NYC Broadway: Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

23rd of April, Thursday

And to New York City we went!!!

Today, I took the bus to school like every morning, but with a medium sized suitcase. The whole Athena Music Department gathered in the APAC foyer with their luggage, waiting for the buses to arrive and us to board. 

  Then the fire alarm went off. The timing was painfully hilarious. The whole school went outside, in the snowy rain, all traffic in and out of the school territory stopped (leaving Ms. Dyer angry in a lot of traffic), and we waited for the fire department to scan the building. As we later found out, there was a fire scare, and someone pulled the alarm, but nothing serious happened. We just waited, and laughed about the events (freezing).

  Our departure wasn't delayed by too much. The bus boarding went fine, all the instruments and clothes fit, and I found some good seats near my friends too. I was told the trip from Rochester to NYC will be long, but it didn't really seem so horrible. I'm either used to long travels, or time flies when you have fun. We made a stop in Pennsylvania (a state I love very much) in a Wegman's for some lunch - which was sushi for me -, and our next stop was in New Jersey, where our hotel was, just outside of New York City. 

  We settled our luggage down, and rested for 15 minutes. I was sharing a room with the Bo sisters, Brittney and Tiffany, very nice girls. Then, we dressed up fancy, and put some makeup on, because we were going to see a Broadway show! I wore Kim's black dress, the same one I wore for Avon Casino night, and my Desigual boots. Last time I wore those, I was in the Hungarian State Opera House with my Mom, I guess they're theater boots from now on.

   And to Manhattan we went! We took a tunnel under the Hudson river, some horrible traffic, but at last, I was in the city. I've been here before, for one day, 3 years ago. I didn't see a lot from it back then, and I knew I wasn't going to see a lot of it now either. New York is a place, where one lifetime is not enough to discover it. So I took what I could with me with my experiences.

  My first though was: yaaay, tall buildings! Rochester and Greece is a very flat part of the world. No skyscrapers, the houses don't touch. I'm used to big cities, I grew up in one. And New York City is the city of cities. It was getting dark, when we arrived, but the lights were up long before. 

  We went straight to the Walter Kerr theater, to see Robert Freedman's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. In October, we had to decide what show we were going to watch on our music trip, and I chose this, because I had no idea, what it was about. Turns out, my choice was great.

  I loved the play and the story. It's about a young man, who discover's, that he's 8th in line for the title of earl, and he decides to murder the men and women before him. It was morbid but hilarious, and very well done. The songs weren't very catchy, and thankfully they weren't boringly long. The actors did a wonderful job, and I agreed with the director's interpretation of the story. Everything worked out at the end, no lines were left loose. Everybody else loved it too. There weren't many, who chose this play, but I heard no bad comments about it. No wonder it won a Tony Award in 2014 for best musical.

   It around midnight, when we got back. We took our bus back to New Jersey, and everyone fell asleep as soon as possible, this day was quite eventful, and we were sure, the next day will be event more exciting.