Bad Cinderella

A's mom called me this morning and we had a really good chat.

I was so happy she called me, I just didn't know how or when it would be appropriate to reach out and see how she was doing.

They are ok, A is going to be fine, they just needed a day to let it sink in.

It's not unheard of for people to not get in on their first audition then get in the next year. 

So who knows, maybe we'll see A there with Daya next year.

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I went to the office today.

After work, Sharon invited me to go see Bad Cinderella on Broadway.  She got free tickets through work.

Bad Cinderella is the new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, an it has terrible reviews.

Basically, the cast is great and the show is... well, bad.

I walked from the financial district up to Times Square.

The show was..... well, we can't decide.

We don't hate it, but it was a weird show.

We might have liked it a LOT less if we had paid for it.

(Our seats were really good, too.)

Neither Sharon nor I thought it was funny, but people around us were laughing.

We didn't understand WHY, it just really wasn't funny.

The first act was definitely worse than the second act, and the people next to us left during intermission.  We almost did too but decided to stick it out.

The cast was fantastic but the show just... missed the mark.

We hated pretty much all the characters, they were very unlikable.

The staging however was AMAZING, like super-really-extremely gorgeous.

It was worth staying just for the scenery.

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The trains were screwed up on the way home and we helped a German couple get back to their hotel- they were in an airline-sponsored layover and had no idea how to get back to their hotel.

It was a late night but fun.