If you missed our video from last year here it is! Christmas 2009
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas!!!
If you missed our video from last year here it is! Christmas 2009
Friday, December 24, 2010
Holiday Cheer
A couple of weeks ago my sister Diane and her husband Ryan visited us in New York and we had a great time. It was nice because they had both been to NY before so they kind of knew their way around. It's still funny seeing people's reaction though to our tiny grocery store and the subway trains.
This is us at the MET Museum!
This is a terrible picture of us - but we didn't have much time... there are TONS of people around for the Holiday season! This is the Rockefeller Tree which is REAL!
This is Whitney and Me holding hands in the snow!
This is mainly where I hand out Billy Elliot flyers at TKTS. It's CRAZY packed during the Holidays. People will stand out in the freezing cold to get cheap discounted Broadway tickets. Diane, Ryan, Whitney and I waited in line and got tickets to go see "Wintuk" the Cirque Du Soleil show in Madison Square Garden.... the show was quite a struggle. We had good time though and the snow at the end was worth our money:)
They had these random people dressed like dogs and it was really lame!
Here are some pictures of my show, "Scrooge in Concert" I had a great time. We traveled to Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia.
This was Miami University - we performed in a Basketball arena. It was quite interesting doing a show in this space.
My favorite venue - Grand Opera House in Macon, Georgia.
This was my favorite venue because I got to see Brittany Bagwell and Logan Kemper!! THE BEST!
Beautiful!
Us eating at Zaxby's before my show.
On our last show in North Carolina, near the end of the performance right after Tiny Tim has died (in the future) it is supposed to snow lightly but instead there was a blizzard.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Angelina Ballerina the Musical
Here is a little 'trailer' of the Musical for those of you who haven't been able to see the show yet. :)
Friday, December 3, 2010
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Nathan and I TRIED to go see the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting. We tried to get there pretty early, but definitely NOT early enough! There were almost half a million people trying to see this tree lighting. Streets were blocked off, you couldn't get even close to the tree! People were standing in extremely crowded mobs where you couldn't even see the tree at all.
Nathan and I didn't see much point freezing outside, when we could go home and watch it from our warm home. :)
Here are a few pics of decorations that are up around the city!
Nathan and I didn't see much point freezing outside, when we could go home and watch it from our warm home. :)
Here are a few pics of decorations that are up around the city!
A traveling Marshalls Advertisement Truck - It also played music...very interesting:
There was a highschool madrigal choir group singing on the streets...reminded me and Nathan of our highschool years!
The Rockefeller Tree before the show began.
Some of the crowd:
We did a little decorating ourselves. Here is our lovely Christmas Tree!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thanksgiving in NYC
Nathan and I spent Thanksgiving in New York this year. We definitely missed our families tremendously, but we ended up having a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We spent the holiday with Sam and his mother, Sara who came down from Iowa. We all decided to go see the Thanksgiving Day Parade IN PERSON! I have watched the parade every year on TV ever since I can remember. It was so amazing to see how many people came to see the parade, and seeing it right before my eyes was tremendous! Here are a few pictures of the parade:
We spent the holiday with Sam and his mother, Sara who came down from Iowa. We all decided to go see the Thanksgiving Day Parade IN PERSON! I have watched the parade every year on TV ever since I can remember. It was so amazing to see how many people came to see the parade, and seeing it right before my eyes was tremendous! Here are a few pictures of the parade:
Here is an idea of the crowd:
This is the one famous person I saw...Kanye West.
You can see the people in their apartments on Central Park West who have a great view of the parade!
Look how close Sam and Sara were to the parade:
We found the perfect place to sit above the crowd!
I think this construction worker said he would work on the morning of Thanksgiving, just so he could get a good view of the parade! :)
After the parade we all went back to our house and made a wonderful Thanksgiving meal! Nathan and I slow cooked a turkey in our crockpot and it was sooo tender. We also made deviled eggs, stuffing, sweet potatoe casserole, corn, and lemon cake. Sara Reth brought green bean casserole and pistachio salad. It was so delicious!
