Opening Evening!

Yesterday was opening evening, and the show was great! The audience actually applauded the entrance of the von Trapp children, which was really neat, and all of the kids went offstage exclaiming, "Did you hear that? They clapped when we came onstage!!!" It was a nearly full audience, something we have not always had because, I believe, ticket prices are quite high for the best seats.

It is still quite hot backstage, and even hotter downstairs in the dressing room area. I pity my poor dresser, who has to pull costumes off my sweaty body. It makes it pretty difficult to change when everything is sticking to you! But I have a feeling this is something that we're going to see a lot in Asia this summer, since the heat is pretty crazy.

We still have not seen much of Harbin, but this will change now that rehearsals are over. We discovered a nice little dumpling restaurant near our rehearsal space, and then found out that there was another one near our hotel, so a group of us went yesterday. They didn't have an English menu at our local branch, but the menu looked exactly the same as at the other location, so we ordered based on where we remembered items being located on the menu --- and ended up getting quite different food from what we expected! It was still good, though. Nice to get back to Chinese food and not eat just McDonald's or KFC (!!!).

Today we have a matinee at the odd time of 3:20 p.m. Tomorrow is another early evening show, but in the daytime we're taking a field trip to see tigers and visit a park with paddle boats and other entertainment.

This blog is not very exciting, but it's my only update for now!