I love Chicago. I do.

[tzikeh]

I adore Chicago. It has everything New York has -- in many cases what it's got is better, actually -- and that includes the live theatre. There is so much good theatre in Chicago, and it's cheaper by far than New York theatre, and it's both riskier and more available than most of what you'll see on Broadway. But I grew up going to Broadway - it's more a state of mind than it is a place - and I've said over the years that the only thing I really miss about New York is Broadway. Friends who currently live in NYC are quick to say that Broadway is on the decline, that Broadway costs too much, that Broadway no longer offers a cultural night on the town, but more of a broad-stroke shallowness which passes for entertainment. And I nod, and I think, yeah, I really shouldn't miss Broadway all that much.

And then I read that the play The Exonerated is taking a page from The Vagina Monologues (and before that, Love Letters) and featuring a rotating cast.

This week's cast? John Spencer, Robert Vaughn, Ben Vereen, and Harold Perrineau.

::goes off to look at airfare to NYC for three days from now::

Comments

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

Fine! Come to town when I'll be gone! See if I care!

(John Spencer and Harold Perrineau? Hmmm...)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

{g} I'll be back in late July - will you still be there, or will you have moved to Chicago by then?

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

If all goes well, that'll be my packing-up time and I'll be moving around August 1.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Come see me! Come see me!

I will get paid on Friday. How much are tickets to the show? I always like to accompany you when you stalk John Spencer.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hee! I don't know if I can do it - flying on such short notice means high prices, and I'm already flying back to NYC at the end of July. But man, I wanna stalk John Spencer again - and, as an added bonus, Robert Vaughn!

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should try a low bid on Priceline, roll the dice?

I will be happy to see you whenever I see you, whether that be July or Friday.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Tix to the play are $60, btw.

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That's a cast I could really get behind seeing.

It's been so many years since I was in NYC, and I was so young when we were there, I'd love to go back sometime and, among other things, go to a Broadway play. I don't care if it's "not like it used to be" and all of that: I want to go.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm so pathetic - I'm actually looking at airfare. And I was just *in* NYC, and I'm going back at the end of July.

I, single-handedly, will revive tourism in Manhattan!

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

So, they should start making those "Come back to NY" commercials "Come back to NY--Jessica will be here!"?

And you may be a lame ass, but you're our lame ass. Also, you'll be a happy lame ass we can be jealous of as you stalk John Spencer--and Harold Perrineau (yum).

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I think pathetic is actually *me* looking for airfare, unasked, on your behalf just because I thrill at the online travel research. But, um, anyway, United has these last-minute e-fares (http://www.itn.net/cgi/get?unpub_inq*itn/ord=NEWREC,itn/air/efare) in the $165-$180 range if you're willing to travel on Saturday and Monday (instead of the more convenient Friday and Sunday) into Newark or Westchester County. That seems to be a bit better than some of the regular published fares, although when you factor in the cost of travel from the various airports, who knows?

::sigh:: I'd swear I was a travel agent in a former life, but that just sounds so lame.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You kill me.

And yeah, Saturday-Monday wouldn't really work for me at all, though Newark isn't too bad for travelling into Manhattan. Westchester, not so much. ;)

But thank you!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Also? Wednesday seems to be a big day for the distribution of weekly travel deal newsletters and such, and I have it in my head that that's because airlines tend to publish rates and stuff on Wednesdays at like 12:01 a.m. or something??? I'm a little bit fuzzy on that, but I mention it in case you are fence-sitting and want to explore the options tomorrow.

[I'm thinking of having business cards printed with my title as "Overhelper" -- no, really.]

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

well, thanks! - and yes, you and I have bonded before over the "overhelping" gene - with research links around and about Chicago.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

If you decide to go, I will so go with you guys... my cleaning guy at my last job was actually in the original cast and I wanted to see it anyway.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I almost forgot, happy birthday!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Aie - well, as you can tell, I didn't come in, and we didn't go - but I'll be back in town the last weekend of July to see NINE. ;)

And thanks for wishing me happy birthday! How goes West Wing, you West Wing girl?