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% 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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