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

[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