Sat, 31 March 2018, 12:11 pm: I just snapped up four tickets to see my favorite stage musical for the third time.
That’s me in New York City in January, where I caught KINKY BOOTS on Broadway. It was my second time seeing the show. My first time was last summer in London.
I enjoyed the London production more. Its audio was fuller, with the vocals and the orchestration mixed more pleasingly. The NYC cast was fine, but— maybe because I came to know them first— the London actors have my heart.
In fairness, my seat was closer in London, so I was more immersed in the proceedings. And in New York I had a mega-annoying perpetual cougher seated right behind me. Honestly, I heard his hacking as much as I heard the actors. Plus, there’s a magic about your first time, isn’t there? The jokes were all new and the kick-up-your-red-heels jubilation was like nothing I’d ever felt before in a theatre.
I loved that London show enough to select KINKY BOOTS as one of the two productions I caught on Broadway this past winter. I continue to love the play enough to attend it for this upcoming third time… at the Adelphi Theatre, where my KINKY love affair began.
For both of those performances Dana was with me, and she’ll be along for red round three— and so will two friends who are KINKY virgins. The greatest way to show your love for a production is to SHARE the love, so yep, that’s why I bought FOUR tickets today.
Our four seats are just about in the middle of the stalls (Brit speak for the main floor), two pairs in the same row, on either side of the center aisle. The most beautiful thing in the world, Charlie, is not having to climb over twenty people when you’ve gotta go pee.
As of this posting there are still plenty of good seats for our evening performance, and for the matinee show and the evening after. Join us on this London trip and I’ll plunk you into one of those seats.