Good Evening!
Wow, what a lovely bunch of posts to come home to after the show!
It's been sort of a long day for me today. I started off with some rehearsals for the show. We have a cast member leaving at the end of this week - he just got cast as Pepper in the first national tour of
Mamma Mia! - so his replacement came in today, and I spent a good two or so hours teaching - and cramming - the music to him. We got through all but the last two numbers... But he was in the concert of the presentation they did of
Children of Eden last winter(?) in NYC, so he was already familiar with some of his harmony parts. We have some more time set over the next few days, but he's essentially learning his track in about 15 hours of rehearsal! I do not envy him. As Jed will attest to, the ensemble does a lot of work in this show.
Then came dinner, and my timing was good in regards to a sudden major downpour which I watched from the restaurant window.
Then the show... Good show. We did, however, have a little electrical/MIDI gremlin at the top of the second act, but we got that fixed eventually. -But it was sort of fun listening to the various sounds that were coming out of the sequencer as the conductor was trying to dial up the right settings!
In other news...
Welcome back, Jason! -And, yes, I will be one of the "witnesses" to the craziness of your life and schedule over the past few months.
DR MattH - The local NBC affiliate here in DC did a nice feature on Christopher Meloni tonight since he grew up in the area. They talked about his high school days, and his considerable high school football career. Very nice story.
As for pies - I don't think I've ever met a pie I did not like. Cream pies are a fave. As are good pecan pies - which are surprisingly hard to find. My favorite Greek restaurant in Richmond will sometimes have an amazing pumpkin cheesecake around the holidays. However, the "cheese pie" is simply amazing - surprisingly light, and the flavors are surprisingly clear (in spite of the cheese). It's made with a cheese similar to ricotta as well as drained yogurt. Usually it's flavored with bits of citron and almonds. YUMMY!!!
RE: Paige Davis coming into
Chicago - Paige Davis started off on Broadway - she was a
Beauty & the Beast Belle for a while. So... She's just coming back to where she belongs. I've played for her a time or two at auditions - years ago - she's very talented.
*Actually, the host of TLC's "In A Fix" and the Discovery Channel's "Monster Garage" are also former Broadway gypsies.
"A Wedding Story" did a nice episode on Paige Davis about two years ago. They showed some nice clips from her time in
B&B. As well as some nice footage of her very handsome husband.
RE: Frenchie Davis touring in
Dreamgirls... The tour, if I remember correctly, was a limited run, and only on the West Coast - maybe even just within California.
Well, I think that was everything... for now...
Oh, I do like the pies at Village Inn, but they don't have them around these here parts. Oh, and the pies at Perkins aren't bad either. -And then, of course, and unfortunately, there are those mini-pies at the grocery store - usually Wal-Mart - that cost about a $1.00 and seem to call my name around 1:00AM (while I'm shopping there - I do NOT go there for the pies alone!!)... Chocolate Eclair pies... hmmm... Sometimes "artificial everything" will just have to do...
