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

[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!

[ktroo85.livejournal.com]

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