Dear NYC, Your theater is too expensive. Too many musicals and Stars make it so hopelessly impossible for everyone.

Dear London. I love your theatre. It takes chances. Yep. Not only do you have the musical factor, but then the lovely off-center stuff and the National, the Bridge, the Almeida, the Globe, Regents Park not to mention Hampstead. But above all, you have ice cream with the delightful hidden wooden spoon.

Dear New York, please… You have no ice cream. No cute bars for intermission, so no glasses of wine. Traveling beyond Broadway is too far, and we want you to be better, but stars and prices get in the way. And at Christmas, you have no Panto! No Jack and the Beanstalk and yes, no ICE-CREAM!