MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe the signs were already there.
Mandy Moore phoned last month three concerts into her first tour in 15 years. Her joy of being back in front of a live audience was palpable, but one could sense her trying to mask the stress of being on the road with a 16-month-old child and another baby due this fall.
“It’s a lot harder than I was anticipating,” said the singer/actress, who spent the past six years starring in NBC’s popular “This Is Us.” “This is a lot different than being 23, the last time I’d been on tour.”
Touring was a major adjustment for her biorhythms.
“I’m an early bird. I’m usually asleep by the time I’m going onstage,” she said last month while still on tour. “If I had my druthers, I’d go to bed at 8 o’clock. Seriously, I have to wake up at 3:30, 4 a.m. to go to work [in acting]. I’m just so used to [it]. Having a kid for the last year and a half and waking up with him and feeding him and all of that sort of stuff, that was so easy for me.”
But Moore was getting to bed after midnight while briefly on tour last month and the late nights just weren’t working for her.