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

[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...