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:

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!

Creative - Holy Cow!

I stumbled upon this video on facebook - check it out! Crazy cool!

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!!!

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.

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.

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!

 

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.

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....