Broadway

 Broadway weekend May 7 and 8 was three Broadway shows and the Off-Broadway Drunk Shakespeare.

Six matinee 5-8

Plaza Suite evening 5-7

Hadestown matinee 5-7

I had previous been to a few shows and touring productions.

Moulin Rouge Oct 2021

Waitress October 2019

Sly Fox June 2001

The Tony Awards Red Carpet June 2004

Touring productions in Seattle over the years.

Hamilton Feb 2018

Wicked June 2019

The Phantom May 2015 

(This is the 2nd of two times at The Phantom, including September 2003)

It also turns out that both stage plays I have been to on Broadway were revivals from the 1970s originally starring George C. Scott, which is a weird coincidence.

That open space is more awesome than I thought it would be

I was never really sold on the viaduct and tunnel projects in the sense of the impact that would be positive to the waterfront. Years ago in the early days of this blog I even commented on it.

It always just seemed like a fairly low level long overpass and not really that big of a deal.

But, now that it is totally down and I have had a chance to see the street by street changes at street level I am amazed.

Now that I have had a chance or two to drive along it and see how much more open it really is I am amazed.

Having recently gone to SF and then walking the home waterfront I now know what everyone was talking about.

It never seemed like it should have made this much of a difference, but wow it really did.