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My Fair Lady - NOLA part 1
Jan. 11th, 2024 11:04 amI slept for as long as I could...which wasn't very long, but that's ok. In an unfamiliar place it sometimes takes a while to get a good sleep.
The sun was shining and it was a nice day, but I was SO VERY MUCH recuperating from Monday and Tuesday.
I stayed in pajamas, ate breakfast, and then spent most of the afternoon documenting the bizarre, horrible, stressful, terrifying travel day. Writing it all out was surprisingly hard to do--I actually felt a little nauseous while describing the attempted NOLA landing--but it also helped to get it off of my chest, unload my emotions about it, so that hopefully I can move forward and enjoy returning to tour and this run of My Fair Lady in New Orleans.
After all that happened, we DID do a show that same night! We had a sound check at 5pm. I was exhausted from almost no sleep, the stress of the flights, and five hours of driving, and my head was all stuffed up, so it was very hard to smile and greet everyone and engage in the expected social reaquainting, i.e. "How were your holidays?" and "I heard about the flight!" and all that. I WANTED to engage and connect, but everything in me was so flatline and dead.
I brought dinner with me to the theatre so I wouldn't have to walk back to the hotel, even though it was only a few blocks away. Not today, I just needed some quiet and to recharge my battery before doing a show. I had bought a veggie-based sushi wrap (tuna, salmon, but instead of rice there was rice paper stuffed with carrots, lettuce, bean sprouts, and avocado) that I hoped would give me what I needed.
The show went "ok", but it was clear that I wasn't the only one completely exhausted and not running at 100%. We also have a substitute cellist because ours got into a car accident and broke her hand (she's ok and will be able to return but needs healing time.) The woman playing the show with us has played it before, her name is Katie. The problem was that she had to use our regular cellist's cello! Each person's instrument is different, and this particular cello is unusual, it's made of carbon fiber! Of course that was a big adjustment, and I think that showed a little. If I had to play someone else's trombone it would DEFINITELY not sound as good as my normal playing!
Katie did an amazing job, and I got through it as best I could lol.
I had never been so grateful to collapse into bed.
Anyway, back to Wednesday. After breakfast and typing up the Trip From Heck I went out for a few things at CVS, then popped into a restaurant called The Daily Beet for something full of healthy, nourishing stuffs. They had a bowl called the Wellness Bowl which had dark leafy greens, wild rice, roasted sweet potato (not much of that was apparent sadly), walnuts, goat cheese, grapes, currants, and a balsamic dressing. It was very good and much needed.
I was still feeling overall tired not just from the travel but from being sick, so stayed in the hotel for the rest of the day watching Gundam Wing and taking a light nap.
Before the evening show was a company-wide meeting which was "optional...but you are all strongly encouraged to attend." It was only a few minutes and basically to tell us that the show has recouped!! (They recouped their initial investment and this means we will receive overages as the tour continues on.) Yay!
The second show went "ok," but I made some rather obvious mistakes, and then a setpiece lost power partway through the show resulting in a 15-minute-or-so hold which was pretty awkward. But we were able to finish the show, which was great!
I went straight to bed again. Still sick but getting better.
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It's Thursday and I haven't done much worth writing about, so will leave it at that.
Today our new toilets are getting installed at Jameson's house, so I'm kinda waiting for that to be done so I can pay for it! Then I want to eat lunch at Breads on Oak, one of my favorite restaurants in NOLA, and walk around and get some exercise before tonight's show.
More to come for the Monday post. By then hopefully I'll have my soul back in my body, and be ready to actually Be On Tour.
The sun was shining and it was a nice day, but I was SO VERY MUCH recuperating from Monday and Tuesday.
I stayed in pajamas, ate breakfast, and then spent most of the afternoon documenting the bizarre, horrible, stressful, terrifying travel day. Writing it all out was surprisingly hard to do--I actually felt a little nauseous while describing the attempted NOLA landing--but it also helped to get it off of my chest, unload my emotions about it, so that hopefully I can move forward and enjoy returning to tour and this run of My Fair Lady in New Orleans.
After all that happened, we DID do a show that same night! We had a sound check at 5pm. I was exhausted from almost no sleep, the stress of the flights, and five hours of driving, and my head was all stuffed up, so it was very hard to smile and greet everyone and engage in the expected social reaquainting, i.e. "How were your holidays?" and "I heard about the flight!" and all that. I WANTED to engage and connect, but everything in me was so flatline and dead.
I brought dinner with me to the theatre so I wouldn't have to walk back to the hotel, even though it was only a few blocks away. Not today, I just needed some quiet and to recharge my battery before doing a show. I had bought a veggie-based sushi wrap (tuna, salmon, but instead of rice there was rice paper stuffed with carrots, lettuce, bean sprouts, and avocado) that I hoped would give me what I needed.
The show went "ok", but it was clear that I wasn't the only one completely exhausted and not running at 100%. We also have a substitute cellist because ours got into a car accident and broke her hand (she's ok and will be able to return but needs healing time.) The woman playing the show with us has played it before, her name is Katie. The problem was that she had to use our regular cellist's cello! Each person's instrument is different, and this particular cello is unusual, it's made of carbon fiber! Of course that was a big adjustment, and I think that showed a little. If I had to play someone else's trombone it would DEFINITELY not sound as good as my normal playing!
Katie did an amazing job, and I got through it as best I could lol.
I had never been so grateful to collapse into bed.
Anyway, back to Wednesday. After breakfast and typing up the Trip From Heck I went out for a few things at CVS, then popped into a restaurant called The Daily Beet for something full of healthy, nourishing stuffs. They had a bowl called the Wellness Bowl which had dark leafy greens, wild rice, roasted sweet potato (not much of that was apparent sadly), walnuts, goat cheese, grapes, currants, and a balsamic dressing. It was very good and much needed.
I was still feeling overall tired not just from the travel but from being sick, so stayed in the hotel for the rest of the day watching Gundam Wing and taking a light nap.
Before the evening show was a company-wide meeting which was "optional...but you are all strongly encouraged to attend." It was only a few minutes and basically to tell us that the show has recouped!! (They recouped their initial investment and this means we will receive overages as the tour continues on.) Yay!
The second show went "ok," but I made some rather obvious mistakes, and then a setpiece lost power partway through the show resulting in a 15-minute-or-so hold which was pretty awkward. But we were able to finish the show, which was great!
I went straight to bed again. Still sick but getting better.
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It's Thursday and I haven't done much worth writing about, so will leave it at that.
Today our new toilets are getting installed at Jameson's house, so I'm kinda waiting for that to be done so I can pay for it! Then I want to eat lunch at Breads on Oak, one of my favorite restaurants in NOLA, and walk around and get some exercise before tonight's show.
More to come for the Monday post. By then hopefully I'll have my soul back in my body, and be ready to actually Be On Tour.
