World Theatre Day

Last Saturday I participated in World Theatre Day- NYC. In order to not have to go it alone, I called Candice (my TU/ NYC friend) and left her a cryptic message to meet me behind the big statue at the SW corner of Central Park. For the non-NYC'ers that is the corner near Columbus Circle which features later on in the story.

World Theatre Day is a celebration of theatre arts. Madame Judi Dench made a pronouncement and many arts organizations had some sort of special event. In NYC a few people organized flash mobs throughout the day in different areas of the city. I skipped the morning events and met Candice at 3pm for "Untitled" which ended up being a song and dance into and around the lower west part of Central Park with a minstrel.

After singing and dancing our way around the park we met in the middle of the traffic circle to get our next set of instructions. Our new "director" gave us the directions for "Cheers"- we were going to disperse and meet in front of the male statue in the Columbus Circle Mall. On the signal we were all going to start clapping and yelling for 40 seconds. Then a new signal would be given and we would disperse as if nothing had happened. It was pretty awesome.

The third activity was to be a group reenactment of "The Kiss" in Times Square but apparently we missed it. It was really cold and we stopped for Starbucks on the way down from 59th.


Watch videos and get more information here: http://nycwtd.com/ or at the world-wide blog worldtheatreday.org