Rehearsals
Local High School Football Game
View from my hotel room
Kim, Justine, Me, Christine
Where it all began…
I arrived in Bakersfield expecting it to be how we all picture California. But when I arrived I realized that Bakersfield was not exactly the picturesque California City. It’s more of a small town in the desert. However, we stayed at a nice hotel right beside the venue, which was super convenient.
They flew the “newbies” two days before the rest of the cast so that we could learn the show and be placed into rehearsals once the rest of the cast members arrived. The show that I am on is called 100 years of Magic. It’s a collection of Disney shows and has over 60 characters throughout the show. We have a large group that travels as there are 47 skaters, 18 crew, 5 fulltime staff, and about 40 FCP (concessions). Can you imagine the chaos when we arrive at a hotel or airport?
It was really exciting to learn the show and to meet everyone that I would be traveling with for the year, but also a lot to take in at once. For the first week we spent most of our time either on the ice, watching the show on our laptops, dancing around our hotel room singing Disney songs or of course relaxing in the hot tub. We also were adjusting to cooking out of a hot pot, grill and coffee maker.
It felt like opening night came quite quickly and when it came we were all excited to be performing in front of a crowd!
