Times Square
I love Times Square! I love the theater district! We saw La Cage Aux Folles Thursday night. Douglas Hodge and Kelsey Grammer are incredible in this show, it's very different from the production I saw in the 1980's and the revival I saw in 2004 -- less lavish, bawdier but just as bittersweet as the original. and both stars were very gracious about signing autographs at the stage door. Times Square on a thursday night -- not quite as crowded as New year's Eve, but very very full nevertheless. And just as crowded at 11 PM (when the show was over) as it was at 6 PM when we went to dinner (Bubba Gump's we ordered shrimp, of course). I love the corwds, I love the excitement. the street vendors selling "I Love NY" t shirts and "designer" pocketbooks....the hot dog and shish kebab carts ....the guys handing out coupons for comedy clubs, restuarants and double deecker tour buses...street musicians and other performers (I've seen the Naked Cowb...