Then everyone took a nap...tradition of course.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Colds
Nathan's Post:
Well Whitney has been sick since Tuesday night! She's felt awful and hasn't even been able to perform in Angelina, she stayed home from shows on Friday and Saturday. She went into one show on Sunday but left after. Colds are the worst!! I hate that there isn't a simple one pill to take to kill the cold bug.
I've been extremely busy with rehearsals for A Christmas Carol. These past couple of days we've been rehearsing in Tarrytown, NY which is North of Manhattan. It takes about an hour, hour and a half via the north metro from either grand central station or east harlem. It's amazing how easy it is to get around through public transit. It makes me motivated to go traveling more with Whitney if and when we have a free weekend. We are going to be in New York for Thanksgiving. Our bible study is having a feast tonight to celebrate. Sam Reth's mom gets in on Wednesday so I imagine we'll be spending some time with them. Tomorrow is my last official day of rehearsal then I have 5 days off. We've got one brush up rehearsal on the 30th and leave for tour on the 1st! Whit and I are putting our Christmas decorations up this week! Can't wait! Holdiay spirit here we come!!!
Well Whitney has been sick since Tuesday night! She's felt awful and hasn't even been able to perform in Angelina, she stayed home from shows on Friday and Saturday. She went into one show on Sunday but left after. Colds are the worst!! I hate that there isn't a simple one pill to take to kill the cold bug.
I've been extremely busy with rehearsals for A Christmas Carol. These past couple of days we've been rehearsing in Tarrytown, NY which is North of Manhattan. It takes about an hour, hour and a half via the north metro from either grand central station or east harlem. It's amazing how easy it is to get around through public transit. It makes me motivated to go traveling more with Whitney if and when we have a free weekend. We are going to be in New York for Thanksgiving. Our bible study is having a feast tonight to celebrate. Sam Reth's mom gets in on Wednesday so I imagine we'll be spending some time with them. Tomorrow is my last official day of rehearsal then I have 5 days off. We've got one brush up rehearsal on the 30th and leave for tour on the 1st! Whit and I are putting our Christmas decorations up this week! Can't wait! Holdiay spirit here we come!!!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Passing out Fliers
Nathan's Post:
I forgot to mention, I got a job. I'm working for Allied Live passing out Billy Elliot pamphlets as advertising. This means... I get to stand out in the cold and be one of those annoying people giving out worthless pieces of paper. I've done it twice already, and actually it's not that bad. It pays better than what I made at Make and I have found that the general New Yorker is on average, nice. If someone didn't want my flier they would say no thank you or just smile and nod no. I didn't encounter one mean person. And... I actually convinced some people to go and see the show! It's kind of ironic because I have yet to see it myself, haha. I felt pretty cool though because many people were asking me where things were and I knew! Both of my locations were at Bryant Park, I stood around 42nd and 5th Ave. I'm working tomorrow in Times Square. I wonder if the experience will be different or not.
I forgot to mention, I got a job. I'm working for Allied Live passing out Billy Elliot pamphlets as advertising. This means... I get to stand out in the cold and be one of those annoying people giving out worthless pieces of paper. I've done it twice already, and actually it's not that bad. It pays better than what I made at Make and I have found that the general New Yorker is on average, nice. If someone didn't want my flier they would say no thank you or just smile and nod no. I didn't encounter one mean person. And... I actually convinced some people to go and see the show! It's kind of ironic because I have yet to see it myself, haha. I felt pretty cool though because many people were asking me where things were and I knew! Both of my locations were at Bryant Park, I stood around 42nd and 5th Ave. I'm working tomorrow in Times Square. I wonder if the experience will be different or not.
Arizona Nausea
Nathan's Post:
I wanted to let you all know that I got offered the role of Scott in the Off-Broadway Musical "Dear Edwina." Sadly, I turned it down because it's tech week is when I'm on tour and I wouldn't have been able to have gone home for Christmas. I was very thankful that I got the offer though and hopefully they'll keep me in mind for future productions.
