Wednesday, July 11, 2012

...opening a show

This week I opened my show, Monster by Neal Bell.

Photo from the play- by Stan Barouh

Last week I went to see the fireworks over the Hudson River with Eleni and some of her friends.  It was so crowded-  Eleni and I talked about how we missed the nice easy-going Buckland Park firework days.

I took Alex for a walk.

I shadowed the Stage Manager of Memphis on Broadway and got to listen to the stage manager call the show while watching it from the house and also got to see everything backstage- it was a wonderful experience!

Mom and Zoe arrived in the city and we moved Zoe into her Barnard dorm for the week.

Zoe with her ID card-- is she already looking more collegiate?

Monday, July 2, 2012

...first week in NYC

A lot has happened in this first week.  The reason why I haven't posted within this past week is because the internet hasn't been working at the house I'm staying at, so I'm at a Starbucks in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

My week...

Re-packed in Vermont and began my journey to NYC.  One of guys in the show, Noah, drove Britian, Boomer and me to Burlington, Vermont to catch the megabus to the city.

The bus was of course late.  It rained for a good portion of the trip, but eventually ended in a gorgeous rainbow.


 I stayed with my cousin Julie for the first night in the city.  These are her two cats.

Julie took my on a little tour of her area of Brooklyn and this is a view of Manhattan from Brooklyn across the East River.

I also met up with Boomer (above) and we found the theatre -- Atlantic Stage 2.

Left-- Julie's building is the blue one in the middle.
Right-- This is the house that I'm staying at for the next two months.


The two pictures above are of my room.

So this picture is a picture in the lobby at Atlantic Stage 2-- it is of Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele in the original production of Spring Awakening, which started at Atlantic Stage 2!

Yep, that's Lincoln Center-- where I'll be working for the next 10 months.  No big deal.

Load-in for the show!!  This picture is from a few days ago-- the set is now completely in and we had our day of tech yesterday!  We have a Dress Rehearsal and our first Preview Performance tomorrow.

Us at lunch a few days ago. L-R Paula, Boomer, Jim, Ken & Britian!

This is Alex, the dog- the family's dog.


 Images from Chelsea Market- where we stopped by in between tech sessions yesterday.



I saw Bob (Eleni) a few days ago and saw her amazing dorm and met her really nice roommates!! Above are two of the many silly pics we took the other day.

The show continues to rehearse and have Preview performances through the next week and then we open a week from today.