Some good days lately. Enjoyed our daughter's performance in a small musical that was featured at the New York Theatre Festival on the Lower East Side. It ran a week, she had a great time, she beat out a lot of others at auditions and callbacks to land a principal role, which has been very satisfying and hopeful for her, and we got to see it twice at the end of last week as my wife and I splurged on a trip to NYC as our Christmas gift to each other and to watch the girl do her thing. She had fun, felt seen, a bunch of her fellow graduated musical theatre college classmates came to the show, and she learned at the cast party late after the last show that there's some momentum for them to do the show at 54 Below uptown sometime in April. Fingers crossed.
Rushed two Broadway shows - saw Laurie Metcalf's (she's UNBELIEVABLE on stage) excellent play a day before closing from the third row for less than $100 for both tickets, and then rushed "Two Strangers (carry a cake across New York)" for about the same price. Really terrific show and Sam Tutty would not be a surprise to win a Tony. Really clever shows, both of them.
Flew home to NC with the wife and kid on Monday, the flight home was wonderfully smooth (going up was NOT) and just trying to enjoy the week before it goes by too quickly. Not much work needing to be done, but enough to still feel connected, plenty of gin in the house, the beagle is happy to have us home and the walks have been frequent and long.
Good days. Happy holidays to all the good people here.
