Going to see them in concert again in August and we were really excited to catch the show on Bway (ok, we were excited for a DATE most of all, lol). To be honest, I was a little wary of how "Broadway-ized" the songs would be (this is why we haven't seen Billy Joel's musical or even Abba's... heard they're kinda show choiry... yeah... that's how I roll). We knew that Green Day was really involved in the whole process of the show creation, though, and were pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing any Twyla Tharp or jazz hands.
Not dissin' on West Side, we are huge Broadway fans and HH was actually in West Side in college, but I am not a fan of pop music gone Broadway. Maybe these next jazz hands are ones I could get behind:
(That one's for my lil sis, who is going to see Evil Dead the Musical. Lucky!)
That's New Jersey on the left of the river and Manhattan on the right. And when you get stuck in traffic in there, you can sit before and in the tunnel f-o-r-e-v-e-r... pondering what might happen if a crack ever appeared and the Hudson River came gushing in, like in the Sylvester Stallone flick 'Daylight' (oh, you missed that one? Fortunately I found a pic.) Look at him, all wet and serious, contemplating what to do in a flooded Lincoln Tunnel. I guess everyone else in the tunnel has already perished? Except the cameraman, of course. :)
So since we arrived in the city plenty early, we had a few hours to kill. We found the theater then moseyed on down 44th St. About a block away was the National Geographic King Tut exhibit (complete with 3-D mummy movie!)
A totally cool thing to find accidentally! I wish we had been able to spend a really long time in there. I just wanted to stand there and stare at some of the artifacts. They were absolutely amazing and the amount of detail in all of the hand carved items is astounding. King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter. Some of the artifacts (like Tut's actual mummy) are considered national treasures and are not permitted to leave Egypt, but they had models that looked like the real thing. Sadly, you can't take pictures in the exhibit, but it was breathtaking. Did you know that they have now surmised that Tut most likely died of malaria? They have found malarial DNA within his actual mummy. Did you also know that he had a club foot and a bone disorder in the other foot? They know this from analysis as well, and it makes sense that he had lots of canes in his tomb.
"A ground-breaking study of the mummy in 2005 - including the first CT scan of the body by a team of radiologists - concluded he died of gangrene after breaking his leg. But now a team of genetists say Tut's DNA reveals he had malaria and likely died of complications of the disease brought on by the broken limb.
The team looked at 16 royal mummies, tracing Tut's lineage back five generations and linking him for the first time to several older mummies, including one that appears to be his grandmother and another that is likely his father, Akhenaten. They found a host of congenital diseases - unsurprising in a line that encouraged siblings to marry. An accumulation of malformations in Tutankhamun's family was evident," the researchers wrote. "None alone would have caused death." But he was so weakened by disorders and disease - including malaria - that an accidental fracture could have done him in, they speculate. He might be envisioned as a young but frail king who needed canes to walk because of the bone-necrotic and sometimes painful Koehler disease II, plus oligodactyly (hypophalangism) in the right foot and clubfoot on the left," the authors said.
Full article here
11 comments:
Sounds like a FABULOUS weekend! I saw Green Day at the fair when I was in college. Someone poured Coke on me, but the mosh pit was a sight to see...
First of all, SO jealous that you got to see something on Broadway! I'd see just about anything there. :-)
Also! I think that's the King Tut exhibit that I saw when it came to Dallas! Very cool. I really liked it, except I was disappointed that Tut himself wasn't actually there. (Which totally makes sense, but was still a bummer!)
I LOVE the info on Tut! So interesting...
I lol'ed a bit--I like Zach Braff! But mostly hold-over from his Scrubs days. :-)
Sounds like an awesome weekend, and I'm glad the tunnel held up for you.
NPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also I have seen Daylight and um... we go under a giant tunnel on the way to OBX. Think of it EVERY TIME!
Sounds like you had fun though! That exhibit looks great.
And I LOVED that ZOMBIE poster. I may just steal that one from you :D
Well done you for seeing the King Tut exhibition!! It came through here in London and was sold out in like seconds!!! But the history of it and that article is so amazing and very interesting - thanks for sharing!
Oh I love, love, love theatre musicals!! Oh West Side Story ROCKS!!! I've not heard of Green Day but you enjoyed it so that's brilliant!! Long live musicals!!! :-)
And glad to hear you had a brilliant weekend with all the family - you need that really to re-charge for the next writing phase!
Have a lovely Monday!
Take care
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Great post, thanks for the trip to New York.
I'm a fellow Green Day fan... especially their AI album, which was pure genius. So did you like the musical version?
(You mention the curtain beforehand -- with the cleverly-placed spotlight -- and seeing Zach Braff afterwards, but not much about the inbetween.)
By the way, I love your equation for those respective celebs. I completely agree!
Sounds like a great weekend! Your kids are gorgeous, and that stuff about King Tut was so interesting. I love stuff like that! And I totally know and hate NY traffic! Ugh!
awww your weekend sounded awesome! I want to do all those things!
What a great weekend! I love anything musical - and anything live is usually awesome!
Love the pics of your girls - they're gorgeous!
What a great time. I love Green Day.
This post makes me feel nostalgic for summer times in NYC--I grew up there. And I often went to New Jersey. I loved the greenery there.
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