My friend Laurie gave me the CD of the Come From Away soundtrack and I had listened to it so many times before we came to the theatre Sunday night that I thought I knew the story. But wow, what a performance! I wondered if the audience energized the cast in an unusual way or if they (and the instrumentalists) are always that energetic. Incredible!! Everyone left the theatre on a high and several dozen others from our choir were there so we had fun talking about it.
The show was awesome and a much different perspective of 9/11 than we got visiting Ground Zero and the Memorial Museum a few days later. Karyn wanted to go to Gander Newfoundland even after we found out how hard it was to get there.
I wanted to go after I read this article Lora sent us about one of the cast members who went and visited all the real people who were characters in the show.
Times Square at night after the theatre was a revelation -- it was as bright as day and once again packed with families visiting NYC for Presidents' Day weekend. We were hungry and thought we'd find a restaurant since we hadn't been able to make a reservation. It was harder than we thought but finally saw a bunch of people coming out of this one and the Italian food was great, once again.
We were the only people there and they stayed open for us; yay! Tomorrow is the big day.
On our walk back to the hotel, we saw a whole bunch of choral singers going into Rosie O'Grady's for their "after show party" like we are supposed to have tomorrow night. We looked up online and found the Sunday night Carnegie Hall concert of John Rutter's music -- that must have been who they were. Anyway, it added to our anticipation. Plus we were more confident about where to go after our concert the next day.
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