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Let's see, where were we?
Oct. 23rd, 2022 04:23 pmWhen I last wrote, Ladies in Black was about to open. The season went really well. Nobody got covid, as far as I remember, or anything else that required them to miss a performance, although it was flu season and there were several interesting infections going around.
Once the season was over, I fell in a bit of a hole for a while. To start with, I came down with the flu -- the way one often does come down with something just after the end of a big obligation that's been an ongoing source of stress, as if the body's going "okay, can collapse now". And it was a pretty big thing that had just ended: not just Ladies in Black, because rehearsals for that started while we were still doing Rock of Ages and rehearsals of Rock of Ages started when we were still doing Female Transport, so in all I'd been in a continual state of Preparing for a Show for something like eight or nine months running. And suddenly I was going from rehearsals multiple times a week and always knowing what was coming up next, to having almost no regular commitments and no clear idea of what my next goal was. It was a bit of a shock to the system.
Another aspect of it, though who knows how large of one it was, was that Rock of Ages and Ladies in Black were both musicals, so for several months there I'd had regular opportunities to make music in a communal setting, and suddenly that was gone too.
I have at least found something I can do about that last bit: an acquaintance was handing around flyers for a new singing group focussing on sea shanties and other traditional songs, so I've signed up for that and went to the first session this week.
Once the season was over, I fell in a bit of a hole for a while. To start with, I came down with the flu -- the way one often does come down with something just after the end of a big obligation that's been an ongoing source of stress, as if the body's going "okay, can collapse now". And it was a pretty big thing that had just ended: not just Ladies in Black, because rehearsals for that started while we were still doing Rock of Ages and rehearsals of Rock of Ages started when we were still doing Female Transport, so in all I'd been in a continual state of Preparing for a Show for something like eight or nine months running. And suddenly I was going from rehearsals multiple times a week and always knowing what was coming up next, to having almost no regular commitments and no clear idea of what my next goal was. It was a bit of a shock to the system.
Another aspect of it, though who knows how large of one it was, was that Rock of Ages and Ladies in Black were both musicals, so for several months there I'd had regular opportunities to make music in a communal setting, and suddenly that was gone too.
I have at least found something I can do about that last bit: an acquaintance was handing around flyers for a new singing group focussing on sea shanties and other traditional songs, so I've signed up for that and went to the first session this week.
