The Jellicle Cats are here!

So after Legally Blonde, what's next?

During one show intermission of the first or second weekend, someone had approached Jan while she was selling souvenir programs in the lobby. She was offered to do the same thing for Cats. It took a while for Lawyn to convince her to go for it, and of course she needed a backup just in case she'd be busy during the weekdays. I was one of the people Lawyn called, ahahaha.

So we had to go to Ticketworld yesterday morning (along with Gigo and Jan's friend Pres) for a briefing about how to use this certain database or program for selling Cats merchandise in the lobby of CCP's Main Theater. Of course, we needed to learn how to use those little machines for taking credit card payments. We were there on time, but the ones we were supposed to meet were late, so we just sat around first. After a while, Sam comes through the door with her mom. Ahaha, I noticed that she was wearing a Cats shirt, and as it turned out, she was given the task to pick up the cast from the airport and bring them to their hotel. Oh my, Sam, I love your job, hahaha.

Eventually, we finally met up with Lana and this other girl (I forgot her name, sorry), and all 6 of us were assigned to the merchandise in the lobby. We were taught how to use the nice, foolproof cashier program and that credit card machine that just looks like a huge phone (ahahaha), and then after each of us had tried it out, we called it a day. We then decided to go to Glorietta to have lunch, and probably watch a movie. While Gigo, Jan, Pres and I were walking along Ayala, Gigo got a phone call from Sam. As it turned out, she needed at least a couple of more people to help her in picking up the cast from the airport, because there are a lot of them. Jan and Pres declined, but both Gigo and I were game. Woohoo!

Met up with Sam and Melissa at the hotel, then we boarded the bus (while Melissa took the van) and we were off to the airport. Melissa got a special pass so she could meet with the cast once they were out, while Gigo, Sam and I just waited in the snack bar, just talking. When we thought it was finally time for their plane to arrive, my goodness, we were told pretty late that their flight got delayed for four hours! Holy kamote. We had no choice but to wait somewhere nearby, so Gigo offered that we have dinner at his mom's restaurant.

After dinner, we headed back to the airport. Holy kamote, it started raining, and so we started hoping that the flight wouldn't get delayed much more. When we checked the monitor for the arrivals...

"Hmm... anong ibig sabihin ng 'Definite'?" (As opposed to other status updates like "Arrived")
"Eh di DEFINITELY coming."
Ahehehe.

Yep, they arrived as rescheduled. Melissa was the first to see them, and Sam went inside as well to help her with all the people. I got tasked with holding up the poster at the arrivals area so they can immediately see where to go, then Gigo would be the one to lead them to the bus in groups. It was quite a relief to see that they were still in a pretty good mood despite the flight delay and the sudden humidity (and to think that it had rained). After loading their bags in the bus and doing a final head count, it was time to head back to the hotel. Sam rode the bus with the cast while Gigo, Melissa and I took the van.

Once we arrived at the hotel, we led them to their check-in area where they can settle for a while. During the ride back, Sam got word that it was one guy's birthday, so she relayed the message to Melissa. We ended up finding a suitable birthday cake in the hotel buffet to surprise him during check-in, hahaha. After everyone had finally checked in, we were finally allowed to go while Sam and Melissa had a meeting.

It was great to be one of the first to meet the cast. Hope there will be more opportunities during the run even though we'll just be stationed in the lobby, hahaha.