By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea

More accurately, on the sea since this is a travel day from Key West to Belize City. Weather could not possibly be better: blue skies, white wispy clouds, and a lake-like ocean. A gentle breeze brushes my cheek as I sit on our verandah.

Garrison signed on some new-to-us talent for this cruise, including Andra Suchy, a tiny, young woman from Minnesota with an astounding voice. When we saw the Wailin’ Jennys at Cain Park, I could not have selected one member as a standout but Heather Masse on hiatus from that group is amazing as a solo act.

Of course, our favorite musicians from A Prairie Home Companion are along for the ride: Rich Dworsky, Pat Donahue, Jerilyn Steele, Andy Stein, and Robin and Linda Williams. The latter did an amazing show last night in the Ocean Bar after the show in the large theater. And they had been up since 4:00AM since they had a gig on the 14th and had to join us in Key West.

Sue Scott and Tim Russell did a first run-through of Voice Match, a new play of Jeffrey Hatcher about two voice-over artists. Of course, they did a terrific job. When we stopped by the give them feedback as they requested, Sue remembered us from the first cruise and even pointed to the area of the theater that we stood and talked with her and her husband!

We saw the hour-long version of Voice Match. My suggestion was to eliminate the dialogue about googling him but not finding his picture before they met. Since the character was in theater for 25 years, I said that would be highly unlikely.

Now we are off to the first APHC show.