I Can Now Die Happy!!

I recently returned to NYC solely to go see "A Steady Rain" with Hugh Jackman and "Hamlet" with Jude Law. Once I heard that both would be in NY I made sure that no matter what it cost I would be there. One of the things on my bucket list (#2) is to see Hugh Jackman and go to a play with him starring in it (#1).

'A Steady Rain' was about two Chicago cops (Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman). It was a two man show, just Hugh and Daniel sitting in chairs on stage the whole time. I must admit that I didn't comprehend a single word for the first 15 minutes of the show because of the shock and awe I was in at actually seeing Hugh and Daniel (yes, we are first name terms). I wasn't expecting the show to be great, but it was. The story they were telling was extremely traumatic, but the acting was amazing. They put on these Chicago accents so well that you would never have guessed they weren't American. After a little while I was longing to hear them speak in their native tongues and remove their jackets and shirts (Daniel Craig's muscles were bursting out of his). Only in a perfect world I thought. Lo and behold, at the end of the show they began to have a casual conversation with the audience in their proper accents. I almost died! But, that wasn't all, they started removing their jackets and shirts to auction them off for charity. At this point I was in tears and every women in the audience was freaking out. They said donations of $2000 would buy you a backstage pass to meet and take pictures with them and the highest bidder would receive the shirts they were wearing with their signatures along with a picture and personal meeting. My friend Erika was extremely conflicted. Of course we didn't pay, but Erika actually was upset that she didn't. The highest bidder was $10,000.

At the end of the show we stayed after to watch them come out of the stage door. We were told that they weren't signing autographs and they would just walk straight to their cars so I decided to have my camera ready in video mode to catch them. When they came out I didn't even realize so in the video below when you hear the gasp, that's when I realized Hugh was right across from me. I didn't recognize him because I thought he would be taller than me, but he, like all other celebrities, was a lot smaller in person.

I have not been that happy in my life!! My plane could have crashed and burned and I would have still had a smile on my face. I got to see Hugh Jackman!! Ahhh!!!