A copy of my letter and review that I sent to Ricky Brigante at Inside the Magic. Hopefully, it will be included in his next show! Stay on the lookout

Hi Ricky,
My name is Chelsea Moore and I'm a long time listener.
I recently came back from a trip to Hollywood, CA where I was an intern for a Broadway producer who was running a professional training workshop for aspiring young people.

(At his workshop in NY in June where I also worked for him, I met Arnold Mungioli, who was the Casting Director for Disney for several years!)

Anyway, I took some photos of all of the Disney stuff popping around Hollywood. I can't tell you how excited and comforted I was to see all of the familiar Disney stuff showing up. I from TN and I just left home for the first time. To see the friendly and familiar sites of Disney was something that I wasn't expecting. If there is one thing that my family loves to talk about together, its DISNEY! So in a way, even in this strange, new town, I felt at home.

I was also able to take a short video of the organ player at the El Captian Theater. He plays classic disney songs on this beautiful organ before every show. It is the original organ that has been there ever since the theater opened, I believe. They also have a live stage performance before each show. They were playing WALL-e while I was there. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch a showing.

However, I was able to grab Mickey waffles for breakfast one morning and a specialty WALL-e ice cream sundae for dessert. The sundae is made up of 2 brownies which form the treads of WALL-e. There is one scoop of ice cream for his body with a hard chocolate cap. Then the coolest item is a chocolate mold of WALL-e's eyes. It was so cute and yummy! :)

As far as a review for the theater, EVERY Disney fan that is able, should make a trip out to the El Capitan Theater. It is such a majestic place, full of Disney history. Currently, on account of the success of WALL-e, they have a space theme exhibit inside the theater. Outside the theater is where the Disney celebrities have their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Inside the Soda Shop, on the walls, are tons of pictures of famous Disney fans and stars who have eaten at the soda shop, including the ever-popular Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. I did also see stars like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas with their kids. Their is also a small Disney store with several Soda Fountain exclusives, such as: pins and ice cream glasses. The soda fountain specialty is a giant Sorcerer Mickey hat bowl filled with 8 scoops of ice cream and every topping available. It ran, I believe, at $30. Plus, you get to keep the Mickey bowl as a souvenir. The WALL-e sundae that I had was $8.95, I believe.

I have attached pictures of billboards for Toy Story Mania, the El Capitan Theater, the Disney Soda Fountain, my Mickey waffle and WALL-e ice cream sundae and Walt Disney's star on the walk of fame.
Here is the link to my youtube video for the organ clip. Its short, but should let you and the viewers have a glimpse into the theater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBy8yzSP3A4

Hope you and the other listeners will enjoy them.
Have a magical day
Chelsea

Catch up from the last couple of days

So, on Sunday I attended my first Catholic Mass with Monique. She talked me through most of the service at St. Ann's. It was really nice. She told me they would have communion, and that they had real wine. She said that I didn't have to take it if I didn't feel comfortable with it. I said no, I would participate in the communion, I do it at home. Big mistake. I took my little sip of wine and almost died. It was sweet, hot and sticky. The wine felt like it was burning my mouth.

After church, we sat on the docks at the Hudson river for a few minutes. It was really nice and peaceful. The whole day actually was.

We came home, made some sandwiches and grabbed our dance clothes and left for the train. I rode the train from Croton-Harmon to Grand Central Station. It was a great hour long ride of eating, small-talking, resting and just watching the city go by.

Once we got into the city we walked down to Broadway Dance Center, where I signed up for my BDC dance card! My first dance classes in NYC. I took Intermediate Jazz and Intermediate Contemporary Jazz. They were both awesome and kicked my butt into shape a little. I knew I was out of shape, no class for 2 months. I am so sore today from my abs all the way to the back of my legs. It hurts to walk. But, ohhhh, is it a good pain! (I know its sick, I'm getting therapy for it)

Then we rode the train home and finished up some work.

Today, I had my first voice lesson with Ruth Hennessy Williams. She's said to be the best vocal coach in NY. I think she's full of crap.

I'm kidding. She's amazing. Everything is very back to basics: breathing, relaxing tension (which I need to do a whole lot :), focusing on using the right muscles, so that singing is easy. She is so smart and very comfortable to be around. No crazy know-it-all, I'm-a-professional crap. Just good, solid teaching.

Then, we came home and immediately got to work on running errands. Hopefully, Mo will bring home ice cream for tonight. I could really use some. (of course, we don't actually eat dairy ice cream, its rice cream. But, its really good.)

Talk to you all soon
Moore Love
Chelsea

P.S. As far as prayers go, continue to pray for the usual stuff (peace, safety, guidance, etc.) More specifically, pray for me to be able to find my own strength in myself and not hold so much tension, strain and depend on others approval so much.
Thanks!

Some more Hollywood

The hotel where we stayed at was the Renaissance Marriott Hotel. It was gorgeous.

