OpEnInG WeeK HiGhtLighTs!

This week FLEW by.

seriously.

Our bus left today at 6:30 am. We arrived in Morgantown, WV around 7pm...tomorrow we travel to Ashland, KY for a performance. 

The week in Providence just wonderful.
I'm still obsessed with the beds at the Biltmore Hotel.
I will miss you.

Apparently, the Biltmore Hotel is.... HAUNTED!
Check out this blog...not gonna lie. It freaked me out a bit.
...good thing I wasn't sleeping alone...
http://ghostsofprovidence.blogspot.com/2009/02/biltmore-hotel.html
No worries we survived the week...

Last night we went out to Cheesecake Factory for Stephen Kane's Birthday!

FUN times!

Here's a silly clip from some backstage non-sense last week!

BLOOPERS from week one!
Welcome to the magic of LIVE theater.... :)

During "Every Rose.." one night I was asleep on Franz's knee, as usual, everyone is singing beautifully. When all of a sudden I hear a
CRASH.
I mean usually I hear Matt Nolan go up the steps, but this was louder.
So it turns out that
Matt Nolan...
He fell into an organ that was strategically placed near the steps covered in black.
Ouchie.

Another SHOCKER happened during "Waiting for a Girl." I always watch this number offstage right in the wings. One night, Dominique went to grab the cooler that is filled with wine coolers and yet another  CRASH.
The wine coolers fall out of the cooler next to the car!! Glass and liquid mess!...Dominique...is still singing.
What a nightmare and such an accident! Instead of clinking glasses he goes for a high-five with Shannon! So good.

I had a few bloopers myself this week!
Let me just take a minute to THANK GOD that I didn't fall or trip running down the VERY long aisle from the back of the house to the front of the house at the PPAC before "We're Not Gonna Take It!"
I am very clumsy and that was without a doubt a possibility.

One day I was really "in it." I started singing "We're Not Gonna Take It" made it to the stage, handed off my flyers to my peeps, and then headed back down the steps to give ONE last flyer to a lucky person in the front row. I run down the stairs enthusiastic as always and I yell,
"HUNGER TO THE PROLETARIAT!" while handing some 9 year old boy the flyer.

(I turn around totally embarrassed, but still in the moment!...I think to myself...-what the hell did I just yell....hunger to the working class! Fool. Yeah, that's what the proletariat need Katie hunger.
 It's POWER to the Proletariat! POWER!)
I know this.
In my own defense the next time I yell I say "HUNGER Strike."
 That still doesn't help does it.
I'm mortified. Did anyone notice??
Well, just incase they did I added in an excited.. Wooo!/scream... once I jumped around and faced the audience again.
That makes things better, right?


Another night, during "We Built This City" I pulled Chris Sams (the Mayor) downstage for the beginning of the song. Well, I must have pulled him hard and his face must have been sweaty because his glasses went FLYING.
They landed a good 3 feet away from me.
I see them go.
I stay in character.
I do that smart thing...grab the glasses!!
I hand them back to Chris in character with an "OOpsies!"
...and continue on like normal.


York, PA...hope you're enjoying the broom Rock of Ages left you! We missed it in Providence during "Nothin' But A Good Time" opening night! tee hee!


Opening Night After Party Photos: