WELL Opening night was a great hit!
We brought Broadway all the way to this podunk town called Cedar Rapids Iowa. We also had a day off there, which for the most part we thought would be horrendous. Why, cause there is absolutely nothing to do in that town, absolutely boring, we paraded around town and only found these figures and our show on a rolling sign. The only reason why it was ok, was because there ended being 2 cars because our assistant production manager and her friend from Iowa was there to take us to another town that had a real mall. So we spent a fun day in the mall. Actually the hi-light to that day was going to Build a Bear store with Andrew and Brad( our company manager) and making a teddy bear,well cat, for his neice. We were excited to make it, but that excitement was quickly deflated when we found that we were just going from station to station while someone else did everything, oh well.

We actually found an adult ballet class to go to as well. In every town we are in for at least 2 days, we are trying to find a place to dance so we don't loose a whole lot of technique or form, and to get some kind of exercise. My body is so out of wack not being able to eat right, or regular, and since this isn't a dance show we have to really make sure we stay on the top of our game. Anyway, the class was fun, a little crazy, but all the elder ladies welcomed us in with open arms and were just excited to have special company, and we were just excited to have a free dance class.

Well the theater looked really small from the outside. It looked old and run down as well, but looks can be deceiving, cause it was beautiful inside. Many people said it reminded them of a Broadway theater they way the house was set up, the space inside was beautiful, and they did fill it up pretty well. It was a good show, and we got another standing Ovation, nice.

The horrible thing about that whole experience was that our bus call to leave Iowa was freakin 5am!! and Oh I had laundry to still do, so I didn't get to bed til 1:30am, it was absolutely horrible. Well lets just say more people got there issues resolved with the floor that morning. Oh it was just torture. But we survived, and we traveled to the University of Missouri for our next show.

Ok, our first college town! WOah baby are you serious!, The house was just a small lecture room stage. I thought, "man my high school theater was bigger than this." So we all decided to just laugh it off, and try to have fun with this show. They also had food for us so we were really excited to have a good time. Well..., That could only go so far. The crew were just local students, who weren't even theater majors cause they don't have a major at this school. Oh gosh. And everything went down from there. It was our worst show so far. Someone got clocked in the eye from the set breaking, another person ran into a door and jumped into my arms from a door being pre set to early, costumes moved, people getting yelled at. In one number I totally forgot to put my suspenders up, and they were hanging out of the back of my coat, well there went the military dress, and my concentration for my steps, and I flopped big. It was a bad show, everyone thought so, Well everyone accept the folks of Missouri, for we received another Standing Ovation, wow! 4-and 0. None the less we were all to happy to get out of there and back to the hotel.

It's thursday morning, the 20th, our 1 month anniversary, geesh only 9 more to go, feels like we've been with each other for a year already, hahahaha, Next Stop, Kentucky!!

by the way I heard the only bad thing in our review from Cedar rapids was that they didn't print enough programs!