Houston, we have achieved Corsicana...

Thursday, October 15, 2009. Days on tour: 1; Dr. Peppers consumed: 3; Performances: 1; cell phones ringing during show: 1.

After a great deal of stress over what to pack/what to leave and packing and re-packing my bag more than once, (and several Facebook breaks) I finally took a break and went to bed around 2 am. Parents scheduled to arrive at 7:30, courier to Eastfield College for set load scheduled at 7:50. Alarm set for 6, snoozed until 6:20. Parents arrived at 6:30 (gah), so got car to them and said goodbye to Philip (my roommate) in time to finish packing my last bag before realizing that I had forgotten to put in either of my toiletry bags (one for show, one for hotel). So had to re-pack again. Decide I need to invest in packing lessons (shut up) and once seeing the massive suitcases that everyone else brought, one of those as well. Courier car was early as well, so we took off and arrived at Eastfield literally about 20 minutes after we left.
Load out was a little delayed, pep talk from Sally (our producer) and we got our "golden ticket" DCT lanyards. I was selected to drive the van to scenic Corsicana. We got on the road around 10 am and were off...to arrive at Corsicana High School to discover that nothing had been done to prepare for us. So Phil G (our SM), Phil Z (our TD) and castmate Joe stayed all day to basically program and hang our entire show. Once the set was mostly built, several of us were released to go check in to the hotel. Managed to grab some lunch and set up the computer here, change clothes and head back to the theatre. Our call was 5:00, show was scheduled at 7:30. Things were still being plugged in and put together up until half hour, which ended up being 7:30 with an 8:00 curtain. Smallish but appreciative crowd, and with some frantic on-the-spot cue writing from Phil G, the show went pretty well. We had some runaway baseball bats, and the stage is HUGE and a very slippery and reflective light wood color. Entrances and crossovers that used to be rather quick are now more like a hike through the Andes, but we adjusted. We're starting to get a feel of where the audiences are going to react, and the reactions have been very favorable so far.
Got back to hotel around 10. This Best Western apparently has a killer breakfast buffet starting at 6 am. Van call at 7:30 am for a 9:15 show (gah), lunch break, 1:15 show, then load out and heading to GALVESTON!!! Wahoo! Seafood and Colonel Bubbie's! More soon.