Reedsburg

Here we are in Reedsburg - our third new venue in as many tour stops. It was a nice performance space, there were communication issues, and the crew was fairly young and inexperienced, but the audiences were great. There was a mix up with the curtain time, all the information that we were given indicated a 7p curtain, but all the published info in town indicated a 7:30p curtain. We changed our schedule to a 7:30p curtain. Communication issues aside the audience was lined up in the lobby all the way from the theatre door to the outside door by 6:20! Our Saturday night performance was SOLD OUT - 604 seats and not an empty one in the house!

Here, some advice for Cheryl - Fish may be the miracle food and you can love your fish, just don't LOVE your fish!


Just past the Norman Rockwell exhibit in our Hotel, you could find all of the MRT 8 in the Black Squirrel lounge after our Saturday night performance. Unfortunately, several of us went to bed early and missed Steve's telling of the creepy old guy obsessed with Doug. We've been told that we have to wait until the next outing with cocktails involved to hear it. I'll keep you posted.

Sunday we had lovely church-replacement music from Paul as he played with the organ and choir settings on the key-board.
Lee has added a new mascot to the tour - a lovely fish now guides our actor van from the radio antenna. Here pictured, our crew hard at work. Also, now that we have our road sea legs the King is back in the building.

And finally there were several of these little trailers advertising our show parked prominently on busy intersection corners around town. Fun!

Sheboygan

Day two of the road tour and we are in our second new venue. Lakeland College outside Sheboygan.












We did an early sound check and then the Guys headed across campus to give some Alumni/Big donors an inside look at the show.









The Guys sang a line or two from a song and a few lines from the opening scene of the play and the donors loved them.













The show was supposed to be sold out, and they were turning people away at the ticket window. But it looked like there were a lot of empty seats. In spite of that, they were a great audience. It's a nice venue and whether there were empty seats or not, they were sold out and the people who didn't get in to the show tonight are looking forward to seeing the show in Chilton.

Green Bay

So we are officially back out on the ice - the Milwaukee Rep annual tour is Guys on Ice, the eighth Rep production of da Guys. We opened in Green Bay last night to a crowd of just under 800 people. They loved the play, and laughed a lot! Our favorite moment of the night... in the final scene after a long day of disappointments when the guys crack their final beer and toast the late Cubby Cavernan, a dozen or so audience members cracked a beer and toasted along with them. Yes, not only were they allowed to bring beer in the theatre, you could buy beer by the bucket in the lobby.


















It was a great time and a great way to kick off our Guys On Ice 2009 tour of greater, or lesser Wisconsin. And this year, one stop in Michigan!

1.23 - Sheboygan
1.24 & 25 - Reedsburg
1.29 & 30 - Beaver Dam
1.31 - La Crosse
2.7 & 8 - Jefferson
2.12 - Wisconsin Rapids
2.13 - Eagle River
2.14 - Iron Wood, MI
2.21 - Chilton
2.26 & 27 Oshkosn
2.28 - Oconto Falls
See ya on da ice!

Mad Guys

So the guys are on the ice in Madison for another week and a half. We've been here since the day after Thanksgiving hard at work as you can see. The theatre is working well for us but our houses have been small. We had a great audience full of students last night and hopefully they will spread the word and send more our way. Other than that, it's been Cold but we're enjoying our hotel right across the street from the state capitol and sampling all the different restaurants and shops on State street between our hotel and the theatre.

Once we finish up here, we'll be spending our Holidays in the Steimke at the Rep and then it's on the road!

See ya on da ice

9 Days To The Ice

The Guys will be Back out on the Ice in this year's Milwaukee Rep tour of the greater Wisconsin Area.

We start with two and half weeks in Madison, then spend our Christmas and New Years at the Rep before hitting the road.

We are bringing the Miracle Food to several new venues this year including Grand Rapids Michigan, Green Bay WI and many more.

More news soon!

and See ya on da ice!

Home!

2008 Bachelors tour by the numbers!




Approx. 9088 people saw The Bachelors on the Road in
20 performances in
15 Cities

80.2 inches of snow (we drove through probably 25"!)plus rain, sleet, fog
-9 degrees air temp (at the lowest)
-41 degrees wind chill (at the lowest)
53 degrees (at the highest)

3 different actor vans
1 truck
2650 miles each for the truck and the vans

20 spit takes
2 fart machines
60 tuna deaths
5 tuna bowls through the window
8 press interviews
4 new venues
90 hotel rooms
6 1/2 hotel bars (Ladysmith sells Beer & Pizza at the front desk - we played cribbage in the lobby!)

Infinite number of HODAG references!

Platteville

A new venue - and very nice looking. Everyone was very professional and so ready for us that the load in was only 3 1/3 hours instead of the usual 5! It allowed a little relaxed goofing around before a very good - clean show. Unfortunatly, we only had about 140 people in a 500 seat house. Oh, well, maybe tomorrow... one more show!