Some sets of foot prints that I thought might be of interest:
This is a picture of my dessert Panna cotte and rasberry compote with strawberry scones!
Also, me with the Star Trek hand prints



Mel's Drive-in near our hotel has been opperating for like 60 years in Hollywood. They make an awesome veggie burger and Vanilla Malt!

Back in NY

Wow, I can't believe I'm back in NY. It has been such a long week.

I will get a full account up later, but for now I'm just gonna give random details and highlights:

I put my hands in Marylin Monroe's at the Chinese Theatre

I toured NBC studios

~we saw the sets for Days of Our Lives and the Jay Leno set

~we saw Jay's car that he took to work that day and there was a man taking photos of it, hen 2 days later the picture of Jay and that car was on the front page of USA Today.

I toured Sony studios

~saw the sets of Wheel of Fortune, Jepordy, and the upcoming film: Angels and Demons, which was supposed to be off limits, but we got to see it.

I went to Universal Studios Theme Park

~chaperoned a group of 14 and under students through the park

~it was so sad, I kept comparing Universal to Disney and it was awful. Most of the park felt out of date to me. It didn't have strong themes or an overall cohesiveness.

I saw the El Capitan Theatre

~It was across the streeet from our hotel. It was soooooooo cool and beautifull, and huge! We got to walk through it for our tour, but I didn't get to see a movie there :( Oh well, maybe next time

I ate ice cream at the Disney Soda Shop

~I did however get to eat at the soda shop right next door. I had Mickey waffles for breakfast on our last day after the kids had left. I also had a WALL-e sunday right before we left for the airport. It was soo yummy and cool. I couldn't believe it. I felt like I was at disney. I even made a pin trade!

I almost made it to the beach

~Long story, but it took too long, we got awful directions, and we had to come back so that we wouldn't miss our flight.

Cooking Success!

Well, tonight was my night to make dinner so I made tortellini with red sauce and veggie sub meatballs with brocolli salad with a ranch- mustard sauce.

I was so nervous making it. I was afraid Peter wouldn't like it.

But, He loved it! YES!!! He said we should feed it to the kids at the workshop in NY.

I was so relieved. I wish I had thought about getting a picture of it.

I have to finish packing tonight, get a shower and stuff about 100 envelopes and mail them. That's the other thing I did today: stick $0.42 worth of postage on every envelope. The hard thing was that we had 41 cent stamps and 1 cent stamps. So I had to go through and stick a 41 cent stamp on all of them and then come back and stick a 1 cent stamp on them again. I used the Superhero stamps. I wanted to use the Disney ones, but Peter wanted them to all be the same kind, and the hero ones were already in use. Oh, well.

Peter's Sandwiches (or How Many Cloves of Garlic Does It Take To Make the Sandwich Fall Over)

Dad, you would have hated today.

We just finished chopping 4 heads of garlic. Not cloves, but the big boy heads.
We also chopped 2 large pieces of fresh ginger and 1 whole onion.
All of which (plus hummus, baked tofu, 6 boxes of brocolli sprouts and 2 slices of bread) went on Peter's 6 sandwiches for the week of Hollywood.

These sandwiches are MASSIVE. They are TITANIC, if I may be so bold. They are at least 5" tall. The bread won't even stay together. You have to wrap them in 2 paper towels and then stuff them into gallon size ziploc bags.

NOTE TO DAD:
Mo says that if you want to get that stinky garlic smell or onion smell off of your hands then you can put a good amount of salt and some lemon juice in your hands, rub them together and then rinse. It takes the smell away! P.S. I am ok. I miss you all, but its just really busy here. You have no idea. I didn't get to bed last night until after 2. But, I'm doing great. :) Love you!

Juice Fiasco

So, yesterday was the first day to have the juices. I was pretty prepared for it. I had seen Peter and Rick drinking them and I had juiced them myself that morning. Which, btw, juicing is a pain in the butt.
Not only the juicing but the soaking and the rinsing and the chopping and the assembly of the juicer and THEN the juicing and the the filling of the juice jars and then dissemble the juicer and the cleaning of all the 50,000 pieces of the juicer and then eventually you get to put it all away and chug it down.

I was not prepared for something that un-holy. It was awful. I was about to puke, and I can handle quite a large amount of nastiness! ;) It was so... I can't even describe it. You know the white foamy gunk with green grass specks in it that cats and dogs throw up when they go outside and eat well, grass? That concoction chilled is about as accurate a description as I can come up with.

I swallowed the green stuff in the kitchen when Peter and Monique weren't there, so they wouldn't see me making faces and my eyes watering.

About 10 minutes after I finished mine, Peter was drinking his juice and he asked Mo if the veggies were fresh. She said yes and I confirmed. He asked if they had been rinsed well. She said yes and again I confirmed. He then said that he felt nauseous from the juice. He said it was nasty tasting. I laughed and said yes it was awful and that I had barely been able to consume mine. He was bummed that it was my first time to have the juices and that it tasted so bad. I said that it gave me hope, to know that he thought it was bad too and that their not supposed to taste that bad. :)

Day 2 (of 365)

So this is Boris! Savannah might laugh at the poster thing. Its a picture of a little german boy body with Boris' head on and says "next time pick up a little german on your way to a party" Except German is marked out and it says Russian.


















