SO we just finished a 3 show run here on the east, finally back into eastern time, We're in Greensboro NC, and it has been absolutely great because these are the first shows where I've had people come see me!!! It's official!!! I am Loved!!!

SO the abosolute first friend to see me perform was my friend Barb!! She came last night, It was great to see her, and be connected to the world again, and see she's a beautiful redhead now. The next 2 divas saw me this afternoon, The Hot laywer, and the sexy doctor. All had to travel over an hour to see me, which just made me feel incredibly awesome!! And the divas brought me the most wonderful gift not the usual flower bouquette, but a fabulous Chocolate chip cookie!!!!!

now back to Georgia!!!

Sorry it has been almost a week again, Times is not so easy to come by when I'm actually rested enough and in the mood to post, and we haven't been in places where wireless is free. Since Texas we have gone to,

Mobile, Alabama( cool historic feel)

Niceville, Florida( beautiful big theatre, and sold out audience)And we just had a show here in Athens, Georgia, another huge theater witha pretty sold out full audience.

There's only been a couple of real cool things so far on tour.

1 the recording session in the studio,

2 getting fed home cooked jambalaya and pecan pie in Texas

3 seeing a rainbow

and now riding on a bus on a ferry over the gulf of mexico. ah, and seeing dolphins. So that was way cool, we were even aloud off the bus to roam around thru the other cars and stand in the upstairs deck, and on the front of the ferry. It was definitely pretty cool. I think I was also inthralled with the fact that it was the Gulf, which I was just excited to see for some reason.

here's some pictures, more to come

Here's some fun in the dressing room in Galveston Texas from my awesome roomate.

We just arrived in Texas! It is my first time ever in this state, and as soon as we crossed over, it was raining Cats and dogs, but the sun was still shining, and it's warm, there's nothing like warm rain, actually if it wasn't for my tattoo, I would be outside playing around in it, oh but it stopped anyway, oh well.

We had 2 shows in our stay at the Hilton in Lafayette Louisiana, one there, and one in Baton rouge in hr away. The Hilton was pretty nice, very comfy beds and pillows, beautiful pool to lay out at(which I did of course, where do you think this glorious color comes from, well besides chocolate anyway), The only problem was that we didn't have Internet access. You think ok well whats 2 days without the most modern technology, but it's different for us, it's our only connection to the world we found out. No way to stay in touch. I actually had to resort to watching tv, awful I know. We had 2 great shows but our our original evita did not go on both her understudies did, it was Malia's first time, and she rocked it out to a packed house, it was great. The cast kind of nick named her trashy Eva, which she is very much ok with, I don't think it's a slam at her, and she doesn't take it that way, none the less I still don't call her that, but it is interesting the different styles and sounds each one has. Elizabeth is classy Eva, a more softer demeanor. The dancer in her makes her have a sensual sexiness seduction about her, while Malia is more of a raw open hippy sex. Sorry if you're offended by those descriptions, but that's the motivation of Evita thru the show. The reason why Cameron was out is because she has tonsillitis, and actually she gave it to Hank to, so now we have to crazy sick people on tour, so really pray that I stay healthy.

The most incredibly awesome thing happened on our way to Baton Rouge. In the midst of this freak rain storm, with the sun still shining, a beautiful rainbow crossed the expanse of the sky, over the high way. It was breathtaking! You could actually see the both of them, cause there are actually 2 rainbows when you see one. Now I tried to capture as many pictures as I could to give you a good picture but nothing makes the colors pop, like it was to actually see it. I mean you could really see every color, bright and vibrant, it was just SPLANDIFFERICALLYTASTICALISTICAWESOMAZING!!!!! Ha, say that 3 times fast!

Anyway life continues on, the Venue we're playing at tonight is providing us dinner so I'm trying to hold out til then. They say it will be Jambalaya, which I thought was primarily enjoyed in LA. but maybe since we're so close it doesn't matter, we'll see if everything really is bigger in Texas.

I'm doing ok, been doing a lot of thinking about how I'm leaving, and what I am portraying to people. I think I have a lot of anger in me, and most of it is directed toward God for frustration for the confusion and frustration I feel I have because of the certain things He's allowed in my life. So I'm trying to resolve that issue and live life in joy, and with a sense of Gratitude. I also see my moral fiber jumping into fight when I see people not holding themselves accountable, when they cross the line of flirting, and they have significant others. But I have to remember, it's none of my business. So you can see a little of the internal stuff that goes on.

