Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Everyone! Well, the show is done, and it was an amazing year! It was even better than we ever hoped! What a rewarding experience it has been. I worked very hard this year, but it was definitely worth it. We had such fun during the show and so many wonderful compliments from the audiences. I'm so happy to have my talented orchestra members and quite thankful for all of them. They make the show very special. They surprised me during the last show with a gift certificate and a beautiful picture of "Starry Night". For those of you that don't know, we performed the song, Starry, Starry Night, in the show. How thoughtful of them. I believe J.R. is the one that found it. :) What a neat group of people to have in one place. I feel so blessed to be their friend.

We are already working on next year's show. It's going to be even better than this year. We always want to improve, so we're thinking of new ideas all the time. It's really a lot of fun, and gives me the opportunity to be creative. Sometimes it's a challenge, but a good one. :)

I'm getting ready for Christmas and hoping the weather holds out for everyone. I won't travel if it's not safe, however. It just isn't worth it. The important thing is that everyone stay safe. Phones are wonderful to connect with, if nothing else. :) I hope all of your preparations are going well. Be smart and remember the real reason for the celebration: The Birthday of Jesus!!!! He wants us to be safe, too! :)

God bless you all and have a very Merry Christmas! :) Happy New Year, (just in case I don't get to put in an update before then)! I appreciate you all! Thank you for visiting with me and for a wonderful year!

Sincerely, your friend,
Cassandre' :)

Only 4 shows left!

Hello Everyone! I hope you're all doing great! We are having a wonderful time!

Believe it or not, we only have 4 shows to go! I'm sad because it's been so much fun. It's a lot of work, but very rewarding. The last 4 shows for this year are as follows:

Friday, December 11, 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, December 13, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 15, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, December 18, 3:00 p.m.

For those of you in the area, it is area appreciation right now, as well. :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you for your support! It has been a very wonderful first year! I hope to see as many of you as possible before we're done this year! We will open again on March 15th! Woohoo!

I hope you're all doing fine with this extremely cold weather, and for some of you, snow. Please be safe and take your time going places out there. God bless you all and have a wonderful week!

Thank you for coming to visit me!

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

Thanksgiving! :)

Hello! :) I just wanted to say thank you to all of you that have come to the show so far! It has been a wonderful and exciting year! We are doing shows until December 18th! :) We would love to have all of you at the Christmas show! It's going really well and we are getting such great compliments from people. :)

This last week, I had a very special group of people at the show. :) Three buses of people from Grand Island and the surrounding area, came to the show! It was so much fun to have them there and such an honor. Thank you to all of you for being there! I truly appreciate it!

We have had some very interesting weather for November, and today was no exception. It was over 60 degrees and sunny for a lot of the day! It's really been quite enjoyable. It's amazing with it being this late in November, but there are some flowers still doing really well and it's even been nice enough to sit outside in the sun a little bit! :) I like to do that when I can to soak up some good vitamin D! :)

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and that everyone has a chance to rest a relax. Have safe travels and a wonderful time with your family and friends! God bless you and thank you for visiting with me! :)

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

Hello!

Hello Everyone! I hope you're all well and feeling happy! We are doing great here. :)

Just a short update for everyone. We are having such a tremendous response to the Christmas show! It is really going well. I'm so thankful! Our schedule is every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday afternoon at 3:00 at the New Americana Theatre. We'd love to have you all come and see it! It's so much fun!

Voice lessons are going great and I've been enjoying the mild, and sometimes quite warm, November weather we've been having! I feel so blessed to be able to spend some days outside with no jacket! It's amazing. My flowers are still going and my petunia even bloomed again! How neat! I love it!

I had some very relaxing days off and am ready to get back to the show tomorrow. I got a lot done in the way of chores, so that is a pleasing accomplishment. :)

God bless you all and have a great week! Thanks for coming to visit. Travel safely!

Sincerely, your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Christmas Show!!!! :)

Hello Everyone! I hope you're all well and happy! Are you ready to see a Christmas show? I hope so! We have been working on our Christmas show and it will be great! It's full of happy and heartwarming songs! I'm so excited to share it with all of you. :)

We do not have a show later today, Sunday the 1st. Our schedule for the rest of the year until December 18th is every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday at 3:00 at the New Americana Theatre! :) We will open our show Tuesday, November 3rd. There are beautiful costumes, including a very special skirt that my mom made for me! :) Thank you! :) Erma has a very special part in the Christmas show, as well! (She insisted, you know.) :) So much fun! Can't wait for you all to see it. :)

The show is going so well and I thank all of you so much for coming to see it and letting others know about it! I'm having such a nice time and am so thankful for all of you. :)

There aren't a lot of updates about anything else, but just wanted you to know about the Christmas schedule! I did have a nice time at church this evening and had fun finding a few more things for my costumes. :) Then, I bought some Halloween candy for the kids that come to our door! It was so cute seeing them in their costumes. Very sweet. :)

God bless you all and have a great week! Travel safe and thanks for visiting!

