The Interview!!!!

WOW... WOW - WOW - WOW!!!!

So I have a good one for you guys today!

Ashley and I:

That pic was taken at Mount Rushmore by the way:) fun day ... I'll tell you about it later! This is more important!

So we found out just the other day that Ashley and I were going to do a Live TV interview for a local NBC affiliate station here in Phoenix...

We got picked up at 5:50AM I got like 2 hours of sleep because I was so afraid I was going to miss my alarm, hahah! So anyways we get to the station and are greeted with our coffee orders - I felt so glamorous - I was like "YES I can most def get used to this" haha

So we sit in this green room watching the news live... in the same building as it's being broadcasted... it was a little weird! This lady comes in and is like "you guys are up," so laxidaysicaly "we'll try to play you the clip of the song during a commercial brake" ... We needed the music cause we were gonna teach them the last part of the Choreo: hahah

So we get into this Brand new studio -- Today was there debut show, it's kind of amazing that we got a time slot!!!

All the camera's are on hydraulics and are moving about the studio by themselves - it was kind of crazy!

So I say to this guy ...

"ummm... should we have some sort of mic situation?"

"uhhh oh - yeah"

He starts running!!!! Frantic he's trying to find two portable mics for Ash and I to wear. Meanwhile it's the commercial brake before our segment and no music is happening - then Fay Fredricks:

A very lovely lady, comes over to introduce herself... we're talking and then get yelled at because they were right in the middle of a weather segment!!! hahaha

It was crazy!!! Fay's trying to get the information for the interview, Cameras - like awkward robots are rolling all over the place on there own accord, Ash and I are getting miced:

And then out of nowhere Scott Light is standing right next to me introducing himself:

So we're Talking, Laughing, then all of a sudden Fay starts talking at the camera!!! WE'RE LIVE!!! There was no warning, no 3-2-1... "Well ok - here we go!!!"

... Just ... here's the clip - Watch it and then I'll tell you what was happening on our end:

So here's the deal with the Dancing ... the music was NOT playing in the studio! We couldn't here it, had no clue!!! So that's why I counted off at totally the wrong tempo in the middle of the song!!! AHHHHHH hahah - It came on at the end, the last jump kicks were Ash and I are kicking our faces, that's all we heard of that music and were finally together for like 2 1/2 kicks...

So they cut and that was it! Fay and Scott said thanks and ran off to do another segment while we just escorted ourselves out and came back to the hotel ... we left laughing / in a state of shock - not really knowing what just happened...

Some things I love from the vid:

A) I look like a legal midget on TV!!!

B) What was with the Politzer Prize comment?

C) Apparently Scott made a sports reference after the pulled hammies comment ... tots went right over my head!!! (thank you Stephanie for pointing that out!)

D) Scott Ducking out at the last minute killed me - I was laughing so hard / but couldn't touch on it cause I was freaking out about how we were all off!!!!!

E) THEY ARE THROWING $3,000 HATS!!!!!

Such a funny morning! I talked to our PR guy Andrew afterward and he said it wasn't as crazy as it felt and he was happy with it... so all is good:)

Hope it made you smile cause i'm dying - hahahahahaha :)

Summer!!! In January???

So From the Vail ... were it will be 7 Degrees tomorrow... (BAAAAAAAH so glad we're not there!!!) We bumped on over to Palm Dessert CA!!

It was basically a 12 hour travel day with a 3 hour break... We bussed from the mountain to the heart of downtown Denver ... the hustle and bustle of the City made me miss NY so much!!! I felt rejuvenated even tho it was only a short trip!

I called my friend Chris Rowen, cause she's lived in Denver for a while. She said we had to go to Larimer Square:

I am so glad we went, the Square is so cute!!! Lots of really fun independent shops and some amazing restaurants!!! We had the most amazing happy hour at Tag because of Miss Rowens Raving recommendation!!! Heres the link to there web-sight:

http://tag-restaurant.com/

I had a drink called "An Honest Mistake" It's name should be changed to: "The Perfect Choice" after two I felt so happy, chatty and ready for the rest of our travel day!

On the way back to the bus we stopped by the Tattered Cover Book Store - it was amazing: a 3 story locally owned book shop! So fun!!! We probs could have spent 5 hours in there but we only could allow for 10 mins... We basically had to drag grandpa Hardy out of the store, hahaha

From Downtown we went to the airport - thankfully Julia and I finagled our way into sitting next to eachother and laughed the whole flight!!!

