Open Sesame...

....yep, we are officially into our run of The Birds, Citadel Theatre, 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.  Last night was a BLAST.  Everything miraculously came together and the show went really well!  Yay!!!!  I say "miraculously," but, you know, an intense amount of hard work and it all paid off is how the miracles happen, at least in this business.  It was so wonderful to have such marvelous energy from the audience really boost us to our best performance yet.  I received a smashingly gorgeous bouquet of sunflowers and mums and such from my bestie in St. Louis, and my bestie in Chicago came with her family (so my bestie family :-) and it was so terrific to have them in the house.  Surprise guests -- friends I haven't seen in forever were there, which was so amazing.  An appreciative and lovely audience all.  I want to bottle them up and have them be there every night. And then fun and frolicking at the party later -- which those of us in the cast and crew who attended REALLY needed.  These are good people.  Good, good people.  Gee, I'm so lucky!

Here's a fun shot from the show with me and Abby Dillon :-)