"World Beat"

The third show out on the Gem is called "World Beat" It's another collaboration between Dave Patton and Gary Musick and is a GMP original production. The sets look awesome and the cast does a great job on this show too. It was an extremely rocky night (the ship was really moving).

The show begins with a very cool section from Spain and then moves through several other regions...

"Cielito/ Vamos Bailar"

"Cielito/ Vamos Bailar"



"Tell Me Something Good/ Lean on Me" (NY section)

"Getcha Head in the Game"

NY percussion break

"I Wish"

"I Wish"

"I Wish"

"Golden Pearl"

"Golden Pearl"

"Naruto"

"Naruto"

"Naruto"

""Never on a Sunday" (Greece Section)

"Opa, Opa"

"Opa, Opa"

"Africa"

"Cotton Eyed Joe"

"All Jacked Up"

"You raise Me Up"

"Riverdance"

"Riverdance"

Ella calls this the mirror song. :) Jamie sings "Reflection" from Mulan in the Asian secftion of the show.

Jamie and Kwame sings "I Wish" in the NYC section of the show

Ryan sings "Getcha Head in the Game" (NY section). The ship was REALLY rocking...you can see the set piece up there swinging and Ryan being careful for balance. It's amazing how the dancers do their thing when it's rocky. Sometimes the dance captain will make the call and take out special tricks and other things for safety.

Jamie singing "Cotton Eyed Joe". I love the country set for this show. It's way cool!

"Opa, Opa" The Greece section

"Africa" There's really no way to capture just how cool this section really is in person and I LOVE this song and TOTO.

a little more of the Asia section that I meant to post up there :)

"You Raise Me Up" (Irish section)

"Riverdance"

"Get Down Tonight"

One of my favorite shows on the Gem is called "Get Down Tonight" and it's all 70's music. It's so fun! This is an original Gary Musick Productions show. Dave Patton did a great job on this one as well.

The cast rocks this show! Ryan Hunt let me borrow his way cool Nikon camera to take pictures. I LOVED IT! I'm thinking...birthday? It's a big birthday this time, ya know.

Kwame does a little James Brown :)

"School's Out For Summer"

"Still the One"

"C'mon Get Happy"

"Our Way" (Lavern & Shirley)

The band rocks out there!

"Reunited"

Did I mention that I am adding a camera like this to my birthday wish list? (actually with this on the list...the list would be more like one item)

I love this shot! :)

Finale

"Love Train"

"Higher"

"Boogie Wonderland"

"American Band"

"Still the One"

The following few clips are from the 70's TV show portion (which I LOVE!)

"C'mon Get Happy" (Partridge Family)

"Those Were the Days" (All in the Family)

"Brady Bunch"

"Funky Town"

"That's the Way"

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!