Saturday, 3 December 2022

Thursday 1 December 2022

We started the day at the Empire State Building - weather was sunny but cold so visibility was good.

Then it was off to Strand books - the definition of so many books so little time.
Then we headed for the Brooklyn Bridge, Hudson Yards, then back to the hotel for a quick rest before our evening's theatre.
We'd entered broadway Roulette again & had scored tix to Hadestown.
It was really good - a variation on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial underworld to escape climate-change induced poverty before her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her, and together they show others the way to escape.
Very strong cast and well worth seeing.

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