Well, we did it. Got to Providence and opened the show without too much trauma. We did have to stop the show for a few minutes with a slight malfunction, but then finished without a hitch.
The theater here in Providence is gorgeous, I played it back in 1997 with Les Mis. It also holds over 2000 people, and we had a full house. It was crazy around the theater, opening night gifts everywhere. The networks company gave us MP duffel bags, MP laundry bags and MP travel plugs with extension cords. The creative team had these lovely silver sixpence necklaces made for us, chocolates and spoonfuls of sugar, earrings... just like christmas!
After the show they threw us a party at the Westin, and it was really nice. DJ and food, drinks... lots of fun and we all had a great time! Tara Rubin and Eric Woodall came which was really nice, and Geoffrey Garrett left my answering machine voicemail... very fun.
We did have a hard time loading in, and I think it will take a while for the crew to figure out all of the ins and outs, we actually got extra time off as they weren't ready with the stage, and then on the fifth preview performance we had to stop for about a half an hour because the kitchen jumped the track and came off the back of the house while it was turning... again, the audience was really great, and thanks to our crew we got it back up and running.
On Monday (our night off) a group of us went to Al Forno, this highly recommended Italian Restaurant on the water, and had a crazy amazing meal. I had cassoulet with duck leg and sausage, and finished up with a chocolate bread pudding. Ahhhh food. I spent the day shopping and coming up with my opening night gift for everyone. I went to what is considered to be the best Italian bakery in town, and bought three kinds of biscotti (chocolate/pistachio, hazelnut, vanilla almond) and then bagged them (72 of them) I then got little recipe cards saying BRILLS BISCOTTI, from the kitchen of GERT BRILL. Then wrote the message
Congratulations on all of your hard work! Here's to a 'blooming' BRILLiant opening night.
I thought it was a pretty cute idea (thanks Jenee for helping me come up with it)
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MB
That sounds like such a cute gift. I hope you took a picture and will post it. You would have been so proud of your BRILLiant sister coming up with another state win in Arizona. When does the show come to Tucson?
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I am sooo proud of her!!!! We come to Tucson May 14-20 I think, hope you can come!
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