Is That You In Your Avatar: The Magnificent Seven (Rated R)- Page 193

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:23pm

I'm a little tired. I had a dance class today and I'm exhausted.

Tink: I know the feeling. Hope you feel better!

Updated On: 7/18/07 at 10:23 PM

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:25pm

I'm gonna go try. We'll see how it goes!

Night nights!

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:26pm

It's been a long day for everyone, it seems. Busy at work, busy writing session after work, dinner after that...

And the fright when I first heard about the explosion at Grand Central - for a split second I thought, like I'm sure everyone else did, that this was it.

Night, Tink!

Updated On: 7/18/07 at 10:26 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:27pm

Night Tink!

Those explosions are so frightening Deet. It's just scary to think about. Do they know what caused it?

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:30pm

Last I heard they suspect a steam pipe or water main burst. I haven't listened to the news in a couple of hours.

The funny thing is that I heard it as I was getting ready to leave work - I thought it was thunder. It wasn't until a couple of hours later, when I was working with my collaborator that I found out what it really was - and then the haze in the air made perfect sense to me.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:34pm

That's just scary Deet! How close were you to the explosion?

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:38pm

I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!


I actually cleaned my room!

*dances around*


WOOP!

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:38pm

Not too close - my office is in the West 30s, near Penn Station. But it did sound like thunder.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:40pm

Yay DGG!

Glad you weren't too close Deet.

And in the ALW, you agreed about Later from ALNM? Have you ever played Henrik?

[tazber]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:40pm

Good evening.

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:42pm

OK, I'm off to bed. Night Tazzy, Deet, and WW. Anybody else who wanders in, same to you! I have to work in the morning...blech.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:42pm

Hey Taz! How are you tonight?

Night DGG!

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:43pm

I played Henrik 24 years ago. One of my all time favorite parts. And truthfully, while that song is a bitch, the rest of the show is a breeze, vocally, for him and it is so much fun to play.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:44pm

Nice Deet. I'd love to play Henrik, but I can't play the cello. Damn.

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:47pm

I had to learn it for the role, and I still remember some of the fingering - not much, but some. The score itself is permanently in my memory and somewhat shattered vocal cords.

Hey, Taz!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:49pm

Damn you Sondheim for writing that part with a cello!

[tazber]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:49pm

hey guys. I'm fine WW. Getting ready for bed. You?

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:52pm

Fine, but a little tired.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:54pm

it doesn't look like we'll hit part 8 tonight.

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:55pm

The cello part is actually easy, and you can always fake it while the cello in the pit takes over (that's what I did for the most difficult parts). What I wanna kill Sondheim for is writing such achingly beautiful music that is rhythmically difficult to sing. You have to be constantly counting in your head so you can come in at the proper time, go out at the proper time, etc... As I said in the ALW thread, the really fiendish part of Henrik's singing comes in when NOW/LATER/SOON all merge into the trio. It's glorious when it's right, but learning it is a bitch and a half. It's really easy to get it by singing along to the album, but when it's your voice and a real orchestra and you don't have the cues coming from Mark Lambert - well let's just say the sitzprobe was NOT a barrel of laughs.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:58pm

wow, reading that made even more tired. I think I'll retire to the bedchamber now.

Night gang!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:58pm

I can definitley see how the trio would be much harder. It seems like the main melody for it is "Soon".

Though I do think Henrik gets off pretty easy in A Weekend in the Country. That song HAS to be a bitch for the rest of the cast.

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:02pm

Sorry Taz, I didn't mean to exhaust you.

WWII, he does get off easy in AWITC - his solo part is high, but not sustained, and the free for all at the end is just too much fun. And that's pretty much it for his singing. It's strange that the role was written that way - you really do need a strong, legitimat tenor for it, and yet he's only in two numbers in the first act.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:03pm

G'night, tazber, sweetie. Sleep with the angels, my dear.

[D2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:04pm