La Boheme and Waitress - Going to the Theater in NYC

I've wanted to go to the Met Opera for a long time and when my Mom and I started planning a couple days in NYC, I was excited to see that they were performing La Boheme on the first night we'd be in town.  After some debate, we opted for the cheapest tickets, way up in the Family Circle, the highest balcony.  The whole building is really beautiful and elegant and if you have to walk all the way to the highest balcony, then you have more time and more angles to take it all in and absorb it from.

Sitting in the highest balcony was completely fine, some say the sound is best there, I can't compare, since that's the only place I've experienced.  The singers were very small and far away, but it didn't take away from the performance.  La Boheme was a beautiful opera, and the sets were really amazing.  It was even snowing during one of the scenes, I've never seen quite so elaborate and I would love to see another opera there sometime soon.

The next night we saw Waitress at the Brooks Atkinson Theater near Time Square.  It's been a long time since I saw a musical in NYC, about 12 years or so, and I had forgotten how small and intimate some of the Broadway theaters are.  It seems like the touring Broadway shows in Portland and Seattle are always in huge theaters and the stage is very far away from the more affordable seats.  After a night at the Met Opera and not being able to even tell that the singers were moving their mouths, I felt like I was so close, practically in the front row at Waitress, even though we were in Row M, not anywhere near the front.  

Waitress the movie, I think is kind of strange.  Waitress the musical is really fun, and the music Sara Bareilles wrote, makes the show very easy to enjoy.  And...if you're really craving pie, after all the talk of pie, they walk around selling little mason jars of pie before the show and during intermission.