2 weeks to christmas!

I had hoped to post more to this blog on this tour being that all we do is act, and don’t have to be at the theater extra early to load in…but we don’t have internet regularly in our hotels, and from here on out we’re pretty much doing one nighters so the hotels change every day. The good side to that, is that we’re staying in nicer hotels than on my last tour. Now I love me some comfort inn, with the free internet and breakfast, but the sketchy people leering at you gets tiring. With the nicer hotels, comes the nicer cliental.

So, we’ve been bouncing all over new England this whole time. Most recently we were in snow covered Vermont. So pretty! We took a ferry from new york state to Vermont, and didn’t pass up the opportunity to take pictures and make asses of ourselves for the other poor souls for whom the ferry trip was nothing new.

Yesterday we tackled a 13 hour drive day that had been looming over our heads for a while. I lucked out and got the biggest most comfortable seat on the bus and it still wasn’t the slice of heaven I had hoped for. For some ridiculous reason the movie The Great Escape was put on for the whole bus to “enjoy”. Few people were in the mood, and the rest of us suffered through the 3 hours of screams and gunfire. The vote came down to 7 people wanting to watch The Philadelphia Story, and 8 wanting to watch The Great Escape…with our bus driver being the deciding vote. WTF?? I guess it’s water under the bridge now…

Gettysburg!!!



We had a brief stint in gettyburg, pa. Our scrooge is a big history buff and took us on a tour of the battlefields on an afternoon off. It was really wonderful to have someone passionate about something as your tour guide…especially in a place that’s so significant to our nation’s history. He walked us all over the place, and told us details of each battle on each day as if we were a part of it. Terrifying.


That same stay matty (our scrooge) learned that his grandmother had died. He was very upset. He’s very close to his family and was torn with the conflict of staying on the tour or going home for the funeral. this could have proved disasterous for us as a cast (we don’t handle drama well). We always seem to pull it off in the end, or avoid it all together (like in this case) but collectively we run around like assholes freaking out about how horrible the situation is. Ah, actors. Luckly it didn’t come to that, and matty stayed with us, thank you matty!! He broke down and used a computer for the first time ever to write and email a eulogy to his family, and he is going to have us sing a hymn during warm-ups that was played at the funeral.

When we left Vermont yesterday it was snowy and 14 degrees. Now we’re in west Virginia and it’s 70. we’re getting a little sick of the traveling in snow thing, so now we’re getting antsy for the south, regardless of drought conditions. J

Generally speaking, we’re all still getting along…pretty much. We’ve all barked at each other a few times, and some people are more socially awkward than others. But no real new drama has happened since the night we all played a drinking game called Power Hour. Have I mentioned it?? (daddy you may or may not want to keep reading…ask mom first)………………………………………. 60 shots of beer in 60 mins…to music. Few of us made it to the end, but everyone tried, and everyone kept drinking afterwards. We (and by we I mean not me) broke a hotel room, and lost a techie. I woke up with bruises from getting body slammed (didn’t spill the beer). And too couples ended up hooking up and in one of those cases, the girl’s horrible roommate purposely walked in on her with an audience of people to embarrass her…with friends like that…

I’m still having a blast, I’ve avoided the drama to the best of my ability, my roommate and I get along, I’ve yet to be hungover on the bus ( a big no no if you vom), and I’ve made a nice chunk of new buds. 2 more weeks to go and the hard part is still ahead…let’s see if I’m still singing the same tune on Christmas eve.