A Week away from leaving Flint...

     It's a week away from the trip I've been planning since last year.  The destination is New York City, again.  I can't help but go back to the city every year because there are so many great things to do. My best friend and companion Josh is going with me this this.  We are set to leave Tuesday night at 9:15 pm from Detroit, MI via Greyhound bus and arrive in the city at 11:30 am the next day.  Unfortunately, we will be dropped off at the infamous Port Authority.  Having recently been on the news for it's awful conditions and thievery, we are not excited about that portion of the trip.  However, we are staying in a hotel right across from Central Park, two blocks away from Studio 54  where we will be able to see Studio 54 from the hotel window(!!!), where Cabaret is showing.

     My primary motivation in going on this trip is to see the wonderful and amazing Alan Cumming perform as emcee in Cabaret in the Broadway revival.  The first time I saw Alan, he was on Rosie O'Donnell's show performing Willkommen to promote the show in 1999 and my love for him was solidified in that performance.  I traveled to NY last summer to take part in his one-man production of Macbeth, and it was amazing.  I even got to meet him after the show for an autograph.  What an amazing experience.  I think I might sing to him this year, "Yer fuckin beautiful", lyrics to his own song.  

Shows I plan to see while I'm there:

• Cabaret
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (hopefully)
• Book of Mormon

There are tons of museums to visit in the city, and we plan to visit:

The American Museum of Natural History

The Museum of New York City

The Rubin Museum

The Museum of Modern Art

The Guggenheim

     We're even scheduled to go to a taping to America's Got Talent.  I tried to get tickets to see the Daily Show or Colbert Report or Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, but these were what I was able to get.  Luckily, Josh is a closet-fan of the show, so it's not completely in vein.

     And even more important, I have scheduled a tour with Columbia's Teacher's College for graduate school.  I hope to meet with some of the professors and get better acquainted with their work in hopes to get involved.

     Doctor Who is scheduled to make an appearance in New York somewhere on August 14th, yet it's the 6th and there is no further information to buy tickets or anything.  Peter Capaldi, Steve Moffatt, and Jenna Coleman are all supposed to be there, where ever it ends up being held at.

From Cabaret in 1999.  Alan did such a fantastic job as emcee, they revived it almost 15 years later.

  

     Zach Braff has been somewhat of an idol for me since I watched Garden State.  I hope to see his new movie Wish I Was Here, in addition to his Broadway debut in Bullets Over Broadway while we're in the city.