Hi all! The past month has been absolutely insane, and absolutely the best experience of my life.

Besides the amazing-ness of being onstage for 16 shows a week at Radio City (!!!), this week brought a different kind of excitement: I FINISHED MY MASTER’S DEGREE!

It’s a huge relief to be done, but it’s also very scary to know I’m no longer a student. I’m not sure what a 20 year old with a master’s degree in publishing (a troubled field right now, unfortunately) does next, but January will bring change, I’m sure.

Radio City will also be over by then, which is so sad to think about! We only have two weeks left of shows, and as exhausting and physically painful as it’s been, I wish this show would last forever. I have no words to express how thankful I am to have this experience…it’s been unreal.

Until I find a moment to write more about how shows are going (and I will! soon…) here are some fun pictures from backstage

This is when we were decorating our dressing room. The two casts are named Blue and Gold, so between us all we’ve gone a bit crazy with blue and gold Christmas lights and tinsel and so on.

This one is from a notes session after one of our dress rehearsals. It’s in the lobby of the theater.

This is us as “Santa’s Helpers” during the show. That’s “Mrs. Clause” in the middle, and I’m on the left. Costumes are such fun.

In our “New York at Christmas” scene, we come out from the choral stairs on the sides of the theater and walk down to the stage. I’m in the yellow sweater there.

The most amazing view ever.

Ballerina bears! Us in our bear suits without our wonderful bear heads.

Oh boy. This is me in my Santa costume. Those glasses stay crooked like that for the entire dance, as the stage raises up and down and we ride the turntable and act jolly. Picture it: we change from that yellow sweater costume above into this Santa suit (bear, wig, hat, boots, suit are all separate pieces) in one minute flat. All 36 Rockettes and all 14 of us in the ensemble. Crazy!

My mirror in the dressing room