Bucket List: Watch a Broadway Show

On my recent trip to New York, seeing a Broadway show wasn’t at the top of my bucket list of things to do. I love going to the West End in London, but for the price of tickets in New York, there were so many other things I would rather do.

When we were visiting Times Square we decided why not just see if we could get some cheap on the day tickets, we all wanted to see something that we wouldn’t get to see in London and being a Disney-obsessed family, Aladdin was the obvious choice!

We managed to get some amazing seats, four rows back from the front and all for a really reasonable price. I literally couldn’t wait for the evening to come.

Traffic in New York is horrendous, we learnt this the hard way. After waiting for 20 minutes to get a taxi to stop for us, we sat in so much traffic towards Times Square, we ended up getting out of the taxi about 5 minutes away from the theatre and ran across Times Square! We were 15 minutes late to the performance, we missed two songs, but the show was still amazing!

During the interval we realised that the actor playing Jafar, Jonathan Freeman, actually voiced him in the Disney movie! James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the Genie really stole the show! I came away from the show aching from laughing so much and obviously had that happy glow that any Disney film or show gives you!

 

New York: The Bucket List

I have visited New York once before for three days, but it still wasn’t enough! Here is my bucket list for visiting New York

1.Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

Something I didn’t get to do last time in NYC and simply a must-do! The views walking across the bridge towards Manhattan are supposed to be amazing!

2.Take the Staten Island Ferry at night

Who wouldn’t want to see views like this? I took the Staten Island ferry last time I was in New York during the day, it’s free and provides such an amazing view of the skyline!

3. Walk up the Statue of Liberty

To see the Statue of Liberty is pretty amazing, even though it’s a lot smaller than you think it is in the movies! This is something we’ve booked to do whilst we are in NYC. The climb is going to be tough though 354 steps in blistering heat!

4. Watch Shakespeare in Central Park

I am a bit of a literature nerd and to see an open air theatre performance of a Shakespeare play in Central Park is a dream! There are two plays each year over the summer!

5. See the ‘Friends’ building

As an avid Friends fan, of course I need to go see the iconic ‘Friends Building’ unfortunately Central Perk isn’t real otherwise that would have been top of my list!

6. Walk along the High Line

This is something that I have found when reading about things to do in New York, it looks like such a lovely walk away from the hustle and bustle of NYC. A disused railway turned into an elevated park!

There are so many more things I want to do and see in NYC, what would you add to your bucket list?