Tuesday, I went back to work. I don’t remember what time I woke up, but it was early enough to get Monday’s blog up then start work around 7:30am. Ash made some eggs with salmon for breakfast, then him and Kevin left about 9am. They spent their day walking about just enjoying the city, no particular agenda. I got decent work done with the quiet and no meetings until Noon since I’m 3 hours ahead. Then I was back-to-back for several hours and quit working around 5:30pm.

For lunch, I went across the street to the little market we’d visited earlier and got a hot Rueben sandwich. Pastrami is one of those things that’s generally just better in NYC and this held up.

Ash and Kevin got home around 3pm. I kept working while they took showers and Ash made dinner.

Ash had gone shopping the day before for this, a Thai yellow curry dish with chicken, potatoes, broccoli, and carrots over rice. It was delicious as it always is and this hit the spot on a cold day.

We have been so bundled up in all of our photos I asked Kevin to take this before we left.

We left around 6:20pm to go to the theater. “Company” was playing at 7pm at the Bernard Jacobs Theater on 45th Street between 7th and 8th Aves. I hadn’t been wearing my mask while walking and my glasses fogged up pretty bad as soon as I put it on! It’s about 33 degrees at this point.

This is a revival of a Stephen Sondheim play from the 70’s, with some updates that included a switch of the main character from male to female, Robert to Bobbie. She is turning 35 and the story is a string of vignettes with her 5 coupled friends, plus 3 current boyfriends, all of which explore the ups and downs of love and marriage. In this version, one of the couples is gay. It’s a musical comedy with intricate staging from a people perspective. The sets were relatively simple, but the way the 11 main actors in the ensemble interacted with them and each other was complicated, often in very small spaces, and we talked on the way home about how precise those rehearsals had to be. It was funny and modern. I didn’t recognize any of the songs, but Ash did, in particular “Ladies who Lunch” which I got a chuckle out of. (See yesterday’s blog…)

A fun shot of the empty control booth as we were walking to our seats.

Patti Lupone played the wife in the older couple of the ensemble, and she was a joy to see. Her role in the first act was mostly just another player in the group, but in the second had she was the main actor in a pretty long scene with just her husband and the lead, which of course had an amazing solo in it. This is the first show I’ve seen where one of the actors was famous outside of Broadway circles.

And a funny side note. I decided to make my way to the restroom at intermission and Kevin said, “no way, there’s way too many men in this theater.” And boy was that right. The line snaked around in a long lobby 4x while the women were just walking right in. Eventually the woman in charge let the few women still in that room know “the men are coming in, it’s all stalls, no worries” and they opened it up to get people out before the show started. At one point a guy asked her what time intermission ends. “When I say it does.” Well, alrighty then. Needless to say, I made it back to my seat before the show started again. Between folks playing tribute to Sondheim given his recent death, and Patti Lupone, this show attracted a score of gay men.

We all really enjoyed the show. As we were leaving the theater, Ash got a call from an Airbnb guest who was trying to get to our house in Sacramento but was lost. He handed the phone to me since I know Sac better. She’d somehow managed to get herself on the other side of McKinley Park, well over a mile away. I directed her and stayed on the phone with her until she got there.

We went to Junior’s after. I got the raspberry swirl cheesecake, above; Ash got a banana nut pound cake, below. Kevin got some chicken fingers that came later, which we all had bites out of, but I neglected to take a photo!

We were home after 11pm and in bed before midnight. And that was the day.

Today is more work for me, not sure what Ash is going to do. We will meet a friend for lunch and tonight is opera night!