Keeping Up with Cheryl Ann

Crap! My mother's birthday was yesterday. In truth, I really did not "forget" her birthday. I did call her shortly after JD de...

I had an early wake-up call this morning. (Well, early for me, as of late. No reason to get up with the sun if you've no job, right?) A ...

Last night, after dropping Mallorie off at Cotton Patch Gospel , I decided to take Cade to see "A Year With Frog and Toad" at The...

We had a typical Thursday night performance. I had some difficulty getting back into character. Eric noticed too. Apparently my Jersey accen...

Tonight at "Firecracker" rehearsal, Randy asked me if I could do a Southern Belle accent, you know the kind,voice just dripping wi...

Ken is running spotlight for Theatre Alliance's "A Year with Frog and Toad" so he wasn't at read thru tonight. But the res...

Well actually, today was callbacks for "Miss Firecracker". Auditions were this past Tuesday and Wednesday, but since I was in tec...

Last night's "Who will play the part of Christian?" only added to my usual Opening Night jitters. I took the day off from wor...

This afternoon we all got calls from Elizabeth, our stage manager. Chad is sick. He wasn't well enough for final dress tonight, and ther...

We finally worked costume changes into the show tonight. I have one quick change where I go from my pink SpongeBob Squarepants top and white...

Okay, so color me very impressed. For those of you not familiar with theater lingo, cue to cue is the term used for setting light levels an...

I like this picture of the two of us. I am a part of Hannah's past, she is part of my future, and together we are taking the present a d...

Hannah is smiling because her name has just been called. She is preparing, at that very moment, to step away from her (42) graduating sister...

I wish I had remembered this "Never Too Late" cast photo earlier! Five of us in this shot just closed "The Diary of Anne Fra...

It's finally over, and I am so glad! Don't get me wrong, I liked the cast and crew of the show (except for a Friday night incident t...

Three more departed Customer Relations yesterday. When I agreed to remain until June 16, I thought the toughest part of the job would be han...

So begins the last weekend of this show. Every time I sign on for a 3 weekend show I end up with mental notes to never do one again. Three w...

Tonight Kelly, Chad and I will be working our scenes. Scene work is my favorite part of the rehearsal process. I love spending the time to r...