Wausau

Wasuau is by far our biggest venue, 1200 seats - three sold out performances. It's a lot of people. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming. Ernie had to have the audience say Lienies word of the day twice because it was just that much fun to hear that many people say "Coaster". There are lights around the proscenium which make it glow. It's beautiful. This is a professional house, with all of the bells and whistles and a great staff that is really on the ball. Our first night we had some sound issues - comes with the territory when dealing with that big of a space.
We had a lot of fun with the half time show. They gave us an extra wireless mic so that Ernie could choose contestants from either the lower or upper level. Of course we didn't really plan how to get prizes up to balcony winners. But the ushers (or prize minions as Ernie called them) hopped to and prizes found winners in a quick and efficient way.
You need to have a little billie goat in you to get from the dressing rooms to the booth, Bill has his work cut out for him to get from the booth to the stage at intermission as he has to cross through a little bit of the audience and across thier main lobby/concessions area. But he made it tonight!



The lobby is great - decorated with Leinie's ice buckets filled with flowers and random fishing equipment. They have several auctions going on including a separate local grocerie store auction for this mobile fishing castle! After the show we were able to relax in a bar in the hotel, it is the first time all eight of us went out, of course we were never all in the bar at the same time, but Wausau is treating us very well and Sunday... BRAT FRY!