Our adventure is well underway. We’ve traveled 1,200 miles to the Midwest with the cast of “Little House on the Prairie, The Musical.” They had a preview performance last night at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Mn, and the opening night show with a cast party afterwards is on tap for tonight.
The Ordway is a beautiful venue for performances, the cast tells us. Our granddaughter, Taylor Bera, has a huge dressing room that she shares with Carly Rose Sonenclar, who is the regular Carrie in the play. Taylor is her understudy besides appearing with the ensemble and as Ruby, one of the Brewster school children. Taylor’s bright face seems in be there in most of scenes. There’s a picture of the dressing room in the slideshow of pictures found at:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/creativeapps/slideShow/Main.jsp?token=634147128703%3A2107805754
Everything connected with the show had been packed up after it closed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, last Saturday night and was here when we arrived on Monday evening. We were surprised to learn that included the stage floor used at Paper Mill. It’s a linoleum-type flooring that comes in sections and already has the markings needed to tell the actors were scenery needs to be located and other markings to guide them through the show. They lay the flooring on top of the regular stage. At the end of the two-weeks here, they pick it up and take it to Nashville, our next stop.
It’s cold in the 30s, but, comfortable in St. Paul where the Ordway is located and where we are staying. The snow came and mostly went before Helen and I arrived. Our daughter, Kelly, Taylor’s mom, arrived some hours later because her flight from Newark was delayed by the Midwest storms and the need to get a new crew for her flight. Taylor’s father, Joe, arrived last night. They’ll be here a few days before heading back to New Jersey.
Not much else to report at this point. The school kids (Taylor is one of 3) are locked in a pretty tight schedule. Five hours of school a day—Tuesday through Friday—with one performance each night, then on the weekends-a matinee and evening performance on Saturday and Sunday. They get a school break next Wednesday when they go on a field trip. We’re lucky because we get to go too.
So far, Taylor says she’s having the time of her life while big sister, Maggie, at home is preparing for her opening night this Saturday as the third sister, Chava, in “Fiddler on the Roof,” at Main Street Theater. That play runs for the next three weekends and it’s the first of Maggie’s show that Helen and I will miss. We did get to see some of her rehearsals and will have to be content with only the DVD versions this time.
The Ordway is a beautiful venue for performances, the cast tells us. Our granddaughter, Taylor Bera, has a huge dressing room that she shares with Carly Rose Sonenclar, who is the regular Carrie in the play. Taylor is her understudy besides appearing with the ensemble and as Ruby, one of the Brewster school children. Taylor’s bright face seems in be there in most of scenes. There’s a picture of the dressing room in the slideshow of pictures found at:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/creativeapps/slideShow/Main.jsp?token=634147128703%3A2107805754
Everything connected with the show had been packed up after it closed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, last Saturday night and was here when we arrived on Monday evening. We were surprised to learn that included the stage floor used at Paper Mill. It’s a linoleum-type flooring that comes in sections and already has the markings needed to tell the actors were scenery needs to be located and other markings to guide them through the show. They lay the flooring on top of the regular stage. At the end of the two-weeks here, they pick it up and take it to Nashville, our next stop.
It’s cold in the 30s, but, comfortable in St. Paul where the Ordway is located and where we are staying. The snow came and mostly went before Helen and I arrived. Our daughter, Kelly, Taylor’s mom, arrived some hours later because her flight from Newark was delayed by the Midwest storms and the need to get a new crew for her flight. Taylor’s father, Joe, arrived last night. They’ll be here a few days before heading back to New Jersey.
Not much else to report at this point. The school kids (Taylor is one of 3) are locked in a pretty tight schedule. Five hours of school a day—Tuesday through Friday—with one performance each night, then on the weekends-a matinee and evening performance on Saturday and Sunday. They get a school break next Wednesday when they go on a field trip. We’re lucky because we get to go too.
So far, Taylor says she’s having the time of her life while big sister, Maggie, at home is preparing for her opening night this Saturday as the third sister, Chava, in “Fiddler on the Roof,” at Main Street Theater. That play runs for the next three weekends and it’s the first of Maggie’s show that Helen and I will miss. We did get to see some of her rehearsals and will have to be content with only the DVD versions this time.
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