Y'know, one of the strangest things about re-visiting this crazy show every few years for the last two decades has been when we get together to start rehearsals again. Well, that happened again last week. This time around, it's only been two years. Ha! Might as well have been TEN years - at least for me!! Oh well - as my dear sis Pru (aka Karen) says, "Well, there's no danger of us peaking too soon!" Ain't that the truth!
After all these years, we've abandoned such basic conventions as using sheet music, preferring to go instead by our ever-more-cloudy memories. Makes sense, right? Funny that LM (Dave), who's been with us the shortest amount of time (only 18 years for him) seems to remember the music best of anyone.
The nice thing, though, is when we find -- sometimes by accident -- those magical harmonies or a great chord or a cool dynamic change, it just reminds us all what a great foundation our wonderful, original music director, Denny Yount, laid for us. Sadly, we lost Denny in 1993. But I can still hear his voice in my head.
And once we get the show "on its feet," I'm sure we'll hear our late, great director "Uncle" Bill Hall's voice in our heads, every time we get a little rambunctious or Jackson (Kevin) suggests we throw in another inside joke. :-) It'll be weird doing it without Uncle Bill. (We lost him last year.)
But no worries, y'all. It'll be great! Don't forget to get your tickets! http://www.civictheatre.org/ or 317-923-4597.
We also took some new photos last week. (Thanks to Zach Rosing, our photographer!) So I'll be peppering some of our fave photos in to our next few posts. I'll also try to keep y'all updated as we move through the rehearsal process. Stay in touch!
Love y'all,
Rhetta
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