Super Square.

2-2-14 SHORT HILLS: We saw “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” last night. It’s a great musical farce freely adapted from an old, but still good, Alec Guinness movie, “Kind Hearts and Coronets.” Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham are the male leads and each is wonderful. The Walter Kerr Theatre is another gorgeous, restored old deco playhouse.

The restaurant before the show was a clunker. I told Judy that I wouldn’t go back there for a free meal. After the show, we walked back to the car through Times Square, all tricked out for the Super Bowl and more garish than usual, if that’s possible. The area was teeming with enthusiastic crowds, many wearing team shirts or hats. We thought there was way more Seahawks stuff than Broncos gear. The police presence was at saturation level—cars, trucks, dogs and patrolmen everywhere. The traffic was dense in the area but light elsewhere. There were limos, big limos, huge limos, huge SUV’s clogging the streets that weren’t closed to traffic. We had parked away from the activity and breezed home through the tunnel.


The set for "A Gentleman's Guide..." opens up for a dozen sub-sets, enhanced with videos.

The Walter Kerr Theatre, very Deco.

T-Square, lights, cheerful, buoyant crowds, midst the logos, NFL stuff....

B'way show ads.....

A chance to kick an extra-point....

Of course, there are also many fine restaurants in the area....