At 8:30am, the four cast members that made it to Boston
yesterday (the ten others flew from Tampa today), the musical director, and I,
along with 50+ other crew personnel that were embarking today, all boarded
buses and rode from the hotel to the Port of Boston. We boarded, went through the beginning personnel paperwork
and such and are here! 
For this
trip (scheduled through Nov. 18), I am an independent contractor. That means that I have a passenger
cabin (woo hoo!) and full passenger access, but am on the crew manifest, so I
can go to crew areas (including the crew bar) too. PS – LOVIN’ the crew discount . . . a bottle of wine and a
beer was $5.00 at the crew bar!
The day pretty much consisted of walking the ship, trying to
get my bearings, unpacking, a little lunch w/ the musical director in the buffet,
etc. All of the cast made it, as
did the director, and the various wardrobe personnel. A 6pm production meeting to look at the week’s (plus)
schedule (or at least the first several days), followed by a little dinner in
the buffet, a beer in the crew bar with the director (Tiger Martina, with whom
I adore collaborating), and by 9:45pm, I was beat. I was planning to hit the Spinnaker Lounge with Tiger and
Adrian Wise, the wardrobe head, to watch the Halloween costume contest, but the
sheep needed counting, so I did.
