Christmas in Des Moines

It was a snowy, cold week in Des Moines. We had a long, long bus ride from Fayetteville on frosty roads to get to Iowa. There was an accident on the highway that caused us to have to detour onto a two lane highway for quite a while, but we finally arrived in the early [...]

Arkansas, Arkansas

Driving into Fayetteville was quite beautiful. I had spent the previous night in Oklahoma City en route from Albuquerque, and so only had a few short hours of driving to finish up on Monday. The roads were icy and so I had to take it slow, but despite the temperatures outside being near the single [...]

Lovely Layoff

After Sioux City, we had another layoff week – we had originally been scheduled to play Iowa City, but during the terrible tornadoes this past summer, the theater there was flooded and is now closed . On the one hand, it’s a little tough to go with another unpaid week right before Christmas, but on [...]

Poo City, Iowa

I only call it that because there are four things in Sioux City which lead to the unfortunate smell of poo in the air at all times – 2 slaughter houses, a dog food factory and a gelatin factory. Ahhhh. Luckily it has been beyond freezing this week, so the smell has not been as [...]

Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh was another busy week of rehearsals. We were readying Alexa Glover for her debut (she took over for Jenn Rias the beginning of this week in Sioux City), and BT (our associate director) was also in town to rehearse the principals, as there wasn’t really any time for them to rehearse with any of [...]