The Boards, Thursday Evening (Petey Sci-Fi Rehearsal)

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Ah, the first day of rehearsals at the Boards. It was just the sort of thing to make Jono show up looking... if not happy then at least slightly less grumpy than usual, with a stack of scripts in his arms complete with sheet music. It might have been the therapeutic smashing of creepy dolls with a crowbar that had him in such a good mood. Or maybe

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Read-through!

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And sing-through! This should be a breeze for anyone who already knows the show, of course. But those poor people who haven't had their Rocky Horror cherry popped yet...? Well, Jono seriously considered buying red lipstick so that he could draw a 'V' on their foreheads, this week.

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[chief_cheerio]

Quinn had seen the movie, but she hadn't cared enough to find out who the lips at the beginning were.

That might have been a mistake. She realized as she was looking at the script and waiting for the read-through to start that the very first song, which was a solo, was, um. Hers.

No pressure, Quinnie.

"Are we doing 'Science Fiction' as a solo?" she asked, trying to sound like she didn't care.

[OOC: She'll do it, but she'd be open to offers of a duet/backing vocals/moral support.]

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[oncourtandstage]

"Well, yeah," Troy said, blinking a bit. He hadn't even thought about that being a problem. "Do you have a concern about it?"

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[chief_cheerio]

Quinn flashed a smile. "If you don't, I don't. I was just checking."

She was pretty good at feigning confidence. If deep inside she was still nervous about the solo aspect, or worried her voice was a little thin for the song ... well, that was what rehearsal was for.

"Should I sing it now, or just say 'Fuschia sings here'?"

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[oncourtandstage]

Troy cued up the CD player. "You can sing along if you know it well enough," he said, "but we're just going to play them for the read-through, and then start running through the songs after we finish that."

And with that, he hit play.

"This the Original London Cast, not the movie soundtrack, so it's probably pretty different than most of you know -- and actually has Patricia Quinn singing, instead of lip syncing to Richard O'Brien's voice, since he did it for the movie soundtrack. We can play around with vocal stylings some, though, so don't feel it needs to be exactly like either this or the movie."

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[chief_cheerio]

Quinn nodded seriously, then carefully listened to the recording. She did some singing along in a low voice at the parts where she knew the lyrics best, but mostly she used the time to study the song.