I want to live In The Heights!!
Tonight started the last week of Institute, marking the start of a 60 hour work week to wrap up one hell of summer in NYC.
Actually, I'm not sure 6 weeks really counts as a summer, but with four weekends free to enjoy New York City- I sure did see a lot- it was more like an NYC summer on Speed.
Last weekend after a night in Chelsea, I headed back to Midtown Saturday night to see A Chorus Line- starring none other that AC beautiful Slater himself- Mario Lopez. Tears ran down my cheeks listening to 'Kiss the Day Goodbye" one of the most beautiful songs of all time.
This weekend it was back to Broad way- for the 2008 Tony Winner for Best Musical: In The Heights.
It was i.n.c.r.e.d.i.b.l.e.
The star of the show is a 28 year old Puertoriqueno from Washington Heights in northern manhattan who wrote the story of In The Heights in his sophomore year of college- writing the story of his neighborhood through rap lyrics and break dancing.
The show moved from his brain, onto paper, into a small theater, to Off-Broadway, to Broadway. The original cast is still performing, and I was able to meet them all, including the writer/star, after the show on the street as they exited the theater.
As I snapped photos with them and they signed my playbill, I was star struck and speechless, thinking of the incredible amount of talent that was contained in the people standing before me.
Talk about chasing a Dream.
* * *
My final 'day off' in the city, today- i spent spending some quality time with myself: exploring museums around central park and drinking coffee in a corner cafe.
As I made my way home on the E, back to Queens- an older women sitting next to me commented on my copy of Atlas Shrugged I was reading.
She read it 35 years ago and can still remember the intensity of Ayn Rand's writing, and how she sometimes had to read passages over slowly to grasp their full meaning.
I looked into her eyes and thought how I hope to remember such details about my life 35 years from now...
Actually, I'm not sure 6 weeks really counts as a summer, but with four weekends free to enjoy New York City- I sure did see a lot- it was more like an NYC summer on Speed.
Last weekend after a night in Chelsea, I headed back to Midtown Saturday night to see A Chorus Line- starring none other that AC beautiful Slater himself- Mario Lopez. Tears ran down my cheeks listening to 'Kiss the Day Goodbye" one of the most beautiful songs of all time.
This weekend it was back to Broad way- for the 2008 Tony Winner for Best Musical: In The Heights.
It was i.n.c.r.e.d.i.b.l.e.
The star of the show is a 28 year old Puertoriqueno from Washington Heights in northern manhattan who wrote the story of In The Heights in his sophomore year of college- writing the story of his neighborhood through rap lyrics and break dancing.
The show moved from his brain, onto paper, into a small theater, to Off-Broadway, to Broadway. The original cast is still performing, and I was able to meet them all, including the writer/star, after the show on the street as they exited the theater.
As I snapped photos with them and they signed my playbill, I was star struck and speechless, thinking of the incredible amount of talent that was contained in the people standing before me.
Talk about chasing a Dream.
* * *
My final 'day off' in the city, today- i spent spending some quality time with myself: exploring museums around central park and drinking coffee in a corner cafe.
As I made my way home on the E, back to Queens- an older women sitting next to me commented on my copy of Atlas Shrugged I was reading.
She read it 35 years ago and can still remember the intensity of Ayn Rand's writing, and how she sometimes had to read passages over slowly to grasp their full meaning.
I looked into her eyes and thought how I hope to remember such details about my life 35 years from now...
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