Sincerely,
Cassandre' :)

Christmas Rehearsals?

Hello Everyone! Yes, it's true! We have already been rehearsing for the Christmas show. :) I hope you're all doing well and having a lovely Fall season.

The show has been going so well and we're so excited for the Christmas show! I can't believe it's almost here. This year has gone by so fast. My goodness. We have been blessed with great crowds at the show and have received really wonderful compliments from so many people! It has really been fun to see how the show has changed since we opened in March. It has gotten better and better. The orchestra does so much during the show and makes it even more fun than before! :) I'm really having a great time with everyone.

The Christmas show will be just beautiful and have a lot of fun and funny parts, as well! :) (Of course!) Erma will have a special part in the Christmas production and there will be some amazing numbers with the harp, too. I'm really looking forward to this. We've picked a lot of my favorite Christmas songs, so that is really fun for me to get to sing! :) The first half of the show will be all the best from this year, and the entire second half will be the Christmas portion. :) So much fun!!!!!!!!!!

It's been quite rainy all day here. I'm so happy that I've been able to be inside relaxing and catching up on things. It's good to have days like this every so often. I hope you're all doing fine with your weather, too. My mums are still doing great! Such amazing and hearty flowers. They have so many pretty colors, too.

I got to catch up with one of my friends yesterday evening, so that was nice. It's rare to find time to just sit and chat, but that's exactly what we got to do! I loved it!

Well, my friends, I will sign off for now. God bless you all and have a great week. :) Travel safely!

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

October!

Hello! I can't believe that it's October already! Everything is going really well and we're all having a lot of fun at the show. We are now performing every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:00. (We used to be on Monday, so I thought I'd make that clear!)

We did something so fun last Sunday, October 4th! We had a benefit show for Christian Action Ministries, (CAM), and the community and visitors brought 780 food items to one show! How great and amazing when everyone works together to accomplish something so important. It was a good feeling for everyone to be helping others and the show was so enjoyable for all of us.

It was such a beautiful day today. The sun was shining and it was warm with a nice cool breeze. What a perfect day for so many things. I actually spent some time just relaxing outside for a bit before I went in for my show today. What a blessing to have down-time and just be able to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors. :) I got some pictures of my very pretty mums, too! They are such amazing flowers! So fun to have flowers blooming in the Fall.

We are already working on Christmas music for the show. I'm really looking forward to everything we're going to do! I'm not going to spoil any surprises, but it will be quite beautiful and full of Christmas Spirit! :) I hope you can all come out to see it!

I just looked at the weather report, by the way, and boy am I glad I got to be outside for a little bit today. We are supposed to have a lot of rain tomorrow and Friday, and the temperatures are supposed to get a bit cool! Well, I don't know why I thought it should be something different with it being October and all!

I hope you're all having a great start to your Fall season. :) Thank you for visiting with me and have a pleasant day!

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

Happy Fall to you! :)

Hello and Happy Fall to all of you! We've had some mild, but very wet weather lately! I just heard some thunder a bit ago, so we may be in for some more rain. At least it hasn't turned too chilly, yet. :)

The show is going really well. I hear about my wonderful orchestra members after every show and people are enjoying the wide variety of songs that we perform. It's so much fun and so fulfilling to do. I'm very thankful for the opportunity and love getting to do my own comedy!

I have been singing at the Haygood show intermissions to promote my show, and the other day I had the pleasure of meeting Shirley Jones from the Partridge Family. She is a kind person and was fun to meet. :) I also got to meet some people from Vancouver last week at my show and people from all over the United States! It's such an honor for me to have people choose my show from so many others they could attend. Everyone has been pleasantly surprised and has really enjoyed the show. Thank you so much to all of you for being there!

