NYC Trip 2024 - Day 4/Katz's Delicatessen And Hadestown

We were pretty tired from walking around the Museum of Broadway and it was raining quite nicely, so we didn't do much that afternoon. We just rested at the hotel.

We decided to order food to be delivered from Katz's Delicatessen for an early dinner. Doug went to the lobby of our hotel to meet up with the delivery guy and we found out he delivered our food on a bicycle. In the rain! That poor guy! Doug gave him a nice tip!

The food was just pretty good. I think if we had actually eaten at the restaurant, the food would have held up/tasted better. We ordered Reuben sandwiches, macaroni salad and Bri added a matzoh ball soup...

After eating a nice meal, we got dressed and walked to Hadestown, which was literally around the corner from our hotel. Luckily, the rain had let up and we walked to the theater with no issue...

The theater was really beautiful but small. And the seats were very small. The poor man who sat next to me was quite tall and he had to shift quite a bit to keep comfortable during the performance. Welcome to Broadway!

 

The show was great! If you don't know, the show is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The actor who usually plays Orpheus was out on a several week hiatus in April, so we had an understudy fill in that night. The actor who played Hermes (in the gray suit) and the actress who played Eurydice (braid in her hair) are real life father and daughter (Isa Briones and Jon Jon Briones). So cool! I think their final week in the show is this week (the last week in June). The cast was so good!

 

As I mentioned previously, it was Red Bucket Week and the cast talked after the show about "Broadway Cares"...

 

And like with Little Shop, we got a signed copy of the Playbill with all the cast members signatures.

When the show was over, we walked back to the hotel...

We had been keeping an eye on the weather because our flight was the next afternoon. Unfortunately, we had to make a change to our flight the next day to make sure we actually got home. More on that next...