I also got my passport!! Yeah!! So now I can go anywhere, like SCOTLAND!!!

The beautiful Black Girls

Hello Hello,

So here we are in Jackson Mississippi! And we finally had a little break from crazy cause we had 2 shows here, so we got to hangout with each other last night, and sleep in today. I actually got up early for breakfast( unbeknowingst to myself, clock was 2hrs fast), and then went back to bed til 1130, which was just so nice to do.

The theatre was nice and big with a deep house and ample dressing room space, and the shows were in full tact and we did well, and as usual we were met with standing ovations. We are defintely getting spoiled with those, I actually tonight we wouldn't get one, but they surprised me, and did it anyway.Which does make you feel great. We are in a point in the show where we know which scenes are monotanous and boring, so we try and come up with stupid motivations, or different ways to make each other have a good time on stage.

But the best thing for me being here in MS, was the chance to see my great friend Jason Black. We met 7 yrs ago in Virginia working at King's Dominion at a summer campus fellowship program. We grew real close, He ended up dating and marrying a girl from that program as well, so I was apart of that whole thing happening, and they actually had me dance in their wedding, which is one of the most incredible honors I have ever had. I haven't been able to see him in 3 years because of the big distance between us, and becuase he;s been in med school, and since then he has had 2 beautiful girls, Abigail, and Ester Marie. The beautiful Black girls. It was fantastik to be with him, and fam, and just hangout at the house, and have a fabulous home cooked meal. We wanted to go to the State Fair but it wasn't opened in time, you know I've never been to a state fair before. But it was kind of nice actually not going cause I got to do laundry instead, and for free which just wonderful. It was fantastik!!!

By the way my tattoo is healing well, so well that it's surprising everybody, I attribute it to God blessing me. hhehehehe

The Price of FREEDOM

Today was the first day of the rest of my life.

Earlier in life I was confused, and out of that confusion came bad choices.

The results of those choices were dire consequences of discipline, and accountability.

October 1st was the day all of that was cleared away.

So I Marked this day in a way I Would never forget it.

OCTOBER 1ST, 2007 MEMPHIS, TN

One long Week

Sorry it has been a whole week since I have last written.

We experienced our first taste of bus and truck tour life, with our first slew 8 or 9 one nighters in a row. That's getting up, sometimes at 5am(like tomorrow) for a 530am bus call, travelling for up to 10 hrs, to get to a new city, check in the hotel have an hour or two, before we get back on the bus, and go to the theater to perform., Then we do it all again. It has been strenuous, tiring, agitating, and exhausting! We're so happy that tomorrow we get a day off, we've just done 9 shows in 8 days without one. Now a day off is only us not having to perform, we still have to travel, that would be a golden day,..ah yeah we don't have any of those. And it just so happens that again we are doing another 10 hr travel day, and we're still not getting to the city we need to be. It is kind of nice for us though, cause we'll get to spend tomorrow evening in Memphis, that will be a fun night that we need together. This kind of schedule tends to make people on edge, and short in grace, we hung out one night this past week in someones room who ended up getting a suite, and is was so cast bonding. We need more time to just enjoy each other, with nothing hindering our thoughts, or stressin us out.

Half of this time was spent in the state of Iowa, out of the 9 shows 5 of them we're in a city in Iowa. We have driven all over this state, in fact we have past the Best Western that we stayed in for opening night on the highway at least 3 times. I am so sick of that state, and was so happy to leave it today. I ended up with some weird pain from a theatre their. I thought I was bit by some spider on stage, that lodged under my skin, for i felt it a couple of times. The crazy thing is there was no mark or anything on my skin that looked like there was a bite, not a bump. But the pain came again the next day, so I went to the doctor to see what was up. He didn't really know he thinks it's some nerve thing, so He wrapped it, and said I shouldn't dance for a week. HA!

Anyway, traveling all over this state has brought by and eventually in the World's Largest Truck Stop! Besides it having 4 fast food joints inside, it had it's own restaurant, a library, arcade,dentist, theater, and make your own truck section in it. It was crazy. But you see alot of weird things at truck stops, and some weird themes, like dinosaurs.

