SoHo

Stories from the Road

June 11, 2015

Hotel Nadler, SoHo

We saw “The Audience” last night. It is a play about the meetings of Queen Elizabeth over the years with her different prime ministers. I enjoyed it, but I found it hard to hear all the lines between my hearing, the English accents, and the location of our seats. Over the next week we hope to see more musicals, having seen the “Jersey Boys” the other night.

Vicki and I split a pizza before the show last evening. Our accompanying salad was excellent, and the bill was more than reasonable. Everything is expensive in London. Pounds are about $1.60, and spending ten is not spending ten dollars!

This morning we went to buy tickets for “Thriller,” the musical about Michael Jackson. The ticket saleswoman was pleasant and turned out to be the fiancée of the lead in “Jersey Boys “. The actor with the great New Jersey accent comes from Scotland. The role is so exhausting that he only does three shows a week, and an alternate does the other two.  The show has been running for six years in London, and he has been in his role for two. He started out as a dancer and now has singing roles. When I asked if he needed to rest a lot, she made a face and said, “Yes, a lot of rest.” The couple will marry in August.

We walked another seven miles today, and we are resting now, before we go to dinner before seeing the musical, “The Commitments” at 7:30. There are hundreds of restaurants in the SoHo area, so we’ll have no problem finding a place. The pubs are bursting at the seams at night with young people drinking inside and out. However a new type of restaurant has sprung up in London. These are cafeteria places that feature fresh, healthy, good tasting food. They provide long community tables with attractive surroundings. We have eaten meals in several of them.

Have a good evening.