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Wednesday 9/15/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry..
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Morning after up til 4am preparing all the SM materisals (costume charts, etc.)
Rehearsal #1 car made extra stops.. Claustrophobia flip out.. Read More
Tuesday 9/14/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry:
Sheep at 8am.
Third truck stranded.
Stones arrived for the road.
Horses at 2:30pm and the opera tenors can ride the horses up and over the sand hills while singing
. Cool!
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Monday 9/13/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry…
Morning camels. Plus we have a baby. The sacred trees for us – no twig touched are ravished by the camels pulling down limbs 8 at a time.
Sunday 9/12/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry…
Woke for a run. – garbage truck playing happy birthday. Meeting with an actor at his house! Its a freaking audition – no its lunch. Ok. Actually a block from hotel the crabby alley led to blue painted door led to courtyard with pear trees to the old brick home. Inside a mirroed ceiling and mongol decorations in gold trim and of course a wedding pic .
The perf arts leaders parents in law. Previously leaders. 50 year anniversary. The leader when in 1958 the town was moved for the space station. Because party gave rice and a hospital
. Before that only lamb and milk. Read More
Saturday, 9/11/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
Don and one of his many trips to the GREAT WALL!
Thank goodness he read this sign before he visited! Read More
Sunday, 9/12/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry…
Woke for a run. Garbage truck playing happy birthday. Meeting with an actor at his house! It’s a freaking audition – no it’s lunch. Ok. Actually a block from hotel the crabby alley led to a blue painted door that led to a courtyard with pear trees to the old brick home. Inside a mirrored ceiling and mongol decorations in gold trim and of course a wedding pic. Read More
Friday, 9/10 – Alashan, Inner Mongolia, China
From Don’s Blackberry:
1pm no power! For second day in row
. It came on around 3pm like yesterday ….so does the electricity take a siesta too? So much for bucking the system!
Don Frantz is West of the Gobi Desert!
And no, I’m not kidding! I’ll be posting his daily quips that I receive from his Blackberry along with some interesting photos!
KATONGA closes after 10k performances!
It’s been over 6 years since Town Square and its creative team installed KATONGA at Busch Gardens, Tampa. The award winning show made break throughs by bringing Broadway talent to the brand’s African Themed Park. After 10, 000 shows and over 1,000 performers, the show closed September 2010.
Early Morning in Inner Mongolia with Don Frantz
I am in Eastern Inner Mongolia and since China is all in one time zone (with Beijing being the “correct “ time), here the sun rises around 3:45 am. So I have come to join the day.
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