Rockstar life
aWell, the show is up and going pretty well. However, I've been a little MIA because the internet connection in this hotel is really crappy and fails constantly while I'm in the middle of writing something. It's really frustrating. I have to actually take my laptop and dress in actual clothes and walk down 4 flights of stairs and wander around the hotel until I find a place where the connection is stronger and has a place where I can sit down so I can post blogs or check email or do anything. Needless to say, I've decided to do other things instead...
But that is truly my biggest complaint right now. My friend Ingrid and I were swimming in the casino pool yesterday which is huge and surrounded by 6 jacuzzis and enclosed by the largest glass dome in North America and she looks at me and says “we live the rock star life, for sure...” and she's right. All things told, everything is pretty sweet. Hotel paid for, travel arrangements made for us, access to pools and gyms and restaurants for complimentary meals... The hardest part is remembering how to be a productive member of society and pay my bills and keep up with people I don't see every day and not buy a pile of things I have no use for and can't pack in a suitcase.
The other hard part is not having a car and living in a hotel 8 miles away from the casino and the boardwalk and the ocean. The lack of mobility is a little frustrating as I am dependent on other people with cars – we share a car between the three of us in the wardrobe and wig department – to go anywhere or do anything from buying toothpaste to sight seeing. So I haven't seen much of Atlantic City that I can't see from my office window at the casino. And on my next day off I'm planning to go back into New York to see my friend Deborah, as I didn't get to see her before I left. So Atlantic City will have to wait until my next day off, I think.
I have a lot to say about the show but I'll save that for my next post. As to the people I'm working with, they are a good group. There are a few rotten apples that I prefer not to spend time with but overall, the crew is a great group of smart funny people. A touring show seems to naturally split into 3 groups, the crew, the cast and the band. But with this 7 week “sit down” (the term for a longer show engagement) in AC we've all had a chance to interact at parties and after the show, which is great. So I'm getting to know the cast and the band and finding a few people that I think will be good friends of mine throughout the tour and probably afterwards as well.
How great is my life??
But that is truly my biggest complaint right now. My friend Ingrid and I were swimming in the casino pool yesterday which is huge and surrounded by 6 jacuzzis and enclosed by the largest glass dome in North America and she looks at me and says “we live the rock star life, for sure...” and she's right. All things told, everything is pretty sweet. Hotel paid for, travel arrangements made for us, access to pools and gyms and restaurants for complimentary meals... The hardest part is remembering how to be a productive member of society and pay my bills and keep up with people I don't see every day and not buy a pile of things I have no use for and can't pack in a suitcase.
The other hard part is not having a car and living in a hotel 8 miles away from the casino and the boardwalk and the ocean. The lack of mobility is a little frustrating as I am dependent on other people with cars – we share a car between the three of us in the wardrobe and wig department – to go anywhere or do anything from buying toothpaste to sight seeing. So I haven't seen much of Atlantic City that I can't see from my office window at the casino. And on my next day off I'm planning to go back into New York to see my friend Deborah, as I didn't get to see her before I left. So Atlantic City will have to wait until my next day off, I think.
I have a lot to say about the show but I'll save that for my next post. As to the people I'm working with, they are a good group. There are a few rotten apples that I prefer not to spend time with but overall, the crew is a great group of smart funny people. A touring show seems to naturally split into 3 groups, the crew, the cast and the band. But with this 7 week “sit down” (the term for a longer show engagement) in AC we've all had a chance to interact at parties and after the show, which is great. So I'm getting to know the cast and the band and finding a few people that I think will be good friends of mine throughout the tour and probably afterwards as well.
How great is my life??
posted by KBARRETT at 2:41 PM
1 Comments:
Well, sounds like all that HARD work is paying off!! It is fun to live vicariously through you while I deal with 28 3rd graders, about 5 of whom are pathological. How about a look at your schedule?
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