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Newsies

A week ago today we went to see the Broadway play Newsies. It is a Disney production that has been produced for licensing. That means they are going to make it available to use for community theater and high school and college musicals. It started out at the Paper Mill theater in NJ and it got good reviews so they decided to bring it to Broadway for a few months. It was supposed to run just until June 10, but I heard that it has been extended until August. It is a very clean, family friendly story. Thanks to Mandy I knew all the music. She loved the movie that came out in 1992, and watched it all the time. An interesting side note, the movie took 15 million dollars to produce and only made 3 million dollars, so it was considered a flop. It has had a strong cult like following since, and many schools had been asking to be able to use it for productions. It was never a stage play before now, just a movie. We enjoyed the play very much. It is always interesting to see how they do the sets, etc.

Yesterday the branch we have attended since we got here was dissolved and the members divided between two other branches. We now have to go all the way to Queens to church. We go at 1:00 pm so will be gone all afternoon. No more Sunday naps I guess. I hope this will be an improvement. We had so little priesthood in the other branch.

Spring in the Park

We have had a very warm winter here in NYC. The past few days have been in the 70's. Yesterday we took the bus to 58th and Lexington on the East Side so I could try on some shoes at a Naturalizer store over there (I have been looking for some brown flats to replace the ones I bought before we left. They kill my toes). We walked back, and went through the park. Dad got some good pictures of the daffodils and crocus that are in bloom.

 

We had family home evening last night with the other missionaries. We first went on a tour of the temple to identify all the emergency escape routes, the fire alarms, extinguishers, and first aid kits, etc. We then played games. We had fun playing Balderdash. I remember many fun rounds of that game with you all. If you can't remember it, it is the one where you make up definitions for obscure words, and try to guess which is real and which is made up.

Madison Square Garden

I am not being too good about posting what we have been doing, so I'll try to do two posts today. On March 5 we went to the Garden for the BNP Paribas Showdown. It was an exhibition match between Wozniacki and Sharapova and Roddick and Federer. It was a lot of fun to watch them live. The girls were pretty serious until the end when Wozniacki brought down her boyfriend Rory McIlroy and he hit a few balls against Sharapova. Roddick was hilarious the whole time. He left the court to go in the audience to get an autograph from Ben Stiller. He imitated Nadal, and just talked back to the referee and the audience the whole time. I think the pictures are self explanatory.