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This post covers Monday and Tuesday.
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MONDAY
Travel day! I was up early for breakfast, packing, messing around online, writing a rant. The usual.
We were flying Southwest this week, and they must have put "Beauty and the Beast" somewhere on our flight booking because the guy who took my luggage pointed to my show tag (I have four different show tags but he pointed to the right one right away) and asked what I do in the show.
"I play the trombone!" I said with a smile.
This absolutely blew this guy's mind. He gaped at me for a minute and when he'd picked his jaw up off the floor, said, "Really? You? I mean...I've never heard of a woman...I've never heard of such a thing!"
I was so surprised by HIS surprise that all I could do was laugh and nod.
When I was younger (the 90s and 2000s) such strong reactions to this information was more common. Over the years more and more women have taken up the trombone, and although some people still exclaim over it, it's been a while since anyone has been flabbergasted like this guy was. He was legitimately fascinated and asked how I'd gotten into the trombone, and whether it had been hard for me (as a woman.) I answered honestly and as succinctly as I could, but then had to move on because, you know, airport. He was very polite, I wasn't offended or anything. His strong reaction was just surprising and amusing. I suppose I'm glad he learned something new! lol.
It was a very short flight from KC to Nashville. The hotel has full-sized fridges and stovetops. We've got a lot of 2-week sits coming up...perhaps it's time to finally fire up my Instant Pot!!!
But for now, dropping luggage and getting groceries. First to Publix because I needed, er, Lady Things, and then to a little co-op called Turnip Truck which was ok but I didn't see anything particularly local to pick up. I did get a tofu banh mi and wolfed it down, then on to Whole Paycheck just a few blocks away to get the majority of my groceries for the week.
Back at the hotel the usual, unpacking, settling in, pajamas and bed.
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TUESDAY
Our call time was not until 5:30 so it was a slow day for me. Explored hotel breakfast and it's very good, lots of nice fruit and nuts and eggs for me to steal :p
Breakfast, working on Foodie Finds, trying to make arrangements for getting a tuxedo jacket for Candlelight, and going for a short walk in the lovely sunny mid-60s (18s) on the pretense of seeing if Walgreens had any discounted Halloween candy (they didn't) but actually just to get some fresh air. I found a place with chai spice bagels and got some of those.
Killed more time finishing a Neal Stephenson novella, eating lunch, and doing some meal planning around the hot chicken sandwich I wanna eat tomorrow.
The band was invited to come to the theater earlier than usual, so even though our show is not until 8pm I did head over early so I could explore. Our logo truck is parked across the street from the theater. The sun was setting as I arrived; I liked how it looked in this lighting.
This is a new theater for me. It's a bit maze-like, and weirdly the pit is at stage level somehow but our dressing room was a floor below in the basement. Unusual! It's a nice modern building, lots of bottle fillers everywhere and actually enough bathrooms for once. Yay!
After my usual find-my-trunk and grabbing things out of it, I found company management to get an opening day piece of candy, then found the pit. It's very big and we have much more room than last week.
After sound check, a quick dinner. I was glad I'd packed since we went into overtime on sound check. It was certainly a full moon tonight because lots of things went pear-shaped with our show tonight. First we started the show late because they were trying to get Maurice's invention to work..I swear, that thing is a little TOO MUCH like the one in the movie, barely working half the time! Finally they announced to the audience that the prop in that scene would not work, use your imagination, and on we went with the show.
Everything was plugging along pretty well, but then something happened with the transformation scene and we had to hold just as it was starting. Between the two holds the show ran exceptionally late. I didn't get back to the hotel until around 11:30. Sometimes it happens...but it does seem to happen consistently at specific parts of the show. I hope we can go back to having fewer holds and disruptions. For now let's blame the lovely full moon that was lighting up the streets of Nashville like a silvery, ethereal beacon.
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Wednesday: I have a consultation in the morning about getting a tux jacket made/fitted, then I wanna go get hot chicken! Might do a little exploring or save it for Thursday, haven't decided yet. Another two episodes of Hazbin Hotel Season 2 will drop. One evening show.
Thursday: No plans except maybe some exploring and one evening show.
This post covers Monday and Tuesday.
