Hamlet!

So in the Honors College at Adephi students have to participate in 3 cultural events each semester. These events can really be anything, but for the most part they are shows. We can go to on campus ones, or off campus ones. The school does provide, however, a limited number of tickets for high profile shows in the city, we are talking $150 tickets here, for the low low price of $10!

So imagine my excitement when I found out they had 40 tickets to Hamlet, featuring Jude Law!!!!

I got up bright and early one morning and found myself number 32 in line for the tickets (roughly 300 honors college kids and only 40 tickets was a pairing I didn't see ending well).

Finally, last Friday we went to see Hamlet in the city. I really could care less that Jude Law was in it, I LOVE Hamlet. I studied it in 7th grade as my first taste of Shakespeare, studied it again in Sophomore year in Drama, and even performed as Ophelia in an original version of Hamlet, and then again in Senior year we studied it in AP Lit. I am possibly the only person I know who has the DVD of Kenneth Brannah's version of Hamlet, and yes, I actually DO watch it...often.

I was freaking out I was so excited, and no one really understood why, but that didn't matter to me.

Alicia, Nicole, and I planned to take the 2:19 train into the city. The train costs $13 and we were not about to waste a ticket on just a couple hours in the city. We found Caitlyn at the train station, and invited her to come along with us. We walked around between Penn Station and Times Square for a while, shopping, trying on silly hats, buying $3 headbands, and chose Juniors to eat at for dinner.

Caitlyn, Nicole, and Alicia

I had this thing called "Something Different". It was basically brisket in between two potato pancakes, AMAZING!

Then it was time to see Hamlet. Honestly you guys, I'm surprised I didn't cry out of excitement.

Alicia and I in our ketchup and mustard coats! It had rained all of Wednesday and Thursday, so we were so happy it remained dry for us.

Hey Jude!

The show was absolutely amazing! I understood 95% of what they were saying, and not just the gist of it, word for word (I still can never quite make out the player's speech). I have Schmidt to thank for that!

Jude Law seriously blew me away. I didn't realize he would be so great, so emotional. The set was very minimal, but the lighting beautiful. The costumes were pretty modern, but you almost couldn't tell because they were so simple, and they were all in gray and black tones (they even had to take out the line about Ophelia being kept afloat by her large dress before she drowned because we had yet to see her in a Elizabethan dress). I could go on for hours about the pros and cons of this show, but all you really need to know is that it was amazing.

My life is complete.