Whoo hoo! My pit row A ticket was even better than I thought it was going to be-front row center! Tay was only 15' in front of me, and I can't tell you how hard it was to not bring all my photo gear! He was awesome, and the lighting on him when he sang WRIR was incredible! They used a few red spots, and it was so, so pretty. He did a CD signing afterwards, so I got my CD signed and hung around and just "enjoyed" him from 4' away... I asked him why no shadow tour, and his "handler" said they don't do them in cities where Grease only plays for a week. I'm also going to try and get some of my photos signed when I go again on Sunday night. I saw his TownCar waiting at the stage door, and he was the last one out the door. I sort of "noticed" where the towncar went, and it went to a local jazz club. I had a feeling he might hit that club sometime during the week. However, being that my alarm will go off in less than 4 hours, I just couldn't hang around tonight-RATS! He might have flown to Portland because his suitcase went in the towncar as well. If I can ever figure out how to tag my photos from my point and shoot digital, I'll try to do that sometime this week... One funny note, at the end of Teen Angel, Frenchie is all hugged up close to him, and has a lot of fun playing with his chest hair...(and half of the fandom passes out at that moment-lol!) It is going to be so hard to sit in my regular seat on Sunday night after that tasty delight SO CLOSE in front of my eyes! He doesn't seem to be wearing the pompadour wig anymore, it was just his hair spiked up.

On the Taylor website where you can do the presales/M & Gs etc., there is a big gap in the schedule, and Portland isn't even listed on there. Weird! There was a time frame of about 20 minutes after Taylor finished the CD signings, and before he left in the TownCar. I don't know if he did a M & G backstage then or not, but I don't think I ever saw a presale for that...all of the cast had already left as well by then. There are lots of cast members that are on the tour that I saw in NYC in Jan. 08 when I was there for Clay's opening weekend in Spamalot. There is also a new cast recording out with Max Crumm and Laura Osnes who won their roles of Danny and Sandy on "Grease, You're The One That I Want." Unfortunately, Taylor isn't on the cast recording...bummer!

Well, this was the board that screwed up my whole log-in when I tried to reply to a post about a month ago. I at least can access this and the CB again, but my e-mail is wrong, and there is no way to change it with yuku... Going to see Taylor tonight again in my first balcony regular seats. Surely wish they were front and center again as they were Tuesday night as I was so blessed to have such a nice view...

Well, boy am I feeling lucky about seeing Taylor earlier in the week for Grease! My regular subscription ticket was last Sunday night, and I have to say there were some pretty disappointed fans AFTER the show... He was great as usual during the show, but when it was time for him to do his solo, the house lights came up and NO TAYLOR! I tore out to the stagedoor because a theater person had told me there wouldn't be a CD signing either because the show needed to pack up and get on down to Costa Mesa. Well, the entire cast came out and signed the playbills, and still we waited and waited and waited... One hour after the show finished, the very last people out the stagedoor told us that he had left one hour prior-argh! Either he skipped out purposefully, or he was gunning to catch a late night flight to LA so that he could meet with the AI peeps on Monday... I was pretty bummed because I had brought some folios of photos from the concert 2 years ago, and I really wanted them signed and for him to see them. Oh well, I was even MORE thankful I bought that extra ticket because I got the whole meal deal on Tuesday night. When I was talking to the Broadway box office people yesterday about another series subscription matter, the guy told me that a few other people were pretty bummed that Taylor didn't do his single nor do a stagedoor. I didn't buy the Shadow Tour ticket for Seattle because I assumed all along that there would be a Portland show. Unfortunately, I'm having surgery next week and will be unable to travel to Seattle by that time. Geri-are you going??? Take pix if you do!!!!