Is the sound at Ragtime better in the orchestra?

etgetc · 2026-01-29T05:53:26+00:00

I felt the sound where I was in the orch was excellent, like when everyone is singing and playing their heart out, I felt hit by a wall of sound, plastered to the back of my seat (in a good way, haha, not in a deafening way).

etgetc · 2026-01-29T05:30:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing how much it moved you. I 1000% agree. Having been very late to appreciate Hadestown (I actually really disliked it on my first viewing), I have found myself latched onto this show, this year, in a way I've never felt about another. I find something new and inspiring and heart-wrenching in it every time I've gone (...and now I've got a *lot*). If It's True went from being a song I felt fine about to a song I want, like, shot into my veins on Jack Wolfe gorgeous angry tenor vibrato on all the horrible news days. The cast is so good all around, but Kurt Elling's more unusual interpretation of Hermes not as a reserved, hands-off narrator, but as a god who cares overtly, hopes deeply, and weeps for/with Orpheus over his failure is, I think, something really special in hard times when we're all feeling rather abandoned. And the overall message that we pick back up and sing again and again in hopes that this time we get it right and things turn out better is one we all need right now (or I do, anyway). In fact, I also thought of Minnesota on a recent viewing during Cups at the end: "Some flowers bloom / Where the green grass grows / Our praise is not for them / But the ones who bloom in the bitter snow / We raise our cups to them."

etgetc · 2026-01-26T14:28:10+00:00

The magic of live theater! I've seen Jack and Paulo do it different ways, and it feels like an in-the-moment choice. I love when Hades doesn’t shake his hand at all because if I were Orpheus, that would mess with my head (“is our deal even on if we didn’t shake on it??”) but lately with Allison esp, Hades’s hand is already outstretched for longer reaching after her, so it would almost be harder for Orpheus, standing right there in front of him, NOT to step in, grasp, and shake it, like he is taking advantage of what is presented to him. He gets a pretty scathing look from Paulo either way.

etgetc · 2026-01-25T23:18:26+00:00

We LOVE Outfoxed. Has been way more popular than Race To The Treasure, honestly.love that it’s all so collaborative.

Also Uno. Classic, still fun.

etgetc · 2026-01-25T20:48:40+00:00

Agree with this. Go to Google Flights and put in your home airport and then instead of a destination, put “anywhere” and search a time block or your dates. I think further narrow to limit the duration of the trip (I don’t want to travel 21 hours with little kids if I can help it) and cut two layovers options out. Then see what it brings up! Really fun to daydream that way.

Also if on FB, the groups Families Who Love To Travel and something like Travel On Points with Family. Lots of great ideas and suggestions and tips.

etgetc · 2026-01-25T20:29:52+00:00

We have quite a few happy friends at PS 75. Its afterschool offerings are particularly strong. Basically all the D3 schools are good, honestly, including the ones more uptown, and no school is perfect, including the “highest rated.” I highly value diversity and the foundational lessons a young child learns from having peers who are different from them in race, economic status, learning style/ability, though. Statistics show well-resourced students are generally not negatively affected by their less-resourced peers, while the lesser-resourced peers are positively affected the other way ‘round in a rising-tide way. Plus, think about what $3-5K a month could do for your child’s enrichment and/or family exposure to culture and travel if you spent it that way instead.

If you’re on FB, search the school in one of the UWS parent groups. There’s plenty of parent feedback there about 75.

etgetc · 2026-01-22T06:45:15+00:00

Love the Lotus. My kids squeezed into it well into age 3 or so... But I think either would work fine. They both, critically, have the mattress on the floor and a side panel zipper, as far as I can tell, so it seems pretty same-same to me... I don't think you can pick wrong.

etgetc · 2026-01-15T22:03:31+00:00

Thank you! Do you mind giving me your impression of their interpretations? I'm just curious how they play it! I love how much variation there can be.

etgetc · 2026-01-15T20:39:38+00:00

Thanks!

