Ty Murray's Blog:
‘I’m not in spandex or a tutu’This morning I left Highland, California, where Jewel had her show last night, and drove to Los Angeles. I had a meeting and then I had to go to the tailor for my final fitting--everybody can rest assured I'm not in spandex or a tutu.
I'm just wearing black pants and a black shirt that has some yellow piping on the front. Chelsie's wearing yellow so it matches what she's wearing.
It was pretty cool because the tailor for the show is this guy and his wife, and they own this dingy shop that they've had for 40 years. They make all the costumes for the whole show. They're this little Armenian couple, who have been together for a long time. They were really nice and very helpful.
Chelsie was at her final fitting so I went and picked her up, and then we went to practice.
Yesterday felt like a really good practice and today started out feeling really good, but then it got to feeling really bad because she went back and started trying to refine some things. Whenever that happens, you get back into the mode of thinking about all your different body parts and how to move them that it gets real cerebral again.
You start making a lot of mistakes because you start concentrating on what your hand and arm is supposed to do and your foot won't step the right way or you miss a step or whatever. She could tell it was going downhill so we took a little break, drank of bottle of water and talked for a little bit.
Then we went back in and it got a lot better so our practice went a little longer today then we planned because we a lot to work on and, I think, we're starting to feel the heat of the show premiering in just a couple more days from now.
Chelsie's mom came out and she's been with us for the last few days.
She's really a sweet lady and Chelsie is like a clone of her mom. You can see it right away and there's no mistaking that she's Chelsie's mom.
She watched a little bit of our rehearsal today and gave some really good pointers, which helps because when we're actually going through the routine it's hard for Chelsie to see everything. I mean, she's spinning around and doing all kinds of stuff so it makes it hard for her to see everything.
It was good to have her mom telling me things that she could see. She spent a lifetime watching Chelsie dance so she knows a lot about it.
My best buddies – Cody Lambert and Jim Sharp – are coming out for the first show.
They're my two best friends in the whole world and they're going to out and be in the audience on Monday night. The producers have a really strict dress code for the audience so they're going to be dressed up. They both had to go and get some tailored outfits and buy suits, so they'll be all decked out.
I didn't have a lot of time when I first got to town, because I had a meeting, but I stopped by the place where Jewel and I are going to be staying during the show.
It's going to be OK. It's a gated apartment with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It has a living room with a fireplace, kitchen and a balcony. It pretty much has all the conveniences of home and it's clean.
It's going to be our home away from home.
Basically I haven't even unpacked yet. I just have bags at the door, where I dropped them earlier, before I hauled out here and went to work all day. I just got back the apartment a little while ago.
The room we rehearsed in today was 67 degrees all day and, to give you an idea of how much of a workout practice was, everything I'm wearing is completely soaking wet. The thing about being in a room that's 67 degrees is that most people need a jacket in a room like that – it gets chilly if you're just sitting there – and we were sweating the whole time.
And that's pretty much it for today.
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