I have found myself being quite excited about my free-time lately! It is such a gift to have time to just come home and spend some quiet time resting or watching a favorite show that I've recorded. Simple things, but things that really make me happy! We are so blessed to even have television when you think about it. I also just started a book that I'm looking forward to reading. It's a book my mom gave to me and it really sounds good! It's so fun to picture the story as it goes along. :)

Everything is going well and we're all doing fine here! I hope you're all well and healthy and having a great day when you read this. God bless you all and please travel safely! Thank you for visiting me!

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

September Days

Hello Everyone! My goodness, what beautiful weather we've been having! I hope you're all enjoying nice temperatures and good health. :) Things are going so well here.

First of all, my parents were here last week and we had such a nice time together. It's always so much fun to have them here! We got to see some shows and eat at some of our favorite places. We also celebrated my mom's birthday!!!! Woo hoo! So happy they were able to come visit. They do so much for us, too! We really appreciate them. God bless you and we love you! :)

The voice lessons are going quite well, too. I'm keeping very busy with them and seeing a lot of improvement in my students. They work hard to apply the lessons that they learn and it really does pay off for them. It makes me feel happy to see them feel good about what they're doing. :)

The show is just going so great! I feel so blessed to have the crowds that we do and the amazing musicians that we have. Everything works so well together. We're having so much fun and I have such a great time being "Erma". I'm so happy we were able to put the comedy in the show, because I enjoy doing that as well as the singing. It's all part of who I am and it's so rewarding to get to perform the things that feel so great in my voice at my show. What a beautiful opportunity. I'm truly thankful for, and energized by it all. Thank you to all of you that have been to the show to support us and what we're doing! It means so much.

I'm actually getting to have a day, today, where I am not working, and it's a bit odd. :) I keep thinking I need to do something, but I don't! It's a nice little vacation day. I'm just catching up on some golf on TV, doing laundry and having snacks! Quite lovely!

God bless you all and thanks so much for your friendship and support. Thanks for coming to visit me here and have a splendid and safe week.

Sincerely, your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Hello to you!

Hello Everyone and Happy Labor Day Weekend! :) I hope you're all happy and well. I'm doing great and having so much fun!

The show is growing and growing! We just added another musician for the orchestra two weeks ago! He is great! We now have 9 musicians on stage playing 18 instruments live for the show! It's amazing! We also just added two new songs and they sound so neat! The comedy is with Erma is going quite well. She is quite a character! :) For those of you who haven't seen Erma, you need too. :) We are just having a great time together!

The weather has been just gorgeous and my plants are doing so well! We're going to have some little peppers to eat soon, and the flowers are still blooming and looking beautiful. :) I love this time of year when it's just so nice outside!

I will update more in a bit! Just wanted to say hello! God bless you all and thanks for visiting me! Travel safe and have a great day!

Sincerely, your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Hello there! :) My goodness, I had started two other "Cassandre's Corners" and forgot to finish them and put them on here! I couldn't believe I hadn't updated you before today! :) I hope you're all having a great day and enjoying the summer weather!

I can' t believe that it's already the middle of August. Wow. This summer has flown by. I've been having so much fun and keeping very busy. I just had some 8pm shows last week, so the schedule was quite different from what I've been doing. We had great shows and some big crowds! Everyone is having a lot of fun and they're excited about the orchestra! They are very talented people and I'm very thankful to have them on stage with me. :) I really have a great time performing the comedy, as well! It's so different from everything else that I do and gives me a lot of creative freedom! :D I can't wait for all of you to see it!

I was able to attend a Springfield Cardinal's game earlier this month and had a lovely time! We got to sit in box seats and they had food available for us while we watched the game. :) It was so much fun!!!! That field is so beautiful and the games they play on the side during the game are so funny to watch! They had a milkshake drinking contest, and I was wishing I'd gotten to compete in that one! :)

Well, my plants are doing just fabulously! We've had pretty nice weather for them to flourish. My mums have SOOOOO many buds on them, too! They are going to be amazing!!!!

I sang at two weddings this month and really had a lot of fun. It's such an honor to be asked to sing at weddings and such a joy to be there!

My voice lesson students are doing really well and I'm still having a wonderful time as a Mary Kay beauty consultant. :) There are so many amazing women that have become my friends. :) What a blessing!

I hope you all have a fantastic day and thank you so much for coming to visit! God bless you all and be safe driving!

