Back to the grind
As you may recall, neither Fred nor I are singing with the full chorus in the upcoming show. We are doing the smaller ensemble, though, and had our first rehearsal last night.
The show’s theme is movie songs, themes and otherwise, and as a smaller group we get to chip in cool little extras. We’ve done two of our three numbers before: an up-tempo version of “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and a rhythmic, nonverbal accompaniment to “Circle of Life“. Our third number is a medley of James Bond songs, including the best of ‘em all, “Live and Let Die“, with the ensemble doing the Paul McCartney part and the chorus singing “You know you did you know you did you know you did” and syllables for the major instrumentation. (I’m a little sad; I really wanted to do the chorus’s “nah nah nah! nah nah nah! nah nah!” bit.)
“Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” is going to be a cakewalk; we’ve performed it a jillion times. The James Bond bit isn’t that difficult, and should be exciting (graphics of Daniel Craig in that little swimsuit notwithstanding). I’m a little concerned about “Circle of Life”, though; not only is everyone singing a different part than they had before, and not only are we taking a dramatically different tone this time (boisterous and celebratory instead of soft and insightful), but we also have to break more than a few people of their longstanding overdone-vibrato habit.
Ah well. Should be a good show anyway.
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