Live entertainment 2022

Thanks to friends who are proactive about seeing good theater, like Kathryn, I saw a fair amount of shows this year without really having to think about what I wanted, which is always the challenge (it's why I do Home Chef). 

Broadway:

• American Utopia w/mom
• Birthday Candles w/Kathryn
• The Little Prince w/snails
• SIX w/Kathryn
• Paradise Square w/Kathryn
• Plaza Suite w/Louise & Jeremy
• POTUS w/Jeremy, Marissa, and Kathryn
• Into the Woods w/Jess & Kyle
• A Strange Loop w/Liebers
• 1776 w/NYMAAC
• Phantom of the Opera w/NYMAAC

At the Public:

• Suffs (canceled)
• Fat Ham w/Kathryn & Hillary
• Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park/The Delacorte w/Kathryn (opening night)
• As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park/The Delacorte w/Kathryn (opening night)

Other theater:

• Four Quartets (modern dance show at BAM w/Kathryn)
• Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway w/Mike
• Sassafras & the Captain w/Mike & Kathryn (directed by Kate)
• Into the Woods at City Center on Mothers Day w/my mom & Kathryn
• This Beautiful Future at the Cherry Lane Theater with Laura
• Stamptown at Asylum NYC w/Bryan
• The Stranger Things Experience w/work friends

Concerts:

• Neighbor Charlie at Mama Tried ("Neighbor Charlie" is not the name of a band. Charlie is the name of one of my neighbors)
• ISO Symphonic Band Memorial Day Concert at Green-Wood Cemetery w/neighbors
• Akie Bermiss at Wild Birds w/Maya & David
• Lake Street Dive at Radio City Music Hall w/Maya
• The Greatest Generation: The Double Dumbass Tour at the Bell House w/Lindsay
• Strong Sets at CrossFit South Brooklyn w/neighbors

Museums:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art w/Mike
• NY Historical Society (Art for Change exhibit) w/NYMAAC
• National Museum of African American History & Culture (DC)
• National Museum of the American Indian (DC)
• Asheville Art Museum
• Moogseum (Asheville, NC)
• Asheville Pinball Museum
• LongHouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY)

National Parks

• Great Smoky Mountains
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Folk Art Center
• Fire Island National Recreation Area

Theme Parks:

• Walt Disney World (all four parks)
• Dollywood

My own performances:

• 8 parades and 2 other performances with the Queer Big Apple Corps Marching Band (look at that shiny new name!), which culminated in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the band's first time marching in it (we performed in the pre-recorded, reviewing-stand-only version in 2020)
• 2 concerts with the Queer Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band
• 5 concerts with the Queer Urban Orchestra, including a 4-conductor fall opener which served as the final audition for our artistic director search. I also helped out with our QUOtets chamber concert
• 1 paid gig as timpanist at the Holy Apostles Easter service