Tag: NYC 2016

  • Postcards From New York | Thoughts From Places

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    As I keep mentioning this trip to New York was a re-visit holiday rather than a brand new experience.

    With parents and mini Cagz in tow it was harder for me to actually go back to some of the more ‘off the grid’ places I’d been before like Strand, Greenwich Village and quiet corners of Central Park. We never ‘explored’ further than Chelsea and I barely brushed past SoHo and didn’t even set foot in Brooklyn. The bitter cold winds and packed schedule confined and exhausted us most days as we collapsed into hotel beds at 5pm to rest up for evening activities. We were seeing family most nights, going to shows we’d booked, celebrating my parent’s wedding anniversary and making sure my sister got to see ‘movie New York’ to the best of our ability.

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  • Postcards From New York | It’s Quiet Uptown

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    Though this trip was very much a run around old favourite places I did finally get to make my way to Uptown Manhattan on a bus tour on one of the sunnier afternoons in the city. Whist Midtown and Downtown Manhattan are more recognisable to your average tourist, Uptown is considered more like an expansive neighbourhood in contrast to the busy-ness of it’s more tourist-y counterparts.

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  • 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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