Rick and I went to NY today to watch a 2:00 pm showing of Les Miserables at the Broadhurst Theater on 44th Street. What a beautiful 3 hour show...what wornderful performances, especially of our very own Lea Salonga. She was terrific - the audience gave the cast a standing ovation!
Her last performance will be on Sunday, Oct. 21, and Rick wanted us to be able to catch the show with her as Fantine. The changing of the backdrop, the props, the music, costumes were all beautifully created.
Before the show, we had lunch at the Bubba Gump's Shrimp....a fascinating restaurant where your waiter will ask 5 questions about the movie Forest Gump....and if you answered all 5 correctly, you wiill be served free appetizers! Too bad, we only got 3 perfect answers...so no free appetizers came!
What caught our eyes was the way the waiters served tall drinking glasses stucked and piled together in a pyramid fashion (see photos)...the glasses had grooves on each base - and to make it easier for the waiters to serve the as many as8 orders at one time, the glasses were hooked to each other on one side. It was really novel...and so I asked Rick to take photos as another table was being served.
Anyway, the food and service were good and surely, we will remember to bring Yani and Anne here (with the kids, of course) next time around they are in the U.S.!
