Four On the Floor

Today marks the second or maybe the third four-show day that we've had since my arrival and there are a couple more before we leave Nagoya.

There was no such thing as four-show days for us on Ringling: the shows were too long to do that. My first experience with a four=show day was on the Pooh tour. We had some in Malaysia and China and the troops were not happy. It made for a long day. It wasn't exactly pleasant with the humidity and those days were made more difficult by certain members of our cast who weren't practiced at taking care of themselves or simply didn't have the constitution (because they weren't practiced at taking care of themselves). It wasn't fun – we were still doing four shows instead of three – but at the very least, my best friend Leo and I could look at each other and take some solace in the fact that any four-show day was still shorter than a three-show day on Ringling.

The strange thing about the four-show day here on Kinoshita is that it feels very different. I was just noticing during opening of the third show that, hey – it's the third show, but it doesn't feel like it. We still have one more to go and I'm sure it'll move as quickly as the others have today. The shows have even kind of felt like they weren't all there for the most part.

Or maybe I wasn't all there. That's a distinct possibility.