Back from the Big Apple

Well, our hilarious troop has returned to Anchorage, Alaska, and we had a blast! Let's see... what has happened since my last update?

Okay, we had our second night of performance, and it went really well! I think all of us were a little more relaxed, since we had performed in the same space the night before, and the show was good. I was so grateful, because I really didn't want to fall flat on my face in front of a New York audience! The theater itself had a loud air conditioner, and I was worried that in our effort to remain loud enough for the audience to hear, we would destroy the mood of the play. Luckily, I think we struck the right balance, and it all went very well. One of the judges even stopped Shane on his way out and told him that if it was strictly up to him, the play would be in the finals.

Unfortunately, we were all a little sad when it became apparent that we had not been chosen for the finals. Then came some great, unexpected news. The first show that we had performed was chosen as an alternate for the finals, and we were asked to perform Sunday night! It was such a mixture of emotions for all of us - of course, we would want both shows to be selected, but we had all been so happy to even be a part of the festival. And then one show WAS selected, and we had to get over our sadness of the other show NOT being selected. When all was said and done, we were all thrilled to have a chance to perform in the finals. And of the two shows, this was the play that included the whole cast, so it was certainly a nice send off for our group.

Performing in the finals went really well. We had a chance to improve on the previous performance, and it really was a great time. Apart from participating in the short play festival, we had all sorts of adventures in the city. I'm hoping to compile a bunch of photos to share at a later date... now I'm just trying to get over jet lag and master lines for the next play I'm doing at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska (I leave this Friday for that!).

More updates to soon follow - I hope!

New York Update

While I had a moment, I thought I would quickly send an update on New York so far! We've got one show down, and one more to go! Last night's show went pretty darn well. There seemed to be some fairly good audience response. At this point we know that the show was not chosen for the finals, as we would have had a call from them last night. But really, we felt like just coming and performing was the awesome thing. The building that the theater is in is really cool. However, the theater itself has an air conditioner that is pretty loud, so it makes it a little uncomfortable to act in, as you are always keenly aware of being heard. I'm perhaps a little more nervous about it because we don't get tons of time on the stage, but the group of us performing are pros, so last night seemed to go well in that regard. Here's to hoping tonight goes even better!

On my way to the Big Apple!

Well, it certainly has been an eventful couple of weeks! I've been working during the day and rehearsing for our New York shows and our play for Valdez as well. So blogging has been at a minimum :) But now we are officially on our way to New York! As I write this entry, I'm sitting in the Seattle airport for a brief layover. But by this evening, we'll be in the Big Apple! It's kind of hard to believe...

The past two weekends I was part of the Three Barons Renaissance Fair in Anchorage, and I'll make an effort to put some photos up sometime soon. It really was a lot of fun.

Last night we had an Anchorage performance of the short plays we'll be doing in New York. It was VERY well attended, and we had to add a lot of extra seats. But it was so wonderful having such a friendly audience to send us off. After performing the shows, it finally felt real, that we would be performing these for an audience in New York. Needless to say, it was hard for me to fall asleep last night from anticipation :)

I don't know if I'll have easy access to internet while in New York, but if I don't post from there, I'll definitely post updates once I return. Wish us broken legs!

-Lindsay-

Over 10,000!

Well, I officially have had over 10,000 visits to my blog!!! That's amazing! Here are some of the stats:

• Started tracking: 9/17/2005
• Current average visit length: 1:11
• Current average visits per day: 11
• Of the last 1,000 visits, 73% were from the US, 7% Israel, 4% United Kingdom, 2% Canada, 1% each Australia, Colombia, Italy, and Sweden, and 10% was Unknown.

Of course, I set my counter to ignore my visits, so it wasn't counting lil' ol' me :)

Also, what I think is most impressive is that a great many of you who actually read my blog receive the entries by email (around 60 of you!), and most of you normally don't click on the link at the bottom of the email that takes you to the site. So even though the site counter is not completely reflective of my readership, it still hit 10,000, which I thought was blogworthy. Especially because I don't have kids :) Those kids, they draw the blog world in with their cuteness (they certainly do me!).

So thanks everyone! And blog on!