Today was a such a bust for me. Last night after Whitney and I got back from our small group (Bible study) I started to get major stomach pains. I popped 2 tums and 2 gas x and went to bed. I tossed and turned all night and didn't get great sleep. And then this morning, my stomach was all tight and weak. Luckily I didn't throw up or anything though. Around 11am I started feeling better so I decided to meet Whitney at Pearl Studios to audition for Arizona Broadway Theatre. I had an appointment at 12:30 so I was feeling okay to just go in and go out. Well... they were way backed up and they ran out of time... I was told to come back tomorrow. By this point my headache that I had all morning was now really bad and my stomach was still feeling weak. Feeling defeated, I decided to go home and eat some soup and take it easy for the rest of the day. Whitney, however, got seen for Arizona Broadway Theatre (it's a non equity dinner theatre in Phoenix, AZ) and got called back for tomorrow. She also got seen for Roxy Regional Theatre (also non equity) and was asked to stay and dance.
We're both still working hard at getting an agent. Keep praying that an agency picks us up.
I wanted to let you all know that I got offered the role of Scott in the Off-Broadway Musical "Dear Edwina." Sadly, I turned it down because it's tech week is when I'm on tour and I wouldn't have been able to have gone home for Christmas. I was very thankful that I got the offer though and hopefully they'll keep me in mind for future productions.
Today was a such a bust for me. Last night after Whitney and I got back from our small group (Bible study) I started to get major stomach pains. I popped 2 tums and 2 gas x and went to bed. I tossed and turned all night and didn't get great sleep. And then this morning, my stomach was all tight and weak. Luckily I didn't throw up or anything though. Around 11am I started feeling better so I decided to meet Whitney at Pearl Studios to audition for Arizona Broadway Theatre. I had an appointment at 12:30 so I was feeling okay to just go in and go out. Well... they were way backed up and they ran out of time... I was told to come back tomorrow. By this point my headache that I had all morning was now really bad and my stomach was still feeling weak. Feeling defeated, I decided to go home and eat some soup and take it easy for the rest of the day. Whitney, however, got seen for Arizona Broadway Theatre (it's a non equity dinner theatre in Phoenix, AZ) and got called back for tomorrow. She also got seen for Roxy Regional Theatre (also non equity) and was asked to stay and dance.
We're both still working hard at getting an agent. Keep praying that an agency picks us up.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Halloween
Our first Halloween in New York City!
It was quite interesting seeing all of the crazy costumes on the subway and on the streets. Luckily non of us got stabbed!
First off wanted to share this picture. This is Aaron (Maria's Boyfriend) with random cat. Whitney and I were walking to the girls apartment and as we were walking a kitty was following us and ran into their apartment and hid underneath Millie's bed. So hilarious! What a perfect start to our Halloween!
It was quite interesting seeing all of the crazy costumes on the subway and on the streets. Luckily non of us got stabbed!
Whitney, Brittany, Kara = Red Hat Society, Logan = Starry Night / Miss USA, Katie = Ski Resort Skipper, Nathan = Cracked out Frat boy
Some scary asians on the subway.
This picture... what is happening?? Crazy masked people being weird. You never know what to expect in NYC especially on the trains.
We had an awesome Halloween! Mainly because our friends from Belmont came and we had the most fun.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Dear Edwina
Nathan's Post:
Last Thursday, I got an appointment audition for the Off Broadway Musical Dear Edwina. It's a non-equity 1 hour childrens show much like Whitney's show she is involved in now. I believe it starts rehearsals while I'm on tour with Scrooge in Concert so I wouldn't be able to do it, but I decided to audition anyway for the experience. After I sang a cut from one song in my book, I got a call back to for the next day. On Friday, there were lots of people called back and they had each of us perform 2 songs from the show in front of everyone. After 5 hours of callbacks they asked me to come back on Monday at 10am. I went back on Monday and had to leave at 12:30 because I had my first rehearsal for Scrooge in Concert. Dear Edwina people let me leave but asked me to come back after I was finished with my rehearsal.
My rehearsal went really well... I am understudying 6 different roles - (2 different tracks or people) while I'm playing the role of Nephew. Right when I got into the room an alumni from Belmont MTR major recognized me, Bret Carr. How crazy! I am understudying him - he did the role of Nephew last year. He's equity now and doing a new musical called Wallenberg which is hoped to go to Broadway.
