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Now… I feel a little bad for The Old Rep. Because at one point it was just *The Rep*. A perfectly good name. A perfectly good theatre. Everybody happy. Then one day somebody apparently said, “You know what we need? Another theatre.” And instead of coming up with a new name like civilized people, they built a new theatre and basically went: “Well… I guess the original one is the *old* one now.” Which feels a little harsh.

We’ve got a lot of one-nighters coming up this fall. Different city every day. Sounds glamorous… until you start doing the math. In a pre-production session, Colin, our brilliant sound engineer and production manager, casually dropped this: “Have you guys thought about a tour bus?” We said, “No… should we?” He said, “Think about it. Instead of checking into hotels, checking out of hotels, and still driving everywhere… you finish the show, get on the bus, go to sleep, and wake

My Dad used to say that. People from the south have a gift for colorful metaphors. Not as colorful as "Double dumbass on you" - and let me just pause here and say if you can tell me what this is from you'll win something free. I don't know what, but it'll be free and you can brag about it. Anyway, I woke up this morning thinking of clever ways to get into this story, but after "Double dumbass on you," damn, where was I?

And don’t think the irony is lost on me that I’m working with the machine to put together the biggest, baddest and most fun 20+ performances of Vox Lumiere Metropolis on our UK tour in September. You know, the Metropolis that features the biggest, baddest and most evilest machine of them all - Robot Maria!