Hello everyone,
Damn Yankees has it's final performance this Saturday November 1st at 7PM. 2 for 1 tickets are available through the box office. This production has been a blast. I thank the cast and crew for the time they've put in.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starts rehearsals a week later, Nov 8th is our tentative sitzprobe rehearsal. It shall be fun. From what the music director has said, I'll be reading chord charts for the show-so I get to make up my own walking lines. GPB is running at the Cirlce Theatre in Forest Park.
New Gig House Band for the Uptown Poetry Slam at The Green Mill
Thanks to Bonnie Shadrake for letting me sub in with The Weird Sisters, I have landed a gig leading the House Band for The Slam! I'm stoked. We're confirmed to play Nov 2nd, 9th, and 16th. The fun starts around 6:45PM with some preshow music, the open mic at 7PM, and the Slam itself at 8PM. The cover is only $6! The Green Mill is located just off of the Lawrence Red Line stop.
I've got Ryan Brewster playing piano and Scott Hirtenstein playing drums. Ryan is the band director/pianist for 'Damn Yankees' and Scott is the drummer for The Weird Sisters. This will be my debut as a band leader. Pending an uber long 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' and Marc's decision, this will become a regular Sunday night gig.
Gear for all the above-I'm playing my New Standard Cleveland. I just added a bib from David Gage. No more shiny shirts!
all the best.
Showing posts with label July Gigs Theater Civic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July Gigs Theater Civic. Show all posts
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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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