We started the day with a walk to Russ & Daughters Cafe for bagels and lox and then to the Black Fox for coffee.
We were well-fueled for a day of museums: the Guggenheim in the morning and the Museum of Broadway in the afternoon.
The latter is in Times Square, which is just where we needed to be for our supper reservation at Carmine's Italian restaurant. From there, it was a short walk to the James Earl Jones Theater, where we saw the musical Real Women Have Curves.
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The fun building design of the Guggenheim from the ground floor looking up ...
... and from the top floor looking down.
Most floors of the Guggenheim featured works by artist Rashid Johnson, who created paintings, sculptures, videos, and three-dimensional pieces like this one for the museum's current exhibition.
In addition, the Guggenheim has galleries for its permanent collection, such as this oil painting ("Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur") by French artist Claude Monet. We saw paintings by other famous artists, too, including Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Gaugin.
The Museum of Broadway takes visitors through a timeline of Broadway's history, starting in 1732. Along the way are displays of costumes from notable productions, set pieces, historical documents, photographs, videos, and anecdotes and quotations from people who have shaped the theatre scene in New York City.
Carmine's serves dishes "family-style," big portions that are meant to be passed around the table and shared like at home. We had a salad followed by lasagna, meatballs, eggplant parmigiana, and linguine with clam sauce.
Real Women Have Curves is a new musical based on a play that in 2002 was made into a movie. Its protagonist is a young Latina struggling to balance her dreams for the future with her responsibilities to her immigrant family in Los Angeles in 1987. One of the leads is Justina Machado, who is nominated for a Tony Award for her role. You might know her from the TV shows Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty, and One Day at a Time.
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