This is totally unrelated to this website, but I’m gonna tell you this about me anyway. I’ve always been a huge animal lover. In fact, I grew up with pets my whole life. My absolute favorite breed of dogs is the pitbull. They have the awesome personalities, they’re insanely loyal, and they have the best most goofy smiles. In late June of 2018, right before I closed on my house, I went to the local Animal Shelter to kill time before rehearsal for a production of Disney’s Newsies. As it turns out, it was free adoption weekend that weekend. There were probably a hundred families there looking for the perfect pet. It didn’t take me long to find this beautiful tan pitbull in one of the kennels. He wasn’t barking like all the other dogs, and he just looked at me like, “hey man, don’t ya want to get me out of here for a minute?”. 

So I asked to meet him. They told me to wait outside in one of the fenced off areas and they’d bring him out to me. He was exactly what I didn’t know I was looking for. He was friendly, he was clearly house trained, and he had a lot of personality. So the next day, I went back to the Animal Shelter, picked up my new pal, and headed to rehearsal. Obviously, taking a brand new dog to a theatre full of strangers isn’t ideal, but he was definitely the coolest kid in school and everyone loved him immediately. When rehearsal was over and we got home, he climbed right up on the couch, looked at me and he knew he was home.

Everybody say hello to Phoenix!