#926
Posted: 10/31/06 at 1:15am
So tonight, this concert series called "Ambivalent Broadway" featured David Yazbek. He was there, performing a bit, and talking about writing his songs and funny stories and such. Performers included Sherie, Jason Gillman, Christian Anderson (he played Jerry in The Full Monty tour), John Ellison Conlee (original Dave in TFM) and Sean Altman and the GrooveBarbers (otherwise known as Rockapella!)
Will go into more details tomorrow but Sherie sang Here I Am (soo great to hear again), the Nothing is too wonderful jazz version, and a song David wrote called "Everything You Want." Richard did Chimp in a Suit. Meh. Jason took the part of Malcolm in TFM song "Big Ass Rock" (where Jerry and Dave sing he's got a friend b/c true friends will help you kill yourself--he did a great job of course)--and...Great Big Stuff--semi-staged. David told him to do it as Broadway as he could, so he put up jazz hands. Heh. But yeah, he did what he could, the 'pooring out my ass" part, the dance that followed, the robot dance, some random dancing during some musical parts when there wasn't the ensemble that was pretty funny...and yeah, to see it performed again even semi-choreographed...was so great.
So there were songs from TFM, DRS, David's own songs AND the songs of Rockapella. Sean Altman (for anyone that watched Carmen San Diego--he was the guy with the blonde dreads who had the first solo in the song--he's the only one I ever remembered) was close with David, and that's how he wrote the Carmen San Diego theme song that they sang each episode. And all of Rockapelle performed it! Hehehe. Childhood regression. Where in the world is...(deep voice) Carmen San Diego. ahh, that was awesome.
So yeah, like I said will go into more specifics tomorrow, all the songs and performers, funny moments, stories, what David talked about, etc.
We all clapped at the repition of Where in the world like the audience would as they came onto the country map...ahh, childhood memories.
Will go into more details tomorrow but Sherie sang Here I Am (soo great to hear again), the Nothing is too wonderful jazz version, and a song David wrote called "Everything You Want." Richard did Chimp in a Suit. Meh. Jason took the part of Malcolm in TFM song "Big Ass Rock" (where Jerry and Dave sing he's got a friend b/c true friends will help you kill yourself--he did a great job of course)--and...Great Big Stuff--semi-staged. David told him to do it as Broadway as he could, so he put up jazz hands. Heh. But yeah, he did what he could, the 'pooring out my ass" part, the dance that followed, the robot dance, some random dancing during some musical parts when there wasn't the ensemble that was pretty funny...and yeah, to see it performed again even semi-choreographed...was so great.
So there were songs from TFM, DRS, David's own songs AND the songs of Rockapella. Sean Altman (for anyone that watched Carmen San Diego--he was the guy with the blonde dreads who had the first solo in the song--he's the only one I ever remembered) was close with David, and that's how he wrote the Carmen San Diego theme song that they sang each episode. And all of Rockapelle performed it! Hehehe. Childhood regression. Where in the world is...(deep voice) Carmen San Diego. ahh, that was awesome.
So yeah, like I said will go into more specifics tomorrow, all the songs and performers, funny moments, stories, what David talked about, etc.
We all clapped at the repition of Where in the world like the audience would as they came onto the country map...ahh, childhood memories.
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