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pedanther1. I will be in Perth this weekend for the State Band Festival. (At UWA on Saturday afternoon, all day Sunday, and Monday morning. We will be playing in the 8.30am session on Sunday.) Normally, that doesn't leave me any significant amount of free time, but this year there appears to be a Saturday-morning-shaped gap in the schedule. Anybody have a suggestion of what to fill it with?
2. Last Saturday, I went to see a local high school's production of The Taming of the Shrew. On the whole I found it to be a satisfying night's entertainment. I don't think they entirely succeeded in establishing a persuasive arc for the relationship between Petruchio and Katherina, but then a lot of productions don't, and it gave me several new things to think about. Being a school production, there was a certain amount of trouble with young people unconvincingly playing old people, and some actors not having the ear for the language (and a lack of consensus about how to pronounce some of the foreign words). The actors playing Katherina and Petruchio were good. (They were the same two who took out the top honours in the drama section of the Performing Arts Festival last year. The guy who came third was also in this, as Petruchio's comic-relief sidekick, and was another highlight.) An interesting production thing: The sets and costumes were colour-coded - Baptista's household in red, Petruchio's in blue, Vincentio's in green, and so on. Bianca wore pink; Katherina started out in a lady-in-red dress, and after the wedding to Petruchio appeared what appeared to be the same dress but now coloured a more muted purple.
3. Speaking of colours and clothing, I appear to be developing rudiments of colour coordination in my dress sense, to the point that I recently bought a new jacket, despite already owning several quite serviceable jackets, because none of the ones I already owned were colours that went particularly well with the blue section of my wardrobe. I'm finding this oddly disconcerting.
4. And speaking of The Taming of the Shrew, about eight years ago I was in a production of Kiss Me Kate, which, being one of Broadway's many shows about itself, has an opening number which is about the opening of a new show. There's a verse in there that counts down the last four weeks of the rehearsal period, which I have often found myself singing during the last four weeks of a rehearsal period on subsequent shows, especially when they're musicals. Chicago opens in two and a half weeks.
5. Last Friday there was a revue night, with songs and comic sketches and so on. Included in the program was a preview of our production of Chicago, with three songs, including my solo. It was the first time I've performed it in front of a proper audience; I was more nervous than I usually am on stage (then again, I don't normally get solos!), but apparently it went over well. I got a lot of compliments afterward.
2. Last Saturday, I went to see a local high school's production of The Taming of the Shrew. On the whole I found it to be a satisfying night's entertainment. I don't think they entirely succeeded in establishing a persuasive arc for the relationship between Petruchio and Katherina, but then a lot of productions don't, and it gave me several new things to think about. Being a school production, there was a certain amount of trouble with young people unconvincingly playing old people, and some actors not having the ear for the language (and a lack of consensus about how to pronounce some of the foreign words). The actors playing Katherina and Petruchio were good. (They were the same two who took out the top honours in the drama section of the Performing Arts Festival last year. The guy who came third was also in this, as Petruchio's comic-relief sidekick, and was another highlight.) An interesting production thing: The sets and costumes were colour-coded - Baptista's household in red, Petruchio's in blue, Vincentio's in green, and so on. Bianca wore pink; Katherina started out in a lady-in-red dress, and after the wedding to Petruchio appeared what appeared to be the same dress but now coloured a more muted purple.
3. Speaking of colours and clothing, I appear to be developing rudiments of colour coordination in my dress sense, to the point that I recently bought a new jacket, despite already owning several quite serviceable jackets, because none of the ones I already owned were colours that went particularly well with the blue section of my wardrobe. I'm finding this oddly disconcerting.
4. And speaking of The Taming of the Shrew, about eight years ago I was in a production of Kiss Me Kate, which, being one of Broadway's many shows about itself, has an opening number which is about the opening of a new show. There's a verse in there that counts down the last four weeks of the rehearsal period, which I have often found myself singing during the last four weeks of a rehearsal period on subsequent shows, especially when they're musicals. Chicago opens in two and a half weeks.
5. Last Friday there was a revue night, with songs and comic sketches and so on. Included in the program was a preview of our production of Chicago, with three songs, including my solo. It was the first time I've performed it in front of a proper audience; I was more nervous than I usually am on stage (then again, I don't normally get solos!), but apparently it went over well. I got a lot of compliments afterward.
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Date: 2012-05-30 12:22 am (UTC)I've always been convinced that song must have been written out of Cole Porter's own experience on stage - it just feels autobiographical. (That was someone who knew what it was like to rush on an ever-accelerating slope towards an immutable deadline...)
Although "Too Darn Hot" has been coming to mind locally at the moment, as well.