Sondheim vs Pratchett
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Hi LJ,
I come to you with something of a puzzler.
I have a bunch of small parts in next term's The Truth. Now, obviously, this is fabtastic - a Pratchett play! A Parabox production! (I love the men behind Parabox - they wrote the musical I was in last term and are destined for greatness.) A chance to get on stage once more with
deathbyshinies!
But I've just been offered the chance to play the drums in a production of Into the Woods. This is a Sondheim musical. I love Sondheim. Sondheim's music is completely and utterly soul-shatteringly perfect. And I've been meaning to get back into drumming since forever.
And these two things clash. I cannot do both. Meep!
ETA: Oh, hark at me. "Woe, woe, I have two amazing opportunities!". Drumming does feel viscerally right to me, in a way I can't entirely articulate; but then so does being in a theatre for a dress rehearsal. A sense of being completely in the moment, to the exclusion of all else, which I do need a certain amount of in my life. I think I would get more of that kind of transcendence from doing the Pratchett; not to mention a lot more laughter and social interaction.
I come to you with something of a puzzler.
I have a bunch of small parts in next term's The Truth. Now, obviously, this is fabtastic - a Pratchett play! A Parabox production! (I love the men behind Parabox - they wrote the musical I was in last term and are destined for greatness.) A chance to get on stage once more with
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But I've just been offered the chance to play the drums in a production of Into the Woods. This is a Sondheim musical. I love Sondheim. Sondheim's music is completely and utterly soul-shatteringly perfect. And I've been meaning to get back into drumming since forever.
And these two things clash. I cannot do both. Meep!
ETA: Oh, hark at me. "Woe, woe, I have two amazing opportunities!". Drumming does feel viscerally right to me, in a way I can't entirely articulate; but then so does being in a theatre for a dress rehearsal. A sense of being completely in the moment, to the exclusion of all else, which I do need a certain amount of in my life. I think I would get more of that kind of transcendence from doing the Pratchett; not to mention a lot more laughter and social interaction.
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Date: 2008-12-30 01:26 pm (UTC)Oh and if you're still in London they're doing the 80s/goth music night Reptile on the 10th at the Miniories...
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46270152050
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Date: 2008-12-31 01:34 am (UTC)OTOH, the Sondheim *would* be amazing, too, and I know you have a lot of friends in the Into the Woods cast as well... You'll have a lot of fun whatever you decide to do, and whichever show gets you will definitely appreciate having you around!
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Date: 2009-01-02 02:59 pm (UTC)Dude, do I get a fake beard and chainmail? I am totally in if I get a fake beard and chainmail.
[Socially, I'd get tonnes out of Pratchett and nothing much out of Sondheim, unless I met someone exciting and new. The only reason this decision is hard is that I made a promise to myself eighteen months ago that I'd get back into percussion, and this feels like it's been handed straight out like an omen..]
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Date: 2009-01-08 02:54 pm (UTC)Also, having seen the script: Your character makes a crack onstage about my character having big boobs. If we do the comic timing exactly right, it will be the Most Hilarious Thing Ever ;D
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Date: 2009-01-02 02:49 pm (UTC)Sadly, I'm not seeing it, myself...
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Date: 2009-01-02 08:05 pm (UTC)