My Fair Lady opens tomorrow! We have our final run through tonight.
This experience has been great. This has been my first "semi-professional" show. I've done several staged readings, but those are typically maybe 12 songs.
The music director is Ryan Brewster-very hip guy. Something that I am beginning to learn is that if you have a somewhat twisted/dark sense of humor-musical theater orchestra playing is home. Based off the people I have met thus far-I am at home with these people.
Some notable comments about this show: I am learning why pro's play on stools. Standing for a 3hr+ show is tiring. So-once i get some money, I'm going to look into buying a decent stool that can collapse. I believe JoAnn Daughtery made the comment to me while we were working up "Starting Here, Starting Now"- "You want to be doing this the rest of your life right? Well, you need to learn how to make it the easiest one your body." So-i'm taking that advice to heart-albeit about a year later. The stage is at just the right height to be used as a stool...so for 1/4-1/2 the show I am playing while sitting on it. Right about cello style-bass is a bit more flat than when I normally play, but it feels totally natural. Maybe my cello days are coming back to me? ;)
I've got my eye on these stools from Ikea that are cheap, but i got a feeling they'll work better for my apartment than for bass playing. We'll see. I've got some research to do on Talkbass.com
High School Musical
That was a blast. I got to see so many people that I haven't seen in years. Working with Mr. Satterfield outside of school was fun. I ended up only working on the trouble spots before rehearsal and just sight read the grooves on the spot. Worked out really well. I plugged my SansAmp RPM into a DI [redundant...] & then into a powered speaker to use as a monitor. That was so much easier than taking my Rack + cab and about 100 pounds lighter. The show went well. My 'rents came [all 3 of em-Mom, Dad, & Step Mom].
Well-I've got some errands to run. I move on the 29th from the Gold Coast to Roger's Park.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Mid-Late July Gigs
Mid to Late July-I've got a nice chunk of gigs. This time-they're all Musical Theater.
Wednesday the 16th-i'm taking Amtrak back to Indiana to play for Civic Theater's production of "Disney's High School Musical". I am actually subbing in on this show. A guy that i useda teach in high school played the first weekend of it, but is going out of town on a family vacation for this weekend's. So-i'm coming in for it. I'm getting the music Thursday during the early afternoon & then I have my only rehearsal with the group in the evening. Friday the 18th & Saturday the 19th are the shows. It should be fun. I've been listening to the sound track to "High School Musical" pretty heavily the past few weeks. I will be playing my StingRay5 w/rounds for this show. The music is modern pop music-the Ray5 will be a great fit. Amp wise, I will be playing my Rack Rig for the first time in a few years. I will be running a SansAmp RPM into a Carvin DCM2000 Poweramp into my Avatar B212. This will be fun as the B212 has been sitting in the basement of my Mom's house for 2-3 years now without being played.
I feel that listening to the Original Cast album [preferably Broadway cast/most common version] is highly beneficial. This is a great tie in for both High School Musical & My Fair Lady [the next show I am playing].
With HSM, I will have very little time to get the show up to performance ready-less than 6hours with the actual music. I am relying on two skills-my sight reading ability and then listening ability. Since I know the recording quite well for feel changes, what is going on vocally [solos, ensemble, etc]-I will be able to make sense of the part that much faster.
Now onto "My Fair Lady", I have been contacted to play for a 6 show run in Wood Dale, Illinois. We had our first rehearsal this past Sunday [the 13th]. Thanks to listening to the recording ad naseum, I was able to sight read the part with a very high accuracy. I needed to give extra attention to about 8 measures of the show. Not bad to me, but I want to reach the point where I can play a show perfect at first read. For this show, I am playing all Double Bass. So, I am playing my New Standard Cleveland. The show dates for "My Fair Lady" are: July 25th-27th & August 1st-3rd. It shall be a blast.
Wednesday the 16th-i'm taking Amtrak back to Indiana to play for Civic Theater's production of "Disney's High School Musical". I am actually subbing in on this show. A guy that i useda teach in high school played the first weekend of it, but is going out of town on a family vacation for this weekend's. So-i'm coming in for it. I'm getting the music Thursday during the early afternoon & then I have my only rehearsal with the group in the evening. Friday the 18th & Saturday the 19th are the shows. It should be fun. I've been listening to the sound track to "High School Musical" pretty heavily the past few weeks. I will be playing my StingRay5 w/rounds for this show. The music is modern pop music-the Ray5 will be a great fit. Amp wise, I will be playing my Rack Rig for the first time in a few years. I will be running a SansAmp RPM into a Carvin DCM2000 Poweramp into my Avatar B212. This will be fun as the B212 has been sitting in the basement of my Mom's house for 2-3 years now without being played.
I feel that listening to the Original Cast album [preferably Broadway cast/most common version] is highly beneficial. This is a great tie in for both High School Musical & My Fair Lady [the next show I am playing].
With HSM, I will have very little time to get the show up to performance ready-less than 6hours with the actual music. I am relying on two skills-my sight reading ability and then listening ability. Since I know the recording quite well for feel changes, what is going on vocally [solos, ensemble, etc]-I will be able to make sense of the part that much faster.
Now onto "My Fair Lady", I have been contacted to play for a 6 show run in Wood Dale, Illinois. We had our first rehearsal this past Sunday [the 13th]. Thanks to listening to the recording ad naseum, I was able to sight read the part with a very high accuracy. I needed to give extra attention to about 8 measures of the show. Not bad to me, but I want to reach the point where I can play a show perfect at first read. For this show, I am playing all Double Bass. So, I am playing my New Standard Cleveland. The show dates for "My Fair Lady" are: July 25th-27th & August 1st-3rd. It shall be a blast.
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