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Chapter 32: Setting Up, Rehearsals, and Arena Tour

We got to the arena at 3:30. Tay, Ike, some body guards, Chris Sebac and some others were there. Tay, Ike, Chris, and Jason Browning were unloading the insturments from the u-haul truck. We helped them with the unloading. We unloaded the keyboards, guitars, drum set, tamborine, harmonica, congas, and some other insturments. The insturments were put onto stage. Zac and Nate were setting up the drum set while Tay and I put together the keyboards. Ike was tuning his guitars, and checking it to make sure it was all together. The technicians were setting up the sound system and making sure the mics were working right. They had to get all the cordless mics together and ready to go, even the headsets kind.

The backup band for Hanson then showed up and got their insturments ready. About an hour later, Hanson did their reherasing. They were going to start the concert, and Crazy 8 do their stuff after them. Nate, Jen, Tim, Liz, Manda, John, Bill, and I were backstage singing accepella. Then Jen, Tim, Liz, Manda, John, and Bill did their dancing. It was our first concert, and we wanted to do well tonight. After Hanson were done rehearsing, we then did our rehearsal with Ike playing guitar for us.

The rest of the class got to the arena at about 6:35. Jason let them in since we had told them they were coming for a tour of the arena. He led them to the stage where we were still rehearsing. We hadn't noticed they were there since we were busy fixing a small problem. John had kept messing up on a move, so the others were telling and showing him exactly how to do the move. He soon got it right. Then Zac had told us the others were here.

"Hey guys. Welcome to the arena, where we're doing our concert tonight,"Nate said being weird.
"Yep. Ready for the tour of this place?"I asked.

Everyone said yes, so Nate and I led them around the building while Hanson did some more practicing with their songs and the dancers of Crazy 8 practiced the moves. We did have some dinner at about 6. We took them to the dressing rooms, backstage, the entrance, and some other places like that. We then were back at the stage, so we decided to let the class ask questions.

"Why did Hanson and the rest of Crazy 8 stay behind while you two gave us the tour of the arena?"Michael asked.
"Well, they're practicing, making sure they get their craft right. With the dancers, they want to make sure that they can get every dance movements right. We're sure there's going to be some wrong steps tonight, but no one's going to notice except for us,"I explained.
"Yeah. We practice A LOT! Especially before a concert. We also do rehearsals so that the technicians can make sure the mics are working right and all that,"Nate said.
"Have you guys done concerts before?"Stephen asked.
"Uhh no. This is our first concert tonight. But of course Hanson has done LOTS of concerts, so they really know what they're doing,"I answered.
"So who's performing first tonight?"Caitlin asked.
"Hanson is. They're going to get the audience going before we go out, and also give us some more time to get over our nervousness,"Nate said.
"Who was that guy that let us in?"Nancy asked.
"That would be Jason Browning. He's Hanson's body guard basically, but tonight he has to be our body guard too,"I answered.

Nate and I answered some more questions. The other guys di answer a few of the questions too.

"Which songs is Hanson going to do tonight?"Mr. Gaither asked.
"Hmm. Lemme think here. This Time Around, If Only, Love Song, A Song To Sing, and more. I guess just about all off of the This Time Around album, and some of the older ones,"Zac said.
"And how about Crazy 8?"Mrs. Grooms asked.
"Almost all off of the album, and the ones that never got on the album,"I answered.

Soon no one had anymore questions, so they watched us rehearse.

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