One of the funny jokes in the show is that this one night only event is re-using the stage from the show that appeared there previously which was "Hurt Locker, The Musical". They even had fake playbills lying around in the audience. I picked one up and after giving it a much thorough reading later, found it to be hysterical. There's jokes in there like the band Metallica was being credited against their will to help sell tickets after leaving after a 30min rehearsal. One of the stars is D'Bree Dazeem, younger sister to Adele Dazeem (the incorrect name that John Travolta called Idina Menzel at the Oscars last year). Apparently D'Bree got to go on because her sister Adele fell down a flight of stairs. Oh, and the musical is supposed to last 6 hours and 4 minutes.
The character Hedwig interacts with the audience a lot as well. It's definitely a show I wish I could see again, unfortunately it's completely sold out until the end of the run. After Neil Patrick Harris departs, Andrew Rannells will take up the roll which will also be exciting to see. I'd like to go again and see him in it as well.
Here's the clip from the Tonys this year. Man, what a performance!
Swinging gears to something less theatrical, but delicious, I went on a cupcake tour on Friday! Monica had given it to me for my birthday, but this was the first time we were both free to actually take the tour. It was so much fun! We learned about cupcakes, got to walk around union square and the west village and got to eat a lot of cupcakes and other sweets. Here's the run down on where we went!
1) Baked By Melissa - I love these cupcakes. They are tiny amazing drops of cupcake goodness. Luckily I already knew I loved them, because the flavor we got to try was Root Beer Float. I will give them this, it tastes exactly like root beer. For people who like root beer, this is amazing. For people who cannot stand the taste of root beer (like me!), it was disgusting. So there you go.
There was a brief interlude where we stopped in front of Crumbs. For those who may not know, Crumbs cupcake shops closed about 3 weeks ago. Workers came in one Monday and were informed they would not be re-opening ever again. We had a moment of silence for poor crumbs.
2) Amorino - This is actually a gelato place, to cleanse our palate we were informed. This is some of the most amazing gelato I've ever tasted. We got to try the mango flavor. It tasted like a real mango. Amazing! This is also apparently the only store that exists in the entire United States.
3) Molly's Cupcakes - Actually founded by a guy named John, Molly's was adorable and school themed. The tables were actually school desks as were the chairs and they had a lot of books and games sitting around. We got to design our own cupcake here so I chose red velvet cake with chocolate frosting, and put neon dinosaur sprinkles on top. Absolutely delicious!
4) Biscousciao - Again, not a cupcake stop but they sell macarons here. We got to try the Dark Chocolate Macaron, which, while very good and very very rich, wasn't my favorite. I just don't think I'll ever really get into the whole macaron craze.
5) Milk and Cookies - A surprising number of non-cupcake related stops on this tour. Milk and Cookies was adorable though and we got to try their Sea Salt Oat Cookie with white chocolate chips. While very good and soft, at this point I was pretty sugared up so only ate a bit and took the rest of the cookie home.
6) Magnolia Bakery - Our final stop at the original Magnolia's which, I learned, was named after the movie Steel Magnolias. Here we got to try their famous red velvet cupcake in miniature form. Super delicious!
All in all I think my favorite might have been the gelato but it was fun to get to walk to all of the different places. I'll definitely be returning!
And then, just for fun. Here are a couple of pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge that I took when Seth and I took a walk on the Manhattan Bridge on Friday night.
