It's the Day of the Show, Y'all!!

Tonight is opening night! Best wishes to all the cast, orchestra, crew, production team, and everyone else who has brought this show to the stage! I understand that we will have a full house. (Which isn't technically a sell-out, I think it means something like 90 percent or more sold. But that is amazing!)

I'm spending the day chilling out, watching TV, writing out cards for people for tonight, getting some treats to give to the crew. I guess I should sing a little, too, heh heh. Went for a little run on the treadmill, gonna do some yoga stretches to be loose for tonight.

I will add more to this post tonight (or tomorrow morning) after the show, and hopefully with some great pictures from tonight and from the cast party. Toi toi toi, everyone!

Added Sunday afternoon :

The show went great, totally great! It ran totally smoothly and everyone sounded fantastic! We had an almost full house, and they gave us a standing ovation. So now the show is running and we are good! In a few days the reviews should come out, and hopefully that will bring us some good press.

I got a few photos, but not as many as I had hoped. First a few of the progression of my make-up. I put up one pre-make-up because you get so used to looking at yourself all made up that you start to think you look ugly without it. But I think I look pretty good without it, too, so there!

Yancey loves to photobomb me and I always am clueless until I snap the photo.

I thought the eyebrows looked really great

I got flowers from my mom and from Noodle. They are always so good to me. Noodle's were a little delayed and I thought, hey, wait, there should be another bouquet here. But it arrived and it is beautiful. The purple one is from Mom - matches my dress!

On opening night, people often give gifts to fellow cast members, here is my haul

And The First Lady gave me these awesome earrings!

 Here's a little glimpse of the program

I got a photo of The Queen in her Act Two costume, not acting very queenly. She sounded wonderful last night. I love The Second Lady in the background, going, wait, what, am I in a photo?

Also got a photo of the adorable Papagena

The milliner who works for the costume shop wore Bollywood garb in honor of us, and she looked terrific

After the show, there was a lovely cast party at Cafe Molise, and the food was pretty good. And I was starving. I headed straight for the buffet table and then parked at a table and chowed down.

Even though I don't have a photo of The Three Ladies in costume, I got a photo of us dressed up for the party. Aren't we a bunch of hotties??

Oh, and this is sort of hard to see, but here is one of the skull earrings The First Lady gave me. I love them!

Congratulations to everyone involved in the company, let's keep up the great work!