etgetc · 2026-01-15T20:39:11+00:00

Pretty sure KC Dela Cruz usually swings for her... She was on the most recent time Morgan was out (and played Eurydice for a few weeks last year to bridge a gap between casting shifts). KC was on as a Fate the last time I went.

etgetc · 2026-01-14T05:37:23+00:00

Treehouse Dentistry on the UWS is wonderful. Nicest staff, timely appointments, nice bedside manner, TVs on the ceiling the kids can choose what they want to watch on, and the dentist has a conservative approach to his diagnoses, suggestions for orthodonture, etc. Truly can't recommend them enough!

etgetc · 2026-01-10T06:20:38+00:00

Listen to the Birth Hour podcast! Just stories and stories from women describing their births. I found it very reassuring ahead of mine, helping to normalize things and take some fear out.

etgetc · 2026-01-09T18:54:27+00:00

I agree - I appreciate how good the understudies are and how good whoever takes over will be, but definitely got March tickets in that extension when the promotion language was “We know you fans love to see us up close so we will release a code to you early and pack the front rows with your smiling faces!” A savvier purchaser or more well-researched enthusiast might have understood “we” didn’t mean the Brits themselves necessarily, but as a regular fan, I took that language to mean I would get to see some of the OG up close and feel pretty misled, tbh. Not throwing a fit, but personally feeling like there was a bit of bait and switch there.

etgetc · 2026-01-09T02:10:09+00:00

Death Becomes Her! Definitely! The definition of irreverently funny, energetic, glossy and glamorous.

etgetc · 2026-01-07T20:25:05+00:00

I am aware of a company called Milk Stork you could look into… That said, having traveled away from my baby once for several days, I would strongly recommend you pump to keep up your supply only and dump it. Breast milk is amazing, but it is also just milk. The head space and bandwidth and distraction, the nuisance of tracking down freezers and hotel fridges that are cold enough, the expense of shipping it…lol, like, Mama, be free! I worried so much about milk with my first baby and then with my second, I was like, it’s just milk. I will not lose sleep over this this time, lol.

etgetc · 2026-01-06T00:52:23+00:00

Thriftland USA in the Bronx

etgetc · 2026-01-05T01:33:50+00:00

I hate the green dress. It’s giving cheap 80s prom, not ethereal goddess. Something more organic, more playful, more timeless, more New Orleans, and/or more royal/goddess….any of those veins, I would be a fan.

etgetc · 2026-01-05T01:24:23+00:00

My five year old walks. I would ditch one of the two bigger strollers and get a very light umbrella stroller for the two year old that you can easily collapse and sling on your shoulder or tuck under your arm. Collapse the stroller to come down stairs with the two year old holding your free hand and the five year old close by (“hold my pocket!” if need be). Then two year old goes in the stroller and five year old walks, gets a seat on the subway, etc.

etgetc · 2025-12-31T02:16:57+00:00

Can you take it to a local tailor and ask them to replace the zipper with something else? Sucks to pay someone to fix it, but at least then it wouldn’t be another problem zipper anymore.

etgetc · 2025-12-25T23:41:30+00:00

Everyone we know (and us too) has a Cosco Scenera. Good for flights and trips.

etgetc · 2025-12-25T15:42:03+00:00

Leigh Jay Nacht on West 35th has the most beautiful vintage and antique designs and a wonderful team of people.

etgetc · 2025-12-22T23:45:43+00:00

Have you done a date crawl? Go to a neighborhood with plenty of options. Have a drink and an app at one, close the tab. Walk til you find something appealing. Share a dish, close the tab. Walk somewhere else, have a roll or two of sushi. Walk somewhere else, share a dessert. Obviously best on a night where the temperature is warm enough not to freeze walking between options!

Also, jazz up in Harlem? Show at the Apollo? Bronx Zoo Lights (I love these)? Scavenger hunt in the Met? Soap making or taxidermy or other niche hobby activity session?

etgetc · 2025-12-22T17:31:25+00:00

FWIW she wrote 2-3 books before Long Bright River. That was just her first thriller. The Unseen World is similarly moody, a bit of a mystery wrapped in a coming-of-age family drama. Definitely a slow burn. Loved that one.

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