noticed that the awning over the entrance next door said "The Colbert Report." We checked it out but everything seemed dark and locked up so we went back to Ars Nova, signed in with a very nice guy at the door and waited out of the rain as other people started showing up and Jennie met us. After a little while there was a bustle next door and Stephen Colbert came out with a couple of big guys running interference for him, hopped into a limo, and drove off. That was cool.
Showgasm was even cooler. We liked the venue and it was fun hanging out with Jennie. Joe and Family did a couple of songs and were on stage the whole time accompanying many of the other performers. Joe's songs were really good, he's great live, and the other acts were lots of fun (and fairly strange). To top it off, one of the acts was a cheerleading routine done to "Shots" by Imfao, and they passed out free shots of whiskey.
The next day we attended our conference all day then we were supposed to pick Zan up from Megabus and go see Hair on Broadway. It was a little tense because the bus took twice as long to get from Philly to NYC as usual and it wasn't at all clear if she'd get in in time for us to make it to the show. She got in just in time, had her dinner on the subway from Penn Station to Times Square, we hustled through the crowds, and made it to the show just in time. Great show, lots of fun, and we got to dance on the stage with much of the audience in the finale.
Saturday we had more conference then Jennie met us at the hotel & took us to a little falafel place in Greenwich Village before we went to the show she's stage manager for The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever. The show was lots of fun, hysterically funny at several points. Sadly, the cupcake place we were going to stop at for desert was closed but we found a good gelato place instead and life goes on.
Today we finished the conference, got Zan on the bus to Philly, and flew home.
I think we'll sleep well tonight, but it was a lot more fun that the professional conferences we go to usually are.
Thursday evening we flew to New York. Zan wasn't going to meet us until Friday but she'd told us about Showgasm because Joe Icanis was going to be performing in it. Our plan was to check into the hotel, then meet Jennie at Showgasm. We were a little worried because our flight was delayed by the FAA's snafu that morning and traffic was slow driving in from La Guardia, but it turned that we had enough time to check in and walk over to the theater in the rain. When we got there, it turned out that the doors didn't open until 10 and we had a little time to kill.
We noticed that the awning over the entrance next door said "The Colbert Report." We checked it out but everything seemed dark and locked up so we went back to Ars Nova, signed in with a very nice guy at the door and waited out of the rain as other people started showing up and Jennie met us. After a little while there was a bustle next door and Stephen Colbert came out with a couple of big guys running interference for him, hopped into a limo, and drove off. That was cool.
Showgasm was even cooler. We liked the venue and it was fun hanging out with Jennie. Joe and Family did a couple of songs and were on stage the whole time accompanying many of the other performers. Joe's songs were really good, he's great live, and the other acts were lots of fun (and fairly strange). To top it off, one of the acts was a cheerleading routine done to "Shots" by Imfao, and they passed out free shots of whiskey.
The next day we attended our conference all day then we were supposed to pick Zan up from Megabus and go see Hair on Broadway. It was a little tense because the bus took twice as long to get from Philly to NYC as usual and it wasn't at all clear if she'd get in in time for us to make it to the show. She got in just in time, had her dinner on the subway from Penn Station to Times Square, we hustled through the crowds, and made it to the show just in time. Great show, lots of fun, and we got to dance on the stage with much of the audience in the finale.
Saturday we had more conference then Jennie met us at the hotel & took us to a little falafel place in Greenwich Village before we went to the show she's stage manager for The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever. The show was lots of fun, hysterically funny at several points. Sadly, the cupcake place we were going to stop at for desert was closed but we found a good gelato place instead and life goes on.
Today we finished the conference, got Zan on the bus to Philly, and flew home.
I think we'll sleep well tonight, but it was a lot more fun that the professional conferences we go to usually are.