Being on tour, you forget the world, for it's just off to one place to the next. We have no tv to watch, well when we get to the hotel, we either have to eat or work out, before we get ready for the show, the only news we get is if the hotel has a continental breakfast and the news is on. Half the time or mostly all the time, we don't even know what day it is. The only times I know are my bus calls, get on it to leave the hotel, get on it to go to the theater. Real simple. So when we drove to upper Michigan We were astounded by the beauty of fall.( half because boring old Iowa had nothing but corn fields) Pretty much the back of the bus got their cameras out and snapped like crazy. It was just so beautiful to see, and Lake Michigan was awesome, and I had never seen it before. It was a fantastic reminder that the world is still going on, which also helped to remind me that my close friend Jon Channells birthday is coming up, so the other reason why I haven;t written all week is because I was using my free time to work that out.

The shows have been going well. Of course every theatre brings about it's limitations and we have to change things, but we still put on the show we do, and continue to get standing o's. technical difficulties have been the bain of our existence, but we have just performed right thru them. Last night the curtain didn't go up, and the whole movie finished behind it, then the announcement cut in the middle, you didn't even know Eva died, it was hysterical, but nothing beats tonight so far. Out of all the small podunk towns we've played, this was the smallest. How small you asked, well we cut every stage piece, the night club stairs, all the flying banners, the video screen,the revolving door, and yes you got it, the famous Casa rosada Steps That Evita sings the famous song on, that all the pictures are taken from, hahahahah it was side splitting. We even had to skim down on costumes. It was extremely fun though, and we all felt like it was one of our best shows, and we had the audience right from the get go, bigger applause thruout the whole show( especially after dance numbers i might add), then any other place, and of course they were on their feet right in the beginning.

But it's nice to be able to re coop somewhat in the voice. I will sleep all day in the bus, I'm even thinking about staying up late tonight, and working out just so I'm really tired.

Now it's off to Memphis and then Jackson MS where hopefully I can see my brother jason whom I haven't seen in 3 years.

A Wisconsin mess

I am tired and hungry.

We are in Platteville Wisconsin right now, we performed at the University of Wis. Platte.. Let's just say this place was kind of smaller than the U of Miss. But the crew was better. Since this place was actually a concert hall, there were many things we had to cut from the show because of the lack of space, or no fly rail. Basically none of our banners were flown at all, and some of our sets were cut, like the stairs. But we of course just decided to laugh it off.
For I had a great beginning of the day, and afternoon. The drive here was only around 2 hrs, and after we got here I went to work out,( this hotel has a partnership with this 24/7 fitness club) It was fantastic! Also I have been reacquainted with my desire to be in Cirque du Soleil, so now I will be disciplining myself to get in shape again so that I can audition for them, and try and make that dream come true. So I was feelin good.

I was ready to do the show, I had sat in my splits earlier, and just felt warmed up and in a better physical shape than I had been in a couple of days. Anyway, this was our worst show so far, woo absolutely. And it all started when we opened the coffin in the first scene and ,"Oh my Gosh!! There she is, UPSIDE DOWN!" yup the crew didn't set it right so we open the coffin, that by the way is placed on center stage with one stanchion higher so it sits her up, you know what would usually be her head. yeah it was crazy. So now all of us are flabbergasted, and really trying to hold laughter in. It was just crazy! And then the curtain didn't lose at the end of Act 1 fully, but that wasn't a biggie. But during the top of act 2 I screwed up. We are all running back and forth in front of the big staircase that Evita is on singing the famous song(Don't cry for me), and we are shouting her name all frantically, and after every trumpet blast we get crazier, and start singin even harder, and it's a hot mess, choreographed kayos. Well after the bases join in there is one more trumpet blast, and we freeze. Well I was so into the scene tonight, that I was running around in places I'm not usually, and when I heard a part where I knew I should be in my ending place I tried to get there, well I was way late, ending up being the total wrong way, and almost falling out of my freeze, and I didn't cut off right away, so you hear "evit...." all by itself. OOPSIES. hahahahha, but we were crackin up about it, it's happened before to others.

But true to form we still had a great show, and were met with another standing ovation, So Praise the Lord!!!!

Tomorrow however we have a 5am bus call for about a 7or 8 hr trip, ugh, double ugh! But Chris has a swing seat tomorrow, so I will be sleeping on the floor hard core my friends. We're going to the UP of Michigan, apparently it will be even more fraught with accents as this place. So we'll see how it goes. We're on our first long stretch of about 10 or 12 shows right in a row, and all in different cities. It's grueling, so Please send me your good thoughts, and prayers, emails, and calls of encouragement!!!

Here's a little rest stop fun for ya!