Thanksgiving greetings from St. Louis!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!

This year, I have about 10 million things to be grateful for. Beyond what should go unsaid (family, friends, health) I am so thankful to have a job, equity status, and the opportunity to bring the joy of theater to children all over the USA! Although I am sad to have spent my first thanksgiving away from my loved ones, the cast had an amazing Thanksgiving meal at RED at the Hyatt in downtown St. Louis, where we've been stationed for an incredible 10 day stay!! It even SNOWED, the perfect first snowfall of the season. :)

Since I last wrote, we've seen some of the most exciting places on tour and some of the smallest, quietest towns I've ever visited! With every new place we see, every new hotel we check into, I only become more and more eager to return to New York.

Thankfully (there's that word again!!), our schedule permits us to spend many of our nights in December at home in NYC. I even get to spend my birthday (December 9th) at home with my best friends!! And in a mere 3 weeks from tomorrow, our tour will be finished and I will be back in the city for good to start pounding the pavement again! As scary as it is to be heading back without specific plans, I am trusting the universe that something will turn out, and am excited to be exploring all the new opportunities that come my way.

Plus, this is my absolute favorite time of the year, and Christmas is coming!! I hope everyone is feeling the spirit of the season they way I am.

Here's the schedule for the last leg of the tour; I hope to see many familiar faces along the way, particularly at our shows at Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ and at Kraushaar Auditiorium in Baltimore, MD, my home town!!

Dec 3- 10am show, Millburn, NJ (Paper Mill Playhouse)

Dec 4- 10am show, Millburn, NJ (Paper Mill Playhouse)

Dec 5-2pm show, Bethlehem, PA

Dec 6-10am show, 12pm show, Dover, DE

Dec 7-10am show, 12:30pm show, Somerville, NJ

Dec 8-10:30am show, 12:30pm show, Baltimore, MD

Dec 9-10am show, Harrisburg, PA

Dec 10-9:30am show, Cedar Grove, NJ

Dec 13-10am show, Buffalo, NY

Dec 14-10am show, Binghamton, NY

Dec 16-10am show, Utica, NY

Dec 17- 9:30am show, Dix Hills, NY

Hope everyone's holiday was wonderful, and enjoy the bliss of the season!!

Tour greetings from sweet Alabama!

Wow, almost a full month on tour!

We have been so, so busy but I have really enjoyed this experience so far!

After spending about 3 weeks in the glorious sunshine of Florida, I was sooo ready to be back to fall weather and changing leaves! We've now been through North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and by the end of this week we'll be in New Orleans, Louisiana!

It's amazing to see so many places and people I've never encountered before, but I certainly get homesick for New York a lot. I miss walking everywhere! And the comfort of my friends of course. But I'll be home in a month and a half and I'm excited to get back to pounding the pavement. Lots of work to do!

Here's the itinerary I have for the next leg of our tour. I'm still waiting on the last bit of it, where I'll find out about any breaks in the city and the time we'll be spending in Baltimore, MD, my home town!

NOV 5- Baton Rouge, LA 10am show

NOV 8-Lafayette, LA 10am show

NOV 9-Shreveport, LA 10am show

NOV 12- Dothan, AL 10am show

NOV 15-Owensboro, KY 9:15 show, 11:30 show

NOV 16-Mt Carmel, IL 9:30 show, 1:15 show

NOV 17- Hazelwood, MO10am show, 12:30pm show

NOV 18-10am show, 12:30pm show

NOV 19-10am show, 12:30pm show

NOV 21-2pm show

NOV 22-10am show, 12:30pm show

NOV 23-10am show, 12:30pm show

NOV 26-2pm show

NOV 27-2pm show, 6:30pm show

DEC 1-Bradford, PA 10am show, 12:30pm show

P.S. This photo is our Mouse/Cookie set in the beautiful Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, FL!

Tour Beginnings and Schedule!

We are officially ON TOUR!

Left New York at 7am this morning and arrived in Smithfield, NC this evening!
Tomorrow we have 3 (yes, count em, 3) shows in Smithfield and on Tuesday we'll head to Georgia.

Here's the tentative schedule I know as far as destinations and showtimes:

Oct 5- Columbus, GA
Oct 7- 9:30 show, 11:30 show
Oct 8- 9:30 show, 7pm show
Oct 10- West Palm Beach, FL
Oct 11- 10:15 show, 12pm show
Oct 12- 10:15 show, 12pm show
Oct 13- 10:15 show, 12pm show
Oct 14- 10:15 show, 12pm show
Oct 15- 10:15 show, 12pm show, travel to Miami, FL
Oct 19- 10am show, travel to Daytona Beach, FL
Oct 20- 10am show, travel to St. Augustine, FL
Oct 21- 10am show, travel to Jacksonville, FL
Oct 22- 10am show, 12pm show
Oct 23- Ft. Pierce, FL
Oct 24- 2pm show, 4pm show, travel to Tampa, FL
Oct 25- 10:15 show, 11:45 show, travel to St Petersburg, FL
Oct 26- 10:15 show, 12:15 show, travel to Clewiston, FL
Oct 27- 9:30 show, 11:15 show, travel to Kissimmee, FL
Oct 28- Moultrie, GA
Oct 29- 10 am show, 12:30 show, travel to Perry, GA
Oct 31- Birmingham, AL
Nov 1- 10am show, travel to Montgomery, AL
Nov 2- 10am show, travel to Atlanta, GA
Nov 3- 10am show, 12pm show, travel to Montgomery, AL
Nov 4- Baton Rouge, LA


Already I am thrilled about being surrounded by friendly people and southern accents. And tonight, we dine at Cracker Barrel!!