Sincerely, your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Hello All! :)

Hello Everyone! :) I hope you're all well and having a great day when you read this! :)

The show is going quite well. I'm so thankful for everyone that is coming to see us. We are having so much fun! It's nice to sing songs that feel good in my voice and and that make people smile. Erma is having a great time with her new singing number! People are saying that they are really enjoying the show and that makes me so happy! I can't wait to see you all there! Thank you to all of you that have been able to be there already. It's fun to get to meet you and see you again! Just so you know, I will have three 8:00 shows on August 12, 14 and 16, so that will be interesting to see how that goes! It will be fun to have an evening time for once!

I haven't been able to play golf just lately, but I'm hoping to go out tomorrow for a bit! We'll see. :) It's relaxing to be outside and just take it easy. Hearing the birds and the breeze in the trees is lovely. So, even if I don't play like a pro, it's quite enjoyable! :)

The plants that I have are doing amazingly well! They have grown so much, and in such a little bit of time. It's so surprising! God made everything so beautiful. :) The nice, cooler weather was probably good for them! It's been a bit warmer again, but not as hot as it was before. :)

God bless you all and stay safe! Have a great weekend and week! Please feel free to e-mail me anytime! Thanks for visiting. :)

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

Hello Everyone! :) I hope you're all having a great day! :)

How was your Fourth of July? Mine was great! :) Tim, my parents and I went on the Showboat and were able to watch the fireworks from the top of the boat! :) Oh, it was so pretty! I loved it! There were fireworks all around us and the weather was just perfect! Our friend, Steve, got us a wonderful deal on tickets and we are so thankful for that! :) I hope you all had a great holiday celebrating our independence!

The show has been going really well! Erma has put in a new number! I won't say what, because it needs to be a surprise! :D It's very fun. Yesterday, the fog machine went a little bonkers and filled the theater with so much fog, I couldn't see the audience for a time. Someone finally had to unplug the machine and work on it so it would be alright for the second half of the show. :) We got the theater cleared of the fog during intermission and we could all see again! :) Ha! It's a completely safe sugar water that is used, so no harm done. :)

My parents helped me get some lovely little plants planted during their visit and it's so nice to have them! I love looking at them and seeing how they are growing!

My friends, Clint and Shari, just had a new little baby this morning! :) Congratulations to them! He is so cute! What a blessing. :)

Stay cool in the heat everyone and have a great day! I hope your summer is going well and you're all feeling well and happy! God bless you and travel safely!

Your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Happy Fourth of July!!!!!!!!

Hello Family and Friends! :) I hope you're all feeling happy and well today! Happy Fourth of July to everyone!

Wow! It was so very hot here last week! You can really tell that it's Summer! We are getting great audiences for the show. It's so much fun. There are a few more little kids at the show during the summer, too, and that's so neat to get to talk with them. They're so cute. I love it, because they tell you the absolute truth about what they think! It's great!

Well, Tim and I got to do something different than our normal, busy routine on Saturday. I don't know if you've heard about it; but a New York based comedian named Mark Malkoff spent the entire month of June on AirTran Airways. He lived on the planes and never left the tarmac for anything. Well, I was contacted and asked if I would come and sing a song for Mark and his wife, Christine, when they landed in Branson. I didn't know what to think at first, but researched it a bit and decided to do it. (Part of my research was running it by my mom!) :) It turned out to be so much fun! Mark and Christine are very kind people and so easy to talk to. It was a fun opportunity for Tim and I to do together! Tim played the guitar and I sang a special version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" that was tailored especially for Mark's AirTran adventure. Tim also got to climb a rock wall on the tarmac with Mark and Bob Nelson, a comedian originally from New York, and now has his own show here in Branson. :) It was really a different and enjoyable day!

Have a fabulous Fourth of July and be safe! Watch for the children and enjoy our independence. It is truly an amazing and wonderful thing. Thank you to all of the veterans and everyone serving in our Armed Forces. We are safe because of each and every one of you! God bless you all! Thank you for visiting. :)

Sincerely, your friend,

Cassandre' :)

Summer is here!

Hello there Family and Friends! :) I hope you're all feeling great and having a lovely day! I'm doing well and am excited about the show! :)

We had another amazing week of shows. It's just so great getting to meet all of you. I actually met a lady, today, that was born in Latvia! You get to see people from all over the United States, and really, the world. It's so neat.

I have shows on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:00, at the New Americana Theatre, but when I'm not doing that, I am out promoting all over the place. :) It's a lot of hard work, but so rewarding and enjoyable for me. I have met many other entertainers in Branson, and it's been a joy to get to know them. There are so many kind people out there and it's a blessing to be around them.

