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.