I saw Alan Tudyk tap dance (and New York)
Oct. 12th, 2005 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
levertovfanAs you may infer from the title, I saw Spamalot while I was in New York. Yes, I have been in the same theater as Tim Curry and David Hyde Pierce and Alan Tudyk. At the same time. Tim Curry was King Arthur and Alan Tudyk had a number of broad comedy parts, including the French gatekeeper. It was wonderful. I may have been in the second row from the back in nosebleed seats on the third and top tier- I don't care. It was wonderful.
The New York trip was a lot of fun and surprisingly restful. Traveling by train is thoroughly civilized way of traveling on the East Coast--it's how I made the trip. Dad, Linda, and I stayed with a Swedish ambassador friend of Linda's. The fact that we were staying there to socialize with her put a damper on Dad's usually slightly more frenetic style of planning and conducting a vacation, and meant that we spent a lot of time eating good food. And since said friend wanted to go to Spamalot, we went to Spamalot. On Tuesday, we went to the Tenement museum on the Lower East Side, which recreated the sort of conditions that my Grandfather (actually, grandfathers) grew up in. It's interesting to visit a museum from a left-wing perspective--it sort of is left wing by default because it's focus is necessarily on immigration and labor history. Afterwards, we explored the area around it, which was really evocative of the history of New York. The neighborhood features the only pickle store still left in New York, where we did a systematic exploration of the differences between sour, half sour and non-sour pickles. Today, Dad and I went to the Met where I was surprised by an exhibit of some really fantastic Medieval Czech art that because of my background and travels in the Czech Republic I was really able to savor. It's not stuff that is exhibited in the Czech Republic most of the time.
It was raining most of the time I was in New York. Suddenly, it felt like fall. It hasn't up until now.
And now I'm back home and have way too much financial paperwork, follow-up on the Girl Scouts convention, and general stuff I don't want to deal with to deal with.
The New York trip was a lot of fun and surprisingly restful. Traveling by train is thoroughly civilized way of traveling on the East Coast--it's how I made the trip. Dad, Linda, and I stayed with a Swedish ambassador friend of Linda's. The fact that we were staying there to socialize with her put a damper on Dad's usually slightly more frenetic style of planning and conducting a vacation, and meant that we spent a lot of time eating good food. And since said friend wanted to go to Spamalot, we went to Spamalot. On Tuesday, we went to the Tenement museum on the Lower East Side, which recreated the sort of conditions that my Grandfather (actually, grandfathers) grew up in. It's interesting to visit a museum from a left-wing perspective--it sort of is left wing by default because it's focus is necessarily on immigration and labor history. Afterwards, we explored the area around it, which was really evocative of the history of New York. The neighborhood features the only pickle store still left in New York, where we did a systematic exploration of the differences between sour, half sour and non-sour pickles. Today, Dad and I went to the Met where I was surprised by an exhibit of some really fantastic Medieval Czech art that because of my background and travels in the Czech Republic I was really able to savor. It's not stuff that is exhibited in the Czech Republic most of the time.
It was raining most of the time I was in New York. Suddenly, it felt like fall. It hasn't up until now.
And now I'm back home and have way too much financial paperwork, follow-up on the Girl Scouts convention, and general stuff I don't want to deal with to deal with.