Another bus was waiting for us after got all of our bags... the funniest part of the day was seeing our own bus in the parking lot of the hotel when we pulled in ... Uncle Wayne is amazing!!! he tots beat us!!!

The next morning was once of the most surprisingly happy days of my life!!! We are staying at an Embassy Sweets:

I have been sitting Pool Side in my spedo for the past 3 days -- AND IT'S JANUARY!!!! This hotel is amazing I'm so glad we got to stay here!!!

In between shows yesterday we got dropped off at what we were told was a strip mall type place ... I'm thinking oh great - maybe they'll have a footlocker for me to get a new pair of sneaks for running... WRONG! They had stores like Burberry, Juicy Couture, Gucci, Louis Vuitton... I thought about getting a pair of Gucci running shoes but just couldn't justify it... hahaha jokes - jokes! We found this cute little outside grassy knoll with some amazing statues that we just couldn't pass up recreating!!! This the sculpture:

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People were staring / laughing ... I don't really know why! We were behaving so well!!! haha

Today before the show - because it was so nice out - we decided to warm up outside. It was pandemonium!!!

Ok ... it's like a sensible... worm outside... like low 70's in the direct sun so we're all half naked, just living outside - doing our stretches, our crunches, our dance parties ... and oh yeah I forgot we were on the front lawn - so as the audience was rollin in they were getting another kind of show...

Erica ... God bless that girl she beats to her own drum!!! Comes out in this:

She is such and mess and that's why we love her!!! As the warm up progressed things got weirder and weirder:

I look up from a Michael Bennet Lunge and see this:

Yep at this point people are honking and yelling... then Ryan (the base) has this brilliant idea... here's the process:

It was quite eventful!!! :)

Tomorrow... well today we go to the Phoenix area:) I'm so excited to see some of my ABT friends:)

Peace and blessins!

P

Elevation = 11,440

Yes!!!! We had to perform in Beaver Creek colorado were the elevation was 11 thousand 4 hundred and 40 feet!!!! Full out no marking - DANCE!!!!

So I have to back up a little bit cause the hole day was eventful! As of the last post our bus was out of commission... Well it was fixed and all ready to go in the morning! So when we all hopped on at 7AM everything was fine... I wake up at 8AM to someone yelling at me to move my legs witch pissed me off! I then realize, oh so quickly, that I am sweating profusely!!! I reach up to turn on my vent... you know maybe it's just the sun ... NOTHING COMES OUT!!!

The hole right side of the bus's vents had stopped working and the Left side was only blowing Hot air from the engine ... At the front of the bus it was 91 Degrees ... so I'm sure at the back of the bus, were it's really crowded, was roastin at a NOT sensible 100 at least!!! There was so much commotion!!! Everyone was awake and complaining and starting to get REALLY agitated!!!

Jack decided to just turn off the air all together in an attempt to stop the heat blowing ... so sleeping / doing anything really, was not an option. All I could do was sit with my arms propped up so that my pits wouldn't water!!! Every once in a wile The vents would kick in and everyone would gasp and reach up to see if cold air was blowing out:

Unfortunately our wishes never came true! It was always nasty hot air!!! By the time we got to the lunch stop the majority of us was wearing very little clothing!!!

Post lunch they figured out a way to make it bearable.

So we're climin the mountain, witch was beautiful!!! Wild goats running around the rocks - it really was another amazing drive... Visually!!! The problem was as we kept getting higher the less I was able to breathe and all we were doing was sitting on the bus!!! I was like ... how am I going to dance???

We arrive at the hotel and just walking down the hall makes me winded and light headed ... we chill for a while - get back on the bus to go to the venue and start going further up the hill -- "NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING WANE??"

We walk into the theatre, Great facility, The resort was amazing - SO much money!!!

And at the company meeting we got the best news of all!!! They had:

YES!!!!!! They told us that after we get ready we should sit with the oxygen tank for about 5 mins and our breathing would be like it is at sea level for one hour... so I change real fast and get ready and go sit with the tank:

Yeah... excuse my language but that tank was Bullshit!!! It didn't help me at all - I was dying!!! Regardless we all got thru it! The Venue was so small it was great, we really got to feel the audience and they were loving it!!! Afterword we did a little meet and greet and got to talk to some of the beneficiaries of the theatre and they said they couldn't tell at all that we were struggling, so that's good!

We're in Palm Desert California now and I'm so thankful for 2 reasons: it's at sea level and it's worm!!! We've been laying out by the pool every morning I can't handle it!!! It's January and I'm wearing a spedo!!! Who does that? I love it!!! hahaha

HAVE to go to bed and get that Free breakfast!!! and it's 2:40AM :( Stay tuned! I'll talk to everyone later:)

P

Random Day!!!

