this is lisa michelle.: Godspell National Tour: Week 4 update!

Time is flying by! We're already at the end of week 4 of the Godspell National Tour, and we've just left Kalamazoo. Yep. It's a real place. And nope. Nothing to see there.

But that was just a 2-day pit stop as we made our way to where we are now: Clinton Township, Michigan. We have three performances here this weekend, beginning tonight at 7:30. Some cast members have family and friends visiting from back home this weekend, and in good time too. A taste of home is just what some of us need at this point.

When I posted last week's update, we were about to begin performances at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, Missouri. Once again, we were able to make our mark in another great city, and inside their theatre's walls:

Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, MI

Before leaving St. Louis, we celebrated cast member Michael DeRose's birthday! We held a pseudo-surprise soirée for him in Jesus' hotel room, then skipped out to a fantastic live music joint called BB's Blues Bar. The band was i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e. When we weren't salivating over their musicianship like the geeks we are, we were tearin' up the dance floor to the beat of their funked out, soul-stirring set list. It was the final note on why St. Louis has been my favourite stop on the tour thus far.

Love for Michael De Rose! :-)

We also performed at the Grand Theatre in Wausau, Wisconsin this week. I'm still not sure how to pronounce that, but I can tell you they gave us another beautiful house; velvety red seats, exquisite design, and the 'wow-this-place-is-huge' vastness. We've been very lucky, as all the venues we've played on this tour have been aesthetically impressive. Hence the intense camera-phone action that happens upon our arrival in every new place.

Grand Theatre in Wausau, WI