Colorz

I am going to try and post some pics from the shows last week. The first one is called "Colorz". It's a really cool show and a great collaboration by Gary and Dave. And Dave did an awesome job orchestrating and arranging the show. It's cool to see initial concepts and then see it up and running out there and looking great! All the numberrs have something to do with a color of some sort.

Here are some pics in random order...

Ryan Hunt and Tiffini Dodson--Ebony and Ivory

Ryan-- Band of Gold

Ryan-- Band of Gold

Jamie Godfrey-- Pink Cadillac

Ryan-- Hey There Little Red Riding Hood

Ryan-- Red Hot Mama

Ryan-- Blue Suede Shoes

Tiffini, Jamie and Kwame Remy-- Orange Colored Sky

Ryan- Yellow Brick Road

Ryan, David, Beetle, and Igor play the Beatles singing "Yellow Submarine" (Hannah and Lynnea dancing)

Jamie-- Goldfinger



Tiffini starts the show singing "Colors"

Kwame sings "Blue Monday"

Tiffini, Jamie and Kwame sing "Orange Colored Sky"

Kwame and Jamie sing "Black or White" and "Men in Black"

"Goldfinger" (I love the last note. Jamie rocks it!)

Jamie sings "Pink Cadillac"

"Purple Haze"

Kwame and Tiffini sing "Color Of My Love".

Simon and Elena dance beautifully!

Ryan, Kwame, Tiffini and Jamie sing "Old Black Magic"

Rome...a teaser

No internet time to write...just wanted to send a peek for the fam back home . Rome was incredible today. We all walked at least 30 miles and saw just about everything. It was the one day, double shot of espresso, kind of victory. My emotions were all over the map today. I wept in St. Peter's. I was so moved at the Pantheon. But walking down the street of ruins into the Coliseum at the end of that street...that was awesome too.

I'll post more later...here are a few

The Vatican in the background

Ruins of Ancient Rome

therre were soldiers standing outside the Coliseum

Coliseum

Trevi...this is the fountain sung about in the old song "Three Coins in a Fountain"

(or in my case TWO coins in a fountain...two wishes!)

The Vatican St. Peter's Basilica. Weep inducing, magnificent house of worship.

Tiffany, BST, Kwame, and Jamie

Coming into the Basilica in The Vatican. Incredible!

More to come. Tomorrow we take a train to Florence. We're doing to see The David!

Malta

Today we were in Malta. I have no idea where to even begin. Malta was unbelievable. It dates back to 5000 BC for one thing. Yes…5000. So, it has an ancient world feel. St. John’s Cathedral is really beautiful. We toured it and then had lunch at a pasta place across the street and upstairs that looked out over it. We had to be back on the ship by 2pm so we walked pretty quickly (my feet are SO TIRED!) By the way--Paul had a missionary journey here...parts of Malta look just as they would have when he was there.

As we sailed away from Malta…on the other island there is a large section that Hollywood studios own. This where they make every movie that was supposed to be set in ancient times…Gladiator, Troy, etc. You can see why. They even added to the section a fake reproduction of the coliseum. Everything else is real, but that was constructed. It’s where they filmed Gladiator.

Everyone tried to prepare me for the heat—they all said, “it’s a different kind of hot.” It was like the hottest day in Arizona. Microwave oven hot.

I took a LOT of pictures...here are just a few.

Inside St. John's Cathedral

I was so excited that we could take pictures inside!

UNBELIEVABLE!

I love this!

I like taking random pictures that just give you a feel of how things look.

Ryan, Kwame and me in front of St. John's

Here's the entrance to where we had lunch...

then up these stairs to pasta heaven!

This is the view from our table of St. John's

On one of the balconies of the restaurant

I love pictures of doors. This might be one of my favorite yet. You can see the Maltese cross on each door.

LOTS of walking!

Ryan, Kwame and Jamie

Wonder whose yacht that is?? It's huge! (and a slight bit tacky if you ask me...kind of spoils the beauty)

As we were walking back to the Gem, this Clipper ship sailed in. TOO COOL!

another door...Jamie commented that those Bougainvillea (sp?) look like they were painted by God. Beautiful!

On sail away, Ryan and I went up to the top deck and took these pictures. You can get a real sense of the ancient feel.

This is the section where they filmed Gladiator and Troy

Bye bye, Malta!

There were islands on either side of the ship and both had identical light houses

Tomorrow is another show day--the 70's show ("Get Down Tonight"). We'll be in Naples.

Tech Run of "Colorz"

The ship is at sea today. It's extremely windy! We're on our way to Malta. Be there tomorrow. Tonight is the first production show..."Colorz". The tech run this afternoon went really well. It's a great show. Dave did a really wonderful job writing and arranging it. Ryan is doing a fantastic job of stepping right into the shows. The singers are sounding incredible!

Ryan and the dancers

Tiffany and Kwame sing "Color Of My Love"

David is doing a little James Bond back there while Ryan sings "Band of Gold"

Jamie, Tiffany and Kwame run through"Orange Colored Sky"