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Collected treasures from my visits to Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel. Not pictured: treats from the candy shop, and another I won in a card trick from the speakeasy bartender. The first time my gentleman caller and I attended the show was last spring, and I don’t think we could have predicted that we’d have gone back another three times in less than a year. Have I had enough yet? Apparently not, since I just got tickets today to the special Manhattan Cocktail Classic event in May. It’s not that I feel a burning need to collect achievements… I suppose just want another chance to be in that place for three hours.

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Collected treasures from my visits to Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel. Not pictured: treats from the candy shop, and another I won in a card trick from the speakeasy bartender. The first time my gentleman caller and I attended the show was last spring, and I don’t think we could have predicted that we’d have gone back another three times in less than a year. Have I had enough yet? Apparently not, since I just got tickets today to the special Manhattan Cocktail Classic event in May. It’s not that I feel a burning need to collect achievements… I suppose just want another chance to be in that place for three hours.

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Remember when I got contacts specifically to see this show for the first time? Remember when the programs were a single sheet of folded paper (and were free)? Remember when the cheap shows were $75?

~~~ just 2011 thingz ~~~

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Inferno 2015 was great - possibly the best SNM party yet, but certainly the best since Carnival des Corbeaux. I feel like basically every complaint I’ve ever had about the special events was handled and then some. Dinner was abundant and delicious and the Paisley Players were perfection as always. There were tons of surprises and unexpected treats, including at least five different 1:1s (one of which was one of the best Punchdrunk moments I’ve ever had). The bars were busy but not impossible to get to, and anyway there were tons of places to get shots. There were snacks. Aaron Paul was boy witch during the opening piece and it was a delight to party with him afterward. The costumes and performances were all top-notch, and it was actually possible to find most of them because - wonder of wonders - we got a printed schedule.

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Most of all, I had a blast dancing and drinking and sweating with some of my very best friends, and somehow my giant crow hat did not disintegrate mid-party as I’d sort of assumed it would.

I had been planning to skip the New Year’s Eve event, but this party was so great that I’m going to have to reconsider that, I think. In fact, the party has actually reignited my interest in seeing the show - I haven’t seen it in months and had not been planning to again anytime soon, but now I’m dying to go back. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that this year’s Inferno actually reminded me why I fell in love with Sleep No More to begin with.

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Sleep No More #10 & #11 The tattoo crew (that’s me in the middle of the tattoo sandwich with bloodwillhavebloodtheysay and his brother) descended on the McKittrick again on Friday for I thought would just be an early show (for me anyway) but ended up...

Sleep No More #10 & #11

The tattoo crew (that’s me in the middle of the tattoo sandwich with bloodwillhavebloodtheysay and his brother) descended on the McKittrick again on Friday for I thought would just be an early show (for me anyway) but ended up being my first double header.

Honestly, I started drinking at about 7pm and stopped at around 5am, so the bulk of the evening is just a big blur of whiskey and champagne, and I’m not going to try to do a proper recap. But I was extraordinarily lucky in terms of 1:1 timing, and ended up with seven total across the two shows, five of which were completely new to me (Banquo, Lady MacDuff, Hecate, Nurse, and the sixth floor). By the time I ended up back in the Manderley after the late show, I was a big mess of sweat and ashes and scented oil and food coloring and lipstick. It was glorious, and I’m going back tonight.

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Sneer all you want, but what Punchdrunk has managed to accomplish with both Sleep No More and The Drowned Man is completely improbable and almost unbelievable when you stop to consider it, and ten years from now I know I’ll be grateful to have experienced any of it. Choosing to keep going to either show, knowing you don’t care for it, and then complaining about it online seems to me the height of tone-deaf arrogance - like lighting $100 bills on fire in a bar and acting surprised when you get shit for it. Find something new to love, and leave the rest of us in peace.

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