For all ye Potter Fans!

Just sit back and enjoy!

One last Equus post!

I have raved about the play enough. But failed to talk about the stage door!

After the show we did what all good tourists do. . .hung at the stage door for photo ops and autographs!

Richard Griffiths, Martin Dysart in the show, was first to come out. Thanks to long limbs, I managed to get his autograph on the playbill! WOO HOO!

Then there were several supporting characters including horses, who did not even stop to sign, they seemed just to walk out and into the city after their long day's work!

Of course the crowd only grew waiting for Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Strang in the play but best known as Harry Potter. The best I got of him was a picture of his back!

I was surprised that Kate Mulgrew, never seemed to come out. She may just be sleeping in the theatre!

Equus

The purpose for my recent trip to New York was to see Equus. The trip was planned around the purchase of the tickets for the show.

I bought a show poster as a souvenier, it seemd like the thing to do when you are at the show and amazed by the production! But on second look, it is a really nicely done poster.

Many of these show posters, show the star smiling, or tell you what the whole show is about. And while this one does do that at some level, it also tells you everything about the show without giving anything away!

The image is an amazing interpretation of the play, the young boy and a horse being merged into one image. The logo tells you of the metal spike, the tail of the Q, that Alan, the main character, uses for his crime.

My one minute review of the show. . . quite brilliant! Everything I read prior and since it lived up to. Daniel Radcliffe, formerly known as Harry Potter has most definitely left his wizarding robes in London! Richard griffiths is not off the stage for more than minutes and is brilliant. The added bonus was that of Kate Mulgrew, who plays the attorney who brings Alan to Dysart's office to begin the dicovery of this mystery.

Going to New York? get youself to the Broadhurst Theatre for a treat!

Section 101, Row AA Seats 13 and 14

That is where I will be to see Cirque's latest travelling show KOOZA when it comes to Chicago June 26 - August 10. And I will be there in what seems like front rown for the last show! I will not be in both seats, my sister will be in one!

From the Cirque website:
KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world.

KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.

The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with a panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog.

Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, KOOZA explores themes of fear, identity, recognition and power. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement.

Fuerzabruta

Saw some amazing theatre while in New York. First was Come Back Little Sheba starring Kevin Anderson and S Epatha Merkerson. All that New York Broadway theatre should be. It was THE show to see. And we got tickets at TKTS, go down to the South Street Seaport TKTS booth. Not a single person there!

The other show we saw was Fuerzabrtua, off broadway. It is pretty much Brazillian Cirque Du Soleil. And if you know me at all, you know what a HUGE Cirque fan I am! This was a real stunner! A visual treat for ALL the senses. Just an hour off pulse charging sound, rythms, water, people flying through the air, breaking through walls. Just watch the trailer and see!