Kiss me, free tickets
Back at the homecoming concert a couple weeks ago, Avery asked if I'd like to attend the upcoming musical with her. She gets free tickets since she donates to the school and would rather go with someone, so what the heck. The show was Kiss Me, Kate, and the only other time I saw it was when her church group performed it. I thought this was the show where she'd played a character who ends up doing the splits; alas, I'd confused it with Bye Bye Birdie. But we went and enjoyed it anyway.
The show, overall, was really good. I told the director, who'd been my professor a couple times, that his leads were fantastic. This ended up being a dance-heavy show, but it looked like fun. Also, I was jealous of the piccolo part--now *that* sounded like fun, and by fun I mean challenging. Plus, it had a similar deal like with Pirates of Penzance, where the female lead has a duet with the piccolo. The thing with Pirates, though, was it was the flute who'd gotten the duet, but the director had told me it was my part; he didn't realize that I wasn't the flutist. I was disappointed about that but it was years ago now. So, anyway, I was glad to see piccolo vindication, even if I didn't play it.
There were a few glitches. There was a major mike issue with a couple of the leads, leading to some loud booms when they'd start singing--kind of distracting when they're performing in a musical. Luckily they stayed in character and went on like nothing happened, which is exactly what you need to do, so kudos to them. The other issue ended up being hilarious. The two comic foils were these gangsters, and toward the end they call up their new boss. At the end of the call the one gangster hangs up the phone--and it completely falls apart, like someone had loosened the receiver; the parts went clattering to the floor. This clearly was not supposed to happen, but one of the next lines was the guy describing how their previous boss had been knocked off--"like the phone," I think he ad-libbed. Nice. We cheered raucously at that. Oh, and there was a little girl in the audience. Near the end of the first act, there was a funny line and the crowd laughed, and stopped, and then she got the joke and let off this loud giggle. It was so cute we all had to laugh again.
The show ended up being three hours long, and Avery and I talked a bit afterward, so even though it started at 7:30 I didn't get back home until 11:40, yikes. Part of that might be because I abandoned Avery during intermission--my former boss at the music store ended up being in the pit! I haven't seen him in years so we caught up for about 10 minutes, which was really nice. Also really nice: Avery invited me to see one of the shows coming up in the spring. Except it's Xanadu. Neither of us has seen it, and neither of us is really sure we want to (we both went, is that the roller-skating show? Or is that only Starlight Express?), but I told her if she was game, I was game.
The show, overall, was really good. I told the director, who'd been my professor a couple times, that his leads were fantastic. This ended up being a dance-heavy show, but it looked like fun. Also, I was jealous of the piccolo part--now *that* sounded like fun, and by fun I mean challenging. Plus, it had a similar deal like with Pirates of Penzance, where the female lead has a duet with the piccolo. The thing with Pirates, though, was it was the flute who'd gotten the duet, but the director had told me it was my part; he didn't realize that I wasn't the flutist. I was disappointed about that but it was years ago now. So, anyway, I was glad to see piccolo vindication, even if I didn't play it.
There were a few glitches. There was a major mike issue with a couple of the leads, leading to some loud booms when they'd start singing--kind of distracting when they're performing in a musical. Luckily they stayed in character and went on like nothing happened, which is exactly what you need to do, so kudos to them. The other issue ended up being hilarious. The two comic foils were these gangsters, and toward the end they call up their new boss. At the end of the call the one gangster hangs up the phone--and it completely falls apart, like someone had loosened the receiver; the parts went clattering to the floor. This clearly was not supposed to happen, but one of the next lines was the guy describing how their previous boss had been knocked off--"like the phone," I think he ad-libbed. Nice. We cheered raucously at that. Oh, and there was a little girl in the audience. Near the end of the first act, there was a funny line and the crowd laughed, and stopped, and then she got the joke and let off this loud giggle. It was so cute we all had to laugh again.
The show ended up being three hours long, and Avery and I talked a bit afterward, so even though it started at 7:30 I didn't get back home until 11:40, yikes. Part of that might be because I abandoned Avery during intermission--my former boss at the music store ended up being in the pit! I haven't seen him in years so we caught up for about 10 minutes, which was really nice. Also really nice: Avery invited me to see one of the shows coming up in the spring. Except it's Xanadu. Neither of us has seen it, and neither of us is really sure we want to (we both went, is that the roller-skating show? Or is that only Starlight Express?), but I told her if she was game, I was game.