Hello Friends:)

Today we woke up to a text from our company manager saying: "Morning! Bus engine troubles. Pay front desk by 9:15am, but remain in your rooms until further notice."

I was like hell no -- I aint waitin in my room! I'm gonna go get some breakfast!!! So we went to Stella's on the corner:

Ziggy (the man in the pic) greeted us as we walked in - so cute! :) Stay tuned for more on stella's I have to show you the pic of the Giant Cinnamon Roll that was consumed!!!

So we were suppose to leave at 9:30am and arrive in Casper Wyoming at 2:00pm we ended up leaving at 11:00am - and arriving at 3:45pm... Julia and I were secretly hoping that we would remain stranded in Billings but we think we jinxed by talking about it so much... hahaha

The drive from Billings to Casper was spectacular tho!!! First of all it amazed me that for the entire ride every time I looked out the front of the bus there was never more than 2 vehicles ahead of us!!! The land was gorge!!! Everything was covered in wind swept snow, it was so beautiful!!! I found some pics on google that don't really do it justice but this is what we got to look at for 5 hours:)

For some reason they love a fence like this??

Even tho we didn't get an impromptu day off it turned out to be a very relaxing, stunning drive:)

Love you all - see you soon!

P

Press...

Hey Y'all so I've been MIA because I didn't have my computer --- now that's it's back, I'm back in the game!!!

Now All of this Press stuff - phone interviews, radio interviews, TV interviews (live / prerecorded) are all new to me!!! This is the first time that I've been playing a significant part... I mean let's be honest no one wants to hear from the Basketball Hoop!!!

Anyway a couple weeks ago I did my first Phone interview ... it was for a newspaper in Scranton:

http://the570.com/arts/the-other-stories-1.1048292

She didn't fully quote me correctly on some things ... but ... there you go:)

Today Rylyn, Ryan, Ashley and I did a TV interview at the theatre. It was prerecorded so luckily we didn't have to be at the studio at 5:30am - Thank the lord!!! It was so weird I was totally fine!!! Ashley and I were sitting in the lobby waiting, laughing, not really preparing anything. When we got in the room the lady from ABC talked to us a little bit, still fine, laughing. The camera started rolling she said "one - two - three" By 3 my mouth was completely dry and my mind completely blank!!! I was like WAIT "What's my name?" Stupid!!!! I don't know why I got so nervous??? I think my lips were quivering cause I didn't know weather to smile or not... Just Foolish!!! Ashley said that she had no idea that I was so nervous and seemed normal... It airs tomorrow so we'll have to see for ourselves!!! If it was shot in HD I'm screwed!!!

If I don't look a total fool I'll post it...

Yale

Today was our day off ... This morning a few of us went to go get some much needed coffee and being that we're in the middle of the Yale Campus we ended up going for a little walk... It's quite Gorges:

The campus actually really reminds me of Hogwarts - you know - the school that Harry Potter goes to (hahahaha i'm such a geek!!!)

Right!!! Well the First picture doesn't really do the likeness justice!!! When you are walking the streets you notice it more... Shortly after the walk began it ended due to the fact that there was absolutely nothing to do... google wasn't really giving us any good answers with things to do so we went back to the Hotel and then went to see:

It was SO INTENSE!!!! Surprisingly everyone was REALLY good!!! Even Miss, Lively she definitely upped the antie!!! :) After the movie I came back to the hotel to enjoy a sensibly quiet evening of relaxation before tomorrows 12 hour day!!! (Oh Lordy)

Love you all - talk to you soon:)

P

Tech

Hello Everyone:)

So here's a quick little update on how things are going...

So that's almost everyone in the cast... this was taken on the day that we left NYC (Oh how i'm gonna miss you --- especially the most sensible: Bacon Egg and Swiss on an Everything beagle)

I love the cast so much!!! Everyone is so talented it's pretty amazing:)

We Arrived here in New Haven yesterday... it's quite the interesting town... We have tomorrow off and then we are Teching from 11:00AM - 11:00PM everyday next week! They call it "Hell Week" for a reason -- it's grueling!!! The thing that I love is that because we're on stage for the entire show! We have no choice but to help each other through it and support one another witch is nice:)

Once we open and start touring i'm sure that there are going to be a lot of amazing stories to be told and videos to be viewed:) If we're coming to a town near you ... you like tots should come and see the show!!! ;) Go to achorusline.com for a complete tour schedule:)

Hope to see you soon and stay tuned!!!!