Success

Tickets into Anthology: $44

Delectable bacon cheeseburger/fries/buffalo wings appetizer: $30 (ish)

Don't Do Sadness shirt (made of 100% awesome): $20

Autographs and pictures with Duncan Sheik and Lauren Pritchard:

LEGENDARY

(There are some things money can't buy.) 

(These are the kinds of things that make me and Ryan giddy with excitement, high five in the Little Italy street at 11pm, and sing along with the Spring Awakening soundtrack all the way home.)

PS- my detailed analysis of the night will have to wait until I download the pictures. For a great summation written during Ryan's still euphoric state at around 1am this morning, go to Ryan's blog here.