Today is Wednesday, the first
of July, and the year is half over! We woke up to thunder and lightning in the
middle of the night, but today was another beautiful day. Our hotel provides us
with breakfast, so we always enjoy that before we head out.
We went back to Times Square to
purchase tickets for a matinee. I found out there is a Fast Pass line for
people who had purchased tickets within a seven day period. Since we qualified
I marched right up to the TKTS ticket booth and purchased my tickets for “Kinky
Boots.” What a relief not to have to face that long line!
We had three hours before the
musical started so we started walking north towards Central Park. We stopped in
a couple stores (the M&M store was great fun, but no bargain). Central Park
is such an amazing place. It is hard to believe that it is all manmade –
everything is so green and woodsy, with lots of hills and rocks. We decided to
just wander. We saw several playgrounds, a baseball field, and a small
amusement park. We ended up coming out of the park on the east side at 65th
Street & Fifth Avenue. So, we had to hoof it back to the Theater District
to be on time for the 2p.m. matinee.
I must say that I was quite
disappointed in “Kinky Boots.” The music was mediocre, the story was lame, the
singers were screamers, and there was hardly any dancing! The only good thing
was that we got to sit!
To finish our day we went back to
Madison Square to eat at the Shake Shack and listen to a singer practice for
her evening concert. Madison has free concerts on Wednesdays during the summer.
However, hearing her practice we decided it wasn’t worth staying and we gave up
for the day.
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