New Years Theater Spectacular!

Roar! Today was a theater extravaganza! In the morning I met up with my friend Bao Bao at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center. (The very same place I saw Neil Gaiman recite Peter and the Wolf) They were having a Chinese New Year theater celebration which included bits of Chinese Opera, variety acts, and vocal performances. It was pretty neat! 

Here I am with Bao Bao at the Winter Garden. He was really excited to see the Chinese Opera. Roar! 

Bao Bao got confused and thought the palm trees at the Winter Garden were like bamboo. Boy, was he surprised!

Here is the cast of the Chinese New Year celebration. It sure was a great show. Besides the opera, there was a barber shop quartet, a harmonica player, and an entire dance number based off Kung Fu Panda! Bao Bao really like that one. Roar! 

After the show Bao Bao and I went outside to play in the snow around the World Financial Center. Here is Jeff Koons' "Ballon" statue. It really stood out on a gray day like today.

Bao Bao and I took a photo of our reflection in the sculpture. Woah! It's just like a fun house mirror! Roar!

Later in the evening, I headed up to Judson Memorial Church by Washington Square Park for Bailout Theater. Bailout Theater is the really cool event the church puts on every first and third Wednesday of the month where they serve a free meal and have free entertainment. Tonight they had a play by Johnna Adams called Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Those Damned, Pernicious Go-Betweens. 

Here is a scene from the play. It was such a cool play. The whole thing was written in rhyming couplets and each character spoke in a different form of poetry. 

The coolest part of Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Those Damned, Pernicious Go-Betweens was it was directed by John Hurly who directed Hack! for Vampire Cowboys Saturday Night Saloon. It was so cool to meet John, he's a great director and I can't wait to see more things he's working on. Roar!