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I warned you it was coming…and now it’s here…and we need YOUR help!

Ted is a Top 10 Finalist (out of thousands of entries!) in a contest that, if he wins, will send him on a well-deserved vacation he’d desperately like to take (and that I desperately want him to take!). It takes less than 15 seconds to vote for Ted Rhyner – one vote and you’re done! Please help us!! And if you have any awesome inclination to email or Facebook your friends/family and ask them to vote for Ted, we’d be crazy grateful! Every single vote brings us one step closer! THANK YOU!

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Aside from that, it’s been a wild couple of days. On Tuesday, it was glorious! We’re talking brilliant blue skies, bright and sunny, 50 gorgeous degrees, no snow on the ground….spring in full swing! By noon on Wednesday a State of Emergency was declared for Winter Storm Vulcan, winds were raging at 40 mph, and a blizzard was in the midst of pounding us with 20+ inches of snow. It was pretty amazing. Our vehicles were hardly visible out our kitchen window – mere feet before our eyes! I was officially sent home from the theatre at 12:30….where we promptly spent the rest of the evening bundling up to where only the slits of our eyes were visible for a blizzardy snowball fight/throwing each other into snow drifts/making snow angels/walk around our townhome complex (yeah, we know we’re nuts), drinking hot cocoa, napping, and watching Frozen. Because that’s what you do when you get an exceptionally rare snow day in upstate NY. When a LORT theatre cancels a performance and sends its casts and staff home, you know hell hath frozen over.

In the morning, before we were all sent home, we – cast, staff, playwright, and cohorts – spent an hour or so cozied up in our NextStage sharing and recording our personal origin stories and a few songs for our upcoming world premiere production of Informed Consent (a phenomenal show that you absolutely do not want to miss!), written by the brilliant and wonderful Deb Zoe Laufer. It was a blast. It was powerful. It was community. It was beautiful. And it was a freakin’ sweet way to spend a blizzardy morning! Also, not everyone can say they’ve sung with Tina Fabrique. Half snow day for the win!

(Photo via Sean Daniels}

If you’d like to read more about our morning recording session, check out this neat article one of our cohorts wrote about the experience.

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