Don't ask me then...

I can honestly say that I hate something. My Mom & Dad raised me not to "hate" anything but I have come to hate something in my 40 years of age. I hate it when people ask you if you need something only to discover that they can't provide it but then give you an insurmountable amount of excuses and reasons for not being able to. I'm not an unreasonable person so I don't ask for things that aren't within reach. Especially while I'm working. Come on people. It's rude and ultimately disrespectful. Don't ask me if I "need" something if you can't provide a thing. 

People are crazy. This business is crazy.

Crazy.

Boo

Excuse me...are you bored?

I am writing this little blurb as I sit backstage following a performance of ONCE IN A LIFETIME on the VTS stage here in Las Vegas. As I was singing a woman yawned in my face like a fat f*#king lion. How rude. Is it me? If I was in the front row of any show with a real human being standing in front of me singing his or her heart out I wouldn't have the nerve to yawn.

Ugh

This is probably one of those things where someone would be compelled to tell me that I shouldn't take it personally. Well, first of all I don't like when people say "don't take it personally" because it seems to offer comfort only for the person saying it. However, I won't "MAKE it personal" (which to me is completely different) but I definitely take it personally because it pulled me out of the moment and forced me to think in the middle of my performance to "not take it personally." Ultimately, it's not fair to the audience but thank goodness I know the patron wasn't doing it to me intenionally. Ahhhh....now I don't know what I'm saying. Got a cue...bye.

Boo.

I WAS HERE

I love Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. They have been huge supporters of my career and I've been in 4 of their productions. We've become friends over the years and I am so pleased to have had the opportunity to not only work with them but learn from them as well. 

I was listening to songs on my ipod the other day and I WAS HERE from THE GLORIOUS ONES came up. The melody IS glorious and the lyrics speak for themselves. 

I love that I can hear a song that I love and not only have a relationship with the music and the lyrics but the actual people who wrote the material as well. It sends my heart and soul spinning. 

Thank you Lynn and Stephen for this beautiful song. It expresses so many feelings and thoughts of not only myself but actors and actresses all over the world. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

I WAS HERE

Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens 

Music by Stephen Flaherty

Still I have a theory

About this disease we contract...

That most men are equally crazy

As actors, in fact

Why does a boy carve his name on a tree

Or the first born inherit the throne?

What is a sculptor aspiring to be

When he spends half his life carving stone?

Kings built their tombs for the ages

Poets and fools fill up their pages

What are we hoping for?

What do we fear?

I say we yearn to leave something that lasts

To be known for what little we've done

Men tell their children the tales of their past

And each man gives his name to his son

Something in song or in story

Something in blood, something of glory

Something that won't fade away in a year

Well, I will not flicker, I like an ember

Do many man flicker and die?

I will something behind to remember

Somehow I must, don't ask me why

I have no sons, at least none I can claim

And no patience for carving in stone

All that I have are my skill and my name

And this chance to make both of them known

This is my key to the portal

How I can leave something immortal

Something that time cannot make disappear

Something to say 'I was here'

Buffet of Buffets

They have this thing in Vegas called the "Buffet of Buffets." For $44.99 or something like that you can attend 6 different buffets at 6 different hotels within 24 hrs!!!!!

God damn!

Seriously...... 

Time to catch up on your shows ejy!!!

I've been in Vegas for almost two years now and still have not seen Garth Brooks, Celine, Elton, Ka, Zumanity, Jabawackeez, Donny and Marie, George Wallace, Divas, or any concert at MGM, Hard Rock or Mandalay. Isn't that awful?

In my defense, I work at night and I have 12 shows a week with Sunday being my day off. Guess what day most of those people or shall I say shows have off? Sunday. Damn!

Gotta make it happen. These are once in a lifetime moments that I'm missing out on. Before you know it Celine will be gone and Shania Twain will be the new voice of Vegas. Wow.