I'm hoping to get in some golf this weekend, so we'll have to see about that. :) It's important for me to balance everything with a busy schedule, and that includes my hobbies! Golf, is a big one! I would like to get back to my crocheting, too, so I'll have to remember that! Do you ever have free time and you can't think of what it was that you wanted to do? That happens to me sometimes. Goodness. :)

God bless you all and have a great week! It's always nice to hear from you, so please come and say hello! Have safe travels and watch for the children playing this summer! Try to stay cool in the heat. Thanks so much for visiting!

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)

Golfing and things! :)

Hello Family and Friends! :) I hope you're all feeling well and happy when you read this. :)

Well, it was another busy week, but so much fun! The shows are going great! It's amazing to have my own schedule and getting to go all over town and meet new people. I didn't know what to expect in starting my own show, but I'm so glad that I had the opportunity! The songs that we are performing are all so different that it keeps things interesting for everyone. :) I'm teaching a lot of voice lessons outside of the show, too, and that's a lot of fun.

I actually got to go golfing today and enjoy the beautiful weather! I parred a couple of holes and found more golf balls than I lost, so that turned out well. :) I also got to see a momma duck and her little ducklings in a pond on the golf course. They were so cute and so tiny. One of the aspects of golf that I enjoy most is being outside and getting to see things like that. It's so relaxing.

I was so happy that the weather was so wonderful today since it was quite rainy yesterday afternoon. When I drove in to work it was raining so hard that you had to drive very slow, but by the time the show was done, it had cleared up and was sunny and calm. Amazing!

God bless you all this week and have safe travels. Watch for the children playing and enjoy your summer days!

Sincerely, your friend,
Cassandre' :)

The show is going great! :)

Hello Everyone! :) I hope you're all well and happy! I'm doing fine and having so much fun!

As many of you know, I have a brand new show this year! It's called "Cassandre' The Voice of an Angel" and we are really enjoying it. :) We are at "The New Americana Theatre" on the 76 strip. I'm so thankful for this opportunity and I've already met so many wonderful people and have seen so many of my friends! Thank you to all of you for being at the show!

We have a wide array of musical styles in the show including, Celtic, Gospel, Broadway, Jazz and Animated Favorites! We have an amazing 8-piece orchestra on stage with me and they are so great to work with. I'm so thankful for them and enjoy every show so much!

I also get to perform my own original comedy in the show and it's quite fun for me! I love to be silly and that is truly what I get to do! :) You'll have to come and meet "Erma". :)

I've been keeping busy promoting the show, giving voice lessons and selling Mary Kay, as well! It's a full schedule, but very rewarding. It's a great feeling to work toward achieving the goals I've set for myself. :)

God bless you all and have a great day! Remember to stop and smell the roses, literally or figuratively speaking! :) Sometimes my "roses" are cartoons or "Leave it to Beaver". :) Drive safely with all of the children out running around! :)

Sincerely, your friend,
Cassandre' :)

Brand New Show In Branson! :)

Hello Family and Friends!  :)  I hope this update finds you all well and happy! 

I wanted to let everyone know that I am starting my own show this year!  It's called:  Cassandre' The Voice Of An Angel.  It will be at the Americana Theatre right across from the Presley's on Hwy 76 in Branson!  I'm very happy to be doing the show and really looking forward to performing for everyone in a new venue!     

The show will be a variety of music with a live 8-piece orchestra.  There will also be comedy and a male singer as well.  I'll be singing Gospel, Broadway, Jazz, Disney, Celtic, Patriotic, Bluegrass and songs from the 30s and 40s, all with beautiful, fresh arrangements!  The show is full of, "Oh!  That's my favorite song!", songs.  :)  There is something for everyone at the show.  It's going to be a friendly, happy and fun atmosphere, with some very beautiful musical moments, as well.  The comedy in the show is original and unlike anything Branson has seen!  

The show will begin on March 16, 2009 and will run every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:00 p.m.  It's at the Americana Theatre on Highway 76 right across from the Presley's Theater.  I will not be back at Silver Dollar City this year, so I hope to see you all at the new theater!  :)  There are also season passes available to my show!   

God bless you all and have a great day!  You can e-mail me at friendshipbughug@yahoo.com if you have any questions!  

Also, go on-line to theamericanatheatre.com if you'd like to see a preview of the show.  :)  Thanks so much for all of your support!  God bless you all!  

Sincerely,

Cassandre' :)