Put On Your Sunday Clothes

Today was a day. That, I can say for sure. It all began with me driving into Philadelphia for the first time. I had to drive to New Jersey (where I am now, actually) after rehearsal because I have an audition for a children's tour in NYC tomorrow morning. The ironic thing is that the Touring Company is based out of Philadelphia, but they called and wanted to see me tomorrow. Since Monday is Equity Day Off for the entire run, I figured getting to the city wouldn't be an issue. Yay!

Anyway, GoogleMaps told me that the drive would take 39 minutes. So, I gave myself 2 hours. I don't trust traffic. I know it was Sunday morning, and leaving at 8AM for the 10AM rehearsal was a little paranoid-but for all I knew hundreds of thousands of people in Delaware and Pennsylvania may go to church and there might be traffic jams for miles every Sunday morning! This, fortunately, was not the case. My other issue was going to be parking. There are a bunch of spaces and garages around the theatre but they are all metered Monday-Sunday until 10PM and there was no way I was going to run out of the theatre every few hours to add more time to the meter. Fortunately, as I drove up 5th St I saw a random parking space that wasn't metered on Sunday. I took it and then contemplated how far I could be from the theatre. I decided, even if I had to walk 20 minutes, it was better than paying a billion dollars to park in a garage. So I began the walk and realized just 2 blocks up the meters started to be like the ones around the theatre, Monday-Sunday 6AM to 10PM. I felt very lucky. And, as it turned out, it was only a 9 minute walk! I was very proud of myself.

Rehearsal was good, we ran Act II for the first time at the end of the day. It wasn't as smooth as Act I, probably because a good portion of it has yet to be rehearsed. We'll do those scenes on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, we are running the whole show straight through for the first time...exciting!!! I did have my costume fitting today! My pants are pretty awesome. Old-style with a flap in the front and buttons galore. The fun part is, the buttons are all for show, everything is held together with velco! Yay theatre magic! haha. I will also have two hats! One will be a bowler, which is fun. And the other (this is my favorite part) is a Jeff Hat! Now, I had no idea (maybe you did!) that there were hats called Jeff Hats, but now I do--and I must have lots and lots of them!!!

I did not have time to make my lunch this morning because I was paranoid about leaving 2 hours early and decided that was more important. So I walked down the street to WaWa and got a Meatball Grinder (or Hoagie, as they call it. I, of course, refuse to utter that word.) WaWa's are the best thing in the entire world. We don't have them in CT, so we grew up on 7-11s. Don't get me wrong, I love a good Slurpee from 7-11. In fact, back in high school there used to be tons and tons of change in the center console of my car which we referred to as "The Slurpee Fund" Don't ask me why I felt the need to share that...Anyway, Wawas are amazing. And I have digressed a bunch this evening so enjoy yours and I will enjoy mine! Weeeeeeeeee!