2/11/10 – 2/12/10 – Another Day, Another Snow Cancellation…Bel Air, MD

The morning after the snow storm, we packed our van and headed off to Bel Air, Maryland. While the storm did not drop a lot of snow on Massachusetts, it had dumped almost six feet of snow on the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, DC area, shutting down all roads and businesses in the area as a result. We all kept our fingers crossed during our journey, hoping that we would make it to Maryland in a safe and timely fashion.

Founded in 1856, Bel Air is located in northeast Maryland, north of Baltimore. It is teeming with many retail businesses and restaurants. Two of the most notable natives of Bel Air come from a great American acting family: Edwin Booth, one of the greatest American Shakespearean actors of the 1800s, and his brother, John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

Unfortunately, after six hours of our seven-hour long journey to Maryland, we learned that our Bel Air performance was cancelled due to the snow. Since we were almost to Maryland, we continued on to our hotel near Bel Air. I spent my time off enjoying a dinner of Maryland crabcakes, working out, blogging and preparing for an upcoming audition. Fortunately, like our cancelled Lowell shows, our Bel Air performance has also been rescheduled. I hope that the weather does not cause any more cancellations in our schedule. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, blog readers!

I have noticed that ennui and restlessness have settled in among the tour members, especially in locations where we are hotel-bound. TV, reading, and the company of others only manage to occupy our attentions for a brief span of time, and we find ourselves searching for additional outlets of excitement. For some, this stimulation can be found in working on audition pieces, play-reading groups, or the playing of board games; for others, this inspiration can be found in long workouts (my personal favorite) or long soaks in the hotel hot tub (my roommate Jess' personal favorite). And yet for others, this excitement can be found in novelty purchases and the peals of laughter that they generate. We all manage to keep ourselves entertained somehow!



Next stop – the State Theatre in Ithaca, NY. Until the next adventure…

Ciao!
XOXO-
Janine