Well now the disappointing part of this travelogue, I was not in a picture taking mood for some reason. I will have to fetch some shots from J.
Day two, we went to
MOMA and basically did the whole museum. Modern Art, it turns out is not modern art but the period from about 1870 to 1970. So it's great, actually - when you walk their main collection you are basically taking an art history class. You go from art that kinda represents reality, to art that hardly represents reality, to art that creates new reality.
And some art that's incomprehensible, but I think that's good to see from time to time as well.
We walked from the hotel to the museum, walked the whole museum, and then walked back... pretty exhausting really
Then, at night! It turns out that a lot of major Broadway shows offer tickets at a big discount, but only by lottery. They set aside like 20 seats; you enter in the morning; by mid-day they email you to tell you whether you won. We were thinking about going downtown to the Comedy Cellar* that night, but wound up winning tickets to An American In Paris. So we wound up at the second major Broadway show in two nights!
This one is a really huge production, with top-class ballet and a set design and audio-visual work that was just stunning. It was the big award winner of the season and you could see why. Pretty amazing stuff. We paid $40 for $200 seats!!
*Not just because it's called that. The "Cellar" is truly the Mecca of standup comedy venues in the world.