Sunday in the park*

*originally from LJ

Much Ado About Nothing has been running in The Public Theater in Central Park for the past month and had only 1 week left, so we decided to go see it on Sunday. The box office opens at 1pm, which means if you want good tickets, you need to start lining up at 7am. Katie, Maggie and I got there at 8am and had pretty good spots. It was disgustingly humid and pouring, but that didn't deter us! Maggie had a thin plastic tarp we could use for cover. We were sitting against one of the fences so at first we tied the tarp to the fence and held it over our heads. But after about 30 minutes our arms got too tired to keep holing it so we decided to turn around. We made this sort of tunnel by tying the top of the tarp to the fence and swinging it around the other way so that we were facing the fence and had the tarp go around our backs and down onto the pavement. That worked a lot better but was a tad more cramped. We experienced mild cabin fever, but we were the envy of everyone in the line. We had our towels to sit on, food, cards, yatzee. We didn't have to hold umbrellas or sit on wet newspapers. We were (mostly) dry and relatively happy.

We got pretty good seats and luckily, the sky cleard up by the evening because there are no raincheks, if the show rained out, we would've wasted 5 hours waiting for the tickets.

The wait was definately worth it. The show was great. The cast was great, with lots of famous actors (Jimmy Smitts, Kristen Johnston, Sam Waterston, etc). The weather was perfect, the sound was good, and everything was pretty much perfect. Great day.