Whipped up another fruit shake this morning. Peeling and blending a ton of fruit is a major pain but ultimately a good thing (also ensuring that at least one of my new year resolutions is kept up). Off to rehearsal. Weather is beautiful but Sunset Blvd seems to get longer every day (it's a long drive). Anyway, dress rehearsal day today and we were allowing friends and staff to see it so, really, it was our first performance. By the way, we have a kick-arse wardrobe lady, Allison Leach, who has just been featured in American Theatre Magazine. Superb. Actually, while we're on the subject, we have an awesome Director, Musical Director and Stage Mgr too!
Anyway, the 'performance' went really well and what a difference it made to finally have an audience (as you can imagine). Loads of laughs and everything went almost perfectly. Director, Musical Dir and the G staff seemed to be very happy with it. We all had a ball, too.
A joke about the neighbours almost stopped the shop dead as it rang home with most of the staff who have had to live with rules and regs brought upon them by litigious neighbours. Did you know that litigation held up the reopening for about 4 years?
3 shows tomorrow... excellent.
Came home to a housefull of kids! Monkey had some friends over. Toys everywhere... looked like a tornado had rolled through! They were having a great time though!
Oh, received my snowboarding DVD in the mail (Standard Films' "Paradox"). I'll have to sit down and watch that in the next few days. If you're learning to snowboard, some great advice here.
Gonna post some more pics on Buzznet.