Seeing Silence! The Musical-NYC Wrap-Up

On our last evening in New York City, we went down to the East Village
and ate at The Smith restaurant and saw the late show of Silence! The
Musical.

The Smith is a very crowded and very noisy trendy restaurant filled
with young urban professionals. I am sure I was the oldest person in
the place. It also has very good food. We started with local
tomatoes with pesto salad. I had grilled shrimp and Shane had a NY
Strip steak. Of course we also split a bottle of wine. Everything
was delicious. I would highly recommend the place.

After dinner, we went to the 10:30 show is Silence!, which is a
musical parody of the film, Silence of the Lambs. It was hilarious.
It was a fraction of the price of seeing the Book of Mormon and we
laughed much more at this. The songs weren't great, but the show was
funny. And we somehow ended up with front row seats. We had a great
evening.

Seeing the Book of Mormon Musical

The Book of Mormon is by far the hottest show on Broadway. We got
tickets weeks ago, before it won 9 Tony Awards, including Best
Musical. It was the show we were most looking forward to seeing.
There was high hopes that it was going to be funny and hugely
entertaining. There was a lot of hype around this show.

As often happens when there is a lot of hype, the actual show does not
live up to the hoopla. Both Shane and I were very disappointed. It
wasn't terrible, but it also wasn't great. It was just OK. The humor
was very juvenile. Very. (I would have loved this when I was 14.)
The music was pretty bad too. The only memorable song was "I
Believe," which was featured on the Tony Awards broadcast.

That being said, the rest of the audience seemed to love this show.
Maybe it was just us being tired or our expectations being too high,
but we both remember Spamalot as being much funnier with better music.