May 28

May 28

Malaga Spain

Show day today, so we had a tech run early on.  We were “allowed” to go into town today, but not on the free shuttle.  It was 3,50 Euro round trip and a few of us went into town for lunch.  I had to be back early for paddle tennis, so it was a short trip for me.   Very busy city on this Saturday.  Marble walkways and gorgeous buildings (I feel like I say that a lot, but it’s true – GORGEOUS.  Many street performers including a person costumed in all newspaper, including the bench he was sitting on.   While eating lunch several solo instrumentalists traded of playing in the background and created a nice ambience.  However, they all came to the foreground after each song they played to “ask” for money.  This was commonplace at each restaurant we passed and even in the street as there were many performers (including mines – yikes ;-)).  I will say that even though it was a bit overwhelming, at least they weren’t simply begging for it.

Paddle tennis was… well… boring.  I had 2 people show up.  We played 3 games (2 out of 3) and the gentleman barely snuck by the lady.  After that, I had nothing until the show, so a long run and dinner ensued.

This was the first of the last performances of all the shows.  Also to mention, this will be only the 4^th show of each of the shows for me as well (except Groovin since I was sick for that one).  The voice feels almost 100%, but I do still have just a bit of drainage and a cough (still – ugh).  I can say this was the best CON MOLTO (name of the show) I’ve done so far.  Keely’s mic didn’t work, so she ended up on a hand held mic while the rest of us were on our headsets.  It was a bit odd visually, but I’m sure it sounded good.

After the show, the entire cast went to the crew mess to play games.  We played until about 2am – so much fun!!!  Zzzzzzzz