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I swear to god the only thing better than watching musicals is being in a musical.
It carries on into everyday life, you see, and walking home yesterday, EVERY single person was grumpy and frowning, but I was feeling inclined to viennese waltz down the street and sing about love and champagne.
Sucks to be them.
Seriously though, I would go mad if it weren't for this huge performances like the Beethoven 9, the Brahms Requiem, Carmina Burana later this year as well as the musical opera sczhmultz that is Die Fledermaus (sp). No idea why - is it the high from performing, or from singing infront of hundreds/thousands of people, or the sense of comaradarie within the choir/chorus/group/whatever?
(Yes I am asking the performers amongst you - it justifies this post which is completely pointless, but since I booked the computer for an hour I thought I might as well use it.)
Pity I can't... you know... actually, like. You know. Sing. Which makes me wonder what I'm doing in an opera...
*suspects is being used as a prop to make up numbers or perform lifts of heavy people*
Btw Aaron (contactkennya) I hear you refuse to take part in the musical aspect of spy_cats movie, and suspect that this is because when you are rich and famous and appear on "This is Your Life!" you don't want to be in the situation of "Now we've found a little Gem from your past..." Cue video, everyone laughes, your reputation is ruined. You retire a disregarded and disgruntled old man, in a private wing of some remote nursing home where the matron always calls you a 'naughty boy' and the food is on par with that of the new starbucks. You know it's true.
I, however, can do the music as you suggested, since when I appear on "This is Your Life", I will be the cleaner mopping up after the show, and writing a rediculous musical will be the highpoint of my compositional career (as having stayed up all day and night for two months to write it, I will go nuts like Schoenberg and write crap. People will disregard the musical because it is 'a bit silly' and they will disregard my contemporary compositions as crapper than my tonal ones, and I will spend years in a homeless shelter re-stitching coats for the salvos before I save up enough change off the street to buy a broom and audition for a role in a musical, winning not the part i wanted but rather the opportunity to clean up after the stars, which i will gratefully accept because it allows me to believe that I am in some way making an important contribution to the future of Australian theatre by maintaining the studio floor space and fetching drinks for the directors. There will, ofcourse, be a personal element in my musical in which i will revel as I die slowly (and no doubt somewhat uncomfortably) in the same remote nursing home as you. As you hear the dying strains drifting from the room across the hall, you will wish that you had... oh wait, you won't end up in the nursing home unless YOU write the score. Damn, I've got my stories confused. Aha! I just accidentally pushed Ctrl+W and swiped the entire entry, but due to my Lj prowess, I regained the entire thing from the autosave.
What the hell was I talking about in the first place?
It carries on into everyday life, you see, and walking home yesterday, EVERY single person was grumpy and frowning, but I was feeling inclined to viennese waltz down the street and sing about love and champagne.
Sucks to be them.
Seriously though, I would go mad if it weren't for this huge performances like the Beethoven 9, the Brahms Requiem, Carmina Burana later this year as well as the musical opera sczhmultz that is Die Fledermaus (sp). No idea why - is it the high from performing, or from singing infront of hundreds/thousands of people, or the sense of comaradarie within the choir/chorus/group/whatever?
(Yes I am asking the performers amongst you - it justifies this post which is completely pointless, but since I booked the computer for an hour I thought I might as well use it.)
Pity I can't... you know... actually, like. You know. Sing. Which makes me wonder what I'm doing in an opera...
*suspects is being used as a prop to make up numbers or perform lifts of heavy people*
Btw Aaron (contactkennya) I hear you refuse to take part in the musical aspect of spy_cats movie, and suspect that this is because when you are rich and famous and appear on "This is Your Life!" you don't want to be in the situation of "Now we've found a little Gem from your past..." Cue video, everyone laughes, your reputation is ruined. You retire a disregarded and disgruntled old man, in a private wing of some remote nursing home where the matron always calls you a 'naughty boy' and the food is on par with that of the new starbucks. You know it's true.
I, however, can do the music as you suggested, since when I appear on "This is Your Life", I will be the cleaner mopping up after the show, and writing a rediculous musical will be the highpoint of my compositional career (as having stayed up all day and night for two months to write it, I will go nuts like Schoenberg and write crap. People will disregard the musical because it is 'a bit silly' and they will disregard my contemporary compositions as crapper than my tonal ones, and I will spend years in a homeless shelter re-stitching coats for the salvos before I save up enough change off the street to buy a broom and audition for a role in a musical, winning not the part i wanted but rather the opportunity to clean up after the stars, which i will gratefully accept because it allows me to believe that I am in some way making an important contribution to the future of Australian theatre by maintaining the studio floor space and fetching drinks for the directors. There will, ofcourse, be a personal element in my musical in which i will revel as I die slowly (and no doubt somewhat uncomfortably) in the same remote nursing home as you. As you hear the dying strains drifting from the room across the hall, you will wish that you had... oh wait, you won't end up in the nursing home unless YOU write the score. Damn, I've got my stories confused. Aha! I just accidentally pushed Ctrl+W and swiped the entire entry, but due to my Lj prowess, I regained the entire thing from the autosave.
What the hell was I talking about in the first place?