Our first full week back. And it was incredibly smooth - thank goodness.
We actually couldn't have had a better city to re-open the show in. Louisville was phenomenal!
When we first got into town, I wanted to head straight over to my favorite place - Hillbilly Tea - for dinner but they are closed Mon/Tues so I had to wait. Instead we ended up over at a place not too far off called Doc Crows. It was a BBQ joint and Raw Bar - and so delicious. I had a few oysters, a baked potato stuffed with the most amazing brisket I've had outside of Nashville and this to die for sunday (lets just say it had cinnamon dusted pork rinds, candied bacon, bourbon sauce and a whiskey soaked cherry...). Some of my other foodie highlights were stoping by the historic Brown Hotel (where the movie Elizabethtown was filmed) and having the Hot Brown - a Kentucky classic which they invented. Its basically an open-face turkey and tomato sandwich covered in creamy béchamel sauce and bacon. So Good. I also finally made it to Hillbilly Tea - and had their pulled pork over cornpone, which was also outstanding. Finally, on our final night in town I went with some castmates to a place called Sidebar - which was serving the most sinful spiked chocolate shake that I've ever had. Not a good stop for the diet but a great one for the tastebuds.
There was also a ton to DO in Louisville. It is the home of the Louisville Slugger factory - where they make all the bats for the NBA and most of the ones you can buy out at the stores as well. They have a cute little museum and factory tour where you can hold some historic bats and then take a swing in a batting cage as well. They even give you your own mini bat as a free souvenir. Louisville is probably MOST known as the home of the Kentucky Derby - held at Churchill Downs every year. So we took a half day tour of the Downs as well. It was cool to see the horses running on the track up close - they do practice runs all year round. The Kentucky Derby is actually only one of about 800 races they run on that track a year - and while you'd spend near 14K for a seat inside on Derby day - you can go (in season) and and spend $35 to have the same experience on any other day - kinda wild.
Our week of shows were very well received in Louisville - they are a big theatre town (which surprised me) and have a number of professional regional theaters in town. The audiences were just great - and the local crew was fantastic as well. The venue itself, the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts - was a lot of fun to be in as well - one of the ONLY theaters that actually keeps the stage cool during shows (not just the audience) so I didn't have to worry about heat stroke the whole week (lol). They also did some amazing promotion for the show. One of the local breweries, BBC, actually made a yummy concoction called Lurch's Lager. They were selling it in all of their locations around town and threw an opening night party for us at their brewery where we got to sample it and then take a tour of the brewery where its made. They also worked with the city to have a BUS CAMPAIGN! The entire family got their own busses with their photo on the back of them. They took us out to the river one afternoon to do a photoshoot with our buses - and it was awesome. I felt like Carrie Bradshaw (without the puddle splash). Very swanky.
All in all we had a great time in KY - and are sad to see it go. But on we charge - off this time to Michigan - Kalamazoo to be percise!
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