Tour #33: A lot of places

First I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we had our last matinee with Ms. Angela Dawe on Feb 12.  We are happy to welcome back JJ, but Angela is dearly missed. 

 I mean, look how sad she is to go!

 So off we go on tour #33 (roughly) to Hazard, KY, Blacksburg, VA, Cullowhee, NC, Lynchburg, VA and finally, Rock Hill, SC.  After a treacherous flight on a tiny plane (Joe Ruffner, I appreciate your apologies), we landed in Tri-Cities Airport (for the second time on tour, we discovered) and rented our cars for the long journey across the southeast. 

 Our first stop was straight to the venue in Hazard, KY.  Turned out to be a dinner show preceding a morning of improv and workshops the next day.  We got to hit the buffet and eat in our weird section-of-a-ballroom green room, so that was nice. 

The next day before our IAS show, Mom and I discover an off-brand version of Splenda called Allure...?  Anyway, we had a free evening in Hazard and took advantage with a RedCo family dinner at Reno's Steakhouse.  Fine, except it was attached to a hotel that had the creepiest doll collection the world has ever known.  Yikes.  JJ wasted no time in making a quick Flip video.  See my Facebook page for that. 

 Onward to Blackburg, VA, home of Virginia Tech.  The on campus hotel was lovely, as was the whole place.

 See, classy hotel.  JJ, Patrick and Daniel were first to call time and took advantage of the sensible lobby fireplace.

V-Tech show was good...next stop: Cullowhee, NC.  This college was awesome.  We stayed in their "campus hotel" which was actually a dorm called Madison Hall.  JJ talked everyone into a dorm hallway taco party post-show.  Cullowhee was by far our best show of the week.  The college (WNCU?  Something like that) went NUTS for Gaga and Jessica got to be the closest thing to a pop star a comedienne can ever hope for.   

 Next Stop: Lynchburg, VA.  Our show was in a small performing arts center.  I think this place won best food of the tour (veggie lasagna, salad and pecan pie from a friend of Tilliski's fam) as well as best het find: a sombrero reminiscent of the one we used to carry for History Boys.  Mom's new headshot!

On to the final stop: Rock Hill, SC.  We got some free time in Rock Hill during the day where we learned that people who drive there don't think pedestrians exist.  Thanks for not actually killing me, you weirdos.  Oh yeah...and we did a show in a bank. 

 The theatre space is a converted bank branch, which still has teller windows and an official FDIC sticker on the door.  For turning over a recent financial institution, they did a really great job making it into a theatre.  It was acutally lovely.

Especially the mechanical seat for going down about 7 steps.  Unfortunately it was only for show, it wasn't functioning.

And we're done.  This was Daniel and Patrick's final tour and show with RedCo.  We closed out there stay with a trip to a Rock Hill Chili's .  They were awesome to have around and I hope they get to tour again.  Too bad it may be with Blue or Green.  You heard me.

Long, long road trip.  Next stop: Suburbs!