--Hi guys! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas. I thought I would start off
this week's vlog with something that has nothing to do with the show. Um my family
came for Christmas and mom and grandma hooked me up with just all these
decorations. They, I'm so grateful for them and it's very sweet, but now I
have a carpet and another chair and I have some decorations that I haven't put
up yet. I still have Merry Christmas decorations up because well Mariah Carey
says you don't have to take them down until July 4th, so you know I might have
them up forever. But my mom gave me some gorgeous artwork
from my home state of Oregon. I need to figure out where where I'm gonna hang my
artwork. I'll show you a little a little pan of the living room, but tell me where
you think they should go, and leave a comment down below, but I have this one
of the gorge, and then I have this one of the mountains. So yeah yeah but also I
should show you what Santa brought me. Santa brought me a Ninja, so I'm very
excited about because I've always wanted to try making smoothies of my own, so I'm
excited about that. Oh this unboxing is challenging.
I'll just rip it. And then Santa bought me a
standard mixer, which I'm very excited about. I bake in my spare time, so this is
gonna help me out. This is all of our treats that we snacked on during
Christmas and my little sparkling cider hanger...
just just a funny story. I just have an obsession with sparkling cider, so my mom
got me a sparkling cider rack, which it's really a wine rack but you know, I am a child, so
Santa's also very nice. He brought me on KitKat and put them in the tree so they're
probably like half melted by now but um I have been eating them off the tree. So
today is really exciting because we have a rehearsal on stage with Norm Lewis and
Tamyra. They're gonna be joining the cast of One Small oh my god of One Small
Girl... They're going to be joining the cast of Once on this Island, which is so
exciting, so we get to go rehearse with them. We're
here. We're at the pickup rehearsal. Emerson is little girl today. How's it
going Emerson?
--Good.
--Good. What are you snacking on?
--Go-- I don't know. --A goat?
--No, I said a go--yogurt,
and goldfish.
--I want a goldfish. Who gave you a goldfish?
Aurelia...
Goldfish snack.
--You know mamas have Goldfish on tap.
--Aurelia, could you
hook me up with a goldfish please?
--I don't have any more.
--Oh, she doesn't have any more. I guess I'm a big... [gasp]
Really? Okay I'll take one. I'll take just one. I'll take I'll take one little goldfish.
I should also like be a grown-up and eat meals because that's what grown-ups do.
Do you want to be the videographer?
--What week are we on? Hi! Todays' the best
day ever.
--Today's been really fun.
--It actually is I almost cried watching the show rehearsal.
--Like we've been rehearsing. Norm and Tamyra are doing a
really great job out there. David and T Oliver and Alvin are on stage working
with them and they're doing a really good job.
--The show is just so beautiful.
--Mm-hmm --The heart of the show
--And the new choices that they're making.
--Thank you. I
took more than one. --It's fine.
--Do you want to go out and see what they're doing?
Let's go. I hate holding a video camera, so it's your job now.
--Okay. --Okay! All right.
--Can you give an example of your new choice of
how you say all right during "Some Say"?
--All right!
--[singing] The shoes were tight, but she said
--All right.
--She's tired. All right.
--But we're here. I'm gonna sit. I'm just video-ing everything.
There's David he's very important. David's very important.
He does all the megamind
behind the show and then Justin our stage manager.
and do you see Norm Lewis? Because he's amazing.
[giggles]
He's been in the water. He's been hanging out in the water I want to say. And
he's discovering how cold it is to be sitting in the water. He anybody who
plays Agwe is a champ because they sit in the pool a good majority of the
show, so it's definitely cool to be coming back and rehearsing things and
like not being able to rely on like lights and sound and the full company of
actors.
Emerson's a champ. She's been singing everybody's part. Is it grape, what
is it? Apple sauce? Oh, wow.
Aurelia brought her son, so she came fully loaded
with snacks and amazing stuff. I think I'm gonna have a burger for dinner. Don't
know why in the middle of that thought I realized that that's what I really
wanted, but
--I already ate my usual dinner.
--What's what's your what's your typical dinner?
--My typical
dinner is Dig Inn, which is right around the corner.
And it's so good!
--Yes! Dig Inn. I actually, I've never
gone to Dig Inn.
--Their Brussels sprouts, sponsored.
--The adults over there talking about
responsibilities and I just don't feel like being a part of that conversation.
--Hey, T. Oliver. How are you doing?
--I'm good, how are you?
--I'm good.
--So, we're gonna go back to rehearsal.
["Waiting for Life to Begin" from Once on this Island plays]
--Late night thoughts: Well, Tyra
Banks came to the show tonight, so I can go die now,
and
What is my life, man? Wow.
[singing] Moments...
What is going on today? We've had a lot going on. Oh it was Q's last show today.
That was really hard for me.
So, he's leaving to go have surgery,
so please wish them all the love in the world and welcome Norm Lewis as Agwe.
I had rehearsal with him. It was sick. So I'm so excited...
And then Tamyra is starting I believe on Wednesday next week, so it's going to be a very
exciting week for us here at the island. Did I ever introduce you guys to Ti Moune?
We have a little money tree and we named it Ti Moune
Actually Kenita named it.
I had nothing to do with it, but I thought that was pretty special.
But yeah! Just here. Just living
our lives. Another week of One Small Girl!