Can you hear me now? Crap!

Hello there! Sorry for the delay in posts. We've been quite busy here with our crazy split weeks. So where were we? Ah,yes. Corpus Christi last time I posted. We then went to Lubbock TX,which is flat and dusty and boring and I had no cellphone service. From there we began our 2nd split week in Bossier City LA and we have now just arrived in Corinth MS,where I AGAIN have no cellphone service. I don't like this trend.

Some news to pass on to any Worcesterites reading this. It looks like we will not be hitting the DCU Center on this leg of the tour. However,the tour will be going out again in the fall and most likely will go there then. They have inquired to me about my interest in coming back next year,but there's no guarantee I will be a pony again. They may switch me over to one of the Sesame Street tours. It's all still very up in the air.

I'd also like to pass along some links to some other blogs you may be interested in...

First is my buddy Don Winsor,who is just finishing up a 2 year stint as a baritone extraordinaire on the RSSC Voyager cruise ship. www.scarybari.blogspot.com

Also my buddy Steve Gags,who is currently in the Far East rehearsing for a new musical which he isn't really allowed to discuss because of copyright issues or something. Suffice it to say,it's about a yellow,water-absorbent fellow named Robert who wears boxlike trousers. www.gagsinasia.blogspot.com

Both these guys write very informative and entertaining stuff. Check 'em out!

Where's the basement?

Our week in San Antonio is done. Finally the weather was seasonable for us. I took one day and drove up into Hill Country,which is just northwest of San Antonio. Absolutely gorgeous landscape. Just this random assortment of hills and streams and fields and forests plunked in the middle of the Texas plains. I,of course,forgot my camera.

We're now on Day 1 of our 5 straight split weeks. We're in Corpus Christi TX the first half and Lubbock TX the second half. Corpus Christi is very pretty. Our hotel is right on the harbor and there's palm trees everywhere. It's easy to forget we're in Texas. It feels more like Florida.

"...don't it give you pleasure to confess..."

This is the view from the balcony of my hotel room. It's even cooler at night but I have the cheap digital camera and it doesn't take good night pictures. (In the foreground is the Medieval Times where Andy Rhodes used to joust!)

Dallas this week. It was 85 degrees when we landed on Monday and today it snowed. What the @%$#!

Monday we head to San Antonio for our last full week with days off before the dreaded 5 split weeks in a row!

"...mmm...steak..."

Omaha Nebraska. It's been very strange being back here. As most of you know,I spent many years here with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan,and this is my first time back with a different company. I did manage to squeeze in a visit to the playhouse to say hi to most of the artistic staff. Really made want to go back and work there again. Not that I have any plans to leave Ponyville,but NTC was always such a great experience and I really hope to work there again one day. Adam and I made it up to Mr.C's for dinner last night,which is the best steakhouse with the tackiest decor in town. Love that place.

The show here was actually a rather unpleasant experience. Instead of booking us into one of the arenas or a big theatre,they decided to shoehorn us into the Music Hall,which is a nice little venue for small concerts and the like,but WOEFULLY inadequate for our needs. We only had about half the playing area we're used to,which of course leads to 8 ponies colliding with each other instead of doing the correct staging. Abby and Tim actually ran into each other so hard that Abby's costume broke. It was also ridiculously hot in the building,Jamie came down with a nasty case of bronchitis,and we had to perform the show during a tornado warning. Plus,the rain kept leaking into the theatre. I will miss Omaha as always,but this time I can't wait to get out of here.

Next week-Dallas. Coming soon-5 straight split weeks. Ugh.