Crazy Cast Changes

Here I am with Pinkie Pie (Carmela Adams). I am apparently sleepy.

We're in the midst of our first major cast change. All the Vee veterans are saying they're surprised it took this long. Two weeks ago in Chicago,our Thistle Whistle (Carlos Martinez) came down with a hernia. He bravely finished out the run in Chicago and stayed there to have surgery while we continued on to Memphis. Luckily,he lives in Chicago so he could just go home. He'll be out about 5-6 weeks,the doctor said. So they immediately launched a Nationwide Search to find a replacement Thistle Whistle! Every network fought tooth and nail for the broadcast rights! They brought in Paula,Randy and Simon to judge the competitors! Actually none of that happened. I think they just made a couple of phone calls. Anyway,they finally decided to go with our Assistant Electrician,RJ,to step in to the role. He apparenty has some performing experience when he's not being a technician,and his job can be covered by other people for a few weeks. So he started rehearsing today. Meanwhile Josh,the swing,has been playing Thistle Whistle for the last 2 weeks and his 3 other covers(myself included)haven't had a day off since! RJ is scheduled to go into the show next Friday in Denver and Carlos will tentatively be back when we get to Oregon in about 4 weeks. It's actually been rather entertaining backstage watching RJ in his tech blacks and headset trying to do the choreography along with the show.

El Paso TX this week and Denver next week.