Michael's Meanderings...
"Lake Region Village: Haines City, Florida"
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Tonight, our concert was held in a city we have never visited before- Haines City. We had a blast singing for an audience that had never seen us before in our Victorian costumes and tuxedos etc... As an entertainment group, we pride ourselves on our versatility. In this one concert we featured: Opera, swing dancing, vocal jazz, pop, vocal percussion, doo wop, big band and even a Christmas poem, recited by yours truly. :)
On a personal note, it was a lot of fun for me to watch my one year old nephew Timmy walking around the dressing rooms with his new favorite toy. It's a plush doll of Curious George- the famous monkey belonging to the man in the yellow hat. Anyway, since Timmy is very small (He's in the 3rd percentile for his age- in other words, if you lined up 100 babies his age, there would be 97 taller and heavier than him) this plush doll is as big as he is. Everyone says their son or grandson is the cutest baby in the world, but I think Timmy may actually be that cute. His little face just lights up anytime Curious George is near. He takes that monkey everywhere and even gives him kisses :)
Everyone really enjoyed our concert and they will be having us back in 2010 to perform our 'Best of Broadway' or 'The Songs America Sings'. One more thing I should mention is that towards the end of every show, we like to thank the people that invited us to sing, the audience for coming, our sound man, etc. Well, at this concert we also said thank you to the guy that had been running the lights, and doing a great job. So we mention him and say what a great job he did, and before we could finish the sentence, he turned off every light in the place so everyone including us was in pitch black. It was so funny, and so unexpected we just stopped the concert for about a minute and just laughed. It was really much funnier than you can explain with words. You just had to be there. Anyway, we are excited to be back there soon. That's it for now... Stay happy and healthy
Michael