Immediately after rehearsal I hurried all the way back to callbacks for Dear Edwina. Sang some more songs and did some scenes... danced a bit... got asked to stay further... Then all of a sudden there were 18 of us. 9 boys and 9 girls. There are 8 in the cast. 3 boys, 3 girls and 2 swings. Then they told about a third of that group to leave and then there were only 7 including myself. Mind you, the production staff had said that it wasn't a cut - it was just all they needed to see from those people. So I got the absolute furthest you could have gone. I feel really great about the experience. I'm glad also that I was seen because the writer, director, choreographer and producer from the show were all there. Plus Dave Clemmon's casting which cast many many shows.
Auditions in general are starting to pick up again... yay! Today they had an equity chorus call for Wicked for Broadway and National Tours. Of course they weren't seeing non-equity! So lame!! Whitney and I did some mail submissions last week for agents and casting directors - hopefully that will bring us somewhere....
Last Thursday, I got an appointment audition for the Off Broadway Musical Dear Edwina. It's a non-equity 1 hour childrens show much like Whitney's show she is involved in now. I believe it starts rehearsals while I'm on tour with Scrooge in Concert so I wouldn't be able to do it, but I decided to audition anyway for the experience. After I sang a cut from one song in my book, I got a call back to for the next day. On Friday, there were lots of people called back and they had each of us perform 2 songs from the show in front of everyone. After 5 hours of callbacks they asked me to come back on Monday at 10am. I went back on Monday and had to leave at 12:30 because I had my first rehearsal for Scrooge in Concert. Dear Edwina people let me leave but asked me to come back after I was finished with my rehearsal.
My rehearsal went really well... I am understudying 6 different roles - (2 different tracks or people) while I'm playing the role of Nephew. Right when I got into the room an alumni from Belmont MTR major recognized me, Bret Carr. How crazy! I am understudying him - he did the role of Nephew last year. He's equity now and doing a new musical called Wallenberg which is hoped to go to Broadway.
Immediately after rehearsal I hurried all the way back to callbacks for Dear Edwina. Sang some more songs and did some scenes... danced a bit... got asked to stay further... Then all of a sudden there were 18 of us. 9 boys and 9 girls. There are 8 in the cast. 3 boys, 3 girls and 2 swings. Then they told about a third of that group to leave and then there were only 7 including myself. Mind you, the production staff had said that it wasn't a cut - it was just all they needed to see from those people. So I got the absolute furthest you could have gone. I feel really great about the experience. I'm glad also that I was seen because the writer, director, choreographer and producer from the show were all there. Plus Dave Clemmon's casting which cast many many shows.
Auditions in general are starting to pick up again... yay! Today they had an equity chorus call for Wicked for Broadway and National Tours. Of course they weren't seeing non-equity! So lame!! Whitney and I did some mail submissions last week for agents and casting directors - hopefully that will bring us somewhere....
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Catch Edwina if you Can
Nathan's Post:
It's definitely been weird being unemployed. I'm so anxious to get started on my next project - Scrooge in Concert. I thought that I would really enjoy my time off, which I have, but I like to stay busy. Not stressful busy but good busy. I can't even begin to describe where the time has gone these past couple of weeks. There are so many things that I wanted to get done and I have gotten a lot done but since the majority of the time is mine - I feel like I have to be accomplishing things at all moments. October... where did you go?
Auditions have been extremely slow. Whitney and I got up early today to head to 2 auditions. "Catch Me If You Can" (you know the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, well they're making it into a musical that is going to Broadway) anyway - we tried to get seen but they weren't seeing non-equity. And the second, "Dear Edwina," an off Broadway musical that is running for a couple of months. There were around 300 non equity people that were there! We don't know anything about this musical but Whitney got typed out and I got typed in. After waiting for a few hours, I received an email from the casting director giving me an appointment for tomorrow. About a month ago I submitted for the show and just now got an appointment so I left. That is why it's so important having websites. It's so easy to submit via email.
Here are our websites if you've forgotten. All thanks to Shirley who has been doing extraordinary revisions and making us looks like superstars:)
www.nathanmeyeronline.com
www.whitneymeyer.com
Here is a detailed breakdown of my tour of Scrooge in Concert.
