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Tag: 2016

  • Thoughts On ‘Waitress’ & Women In The Narrative

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    So just over a week ago, on our last night in New York, my sister and I headed off to the Brooks Atkinson Theater to watch one of the preview performances of the new musical Waitress. The musical is based on the 2006 movie penned by Adrienne Shelly, starring Keri Russell as a down and out waitress called Jenna in small town America who finds out she’s pregnant with her not-so-fabulous husband’s baby.

    Aside from trying not to freak out because Sara Bareilles was sat watching the show in the stalls downstairs and fangirl-ing when Jessie Mueller (who plays Jenna in the musical marvelously) came on stage, after coming out of the theatre I found myself awake with too many thoughts on what I’d watched and about women on Broadway in general.

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  • Postcards From New York | Spring In NYC

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    I spoke last week about Spring in bloom here in the UK, but New York was looking equally as beautiful (despite a pretty drastic temperature drop whilst I was out there).

    Ironically the header image up there was taken whilst we were wandering around Hell’s Kitchen (much prettier than Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock’s usual haunts), but it was one of the first glimpses we got of the oh so pretty flowers that were budding on the trees all around the city. The High Line park was especially gorgeous to walk down on a sunny afternoon with all the trees lining the paths starting to show signs of white and pink flowers, plus the budding shoots of green leaves too!highline-blossoms central-park Flatiron-Park

    I’m forever fascinated by the juxtaposition of the parks in NYC against the huge concrete structures and skyscrapers. I can’t help but love the look of all the delicate pieces of nature set against the city’s sharp angles, exposed brick work or shining glass. It’s all so pretty and obviously oh so Instagram-able ;)

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    Make sure you check out the rest of this NYC travel series over the next couple of days, and for more New York wanderlust check out my posts from 2014 too.

    Ria

  • Postcards From New York | The Re-Runs

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    “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”
 ― Truman Capote

    So I’m back! Still a little foggy in the head and my heart still beating in the centre of Manhattan. This trip to New York was definitely more ‘touristy’ than last time I visited. With my family in tow we very much stuck around Midtown for the most part when we weren’t hopping on tour buses and making our way Downtown to see the Statue of Liberty or walking down to Chelsea Market.

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