What a rag-tag motley crew we are in the lobby of this posh hotel. A long drive
has ground down our prettiest angles to a weary lumpiness.
I think I have pillow creases on my forehead and Dean and Chris have surely smelled better.
Fluffing my oh-so-Audrey green coat I smile brightly at the receptionist. Yes please, we would like the key to the mini-bar.
Inside my room I melt into the king-size bed.
No world for Slean tonight. Go lads, frolic. I need the crossword and a bathrobe.
Tomorrow night is going to require power. Me and my battery have to discuss things.
The band sets out in search of Thai food. I am asleep at 8 o'clock.
After a few press things in the lobby the next day I'm off to sound check.
(The mighty glorious Winspear in Edmonton)
Holy Sweet Heaven, was the Winspear this large when I opened for Rufus in July?
... battery blinking, sputtering nervously.
The piano is heart-breakingly lovely... let me stay here, o universe, in this delicious feeling...
(bunch-a-hooligans)
My musical has to happen on this stage... the tiered balconies, the marvelous acoustics, the breathing, expansiveness of it all! What a room - a room - can do to the imagination.
I don't remember much of this night, I was so electrified.
Thank you Edmonton.
Saskatoon
Sold out Broadway Theatre!
Lovelies. I knew you lived. I knew you were not just figments of my fevered imagination. Thank you for the beautiful night, for the tiny blond boy who dazzled me with his pure, magical precociousness, for the theatre that told us initially "I am old, do what you can" and then quickly /later told us "use me, soar!".
It all depends on you, audience. Thank you for the pretty earrings, the museum tales, the singing,
the suspended disbelief.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=l0RtsIhx3sI
Winnipeg
Burton Cummings Theatre
Darlin, do not forsake me...
come to my arms!... love me as we have loved before..
Do you remember the WCC?
This theatre is full of ghosts. It is cold and hurts and feels empty.
Tell me my mind is mistaken! Send love... and they do...
families arrive in droves. I want to be a farmer.
SS