Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part III) - GuyfromGermany- Page 79
Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part III) - GuyfromGermany
#1950message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:21pm
Just wanted to pop in and show Jaily some love! Celebrity of the day- ha! He is my celeb of the year after having the pleasure of having dinner with him in NYC. I still quote from that dinner. 
#1951message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:24pm
Jaily, I play English horn/oboe, but my primary instrument was the sax (all four). I also play clarinet and flute (but not so well).
Also, I'll push Rath out of the way to sing Side Show. Of course, I can't quite get up to Alice's parts, I'm more of an Emily Skinner.
#1952message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:25pm
If you were a pair of shoes, what shoes would you be and why?
I would be a pair of black patent leather Ferragamos...they're expensive and EVERYONE notices them.
If you could have anyone over for dinner, who would it be and what would you serve them?
Ina Garten, and I would make her MY version of Chicken With 40 Cloves of Garlic.
If we went out with you and your best friend, what story about you would he/she tell us that you would not have?
Probably one of the naughtier tales from our cross-country driving trip that would embarrass me to no end!
My myspace rip-off questions:
What goal would you like to achieve this year?
I'd like to get back down to a 30" waist, and I would like to complete a recording of French music for the oboe.
Your weakness?
Compliments and chocolate.
Your biggest fear?
Rejection, failure, and obesity.
First thought waking up?
WHAT TIME IS IT?!?!?!? Whew.
Do you shower daily?
Sometimes twice.
Have you been in love?
Yes, several times...and I am right now.
Do you get along with your parents?
My mom is my biggest fruit fly!
Coffee or Tea?
Both!!
Cats or Dogs?
Both, but slightly prefer cats. I love all animals, though!
#1953message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:28pm
What is your favorie cocktail?
#1954message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:30pm
Kel, you are too precious!! *hug hug hug* When are you coming back to visit us again? I promise I'll eat something this time. Seriously.
Bway, I didn't know you were a doubler...y'learn something new every day! I just ordered a new oboe for the show...I can't wait! It's a Fossati in cocobolo wood with gold keys. Mmmm...super gay!
I just posted a couple clips of me playing ob/EH on my MySpace page, actually...I finally managed to make decent reeds and was so excited I had to record something. :-P
#1955message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:31pm
What is your favorie cocktail?
Vodka martini, extremely dry and EXTRAORDINARILY dirty, straight up.
#1956message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:32pm
I was never very good at making good reeds so I just resigned myself to buying expiernsive types.
I do enjoy the doubling. I don't know why I haven't tried to get into the musician's union.
#1957message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:36pm
I usually buy mine, too...saves tons of headache.
Why don't you? Although, if you seriously want to get gigs with the Union, you should work on your flute and clarinet if they're not as good as you'd like them to be...those are the bread and butter, and there are TONS of killer players. Double reeds are the ticket, though...that's kind of my gimmick these days. Even among the double reed doublers I'm sort of odd, because I also play bassoon, which very few doublers do. (I'm what they call a quinter, because I play flute, clarinet, sax, oboe, *and* bassoon...nice work if you can get it!) :-P
#1958message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:42pm
Blech, Jaily. Unless you have time for some lessons, I'm just not going after the bassoon. However, my skills at sax and oboe/Eh are definitely B+-A level and I could get my clarinet up to that, I know (good enough to play any Broadway scores) and my tone is very good on all instruments (plus, I'm a killer with pitch. My band director used to hold me up as an example all the time). I am not that great at flute, though (damn embouchure) and bassoon requires I get unlazy and read bass clef well.
#1959message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:44pm
To land a Broadway gig, everything's gotta be A+, though...it's NUTS how good some of these guys are. It really is a professional environment, and it's not much different than landing a job in a symphony orchestra. You have to practice several hours a day to keep everything tight and up to speed...the second I start rehearsals, I'm ditching my day job. There's just no way I can work *and* practice as much as I'm going to have to to keep up with the gigs...
*le sigh*
#1960message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:46pmIt's so cool to read about you following your passion, jaily.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#1961message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:48pm
heh. Well, I wasn't going to pick up the instruments and apply right awya. God knows I have to practice again.
What show are you landing? or are you talking hypotheticals here?
#1962message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:49pmI will be switch-hitting ACL and LM, Bway. Oboe/EH chair in both...
#1963message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:56pmACL and LM? Awesome.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#1964message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:58pm
I'm stoked about it. Subs do it all the time...you'll do like, two shows a week here, a show a week there...depending on who you're filling for. The guys I'm subbing for both have symphonic gigs, so I'm gonna work the back-and-forth for a couple months. Should be fun!
(And I can't WAIT to tackle those oboe solos in LM...)
#1965message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:01pm
that'll be excellent, Jaily! Congrats! Although I can't wait to hear some firsthand tales of what Daphne sounds like singing "I Dreamed a Dream."
#1966message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:02pm
I have a feeling I'm going to be too busy "making reeds" in the pit to pay any attention to what she's waili..er, singing.
(Is anybody else totally horrified by this casting choice?!?!?!?)
#1967message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:04pmCan I count on it every show? :-P (And bring a posse. I love a posse.)
#1968message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:07pm
*sings*
I'm scared, Jaily!
#1969message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:08pmI've never been part of a posse
#1970message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:09pm
I can see the tourists now...
"OMG, IT'S...wait. Why is Anthony Rapp coming out of Les Miz with an oboe?"
I got Rapp'd AGAIN the other day on the subway. Ugh.
"Yes, Little Fangirl From Omaha, I DO know who I look just like...yes, Fangirl Friend, people HAVE told me that before."
Could be worse, I guess..."Hey, has anyone ever told you that you totally look like Rosie O'Donnell?"
#1971message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:10pm
"I have a feeling I'm going to be too busy "making reeds" in the pit to pay any attention to what she's waili..er, singing."
But somehow, I suspect, you'll find time to notice the dance cups on the boys of ACL.
#1972message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:10pm
"Hey, has anyone ever told you that you totally look like Rosie O'Donnell?"
Every freakin' day.
#1973message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:11pmJaily...I think you're actually Ella Fitzgerald trapped in a white gay man's body.
#1974message board celebrity of the day - JailyardGuy
Posted: 8/1/06 at 1:14pm
Not the first time I've heard that
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