Not very flashy, but certainly mobbed.

[emmacrew]

This weekend I took part in an enormous "flash mob" of the Hallelujah Chorus at Nordstrom in downtown Seattle. It was organized by the Symphony, and we invited a bunch of other local choruses to join. The goal was to get 300-400 people. They cut off the RSVPs at 500. I don't know how many people actually showed up (there's always some attrition, but I expect a few people showed up without being part of the official count, too). We were all assigned areas in an attempt to get people spread throughout the first floor plus a good sized group one floor up and one floor down. Instead we got most everyone crammed in as close to the piano as they could, and smallish groups on the other two floors. I can understand wanting to be where the main action was, I was going up and down the escalators during the "rehearsal" before the store opened and the sound was certainly best where there were to most people. There are tons of unofficial videos to be found on youtube, but the official video got released today, and hooray, there's a bit of footage of us up on the second floor, too. Look at the right edge around the 3 minute mark to catch a few seconds of me and kathrynt.

It was a hoot. And now, two rehearsals and five performances of the whole thing.

ETA, Wm's commentary on the video:
See, mom? Jerry is at singing. Are they singing? Look, there's you! Mom, is the people going to clap at five minutes? Yeah. They sing first. Mom, they clapped. Jerry like clapping. Jerry clapped!