Practice, practice, practice

Rehearsals for The Music Man are coming along nicely. Eric has made a lot of new friends and appears to be genuinely enjoying the many hours he is spending at the theatre. We are all a long way from being off-book and the set design has been scrapped and started anew, so it looks a little barren on stage for now. Still, I think we are exactly where we should be about now.

It has been my experience that these productions often don't really come together until the final couple of weeks of rehearsal. By then, everyone is off-book and can concentrate on tweaking scenes and choreography, adding the special touches that really can make a good show a great one. I'm looking forward to that phase. It used to make me nervous. Now I just try to trust in the magical theatre fairies who seem to always show up and pull the show together. Wait, ...did I just say theatre fairies? I mean the imaginary winged-ones. Don't want to be feeding any stereo-types here!

Meanwhile, I have been concentrating with the quartet trying to make us sound as good as possible. It's really coming along. Since I don't have what you might call a booming bass voice, I wasn't the first choice for bass in some people's eyes, but I blend pretty well with the rest of the guys. I think we may just surprise them!