We (1) popped over to London for the President's Day Weekend. A pleasant stroll from Picadilly through St. James Park brought us to the Canada Gate, past which is Buckingham Palace.
Further on was a matinee of the Broadway show Hamilton; tickets in London cost about 75% less than those in NYC. The show lived up to the hype, and the British crowd was not bothered by the comic portrayal of King George III.
Back through the ill-lit St James Park to Picadilly and an evening performance of Les Misérables. The West-end show was also long-running in Broadway (2).
(1) My wife, sister and I. A friend from Baltimore also joined us; we met her at Heathrow Airport.
(2) Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Miz was originally a limited-run musical in Paris that became a phenomenon when it was later adapted for the London Stage.
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