So excited to be starting this wonderful adventure.
Cheers!
Rebecca

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!

It's been over a month since I last updated! Phew!

Abraham's Daughters had a great run at the SoHo Playhouse and now I'm onto my next big project (and my first Equity contract!): If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!

We started rehearsals today at Chelsea Studios and I met the 5 incredibly talented cast members I'll be touring the Southwest/Southeast/Northeast with these next 2.5 months. I also had the chance to see director Kevin DelAguila again, the first time since auditions! Today we started learning music and I can tell already it's going to be a really wonderful show.

And I was thrilled to run into some old friends from NYU rehearsing at Chelsea Studios for the national tour of A Chorus Line as well as The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, another TheatreworksUSA production. It feels so great to be able to enjoy the successes of my friends, too!

I'm so grateful to be a part of this and can't wait to see how the rest of the process unfolds.

I'll post as soon as I know my itinerary for the tour (hope to see familiar faces along the road!). And of course, I'm always hoping to make a lot of new friends from this journey!

Cheers,
Rebecca

Lessons and Carols! More reviews!

Photos by Chris Montgomery from Lessons and Carols featuring Marianne Matthews, Ali Skye Bennett, and myself!

So, Lessons and Carols opened this past weekend! We only have one more show to go, and then I will officially be doing ONE production. Phew! Focus. :)

We've gotten more great feedback on Broadway Rising Stars. Here's a review posted in the Huffington Post by David Finkle, the Broadwayworld.com blog review, and a CurtainUp review by Elizabeth Ahlfors. I'm so pleased to see such a positive reaction to our work!

And word on the street is that you can find YouTube performances of "Good Morning Baltimore" and "It's Today/All I Need is One Good Break." But you didn't hear it from me!

All the best,
Rebecca

Broadway Rising Stars!

Me with producer Scott Siegel


Me with director Scott Coulter

The entire cast of the 2010 Broadway Rising Stars Concert!

So, Monday night marked my Town Hall debut with Broadway Rising Stars!

The whole process was such a blast and I'm so grateful to have spent that very brief rehearsal time with such incredibly talented and welcoming young artists--I only wish we could put up the show more than once! But it was truly a phenomenal evening, so much support from friends and family and a nearly-full house!

I have never performed before such a large audience before (nearly 1500 seats!) and it was such a rush. I sang "Nothing Really Happened" by Craig Carnelia from Is There Life After High School and feel so blessed to have been able to perform such a beautiful number upon director Scott Coulter's recommendation. We also rocked the house with four group numbers, "The Circle of Life," "Good Morning, Baltimore," "It's Today/All I Need is One Good Break," and "Stand By Me."

The show recieved a great review by William Wolf which you can read here.

And we also got photo coverage from Broadwayworld.com...I only wish they'd caught me when I was looking at the camera!

But as always, on to the next project! Lessons and Carols opens up in Manhattan Repertory's Summerfest this Saturday the 24th! We run Saturday 7pm, Sunday 6pm, and next Thursday at 7pm.

I'm also getting deeper into rehearsals for Abraham's Daughters, going up in the NY Fringe in mid-August. Check out our website here.

So much to update on!

Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Rebecca

July: A Month of Rehearsals!

Well, it's official--I am now in rehearsals for THREE productions at one time! Eek! So far the balancing hasn't been too bad, and it's actually thrilling to be able to be spending so much time working. Lessons and Carols goes into tech in TWO WEEKS, Broadway Rising Stars will be over in only 10 days, and Abraham's Daughters only has a month or so till opening. Things come and go so quickly here!

Our first rehearsal for Broadway Rising Stars was yesterday and I'm so, so excited. We learned our group numbers and got to hear some options for people's solos; without a doubt it's going to be one incredible night of performances. The show goes up Monday, July 19th at 8pm at Town Hall (123 W. 43rd St). Visit http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org/ for more details and ticketing information!

And once all this summer craziness is past, I'll be heading into September to start rehearsals and prepare for the tour of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie with TheatreworksUSA! I'm thrilled to be taking part and experiencing my first national tour. Plus, one of the roles I get to play is Imogene, a girl who wakes up with antlers. How fun is that?

So despite the blistering New York heat, I'm feeling cool and ready for all the adventures coming my way the next few months!

Cheers,
Rebecca

Broadway Rising Stars Poster!

Look what I passed outside of Town Hall yesterday!

Now I'm even more pumped to start rehearsals-- only two weeks away. I start working on Lessons and Carols this coming Tuesday. And as always, more auditions this week!

Cheers,

Rebecca

Look at this thing!

Darn, I haven't had a blog since high school when I posted every day in my LiveJournal. Now look how fancy these things have become!

Anywho, this is a place where I'll update news about my performance work, upcoming shows, audition experiences, and so forth.

Today I've been on a whopping three auditions! Whoo-whee.
Tomorrow I finish up my six-week SONGBOOK class with Scott Coulter, who's also directing the Broadway's Rising Stars Concert I'll be performing in on July 19th at Town Hall. Exciting!
And rehearsals begin soon for Lessons and Carols by Demetra Kareman, dir. Gerritt Turner, for the Manhattan Rep Summerfest.

Well, that's all for now. The amazing Max Reuben is going to make this look beautiful for me along with the incredible website he's designing. Whoever thought I'd see the day when rebeccalachance.com was available to the public!? Shoutout to Max!

More when there's more!
Cheers,
Rebecca