Rehearsal Week #2:

Sweet times at Serendipity!  

We're ready for some food!

Dakota, Lyndsey, Annie, Camden, and Me!

FROZEN HOT CHOCOLATE...YUM!

Korean BBQ... a first for me!  It was delicious.

London and Dakota                                               Moms- Andrea and Traci

The American Museum of Natural History!

NYC Pizza!!

WICKED ON BROADWAY!

The show was awesome!

And then came the hurricane!

Dakota, Lyndsey, Kara, and I hanging in the hotel

Weekend Sleepover

Popcorn and good friends!

Day 2 of being 'hurricaned in'

Cards, games, computers, and good company! 

Still weathering the storm! 

Outside of our hotel.... wet and windy but otherwise not too bad! 

                               Still having fun!                       Kara and the post-Irene Breakfast!

Liz's going away party (she is going on tour with Shrek!)

Tyler is still up to no good! 

Chips attacking Tyler!

Sebastian, Me, and Dakota 

Our "Beauty", Liz, is now "Fiona"! 

Sleepover with Sebastian...LEGO LAND!

Heading to Salt Lake City during sunset! 

BYE NYC!! It's been memorable!

Wow, what a crazy week it's been! Rehearsals are going great and I'm having so much fun. We ate at some great restaurants this week.... Serendipity (love the frozen hot chocolate), Korean BBQ, and a couple pizza shops! One day before rehearsals, we got to go to the American Museum of Natural History.  It was a lot of fun. We didn't have much time to spend there, but we did our best to see most of it! 

I got to see my 4th Broadway show on Friday... WICKED! It was amazing.  I have always liked the songs but never saw the show before.  We had great seats and even got a few autographs after the show.

Then, Hurricane Irene came (kind of!).  It was predicted to hit NYC hard, so we prepared for the worst.  Rehearsals were cancelled for the weekend as were all Broadway shows.  We stocked up on food and water and spend the entire weekend in the hotel.  Kara, Lyndsey, Dakota, Camden, London, and I had a great time playing games, watching movies, goofing around on the the computer and being silly. The hurricane was really mild in our area so we luckily didn't have any problems other than flight delays!

On our last night, we headed over to Liz's apartment for a going away party for her. Liz was Belle on the Beauty and the Beast tour and now she's going back on the road with the Shrek tour as Princess Fiona.  There were a lot of old BTB friends there and it was great to see them. Of course Tyler picked up right where he left off...harassing all the Chips (Dakota, Sebastian, and I).  Sebastian slept over at our hotel that night and we had fun building Lego ships.  The next day, Sebastian had a final callback for Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Broadway and he booked it!!  We're all so proud of him!

After a fun 2 weeks in NYC, it's finally time to say good-bye and head to Salt  Lake City, Utah for a month.  I'm sad to leave but I'm so excited to continue rehearsing and meet the MP tour cast and crew.

Stay tuned....

Rehearsal Week #1:

First day of rehearsal...meet the new Banks kids!

Camden, Annie, Dakota and Me 

Dinner at Schnippers after rehearsal 

Great friends already! 

Jamba Juice!

A night on the town... 

...to see Mary Poppins! 

We believe in the magic! 

Ready for some fun

The show's about to start!

 

On the set after the show! 

Backstage tour 

Laura Michelle Kelly plays Mary on Broadway!

Antz, the FABULOUS tour director, gives us a backstage tour. 

NYC friends! 

My buds, Anthony and Kara, who played Michael and Jane tonight! 

Me, Kara, and Dakota at the stage door 

Juniors for late night dessert!

Lyndsey, Me, Kara, Molly, Dakota, and Ellie

Rehearsal at Ripley!  Being goofy! 

Breakfast and studying in bed!       STARBUCKS!! 

Officially a proud AEA member!

Fun at the Thomas household!

Sachel, Sebastian, Me, Dakota, and Lyndsey 

Chips off the old block! 

Annie and Julie visit NYC

Blockheads...the restaurant, not the people =) 

Hotel Hijinx with Kara, Lyndsey, Molly, and Dakota 

Ellen's Stardust Diner with RYE!! 

This place is AWESOME!

Great food and great company! 

RJ and me at Dallas BBQ 

Fagin's gang fun at Dave and Busters

Re-united again! Sabina (Mrs. Potts) and me! 

Our first week in NYC has been super fun and packed with rehearsals, sightseeing, catching up with old friends, spending time with new friends, and eating some great food!

I met Annie and Camden at our first rehearsal. They will alternate playing Jane Banks, sister to Michael Banks. Both of them are really nice and I think we will get along really well. After rehearsal, we all went to dinner together with our moms, Camden's brother, London, and Dakota's sister, Lyndsey. After a great dinner at Schnippers, we all got Jamba Juice smoothies and then saw MARY POPPINS ON BROADWAY! My good friends, Kara and Anthony, were playing Jane and Michael. They were fabulous, along with the rest of the cast.  After the show, Antz, the tour director, gave us a VIP backstage tour. We met Laura Michelle Kelly, who plays Mary on Broadway and she even shared her strawberries with us (or Straw-breeze as we've been trained to say!). The show was so great... it made me even more excited to be apart of such a fantastic production.

The rest of the week was just as busy!  We had rehearsals everyday followed by meeting up with some friends.  We had dinner at Sebastian's house one night.  Sebastian just finished his run as Chip on the Beauty and the Beast Tour.  He loves legos and Star Wars, just like Dakota and I.  We had fun building his huge Death Star. Another day, Annie and Julie came to NYC to see "Catch Me If You Can" and we had dinner with them at Blockheads.  Rye, who played the Baron in Chitty, took us to Ellen's Stardust Diner one night and it was soooo fun!  The waiters and waitresses all sing Broadway songs and the food is great.  Rye told them that Dakota and I were in rehearsals for Mary Poppins and they asked us to help sing "Spoonful of Sugar'!  We got a lot of applause and it was really fun.  After that, we stopped by FAO Schwartz and got to check out all the cool toys there. 

Another night, my mom and I met up with my good friend RJ and his mom for some delicious BBQ.  RJ and I were in Oliver together and he is rehearsing here in NYC for NEWSIES!  We headed over to Dave and Busters after dinner to play some games. A couple nights later, we met up with Sabina for some great Thai food. Sabina played my mom, Mrs. Potts, in the Beauty and the Beast Tour.  She just recently moved back to NYC and is working as a vocal teacher for kids and adults.  It was good to see her!

Well, as you can tell, I've been busy!  Off to sleep now..... more to come soon =)