VoxSusana Blog

We are finally here and absolutely thrilled to be sitting in our room listening to the waves crashing from the beach outside our hotel. We've only been here a little over 24 hours and we've already driven around Ipanema, Copacabana and visited Corcovado Mountain to see the Christ the Redeemer statue. What an amazing view! Everyone is in a better mood now that they have a little time off and well..., we're in paradise! There is going to be a lot more to write about in the weeks to come. I´m really glad that Cirque picked this setting to be the last one for Saltimbanco. It is getting more "real" by the minute that this show is going to end. It is sad because this is a really great show. It´s so uplifting and the music is great. I´m really going to miss the cast and crew. I´ve gotten to know some people pretty well in the short time I´ve been here and for some others, they´ve been together for years. My hope is that everyone will have great opportunities in ...

I don´t think I´ve partied this much since college. I'm finally staying home to recover from all the antics. In fact, Armen is out tonight, again, because some of the guys from the Barbatuques are performing in a band but I just had to bow out. Gotta have boundaries! So I now have an opportunity to put down some thoughts. There hasn't been much time to blog with moving hotels, going out and staying out late, preparing for the tech show and music class, etc. Oh yeah, I signed up to give a few music classes to the students here. My birthday dinner was a great time. We went to the Grill Hall, a Churrascaria , which is a Brazilian steakhouse where the waiters continuously go around with all kinds of barbequed meats on skewers, in rodizio style, until you tell them to stop. Well, you get a token or a sort of hourglass shaped wooden piece that has red on one side and green on the other, meaning stop and go obviously. Of course, the red doesn't seem to stop the waiters from ...

That's what the stage manager calls out when it's time for the band to take their place at the top of the show. I guess it's the equivalent of "Places, please!" This past Sunday, after a full week of shows (10 for the week and 2 that day), the Cirque band performed for us at a club called Bleecker Street and rocked the house! The party started at 1 am and went til around 4:30am. It was a lot of fun! I took some pics and video, as well as danced like a mad women. (You can tell that since some of the pics are blurry..haha!)