Sondheim vs Pratchett

[sebastienne]

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.

Comments

[chiasmata]

Drum drum drum! (But then, as a fellow girl-drummer, I would say that...)

[aliche.livejournal.com]

I would have to say drum as well. Sondheim is beautiful enough to listen to be remember what it was like to be in the middle of it. Yummy yummy yummy.

[robot-mel.livejournal.com]

I LOVE into the woods sooo much!!! And you know how I'm not a big musicals person...

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

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

I am back in London on the 9th to see Hamlet, but it looks like I'm going to have to head back to Oxford for my housemate's birthday celebration on the 10th. Another month I certainly wil! I need more excuses to wear corsetry and petticoats...

[robot-mel.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Will keep you appraised. Have fun at the party. :)

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

I vote The Truth. It will be more fun. There'll always be Sondheim; this is an unique show full of your friends.:)

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

You know what I'm going to say! Especially since it's almost certainly going to be my last Oxford!drama play (blackmailblackmail), and because I really want to see you onstage in a fake beard.

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!

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

If I believed you every time you said that this was going to be your last Oxford!drama play...

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..]

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

You totally do. You can't be a Discworld dwarf without a fake beard and chainmail!

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

[ktroo85.livejournal.com]

But Into the Woods is 6th week and The Truth is 7th week, or is it rehearsals clashing ..... xxx

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

"Hi Rhys & Rob! Yes, I'd love to do your show, but I can't rehearse the Thursday/Friday evening or all-day Saturday immediately before the get-in"

Sadly, I'm not seeing it, myself...

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but R (from the Academy) is playing Cinderella in Into the Woods (lead role) and doing The Truth, so you wouldn't be the only one...