This scavenger hunt was hands down my favorite assignment I’ve ever had to do for any class, and that includes being more fun than having to prepare scenes in an acting class. Tuesday morning was absolutely disgusting weather wise, and while I was hoping that we weren’t going to have to go out and do the hunt, I’m still incredibly glad that we were given this opportunity to just roam the city and look at theater related objects and buildings. Theater history in NYC, as we have been learning, is very expansive, and while I feel like I have a decent amount of knowledge about it, it was very exciting to see that there were so many clues on the list that I had no idea what they were. Who would have known that there were so many different arrest sites in theater history (even in recent history), as well as there being a bunch of theater spaces that were founded by people from other professions. One of the things that I was very happily surprised about was that we were still able to find people in costume, even in the awful rain. While looking at the clues on the train to Times Square, I was pretty upset that we probably weren’t going to be able to check off what on any other day would have been the easiest one to get. However, once we got to 42nd second street, though they were  not in costume, we saw some people handing out flyers for shows, and that reminded me that the women who hand out flyers for the show Chicago are always dressed up. So after asking around, we found out that when it rains, a lot of the people who do come out hang out under the awning of the Hard Rock Cafe, and thats where we found our person in costume. It was also really interesting to see from our finds and our classmate’s that there were a few different theater themed or related restaurants around the city. Our strategy for this hunt, having a rather large team of 5 people, was to have some people take uptown (Times Square mostly) and some take downtown, and the downtown portion of our team would text their pictures to me to post, and that added so much to the experience. Even though I was not physically a part of the downton team, getting to see and write the captions to the guy’s pictures from the Astor Place Riot Site, th Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame, Edwin Booth and Mark Twain’s theater club, and Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theater was as exciting as running around and taking pictures in Times Square. It was also really exciting to watch the feed on the hashtag we had to use, and seeing what everyone else was posting in real time, as well as getting some recogniziton for what we were doing (ex: the Vineyard Theater likig our tweet where we talked about the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame). There are so many great pieces of history in the city, especially regarding theater, that are almost hidden and it was really great to see how things just started appearing all over the place once we really started looking. Over all, this was a really informative and fun experience that took some places I already knew about, and some I had no idea of the history behind and brought them into a new light for me.