Spring is almost here and I can't wait! I escaped most of winter by going home to the Philippines to help my family out after the huge flood that hit Metro Manila and submerged homes to their rooftops.

Before that though, I spent the summer and fall rocking out at The Living Theater playing Alice in Lizzie Borden, The Musical. We were a fierce cast of four (Jenny Fellner, Carrie Cimma, Lisa Birnbaum and myself) and the buzz got rolling fast..soon we were playing to packed houses and dedicated fans who we have not yet christened "____-heads". We have to find something.

Sadly, I had to bid farewell to Lizzie, but moved on upstate to the Half-Moon Theater Company in Poughkeepsie to do my first play play in the United States: Emerson High. Written by Jim Knable and directed by Jeremy Dobrish, I played a high school student that falls in love with her band teacher. A really well-structured piece, I thought it brought up a lot of intriguing questions about the moral ambiguity of such May-December relationships. It felt great to do a play again though I did miss the singing: I drove all the actors crazy by singing at every rehearsal.

Ooh! I also just did a reading last Monday at Ars Nova of a new show called Band Geeks, written by Tommy Newman, Gordon Greenberg, Gaby Alter and Mark Allen. It's opening at Goodspeed in Connecticut next month. Sadly, I won't be able to participate in the show, but watch out for it- embrace your inner geek!

I had started 2009 off by performing at The Old Globe in San Diego in Stephen Schwartz's Working, based on the book by Studs Terkel. I had hoped to end 2009 doing the same show, but the universe conspired otherwise. I hope that Working does come back to life somewhere in 2011 like they intend because it's a funny, touching show with real stories about real people with great songs to boot.

Okay, that's it for the first post of the...ever. Off to yoga!