10/23/11 - New York, NY - Birthday Show!

[fred27]

havnt decided on what im doin or where im goin to sat night after rocky about 4am, and what to do on sun, i havnt been in this theater since 1985 for a rocky con 10th ann, and the same for the pantages, rocky con in 1995 20th ann

[rangerbob]

I hope everyone has a good time. I missed the show due to a severe charley horse.

Happy Birthday Al!

[minnick27]

[Yankomaniac]

Hah, you guys are hilarious!

[Elvis]

Great concert tonight! Al seemed touched by the signs. And apparently it was all our our birthdays not just his. The women got sung to and we got our hands shaken at end. Got a lot more to say about it but I got a bad headache that won't go away so I'm just gonna take some advil and go to bed. Great to see everyone. It was my last show of the tour, Great one to end it on.

Dave

[DrSteggy]

Awesome show!!!!!! Really, I had such a great time.

The camera policy was odd--nothing was said when they saw us packing--no flash. Then we were told to only take "a few." Which turned out to mean "2 or 3 the whole show" So I pretty much shut down after Party in the CIA, and I didn't take much before that. I'll post what I have if its decent enough, but until then, I wanted to pass on a scene from the Starbucks on Broadway and 75th:

EDIT--yeah, that image looks to damn big. Just go here:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/d ... G_6285.jpg

[ludovica64]

LOL Jackie!! Dave you nutcase!

[crazygurl14]

Was there any special birthday extras tonight. Like a cake in the face?

[DrSteggy]

None on stage, there was rumored to be cake at the aftershow. Apparently the group that hung around the stage door sung happy birthday to Al right before he left--we'd encamped on Starbucks by that point.

[Jigawatt]

Yeah, the camera thing was very strange. We started just taking a couple of pix per song that that was still "way too many." I'll post what I did get soon as well. But whatever--that did not change the fact that it was an awesome show tonight and one of the best experiences we've ever had! As Dave mentioned, the ladies up front with us all got sung to, and Anne got the whole crazy WBUL end spiel which was awesome. He definitely seemed touched by the Happy Birthday signs--he smiled early on, and when he came and shook all of our hands at the end of Yoda, he really seemed emotional about the whole thing. It was quite the experience and we're so lucky to have been seated where we were for this show.

Oh, and we gave out birthday hats before the show to the people around us.

Oh, and Al accused me of being a transvestite during Yoda. "Now just the transvesties..." *points mic at me and looks at me inquisitively* I furiously shook him off.

Adrian