Sing-A-Long

One of the greatest inventions has to be the sing-a-long musical!!! Tonight I was invited to join some of my friends at the Mamma Mia movie Sing-A-Long. IT WAS SOOOO MUCH FUN!!! The words to the songs were printed at the bottom of the screen. We sang our hearts out!

One favorite moment was when the first song started and we all started singing a long and the two ladies sitting by us, moved away to the end of the row. I wanted ask them if they read their ticket where it said "Sing-A-Long". My other favorite part was when Megan and I belted out the song "The Winner Takes It All" we sounded awesome!!! Such an incredibly fun movie and it was more fun singing along with everyone in the theater. After the movie was over a couple that was sitting in front of us said, "you guys sounded like you were having fun." We said we did and we hope we didn't annoy them. She said it was her 5th time seeing it and her husbands 3rd time so they loved that we sang a long and had fun. They had fun too!!

We asked one of the theater workers to take this picture of us on my cell phone outside the movie theater. We were in theater 9. From left to right it's Me, Stephanie, Megan, Mandee and Laren. Right after this picture was taken one of the employees who were cleaning the theater decided to bolt out the door and knocked into us. And when I say knocked into us I mean knocked into Stephanie and when I say knocked into Stephanie, I mean about killed Stephanie. Steph, I hope you feel better and your won't bruise too much. It looked like it hurt.

I love girls night out and this one was a night to never forget. Thank you my dear friends for inviting me!! It was one of the best nights!!! Thanks!!! Let's do it again!!

Big the Musical

I had the pleasure of seeing Big the Musical at Hale Centre Theatre Saturday afternoon. I liked it better then I thought I would. I didn't go in with low expectations but I just thought it would be an ok show. I enjoyed myself a lot. It was really fun to see all that they did with the stage. The trampoline was fun! I was nervous when he first jumped on it. I got more nervous when he slipped on his way to the couch! The dancing on the piano was impressive!!

My only complaint was the improv of the teenagers. There were times when their improv was louder than the dialogue so I missed some lines. It was a lot of fun to see Kate and her many wigs. Thanks for framing your face!! It worked!!! And thanks for singing 9 to 5!! You did a fabulous job!!!! As always!!!

If you get a chance, go see Big the Musical. It's a lot of fun!!

In God We Trust

Here's your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on "In God We Trust" to stay on our American currency. Please go the website and vote. Please tell your friends and family and it too!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103424/

Let me know if the link doesn't work.

The poll is in the middle of the article. The article is from 2005 but from what I can see, you can still take the poll. If not, you can see the results.

First Rehearsal

As Dr. Pearlman would say, "I'm...walking on air. This is a sensation that...forget it!" That's how I feel after my first Into The Woods rehearsal. It was incredible. Such a talented cast.

Last night before rehearsal started I was sitting in my chair and all of the sudden someone is hugging me from behind REALLY tight. I turn and it's Kelly DeHaan. He sits down next to me and says, "you have no idea how excited I am that you're here." I told him how excited I was when I got the casting call. He said that my audition was right now. He said it was perfect. Anytime they went down the list of people to cut and so forth, when they'd get to my name they'd say, "we love her, we're keeping her." I felt so honored! You know how I can be unsure of my talent and so forth so that helped A LOT! I love Kelly and I love how caring he is. The love that he has for this show is spreading to each actor.

If anyone is interested I can post a cast list but for those who want to come and see me, I perform in the Monday, Wednesday, Friday cast and I also do the 12:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday's. They do have a few 4 p.m. matinees scheduled during the week near the end of November too. They told us that this is the longest run that they have had because they know it's going to sell out. So get your tickets soon!!

Into The Woods
Hale Centre Theater
October 1 - November 29, 2008

Deep Thought 3

Being poor sucks!

Viva Las Vegas!!

Steph, Megan and I have returned safely from Sin City! We did, however, come home later then we wanted to. We missed our flight on Saturday and the next flight to Salt Lake wasn't until the next morning. Apparently you have to check in 45 minutes before the flight leaves and we checked in 36 minutes. We had to pay the difference between our flight price and this new flight price and it was $150 each! Wowzer!! We also had to pay for another night in our hotel. I have had many people ask me why we didn't just rent a car and drive home, it would have been cheaper. I tell those people "shutup", we didn't think of it. :) That was just one of the many advertures we had.

We were able to go to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton Hotel. It was soooooo much fun! We rode both the rides and went through the museum. We also did the back stage door. I'd tell you about it but we signed a confidentiality form. We came on our trip in the first place so Megan could do the Star Trek Experience so I won't go into too much detail because that was her part of the trip. I'm going to give her a copy of the pictures I took of her with Star Trek creatures so you'll have to hear about that on her blog. So check out her blog to learn more about the Star Trek portion of our vacation. p.s. if any of you have a billion dollars lying around, the Star Trek Experience could use it.

That night went and saw a Cirque Du Solei (however you spell it) show. It was called Le Reve and it was at The Wynn Hotel and Casino. A 5 Star and 5 Diamond Hotel. Very ritsy, very nice! If I had the money I'd stay there! The show was a lot of fun and amazing! The actor/dancer/extremely talented people used muscles I don't think I'll ever use.

Megan and Candice

Stephanie and Candice

Stephanie and Megan

After the show we walked through the hotel and walked through the high end shops. While we were window shopping I came upon my mecha! My store of all stores!! My holy land!! The Manolo Blahnik store!!! (those are shoes for those who don't know). We went in and met the nicest sales lady (with a huge ring on her finger-she's getting married in October). I found a pair of shoes that I fell in love with. And Steph, being the loving friend she is, asked the lady if I could try them on and she let me!!!

My feet have never looked so good!! So after you have fallen in love my feet in these shoes, I will tell you the cost...$685.00. Yup!!! The shoes stayed at the store. Mind you, Megan and Steph had to drag me out of the store, but I certainly enjoyed it. I like nice, pretty things.

Well, I'll stop for now about the trip. I'll write more later after I get more pictures from Megan and Steph. Now back to the real world. Sad.

Lucky?

I went and got measured for my costume for the next show I'm doing. While I was there one of the producers came by. I've known this person for a long time and this person knows me and they have only ever been nothing but nice to me. This person stopped by me and said Hi and then they said "Do you know how lucky you are?" I said, I know, I'm very excited to be a part of this show. I was shocked when I was cast. She said that a lot of people auditioned so I'm very lucky to be in the show, there seemed to be a lot of emphasis on the words "lucky" and "you". I didn't think much of our conversation at that moment but later I got to thinking...was that a compliment? It almost had the sound of "I wanted to cast someone else but they cast you so you're lucky" but I've never known this person to be mean so maybe she just meant that yes I am lucky because a lot of people auditioned and I must have shown something that they wanted so I was cast. Am I over analyzing? I have always asked myself "why did you get cast when people who are more talented than you didn't?" Am I just being down on myself? Am I just lucky?