I took myself all the way up to Madison Square Garden to buy tickets to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus which we will attend on the evening of Easter Sunday. I like to look at the map of the seats because I like to try and get seats on the front track.
I recommend going ahead of time to pick up any tickets for an event at Madison Square Garden. The WILL CALL set up is a mess and I have seen families come into their seats 45 minutes after the show started because it takes so long to wait in line to pick up tickets and then another long time to wait for bags to be searched and another long time after the tickets have been scanned and still more time to go up all the stairs and through the concrete corridors before arriving in the right section.
I hate Madison Square Garden.
After the show the escalators are always turned off. It feels like a fire drill. It makes me think of–what if a fire.
I am uneasy in that building.
I wish the old Penn Station, the beautiful one I never saw, had never been torn down in the name of Urban Renewal.
But we go to see the circus every year.