long weekend continued.....
Since we had four full days of continuous chutti and freedom to do dhamaal in NYC, we tried to utilize it at the fullest. We started with the Manhattan Downtown where we roamed in Wall Street, tried to control the razing bull there and also marveled at the buildings named NYSE and AMEX where the strongest currency of this world is traded. WTC site reminded us of a tragedy that took lives of numerous people from all over the world. It was really tough, not to get a little sentimental and feel a little anguished after seeing the blank spot on earth's surface.
After wading our way thru the cramped but not incommodious streets of downtown, we reached the fabulous and roomy Times Square{TS}. I had been to that place before as it was very close to my office but when I reached there for the first time, I could not held my mouth from gaping. TS is the place where 7th Avenue and Broadway meets and it streches till 8-10 blocks. It is surrounded by big offices (Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, ABC, Dow Jones etc), Broadway Theatres, huge shops and over and above all numerous-large-extra lighted bill boards which catches your attention the most. When you reach TS, you feel that all the light used (or wasted) at TS in one night can lit an Indian town for a month. But still it feels good to be a part of crowd enjoying at TS. I have already written enuf about Atlantic City and Fanaa which were the other things that we did on first two days.
On Sunday night we saw "Chicago the Musical", my first Broadway show and even after spending fairly high for it (around 80 USD for a ticket), I felt it was worth every penny, a really wonderful experience. All the actors, there actions, coordination, dances, music and light-effects were amazing. In fact the opening song "All that Jazz" held me so spellbound that I kept humming it for the rest of the show. It has won many Tony Awards, is one of the longest running shows and even has a movie made on the theme with the same name starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger.
After wading our way thru the cramped but not incommodious streets of downtown, we reached the fabulous and roomy Times Square{TS}. I had been to that place before as it was very close to my office but when I reached there for the first time, I could not held my mouth from gaping. TS is the place where 7th Avenue and Broadway meets and it streches till 8-10 blocks. It is surrounded by big offices (Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, ABC, Dow Jones etc), Broadway Theatres, huge shops and over and above all numerous-large-extra lighted bill boards which catches your attention the most. When you reach TS, you feel that all the light used (or wasted) at TS in one night can lit an Indian town for a month. But still it feels good to be a part of crowd enjoying at TS. I have already written enuf about Atlantic City and Fanaa which were the other things that we did on first two days.
On Sunday night we saw "Chicago the Musical", my first Broadway show and even after spending fairly high for it (around 80 USD for a ticket), I felt it was worth every penny, a really wonderful experience. All the actors, there actions, coordination, dances, music and light-effects were amazing. In fact the opening song "All that Jazz" held me so spellbound that I kept humming it for the rest of the show. It has won many Tony Awards, is one of the longest running shows and even has a movie made on the theme with the same name starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger.
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