What a great audience last night! We loved every minute of performing in Eau Claire! We arrived early at the venue – which was hard not to do since it was right across the street from our hotel – but had some trouble getting into the loading dock. Another trip around the block and a much WIDER turn at the corner gave us the extra room we needed to pull the rig into the narrow alley leading to the loading area.
The crew got us in quickly in spite of the fact that the lift on the trailer was practically frozen in the sub zero temperatures. It moved slowly, even with several hundred pounds of equipment on it. As the cases rolled onto the stage, we started opening them up so things could start to warm up a bit.
The local paper, LEADER TELEGRAM, had a nice article with a color pictures and that helped generate tons of ticket sales. We were told the phones were ringing off the hook on Tuesday and Wednesday building up to a capacity crowd at the State!
The show went well – great volunteers and crew. We did a new show order so I felt like my timing was off a bit but the audience didn’t seem to notice. This is a great place and we would love to bring the show here again.