NYC weekend

It's 9:30 and we are trying to get over our crazy three-day excursion to NYC. 1:30 last night I finally turned out the light so I could rise at 5:30 this morning to return to school. Three fabulous shows: "Million Dollar Quartet", "Lend Me a Tenor", and "Wicked". Add in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island with a group of students and teachers who had mostly never gone to the city and it was a pretty cool weekend. As to the shows, "Million Dollar Quartet" was the real surprise for me. What an amazing show! Speaking as a southerner who grew up during the period the four characters were active, the feeling of the show was very true to my memories of the period. The set design was amazing-intelligently done with an insider's feel of place. I felt at home. The tile floor, the metal covers for floor heating vents combined with other little touches just set the tone for place. But this was a show about music and musicians at a time when the world of popular music was changing exponentially. These guys were really good. Heck, these guys were exceptional. Mostly they were believeable as the person in the place and time they were playing. W-O-W! I mean, my own words are lacking to describe the experience. The music was FABULOUS! I was simply blown away. What feeling they brought to the expression of these lives. How believable these artists were as the four linchpins of Sun Recording Studios. They were just amazing. The next day it was "Lend Me A Tenor" with Tony Shaloub, Brooke Adams, Anthony LaPaglia and others. A wonderful farce, directed by Stanley Tucci, the acting was tight, sharp and on the mark. We laughed and laughed. Just wonderful. The last show was "Wicked". What can I say? I mean, Oh my God! Just incredible. This was even better than when we saw it two years ago. Add in the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, some nice meals and, well, to quote me, "...a bad day in NYC is better than almost any kind of day elsewhere..." But why post this anyway? No one is reading anyway!