Sing A Little Or A Lot
2006-04-07, 16:29

Geez, has it really been a week? I guess I've been busy.

The talent show fundraiser went pretty well. It was certainly a bigger event than I expected (in a local theater sense), certainly more so than the one we saw two years ago, where I don't think they even bothered to dim the house lights. This year's show fit the bill of 'variety' quite well. There was everything from Dave "Spoon Man" Henterly, playing his washboard contraption, to a hyperactive dance troop. A band of teens, with a strong female lead singer played The Beatle$'* 'Let It Be'. There were some old Standards. There were barbershop quartets, good and bad. There was even - for lack of a better term, in consideration for the quality of the material - a 'comedian'. And there was us, with our little rendition of a Corrs song ('Runaway', for those who know them). We ended up doing a different version of the song than we'd originally planned, because we were practicing. We were going to do a more straightforward version of the song, but then we wanted to do a few runthroughs before the show got underway. Since we were backstage, we played and sang quietly, and it ended up sounding much better than how we were planning to do it, so we changed on the spot. It ended up being much slower, and more warm and soothing. Some folks in the audience seemed to think so too; more than a few people gave us the impression that they wanted us to come over to their house in the evening and sing them to sleep. Just call us the Lullaby Delivery Service.

* I'm conducting a boycott of Beatles music, in light of the greed the owners are showing over this whole ridiculous Apple thing. Really, owning the image of an apple? The two aren't even close, except for the concept of 'apple'. Surely these people are rich enough that something like this is completely unnecessary. Egad. Anyway, I'm quite sick of the Beatles - and pretty much anything earlier than the mid 70's - so no great loss.

More rehearsals for the revue. I met the women of the show on Sunday, and all are strong singers. One person who didn't think they had a strong voice, however, was the baritone, dubbed 'Man 2' by the script (I'm 'Man 1' - every time I hear that it makes me think of Law and Order); he quit. Apparently he was making himself a nervous wreck over the whole thing. Funny, the one time I rehearsed with him, I thought he was doing fine. Perhaps my stepping in a week later and doing as well as he was while just sight reading a book I got two hours previous intimidated him. Yeah. Anyway, the director managed to line up another male singer that can actually hack it, so all the better. So what if he can only rehearse on the weekends? Ha ha!