Recovery and Broadway

The two are not connected, except maybe in one way. I am physically and in some ways mentally feeling almost all healed. That means not exhausted every waking moment. That means that when I ride my bicycle it's no longer just 80 year old women and 6 year olds with training wheels that I pass. That means, might have written this before, instead of considering all the exercises central to getting better, I hate doing them again. That means tapering off the anti-seizure medication and ending it December 11. That means, most fundamentally, that when I go to sleep at night, I expect to wake up in the morning.

And not being exhausted every waking moment means interest in doing things, like Broadway shows. More than a year since we had gone and specifically triggered by reading that In the Heights would be closing in January after a two year plus run. So twice in the lovely warm latter part of last week, I made it down to South Street Seaport and got in the TKTS line there. Wednesday it was Fela! and Friday it was In the Heights, our two top choices. Both are excellent, filled with believable characters imbued with good and bad qualities; and energetic, talented young casts, although one of the leads in Heights had voice cracking issues in his songs during the performance we saw. But Heights, while set in the immediate present, feels like a period piece while Fela!, although set in 1970's Nigeria, feels completely of the moment and of any moment. Add to that its amazing multi-person choreography and Fela may be the best thing I've ever seen on Broadway.