Week 2 JCS tour

So sorry this is late. I wanted to send it out last week but the internet connection was horrible. So here you go!

Last week our first stop was in beautiful Portland Oregon. There we played at the magnificent Portland Theater. I must say that this city is a sleeper town; I loved every minute of it and can’t wait to visit again. I was thoroughly impressed with how clean and bustling this town is and from what I experienced very nice people; we had a blast I had no idea…ha. We stayed in a beautiful modern and chique hotel to remain nameless for privacy purposes, but it was awesome. The shows were stellar as the audiences were the best we have had up to this point, thank you Portland. The theater was gorgeous and it was easy to sing with the great sound system and beautiful ambiance, I thought that balcony was gonna go on forever, I felt like we were singing in Carnegie Hall or something.

I just want to thank the rush of audience members and fans that visited my table after the show; it was very nice to meet you. Thanks for taking pics and asking for autographs and especially purchasing the CD and posters. I hope you enjoy it. I just want to send a special thanks to the newest members of the site by either adding themselves, or us adding you. If that is the case then please remember to visit the members and fill out the form so that we can know more about you to send updates when we are near you.

We went on to Kamloops British Columbia, CA, where I woke up in Ted’s bus as I traveled with him that night to a stunning mountainous snow filled valley town. Ted, Christian Sass (Mary) had an early press event on their local TV station which went very well and will be posted as soon as I get it. We did a 10 minute interview on their midday show to promote the show that night. We played at their hockey arena which was a different set up than being in a theater. Especially considering the fact that there was ice under our stage and our feet were cold b/c most of us wear open toe shoes in the show. I don’t mind the cold, but if my feet are cold we got problems, but it wasn’t too bad. The sound was a bit challenging being that it was in an arena so we had some issues but the crowd seemed to love it. I met a lot of cool people after the show a lot of which bought the CD and I am grateful. I hope you are enjoying it as well. That was a one nighter and we packed our bags and moved onto Vancouver.

I was so excited even before we started when I learned that were stopping in Vancouver. I have some of my dearest friends there and it was cool that it all worked out and a lot of them were able to come to the show and hang out for the two days that we were there. The shows were great and what a great theater we played in at the Centre. The audiences again were stellar and the shows were electric. I am getting more comfortable with developing the character of Judas and I finding new things and new moments that I think will be more effective as time goes on. The character will definitely be different and more polished at the end of the run from the start of the run. Nonetheless, I found moments that I am happy with in Vancouver. Thanks to all the people that came up to me after the show and bought CD's and posters and gave the nice compliments, I appreciate it.

OK so I have to add that we had a blast hanging out on the town. All my beautiful girls are amazing and I love each of them to bits. Vancouver was and is an amazing time, if you have never been please make it a destination, it is like a second home for me. The 2010 winter Olympics will be held there and it will be exciting to be there during that time and want to be there; I hope I see you there. I cannot say enough great things about this wonderful city. Still getting spoiled with the standing ovations...haha. Thanks to all my new friends and everybody reading this!

Hope you are enjoying the holiday season!