On-The-Road Update

Hello all,

Ahh - Spring is in the air and oddly enough in the middle of January. We are currently in Valdosta, GA and the weather is fine. We have been lucky, we have had some fantastic weather. Coral Springs the week before was like a tropical heat wave, the company had to break out the shorts and flip-flops.

Soon we will be making our way towards Baton Rouge, LA, near the home town (New Orleans, La) of cast member Jolie Dufrene. Jolie's family will be graciously providing us with some native down-home Louisiana cookin'. Everyone is very, very excited to taste the cuisine of the "Crescent City". There are even some company members that will be taking a short trek just to catch a glimpse of New Orleans (and possibly partake in the local night life).

Well back to the grind, catch up with you soon!

On-The-Road Update

Hello everyone,

Hope this finds everyone well. We are back to life on the buses and the hectic schedule that a week of one-nighters creates. It has been a bit of an adjustment getting ourselves back into the swing of things. Immune systems have been running a little low lately, but we are all popping the AirBorne and vitamin-C and everyone seems to be on the mend.

We have already had a couple of long travel days and you know what goes best with a long travel day don't you? Bus problems of course. No big deals: the crew bus had a couple of hiccups and the cast bus received a busted window due to a unruly tree. But not to fear, all is now well on the bus front. It has been great being down south in the Florida and Georgia area. The weather has been kind to us (no snow, yea!).

Florida is also home for many of the company members so we have had lots of friends and family come to see the shows (talk about a great audience reaction) and visit on the road. All in all everyone is doing well and keeping this great show rolling!

Catch up with you next week!

On-The-Road Update

Hello All!

Well it has been a lovely week here in Fayetteville, AR. The shows have been tremendous, sold out almost every night! The crew here has been great. They have been spot on workers and even helped us navigate the local area.

The girls had a fun little shin-dig the other night. Sunny Naughton, our child wrangler, had a princess party for the girls. It was an evening filled with pizza, Nintendo DS (this is the new craze on the road), and lots and lots of fun girlie stuff!

The adults have also been having some fun. They had a T-Shirt graffiti party at the hotel. Everyone wore a white shirt to the party and as the evening progressed they passed the sharpie markers around and signed each others T-Shirts.

Well, as I mentioned before it has been a great week and now we are looking forward to changing the pace of the tour once again, because after tomorrow we are... BACK ON THE BUS!

See you in the next city!

On-The-Road Update

Greetings All!

Hope everyone had a great holiday! All is well on the Annie front and we are again getting ready to move to yet another city, Birmingham, AL is the next stop. We have been enjoying the warm (warmer that is, next to New Haven, Ct) and are glad to be continuing on to another warm climate. Tempe has proved a great little city. The theatre was beautiful, a Frank Lloyd Wright creation, and the downtown area was adorable (lots to do).

Well... one last day of 2007 and then we dive head first into the New Year and the continuation of The Annie National Tour.

From all of us here on tour we wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

On-The-Road Update

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!

Welcome to our Christmas Eve! The entire company is traveling somewhere at this moment. Most of us are in the air on our way to Tempe, AZ, others are on their way to visit loved ones (talk about a short vacation). We have already drawn attention to ourselves on this travel day. Many company members took to juggling (some better than others) in the airport terminal. People seem to love it, makes the fact that we are all traveling on Christmas Eve a little more fun.

Our week in New Haven was very nice, quite the change to be in one place for an entire week. We had pretty temped weather, which made it easy to sight-see, and believe me being on the campus of Yale there was much to see. We wrapped up our Secret Santa gift exchange this week on Friday.

Everyone had a great time, many, many surprises.Everyone did a great job at keeping their identity under wraps.

Well, we are all excited for Christmas Day! We all wish we could be with family and friends, but… I said it once and I'll say it again… we could not wish for a better 2nd family to spend the day with. For those of you scattered around the country have a wonderful day and a safe trip back, as for all or our family and friends we wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

XOXOXOXOXOXO The Company - "Annie" National Tour

On-The-Road Update

Seasons Greetings All!

Well the time is upon us, the holidays are here!

We are all getting ready to leave our buses behind for a while and fly from city to city. For about the next month will be staying in the cities for a week at a time (wow, knowing what city your in when you wake up).

At the end of next week our company will scatter to the wind, most of us taking an airplane ride to sunny Tempe, AZ and the rest will be dotted all around the country. We are all excited to celebrate the holidays, be it with company members of a non-traditional dinner in Arizona or with friends and family gathered round a turkey. To top off the excitement, the company will be unveiling our Secret Santa's on Friday. I am sure this will prove much fun.

Well, time to pack up once again and move on to the next city. From all of us here at the "Annie" National Tour to all of you, Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings!

Season's greetings!

Hello everyone,

It is another exciting week on the road with the Annie National Tour.

Busy does not even begin to describe this week. This will be (by far) our busiest week on tour. We are traveling to 4 states and six cites in one week. Talk about sight seeing. Good thing we decorated the bus for the holidays, we are going to be seeing a lot of it this week.

We had our first snow two nights ago and goodness was it pretty, blanketed the entire city of Scranton, PA in two feet of the fluffy stuff. Some of the girls went out early in the morning and had their first snowball fight of the season (the adults even joined in for a little snowball throwing therapy after our final show).

Well like I said busy, work is beckoning. Promise to catch up with you more next week!