Meow...

So now I'm almost up to date with today when I started this blog. After Ballet West I got offered a job to do the musical Cats and tour Europe. I was offered the roles of Pouncival and cover of Mr. Mistofellees (Ker Ching!!! another crossed off my list of roles to play before I retire!)

Me as Pouncival

The tour consists of Zurich, Bielefeld, Oberhausen and Vienna over almost a year long contract!

So there was me thinking "well it's not ballet so it shouldn't be that hard"...FAMOUS. LAST. WORDS.
This is by far the hardest job i have every taken, Stamina wise, physically and vocally. Okay so the choreography isn't particularly challenging but boy I'll tell you EVERYTHING IS HARD AFTER 2 HOURS OF SINGING IN A CONTRACTION!!!!!

The show tours in a huge black tent which is moved from city to city, It's very open to all kinds of weather so it's always either too hot or too cold on stage which is raked very strongly and is made up of 3 inches of wood mounted on a steel frame...about as forgiving as concrete!!!!
However it's been amazing fun despite all the pain (it's true when they say Cats performers stay in character by crawling to the shower in the morning).