180

Hi Friends!
Loretta and I had an AWESOME experience in Stillwater, Oklahoma! If Lynchburg wasn't so great, you don't know how great something is until its gone, I'd move there. We didn't want to leave! The kids were great and if you read my last blog Oklahoma knows how to make a girl feel loved.
Now the 180.
North Little Rock, Arkansas:

We had 144 kids audition in a loud, echoey, gym, it was NUTS! Instead of the performance being on Saturday it was actually on Friday and the preformance space was on the other side of town which meant we had to put up the set, lights and sort out costumes all in one night. Doesn't sound that bad? You. Don't. Even. KNOW! The kids in Arkansas were all great kids but I think they just didn't want to be there and on the day of the performance we had 12 kids drop out, 3 were pulled out by their parents because "they were embarrassed" of how the kids were acting. An hour before the show we had to cut the show and make it a Musical Review. Loretta, our Contact, and I all felt that the kids would be more comfortable doing parts of the show that they knew, the songs and mini scenes. This was also the week were I was supposed to be backstage for the show but Loretta had never done a Cabaret before, so she asked me to step in a few moments before the show.

I had to make up a show on the spot.

Great.

The show was kind of a blur and lasted for a totally of 15 minutes with all the shows songs and a little improv fluff by yours truly. I don't remember much of what I said but I DO remember saying, "There once was a distant country far far way, right off of Kennedy Street (a local street in North Little Rock)..." and said something like, "King Arthur was under a lot of stress! He had so many problems the ghost, dragon, and giant. He didn't know what to do. So what do you do in a musical? Ya sing it out, TAKE IT PEGGY!".

I'm in awe of my wit.

HA!

Literally across the bridge was another tour team so we met up with Ted and Bridget for dinner and then on Saturday spent a day at the mall and just relaxing. It was a good start to the beginning of a vacation in Lynchburg.

Loretta and I had a girls night complete with pizza and some serious facebook stalking. Not of eachother....that would be weird. 

-Jen