[HPFGU-NewYork] Hi Y'all

[Lou Hunnebeck]

If you are looking for a show to go to, I strongly recommend Contact.  It
won the Tony award last year for best new musical and it has some totally
amazing dancing in it.  I don't know if this will be true when you come, but
as of two weeks ago when I saw it, most of the original cast is still in it.
It's at the Vivian Beaumont theatre in Lincoln Center.

I have to zoom now, but as a New Yorker I'm sure I can come up with some
other good suggestions for you.  Do you have the specific dates yet?  Do you
know where you are staying?

-----Original Message-----
From: John Walton [mailto:john at ...]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 12:48 PM
To: HPFGU-NewYork at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-NewYork] Hi Y'all


Jim Ferer said:

> As you know, there's nothing special about the movie
> theaters in NYC, except the prices (10 and 11 dollars
> these days), especially if you have access to a wide
> screen where you live.

Amen to that! I was stunned at the prices. One worthwhile movie experience
is in the American Museum of Natural History -- fantastic IMAX theater.
There's also the Rose Center for Space (possibly not the right name, but
it's the Rose Center something-or-other) attached to the Natural History
Museum.

> When we all met previously, we did a dim-sum pigout in
> Chinatown at Jim Fong, which John Walton rightly calls
> the best dim-sum palace in the city (It's on Elizabeth
> Street near Canal).  We went to the Village, speaking
> of your old haunt, and hung out at a coffee bar and
> then had dinner at a good Italian restaurant, both on
> McDougall Street. Sorry, I don't remember the names --
> anyone help out?

The cafe was Cafe Reggio (possibly "Regio") and the ristorante was Monte's,
IIRC. And yes, do go to Jing Fong :)

> The second time we met we went to FAO Schwarz on Fifth
> and saw the full range of Harry Potter merchandise,
> which we didn't much like (Highlights: A Scabbers
> plush toy and Troll Booger Potion).

AKA "Make Your Own Green Nylon".

> Dinner was good, though, if you are a carnivore: The
> Green Field at 108th and Northern in Corona, on the
> way out to Shea Stadium. It's a Brazilan barbecue: You
> get salad and some delicious side dishes at a buffet
> style arrangement.  When you're done with that, you
> take the little wooden bobbin on your table and turn
> it green side up. Waiters start coming to your table
> with a wide variety of meats on sword-like skewers:
> steaks, sausages, lamb, rabbit, turkey, up to fifteen
> different items, and they keep bringing it until you
> give up and turn your bobbin red side up or explode,
> whichever comes first. THEN they bring an obscene
> dessert trolley.

It's gooooooooooooooooooooood. Really gooooooooooooooooood.

--John

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John Walton -- john at ...

Current...
Movie: Shrek. 11/10!
CD: Shrek Soundtrack ::grin::
Song: "Hallelujah": Rufus Wainwright (from Shrek soundtrack)
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