Visiting Palmetto

So I spent a few weeks in Palmetto, Florida where my company has their warehouses. I was there to help out Mickey's Magic Show.

Here's what the warehouse looks like:
Here's some of the train cars from the circus:

Here's the inside of the costume warehouse, it's so amazing to walk around and see all the costumes from the circus and ice shows!OOOPS! I've been caught looking by Sully and his boss, Henry J. Waternoose from Monsters Inc.

In other news, I start rehearsals for my show on August 7th in Lakeland, Florida. Also, since this year I will touring the United States I have joined the union. The union I now belong to is called IATSE. It stands for International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Yay for my union card!

High School Reunion

It's been 10 years now since I graduated high school.

I was lucky enough to go to my reunion, which was AWESOME.

It was held at the Hard Rock Hotel, it was like a fun cocktail party with open bar. Left to right: Sharon (Brender) Procopio, Brian Nolan, Jenn Lane, Mike Procopio, Karen Lane

Me and Brian Nolan

Between my favorite twins: Karen Lane and Jenn Lane

Me and Sharon (Brender) Procopio

Shaun Carloss and myself

Wish I had taken more photos, but maybe I'll be able to steal some from friends.

Closing Party

As the Winnie the Pooh 2007-2008 tour season comes to an end,
we had a closing party. Here are pictures.

Here are the Japanese girls, left to right: Keiko, Yuka, Izumi, and Shioko.

The cast takes a photo.

Me and my stage right performers have a sassy pose togheter.

Here I am with Dave, he makes me laugh a lot.

Here I am with Keiko.
The reason why my face looks so funny is because I had started crying.
Keiko and I have been on the show together for two and half years.
Now that the show is going to the states, Keiko cannot come because she is Japanese.
Damn us and our work visas!
I'll miss you Keiko!!!

Steven, Keiko,and Jason all won awards at the party.
Steven for Drama Queen, Keiko for Friend Forever,
and Jason got the Potential Management award.

Here I am with "B".
He recently became a Daddy and is leaving tour life.

Here I am with Mitch Matsunaga.
He used to be our company manager for the last two years,
but got a promotion and just came to visit us.

Here I am with Joey.
After 16 years on the road, Joey is finally retiring from touring life!

Here I am with the British Boys.
Anthony on the left, Bradley on the right.
Here's Matt Nall and I.

Crew girls! Left to right: Jessi, Michelle, myself, and Krista.

Sofia, Bulgaria

I was only in Sofia, Bulgaria for six days, and I hated it. The people are rude and they hate Americans. Case in point:

Yeah, that was spray painted all over the place. Now, I don't like Bush, but this is a little excessive.

During load-in and load-out the locals that are hired to help us load and unload the trucks were really mean and rude to all of the female techs on the show. There is only four of us, Michelle, Krista, Jessi, and myself. Load out took from 7:30 pm to 2:00 am the next morning. It was really miserable for all involved. . . but I earned my first load-out beer. (That's my boss, Andy, looking over my shoulder.)

Kosice, Slavakia

Arrived in Bulgaria on late Monday afternoon with a wicked headache that has still not gone away as of Wednesday morning. Can't promise I'll get out to see Sofia, Bulgaria, as my head hurts so much I just want to lay in bed with an eye mask on.

Here are some pictures of Kosice, Slovakia. I must say, I was thoroughly impressed with both cities that I visited.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Bratislava, famous in such movies as EuroTrip and Hostel. . . . is nothing like it is depicted in those movies. Bratislava is really nice. Their old town area is really picturesque and really lovely to walk around in. The weather is a nice dry heat, and it felt really good. They also have many quirky statues out and about, and a castle of their very own.

Busy busy

We've been super busy the last couple of weeks. The show schedules have been crazy, not to mention rehearsals in upcoming languages.

The next six weeks will be even more hectic as we will switch countries and languages every other week. I can't promise constant updates, I'm getting burned out by the constant working. We're at the part in the tour where everything is breaking or needs work. I had to give Eeyore a bath last week and it took me all day, he's a big donkey and didn't want one.

In other news, tickets for the show for our upcoming U.S. tour have gone on sale. You can check out ticketmaster.com and see where we're playing.

Paris: Day Two, Part Two

After a quick lunch, I headed back into the city after visiting Versailles.

I hit my next stop, the Musee d'Orsay.
They let you take photos in museums without your flash in Paris!

Monet's Water Lilies

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Wish you were here Mom!!!
(Growing up, my Mom had a print of this painting hanging above the couch in the family room.)
A famous Vincent Van Gogh self portrait.

Sorry Mom, they only have one Gustav Klimt's paintings:
After I tour the museum, I head back to the Eiffel Tower to see if I can go up.

However, the lines are really long, and I choose to have dinner instead.

Here's a pay public toilet. It's self-cleaning. . . convenient!