Wednesday Dec. 1st Travel Day
Thursday Dec. 2nd 7:30 PM Show #1, Venue: Miller Auditorium, Slippery Rock University, PA
Friday Dec 3rd 8:00 PM Show #2, Venue: Lycian Centre for Performing Arts Sugarloaf, NY
Here is a video of me in Altar Boyz singing the final song in the show-
It's definitely been weird being unemployed. I'm so anxious to get started on my next project - Scrooge in Concert. I thought that I would really enjoy my time off, which I have, but I like to stay busy. Not stressful busy but good busy. I can't even begin to describe where the time has gone these past couple of weeks. There are so many things that I wanted to get done and I have gotten a lot done but since the majority of the time is mine - I feel like I have to be accomplishing things at all moments. October... where did you go?
Auditions have been extremely slow. Whitney and I got up early today to head to 2 auditions. "Catch Me If You Can" (you know the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, well they're making it into a musical that is going to Broadway) anyway - we tried to get seen but they weren't seeing non-equity. And the second, "Dear Edwina," an off Broadway musical that is running for a couple of months. There were around 300 non equity people that were there! We don't know anything about this musical but Whitney got typed out and I got typed in. After waiting for a few hours, I received an email from the casting director giving me an appointment for tomorrow. About a month ago I submitted for the show and just now got an appointment so I left. That is why it's so important having websites. It's so easy to submit via email.
Here are our websites if you've forgotten. All thanks to Shirley who has been doing extraordinary revisions and making us looks like superstars:)
www.nathanmeyeronline.com
www.whitneymeyer.com
Here is a detailed breakdown of my tour of Scrooge in Concert.
Wednesday Dec. 1st Travel Day
Thursday Dec. 2nd 7:30 PM Show #1, Venue: Miller Auditorium, Slippery Rock University, PA
Friday Dec 3rd 8:00 PM Show #2, Venue: Lycian Centre for Performing Arts Sugarloaf, NY
Saturday. Dec 4th Travel Day
Sunday Dec 5th 5:00 PM Show #3, Venue: Millet Hall Miami University - Oxford
Monday. Dec. 6th Travel Day
Monday Dec 13th Travel Day (Back to NYC)
Tuesday Dec 14th 8:00 PM Show #4, Venue: Richmond Community College Hamlet, NC
Wednesday Dec 15th 8:00 PM Show #5, Venue: The Grand Opera House Macon, GA
Thursday Dec 16th 8:00 PM Show #6, Venue: Dunn Center Rocky Mount, NC
Friday Dec 17th Travel Day (Back to NYC)
Sunday Dec 5th 5:00 PM Show #3, Venue: Millet Hall Miami University - Oxford
Monday. Dec. 6th Travel Day
Monday Dec 13th Travel Day (Back to NYC)
Tuesday Dec 14th 8:00 PM Show #4, Venue: Richmond Community College Hamlet, NC
Wednesday Dec 15th 8:00 PM Show #5, Venue: The Grand Opera House Macon, GA
Thursday Dec 16th 8:00 PM Show #6, Venue: Dunn Center Rocky Mount, NC
Friday Dec 17th Travel Day (Back to NYC)
Here is a video of me in Altar Boyz singing the final song in the show-
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Pumpkin Patch
Whitney's Post:
Nathan and I went on an adventure with our friends Kara and Millie to pick out pumpkins! I searched and searched online for the nearest Fall Festival or Pumpkin Patch and found one 40 minutes away! Thank Goodness Millie has a car so we all piled in and went on our trip to find pumpkins! We are going to carve these pumpkins this weekend, so we wanted to make sure we found the perfect ones. Luckily we made it to the patch right before they closed! They had a wide variety of different pumpkins and even a tractor that would haul us to and from the patch back to our cars. Here are a few photos from our patch extravaganza!
Nathan and I went on an adventure with our friends Kara and Millie to pick out pumpkins! I searched and searched online for the nearest Fall Festival or Pumpkin Patch and found one 40 minutes away! Thank Goodness Millie has a car so we all piled in and went on our trip to find pumpkins! We are going to carve these pumpkins this weekend, so we wanted to make sure we found the perfect ones. Luckily we made it to the patch right before they closed! They had a wide variety of different pumpkins and even a tractor that would haul us to and from the patch back to our cars. Here are a few photos from our patch extravaganza!
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