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...two more rehearsals, and we would have nailed (that song--lalalalala, the perhaps pratfall, the disaster entrance...)
It's the truism for this show...two more rehearsals. The glory and terror of a Discovery show is that you get a month plus tech week to put it all together, and this one was basically a full orchestra show, just with the orchestra on stage, which was cool...we could interact with them, and they could all see us (if not our faces.)
"The Mountebank" is a very interesting text, being as it is Sullivan unrestrained, so his "Magic lozenge" is brought to the fore. Two songs about mechanical people, the use of the word "Transmogrification" in a song, a doomed love triangle, extremely frustrated village girls--this play has it all, and that means it's 3 hours long. But it does have decent women's songs (both solo and chorus) and pathos and humor, so it's a decent play, if a bit hard to follow (too much going on.)
Once again, Lyric Theater (GSSSJ) recruited a great bunch of leads, who I really enjoy watching, and working with. Several of them are destined for bigger/better things. As for me, it's clear I have the voice, the basic acting chops, the stage presence, and the ego to be a lead; I need to develop my singing, memorization, and appearance. That means diet, vocal training, and practicing memorization. The first one is hard, but I know how to do it (and have started), the second I know of resources and will start exercises for, and the final one (memorization) I will simply have to work on.
For the next Lyric show, I'm going to volunteer and see if they need run crew, and/or attend the singalong night (probably both.) I still really like the idea of a drunken Barkado (Mikado in a bar), and the King of Clubs would be a good place for it. As for the rest,
jorb!
Goodbye no evenings free due to rehearsals. Hello no social events involving food. Goodbye to trying to find my note in the sea of tenors (I was the only bass/baritone in the chorus, and we were very few overall) (Yay! Show had enough tenors!) hello to trying to find my note in my brain as I memorize songs.
I'd recommend seeing the play, but as a minor Sullivan work, which hasn't been done in 50 years (we premiered the new edition, gotta love that about this group, the Discovery series does COOL STUFF (Next year a Sousa Operetta, how cool is that?)) I don't think you'll be able to see it. I might try to reprise some of the clockwork bits at the next Clockwork Alchemy. Hmm.
It's the truism for this show...two more rehearsals. The glory and terror of a Discovery show is that you get a month plus tech week to put it all together, and this one was basically a full orchestra show, just with the orchestra on stage, which was cool...we could interact with them, and they could all see us (if not our faces.)
"The Mountebank" is a very interesting text, being as it is Sullivan unrestrained, so his "Magic lozenge" is brought to the fore. Two songs about mechanical people, the use of the word "Transmogrification" in a song, a doomed love triangle, extremely frustrated village girls--this play has it all, and that means it's 3 hours long. But it does have decent women's songs (both solo and chorus) and pathos and humor, so it's a decent play, if a bit hard to follow (too much going on.)
Once again, Lyric Theater (GSSSJ) recruited a great bunch of leads, who I really enjoy watching, and working with. Several of them are destined for bigger/better things. As for me, it's clear I have the voice, the basic acting chops, the stage presence, and the ego to be a lead; I need to develop my singing, memorization, and appearance. That means diet, vocal training, and practicing memorization. The first one is hard, but I know how to do it (and have started), the second I know of resources and will start exercises for, and the final one (memorization) I will simply have to work on.
For the next Lyric show, I'm going to volunteer and see if they need run crew, and/or attend the singalong night (probably both.) I still really like the idea of a drunken Barkado (Mikado in a bar), and the King of Clubs would be a good place for it. As for the rest,
jorb!
Goodbye no evenings free due to rehearsals. Hello no social events involving food. Goodbye to trying to find my note in the sea of tenors (I was the only bass/baritone in the chorus, and we were very few overall) (Yay! Show had enough tenors!) hello to trying to find my note in my brain as I memorize songs.
I'd recommend seeing the play, but as a minor Sullivan work, which hasn't been done in 50 years (we premiered the new edition, gotta love that about this group, the Discovery series does COOL STUFF (Next year a Sousa Operetta, how cool is that?)) I don't think you'll be able to see it. I might try to reprise some of the clockwork bits at the next Clockwork Alchemy. Hmm.
