I know I haven't blogged in awhile. Simple because I haven't had any inspiration, and I have spent all of my writing skills on pottersworld. But this is something that should be blogged, since it is a rather large part of my life.

I owe my whole career in theatre to Randall Hickman, Douglas Davis, Myles Vencil, Katie Gonzales, Kristen Strange, Courtney Park, and all of the insanely talented people I have ran into along the way at Premiere for Kids.

I feel as if I owe them everything. I love each one of them so much. To the point where its more than most of my family, they are my family. The family that we love to mess around with. Since the young age of 7, they have welcomed me with open arms and taught me the most valuable things that I couldn't imagine learning from anyone else. Thank's isn't enough to express my gratitude towards these people/this company. I am aware the end is drawing near, and the thought of that brings tears to my eyes.

I'm not being melodramatic or anything, I'm being completely honest. They have made me the person that I am today, without them, I have no idea what I would be like. So many memories growing up with them, not all of my memories people have shared with them. Like, when The Broadway Theatre was an empty storage place behind the Avo, with a variety of metal poles and such. Doing secret Santa Exchanges in the white wall and floor storage place. Watching Doug draw on the black walls. Being one of the first kids to run around the Broadway in Winnie the Pooh costumes. Talking to randy after school shows. Listening to Doug do the raffles, when they had good prizes! The countless times I have sold opportunity tickets, randy made fun of me for being too pushy with it...but agreed that it worked. Then there was the time where Randy was into 'floating heads' so for our lobby pictures, he put us in black turtlenecks. When we went out to take the picture, Austin Wright (one of the people from the beginning) asked Randy if he would ever do wicked. His response: "HECK NO." Growing up with all the students that now work for them every year: Kristen, Courtney and Myles mainly. Then when Myles went off to college...now he graduated. It's been that long! Walking around with Brittany (graduated) , Lauren (senior), and Myles (UCSF Grad) in Moonlight park for easter, putting flyers on cars. Myles making a select group of us clean the off broadway (I remember when they bought the old costume place and was going to turn it into a childrens theatre), including cleaning the bathrooms during a rehearsal...Randy later took pictures of Lauren and me cleaning the Urinal.. Also the time where he cancelled rehearsal for everyone except for leads, then we all cleaned the theatre. Which was ultimately the start of me going to clean every so often. When Legally Blonde was on MTV, Randy came in the next day boasting about its genious, which was all during christmas show rehearsals. When he came back from NYC he always told us of the shows he saw. He taught me to appreciate any part I get. Marching up and down Main Street, attempting to get people in the theatre to watch shows. Spending quality time with all of my friends. Doing the summer Drama camp, Katie being the Director for the second time of me doing Alice in Wonderland. Then when myles went off to college, Jacob came in. No one was super fond of Jacob at first, since he was no myles. He came and saw me in my understudy show at EC for All Shook Up. But look at us now, we love them both dearly. All of the timeless award shows, finding out who was announcing five minutes before the show started. All of randy's classic jokes. The many names he called me. Being there when the 'muppet arms' was created in a workshop..by vincent...he called it the Vincent muppet arms...any premiere kid would understand. Talking with Randy about Hairspray at a young age, when he told me that they signed him on in Mid-2000's for Edna Turnblad, and now he is Edna this summer. I was just Tracy. Man. Time has flown by. And there are many more. But these are the ones that I recall the most.


Not only to mention all of the great kids I have ran into. There are countless people. I remember faces, names(some) and what shows we did and their parts. But there are few that I have actually kept talking to from our beginnings coming to our ends. Some have graduated this year, most next year, and then my year. It's going to be hard. I need to find some of my old pictures and scan them.

I was Six going on Seven. 2003. Now I am Fifteen going on Sixteen. 2011. It's been a wonderful eight years. Years of amazing-ness that I owe to them. Thank You. Imagine when its my time to go off to college. That's going to kill. Well, I love you Randall, Douglas, Myles, Jacob (team Jacob...SILVA), Katie, Courtney and Kristen.

I will always be a premiere kid. I owe everything to you guys. I love you. Thank you for being in my life.

Love Always,
Rissi, Rissa, Hun, Sweetie, girl with 'low-self-esteem',MarisaScott, Marisa (:.