Tuesday, December 11, 2007

5 days left of crazy








Please bare with me. I have found out that the thing that is worse than bad internet connection, is no connection at all. We have just travelled thru Nevada, and since everywhere we stayed had a cacino, there was no free internet. There has been so much that has gone on, and right now I can't even go into everything because we are at another hotel that has again very bad connection, actually out of the whole cast, My roomate Tripp is the only one that is able to connect. So He is letting me use his puter just so I can somewhat update.
I guess I'm just going to have to for go all of the video and pictures I took of all the days gone by,maybe I will just post them all over my break so you have fun stuff to look at. Well I left you off in fresno, ca. I had a great time with my friends there, got to do laundry and eat real homecooked food and vegetables. It was beautiful. However there did seem to be some tiff that happened with the guys in the dressing room, concerning tipping our dressers, but that's all resolved now. The next day when I came back to my room from spending the night with my friends, I came in to find my bed double occupied, and a party mess around my bathroom. Apparently the party and power hr had gotten busted, and so moved to my room. Needless to say I wasn't very happy. But we got over that as well. There was also a spell of a real bad stomach ache, and horrible sinus ache. That has also passed. My knee however has not gotten better, and this thouroughly disturbs me, since my body is my livley hood, and because I love to dance and be active it's just killer. The problem is, I don't know what's wrong with it, and I need to go to a valid Knee doctor, who can actually give me an MRI. So I have been dancing with soreness and pain, now I just take 3 motrin before each show.
We left Cal, for Reno ,NA, and a real rough weekend. It was our first 5 show weekend. A show friday nite, 2 on sat, and 2 on sun. Absolute no rest. And we stayed in a big ole casino hotel. Now I don't know if I told you before from when we were in Las vegas, but I hate casinos. THis place takes the cake for Cities I never want to be in again. The only cool things about this city was this great coffee shop that we found that was right across the street from the theatre. We ended up just hanging out there between shows, and my dresser fixed my military coat on her on accord( the lining had come apart from the coat, and she sowed it back to the sleeves) Awesome!! you don't even know how much trouble those sleeves caused, so I was so grateful( and hence gave her a tip), in a joke one show when she asked what else she could do, I said something to the effect of having cupcakes ready for us. Well to my surprise, when we walked to take our last costumes off from finishing the show we were met with tupperwares of cupcakes on our chairs! It was awesome, and totally made the bad experience better. because I was so blessed, I had to bless some one else, so I shared one of my 2 cupcakes with Rob, the Bus driver. he loved it! Also it was the first time Stephanie called out who plays our mistress, so that ment that there had to be a desicion made for who was going to take her place and sing her song. Well it landed on one of our Eva understudies, and Malia sang this one out. Man It was awesome. Now I told you how the ensemble loves when stuff like this happens cause it actually makes us think again, and keep the show fresh, rather than going thru the motions. It was great, you should have seen us back stage before she went on for her seen. Everybody did there quick change in the wings just so we could all watch her. It was a great sense of commonality, and brought us together. And she tore it up, and looked very sexy in her nittie.
The most crazy thing that happened in reno was this, The presenter who brought Evita to this theatre is was also bringing it to El Paso Texas, which was on our schedule for Tomorrow, Wednesday, but he made a comment to our manager about getting hto El P in time for the show on tuesday. Well Brad(our Manager) laughed like it was a joke, and was met with the most serious face from the presenter. That's right, no one had told our company that they were selling tickets for a tuesday show!!!! WHOOOOOO Let me just tell you *!%5E$#$ HIT THE FAN! Where we were was over 12oo miles from El P and we only had a day to get there. The plan for us was to head to Las vegas, for a night off, then head to Tuscon AZ, for another travel day, and then be in EL P, well what ended up happening was that had to fly us this morning from Las vegas to Texas.
Las vegas again! Now I really don't like this city, but the people are way more comfortable to be around then in reno. We ended up staying at the same hotel again, yep, HOOTERS. Now most of the great shows to see in Vegas were dark, they were off that night, so my plan was to just do nothing. Being that it was Monday and I only had 7 days left before we all get to go home, I really don't care to do anything but help the days go by faster. I did however want to have my hooters experience, so Tripp Geoff and I went downstairs and ate at there. WOOHOO!! We had a very nice waitress who wasn't acting like a totall ditz, it was a good time, and I ate too much. December in Vegas is known thruought the country as well," country" month. This is because in the beginning of this month they have Rodeo Week! Yes, Which we happened to arrive just in time for the kickoff festivities. Cowboys everywhere!, you better believe I was scared, especially in Hooters. Oh and there was also in extra influx of Brits there cause if the Ifc boxing fight that happened a few nights before. so it was a pretty crazy mix of people. We ended up watching a lot of the rodeo with dinner, quite entertaining. I was just going to go back to my room, finish watching Clue, and call it a night, but tripp convinced me to go with them to watch the fountain show at the Belagio hotel. You know, I am so glad I did, ( in the middle of the show I even turned aside and whispered thank you to him). the show was great! I'll try and post the video of it. After that we had some fun takin pics of the strip on the way back. The night was capped off by playing a wonderfully team card game called kemps! And celebrating is absolutely intense, and mostly to adult to talk about hahahahahah!
Well this morning we got up and took a plane to El paso, and now we're here in Texas. The show here was fine, though the audience gave us absolutely no energy. You can tell we are all tired and want to go home, there is an edgyness to everyone, people snap more quickly at each other, everyone's pretty much done for the 4 moths we've gone with no real break, or grasp on reality. And I am numero uno when it comes to wanting to go home, just trying to make it til sunday. What's really funny is that the ironic thing about our last week is that it's probably one of our hardest weeks. On friday we have a 12 hr drive, where we get up at 5am, to go straight to the venue, and perform a show, and then have to drive 35 miles to our hotel, and then I'll have to unload eveyones luggage, oh joy and rapture. Please pray for me and all of us. I'm going to get my knee checked out tomorrow, pray that goes well too. Oh and I have awesome news to tell you as well, so really pray that my knee heals quickly and is fine!!!

I am thankful there are only 5 days left

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is the awesome news? I can't wait to find out!

Andrew said...

Alfie, When are you coming home? What are you plans? When will we see you? Not sure what our house schedule will be, but email me. ~andrew

Megan D said...

Your blog is my new favorite thing to read every day. I feel like I'm with you and I love being with you! I hope everything is ok with your knee.