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.
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