Game over, man. Game over, what the fuck are we supposed to now, huh, what are we gonna do?
(Or How We Failed to get Tickets for Shakespeare in The Park)
On Sunday early morning I went with a friend to wait in line for Shakespeare in the park tickets. We arrived at 4:50AMish only to find out that we had lost the game long before the sound of the first whistle. The line was extremely long. It seemed that a good portion of people arrived sometime Saturday night at 7PM and by midnight there was a huge crowd in line...enough to warrant thought that there weren't enough tickets/chances for people anymore. The entrance closest to the line is at 79th street but the end of the line was located somewhere near 90th street when we arrived.
Once the whole exodus from the outside of the park to the inside was completed (the over-night line is apparently outside of the park...likely for safety reasons and to avoid breaking, "no sleeping in the park" laws) we realized we were much farther than we were two weeks ago. I kept mumbling to myself and to my colleague that I'd seen shorter lines for Metallica back in '91.
One thing that I hated was the fact that the pseudo homeless theater people left a ton of garbage once the line began moving inside. I saw two empty bottles of wine and several bags of empty food receptacles. There were countless amounts of discarded clothing, blankets and bedding. Several wet cardboard boxes were left behind on the sidewalk when a good trash bin stood at each corner--it was the upper west side after all.
For all the hate that the ritz of Park Slope have for hoi polloi, why aren't the residents of the West side complaining about this rubbish?
Many of the regular patrons arrived at 6AM-6:30AM and were astounded by the tremendous number of people. They had never seen it this way before. I still cannot fathom what ended up rallying such a crowd. Was it the hollywood factor? This play (She's the Man...er I mean Twelfth Night) is arguably not the greatest or most famous work of Shakespeare.
I just hope Liam Neeson draws 50 Blocks worth of people for next year. It would be sad that an actor of his caliber is outshone by lowest common denominator famed Anne Hathaway.
On Sunday early morning I went with a friend to wait in line for Shakespeare in the park tickets. We arrived at 4:50AMish only to find out that we had lost the game long before the sound of the first whistle. The line was extremely long. It seemed that a good portion of people arrived sometime Saturday night at 7PM and by midnight there was a huge crowd in line...enough to warrant thought that there weren't enough tickets/chances for people anymore. The entrance closest to the line is at 79th street but the end of the line was located somewhere near 90th street when we arrived.
Once the whole exodus from the outside of the park to the inside was completed (the over-night line is apparently outside of the park...likely for safety reasons and to avoid breaking, "no sleeping in the park" laws) we realized we were much farther than we were two weeks ago. I kept mumbling to myself and to my colleague that I'd seen shorter lines for Metallica back in '91.
One thing that I hated was the fact that the pseudo homeless theater people left a ton of garbage once the line began moving inside. I saw two empty bottles of wine and several bags of empty food receptacles. There were countless amounts of discarded clothing, blankets and bedding. Several wet cardboard boxes were left behind on the sidewalk when a good trash bin stood at each corner--it was the upper west side after all.
For all the hate that the ritz of Park Slope have for hoi polloi, why aren't the residents of the West side complaining about this rubbish?
Many of the regular patrons arrived at 6AM-6:30AM and were astounded by the tremendous number of people. They had never seen it this way before. I still cannot fathom what ended up rallying such a crowd. Was it the hollywood factor? This play (She's the Man...er I mean Twelfth Night) is arguably not the greatest or most famous work of Shakespeare.
I just hope Liam Neeson draws 50 Blocks worth of people for next year. It would be sad that an actor of his caliber is outshone by lowest common denominator famed Anne Hathaway.