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Westminster Group Visits Broadway
For the past three years, a group of Westminster faculty and friends have visited New York City to see a matinee performance of a Broadway musical. The trip has occurred on the first Wednesday following the broadcast of the Tony Awards.
In 2013 the group saw “Pippin,” and in 2014 they saw “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” “Both of those musicals won best musical and it became a contest of seeing if I could continue the streak of selecting the winner,” said Westminster’s Director of Theater A-men Rasheed, who has coordinated the excursions. “In 2015, we saw “Something Rotten,” which in my opinion should have won best musical but it didn’t. This year, we saw “Shuffle Along,” which I knew had no chance up against the very trending and extraordinary “Hamilton.”
For the first time, this year’s trip was expanded to three days and two nights and included students Meg Cournoyer ’19, Julia Krys ’19 and Isaiah Preyer ’17. The chaperones were Carol Kirsch, Kimberly Pope, Amy Stevens and A-men.
The group arrived June 14 and had dinner at Ellen’s Stardust Diner, which is known for its singing wait staff. The restaurant was filled with theater memorabilia, and the group was serenaded karaoke style with many popular tunes from the Broadway repertoire and classic pop/rock. After dinner, the group enjoyed arcade fun at Dave and Buster’s in Times Square.
The next day they visited Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum to see the waxed replicas of famous musicians, actors, athletes and world leaders. Following that, they attended the matinee performance of the revival of “Shuffle Along.” Joining the group for the performance were Karus Sabio ’18, Chloe Sealy ’18, Celenah Watson ’19, Alexandra Wolf ’19, David and Sue Chrzanowski, Greg and Cathy Marco, Scott and Joanne Reeves, Nancy Spencer, Jewel Brown ’15, Andrew Marco ’11, Matthew Murphy ’16 and some friends. “It was an amazing show and a pretty accurate piece of Broadway musical theater history,” said A-men.
After a leisurely dinner at the Playwright Tavern Restaurant, a smaller group saw the smash hit “Eclipsed” by Danai Gurira. “Danai is a 2003 graduate of the NYU graduate acting program; and one of the stars, Pascale Armand, who was nominated for best actress in a featured role, is a 2000 graduate,” said A-men. “I graduated from the program in 2002 and know them both fairly well. ‘Eclipsed’ was nominated for six Tony Awards and received one for best costume design. The show was powerful, poignant and, at times, very comedic. In addition to the phenomenal story and the brilliant acting, we were able to go backstage to meet with Pascale. It was a very inspiring moment for all of us to meet her on the very stage where she gave such a well-played performance. All in all, it was a fantastic trip!”
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