--- --- --- --- --- ---
MONDAY
Travel day! I was up early for breakfast, packing, messing around online, writing a rant. The usual.
We were flying Southwest this week, and they must have put "Beauty and the Beast" somewhere on our flight booking because the guy who took my luggage pointed to my show tag (I have four different show tags but he pointed to the right one right away) and asked what I do in the show.
"I play the trombone!" I said with a smile.
This absolutely blew this guy's mind. He gaped at me for a minute and when he'd picked his jaw up off the floor, said, "Really? You? I mean...I've never heard of a woman...I've never heard of such a thing!"
I was so surprised by HIS surprise that all I could do was laugh and nod.
When I was younger (the 90s and 2000s) such strong reactions to this information was more common. Over the years more and more women have taken up the trombone, and although some people still exclaim over it, it's been a while since anyone has been flabbergasted like this guy was. He was legitimately fascinated and asked how I'd gotten into the trombone, and whether it had been hard for me (as a woman.) I answered honestly and as succinctly as I could, but then had to move on because, you know, airport. He was very polite, I wasn't offended or anything. His strong reaction was just surprising and amusing. I suppose I'm glad he learned something new! lol.
It was a very short flight from KC to Nashville. The hotel has full-sized fridges and stovetops. We've got a lot of 2-week sits coming up...perhaps it's time to finally fire up my Instant Pot!!!
But for now, dropping luggage and getting groceries. First to Publix because I needed, er, Lady Things, and then to a little co-op called Turnip Truck which was ok but I didn't see anything particularly local to pick up. I did get a tofu banh mi and wolfed it down, then on to Whole Paycheck just a few blocks away to get the majority of my groceries for the week.
Back at the hotel the usual, unpacking, settling in, pajamas and bed.
---------------------------------------------------------------
TUESDAY
Our call time was not until 5:30 so it was a slow day for me. Explored hotel breakfast and it's very good, lots of nice fruit and nuts and eggs for me to steal :p
Breakfast, working on Foodie Finds, trying to make arrangements for getting a tuxedo jacket for Candlelight, and going for a short walk in the lovely sunny mid-60s (18s) on the pretense of seeing if Walgreens had any discounted Halloween candy (they didn't) but actually just to get some fresh air. I found a place with chai spice bagels and got some of those.
Killed more time finishing a Neal Stephenson novella, eating lunch, and doing some meal planning around the hot chicken sandwich I wanna eat tomorrow.
The band was invited to come to the theater earlier than usual, so even though our show is not until 8pm I did head over early so I could explore. Our logo truck is parked across the street from the theater. The sun was setting as I arrived; I liked how it looked in this lighting.
This is a new theater for me. It's a bit maze-like, and weirdly the pit is at stage level somehow but our dressing room was a floor below in the basement. Unusual! It's a nice modern building, lots of bottle fillers everywhere and actually enough bathrooms for once. Yay!
After my usual find-my-trunk and grabbing things out of it, I found company management to get an opening day piece of candy, then found the pit. It's very big and we have much more room than last week.
After sound check, a quick dinner. I was glad I'd packed since we went into overtime on sound check. It was certainly a full moon tonight because lots of things went pear-shaped with our show tonight. First we started the show late because they were trying to get Maurice's invention to work..I swear, that thing is a little TOO MUCH like the one in the movie, barely working half the time! Finally they announced to the audience that the prop in that scene would not work, use your imagination, and on we went with the show.
Everything was plugging along pretty well, but then something happened with the transformation scene and we had to hold just as it was starting. Between the two holds the show ran exceptionally late. I didn't get back to the hotel until around 11:30. Sometimes it happens...but it does seem to happen consistently at specific parts of the show. I hope we can go back to having fewer holds and disruptions. For now let's blame the lovely full moon that was lighting up the streets of Nashville like a silvery, ethereal beacon.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday: I have a consultation in the morning about getting a tux jacket made/fitted, then I wanna go get hot chicken! Might do a little exploring or save it for Thursday, haven't decided yet. Another two episodes of Hazbin Hotel Season 2 will drop. One evening show.
Thursday: No plans except maybe some exploring and one evening show.
