GIRLS NIGHT OUT IN MANHATTAN.........or how to get kicked out of a Broadway theater.

Well technically we left out a side door using our own free will......but it was touch and go for awhile when the hired help ran to get management......

You may remember a few months ago when I posted that daughter.........cute person in below picture......

was treating me to the musical Ragtime as one of my Christmas presents.....

So the day had come and the girls took off for Manhattan leaving the "Guys"......as Miss "B"

now calls the Dad and the grandpa......to babysit....

I had seen Ragtime 10 years ago at the Ford Theater and the production was fabulous....very elaborate stage decoration....This new revival was on a much smaller scale....but I was excited none the less.....Here is Daughter seated next to the "One Women H1N1 Walking Virus".......

The minute we sat down "that" lady started yacking up a lung.....it was horrifying...

She barked.....she coughed.....she choked....she made every possible noise you could make and Daughter was getting nervous......

At one point I rooted through my purse looking for a cough drop to pass over to her but before we knew it it was intermission and we packed up our coats and moved to the back row of the theater.....

But not before daughter told the women to feel free to move her coats to our seats because we wouldn't be coming back to which she responded......

"Are your giving up?".......

Daughter says........"No, because your sick and I have a small child at home"......to which the women said in her best......she's been smoking since birth voice......

"I'm not sick"........

Well....you could have fooled us.....and I'm here to report that for the rest of the show we didn't

hear her make a peep......

Now for the "I'm a real Troublemaker" part of the post......

I got yelled out by an usher when I took the first picture of daughter for using the camera....Hey, the play hadn't even started yet.....so I restrained myself for the rest of the production......

UNTIL......

ofcourse the final curtain call.....

You can see how small the Neil Simon theater is....we were in the last row....and for Pete's Sake the show was over.....What's the harm.....and for what daughter paid for those two seats we should have been able to take the seats home with us......or atleast one cast member.....

So.....I took my shot and promptly had another more mean spirited usher lady race over and tell me to delete the picture.....She went crazy......I tell her I have no idea how to delete a picture at which point she tells me to stay put that she was going to get the manager.....

And she also mentioned something about getting a $10,000.00 Fine.....

Then we heard that the manager was busy and we would have to be detained.....

Well.....that doesn't work with the Legal Eagle and it would take more then a flash light and a name badge to detain us two.......... so I spotted the side door of the theater open and we took off into the dark of night......

Picture intact!!!

And it wouldn't be a night out in the big city without a nice fancy dinner....

Here is Daughter at the steak house we went to......name to be withheld.....until I hear back from the manager regarding unusual behavior by the waitress......

We had a fabulous dinner started out with an

Amuse Bouche of butternut squash little thingie.....

followed by New England Clam Chowder and I had the Filet Mignon with garlic Parmesan matchstick potatoes......daughter had the most wonderful chicken in a Meyer lemon

reduction sauce......

And the waitress.......Well, I was sitting facing a mirror so I could see behind me.....

She was re-setting the table behind us holding napkins and silverware.....

She placed down the napkins then took the fork she was holding and with the tines of the fork

started itching her head with it.....then promptly put it down on the table....

I retrained myself at the time from saying anything but has since sent off an e-mail to

the restaurant manager since this is a famous place in NY and I'm sure this is not

normal behavior for the wait staff......

All and all we had a fabulous fun time......It was rainy as you can see by Times Square on

our ride home which kept us from doing some shopping after dinner but

Thanks daughter for a terrific evening out on the town.....

And a few days later we heard via the internet that Ragtime is closing up shop in a

few days.......due to lack of ticket sales.....

A shame since it's a wonderful play and the music is fantastic but we both agreed that the revival was not even close to the "Wow factor"......that the original production had.....

Or it could be that $10,000.00 Fine?