This is my kiwi that I had today. It just looked so pretty on the coaster. Also, here is what comes out of the juicer when your done juicing the grass ;) lol

Well, its 2:01 am on Saturday and I'm just now getting to bed. I have been up for 20 hours. I haven't eaten since 7:30. I'm beyond tired and I'm beyond hungry. But, this is what I signed up for. Peter said also tonight that this is the worst that it gets. So I can definately handle this.

Good things: I get to take a weeks worth of classes at Ailey the first week in August!!!! For free!! I can't believe my first dance class in NY is going to be at Ailey!!

I am leaving for Hollywood early tomorrow morning, so I may not be able to post until after the 23. I will try to keep y'all posted! (haha no pun intended:)

Love you all

Part 2 of Day 1 (of 365)

I forgot to mention that we also spent most of the day trying to book transportation for the LA wrokshop.

I think they finally worked it out so that we are using limosuines for most of the trip! Its so exspensive, but Peter wants the students to have that experience.

Also, last night we watched Burn Notice on USA (USA is pretty much all Peter watches) and it was pretty good. Though, as explained in previous posts, I would rather have been watching SYTYCD.

We ordered Chinese last night so Mo and I didn't have to cook. I ordered Shrimp Ginger Salad and Steamed shrimp with mixed veggies. It was soooo goood. It was Chinese so you know how big the portions are, but I ate it all! lol

For lunch I had a shrimp, avocado and spinach-artichoke hummus on WHITE spelt bread. The sandwich was pretty good, except for the fact that it was on white bread. I don't understand Peter sometimes.
Ended tonight with a bowl of banana bread and ice cream again.

Explanation of the so-called "Juices"

Juices?
Well, I don't mean actually bottled juices. No, no. That would be wayyy to unhealthy.
I mean shopping for the veggies that we then soak in filtered water, salt and lemon juice for 30 minutes.

Then, we chop them.

And, THEN we juice the veggies our selves.
And, I'm talking celery, cucumbers, parsley, kale and dandelion greens. YUMM!

Day 1 (of 365)

Let me start out with My Family ROCKs!

I love you all!

Y'all make it so much more bearable to be alone up here. I couldn't do it without your support.

Its really tough making the adjustmentI want to be at home with my family, my stuff, my food and where I'm comfortable.

But, it will get better. Its already better than yesterday.
There are not enough synonyms for "Thank you".

This morning I made eggs with cheese for me, Peter and Rick. From then on I have been doing little odds and ends jobs: typing up iteneraries, proofing flight information and helping Peter transfer his script. But, most of the day I spent writing out envelopes for all of the students for the August workshop. I think I must have written at least 200 envelopes.

Above is a picture of my bed with the AWESOME purple sleeping bag. BTW, Mom and Family you must send me my pillowcase very soon. The one with the Bible verses on it. I missed it very much the first night when I reallized that I didn't have it. Also, in the picture you can see Caper who is always in my way.

Here is the awesome package that I received this morning: It is a journal from Mom, Dad, Alex and Savannah. I love it. I wanted to cry as soon as I opened it.

BTW, if anyone wants to send me letters my address is:

Chelsea Moore

Peter Sklar

68-A Croton Dam Rd

Ossining, NY 10562

Well, I have to get to bed. I am supposed to go shopping for juices in the morning.

Love you all

Thank you continuously for the prayers. Keep 'em coming.

Bummed!!!

You have got to be kidding me! The one week that I don't watch So You Think You Can Dance is the one week that Ailey performs!?!?!?! I can't believe it. I love Ailey :)

However, they are offering free classes and performances in the first week of August to celebrate their 50th Anniversary. I already emailed Peter to see if I could go and dance my little heart out!

Hopefully I will get to go to them all. ;)

Here is a picture of Caper the cat.

Hey, I'm in NY.
I am really missing home. But, anyway.

We made sushi tonight. Well, Calafornia and Philadelphia rolls. I had banana bread and ice cream for dessert. It still didn't make me feel any better. oh well... ;)

i have unpacked all of my clothes and am about to go to bed. I think Monique and I are going shopping in the morning for groceries.
R

ight now I'm in the "I can't do this. i wanna cry and go home phase" But, I know it will get better. Just please pray for me. "I'm close to the edge" :)

I think we are going to go to Universal Studios when we are in LA as one of the day trips. I told them we should go to Disneyland. I don't think they cared. lol

Peter's cat is named Caper. She is a small shiny black cat with green eyes. She is an adult cat, but she's like 1/3 of the size of Skittles. I will try to get a pic up later of her.

Well, I have to get to bed. I will post later.

Good night! I love you all.

My Beginning

So... a quick summary of what is going on might help.
1. I'm moving to NYC (well, actually Ossining NY which is 1 hr from NYC)
2. I'm now the intern of Peter Sklar
3. This is my blog

Above is the family I'm leaving behind.
Tough stuff.
More to come.