Last night marked the beginning of the rehearsal process for Some Enchanted Evening. This is such a great cast...they sounded fantastic already - even with that nervous, tentative feeling all of us have felt singing in front of brand new cast mates for the very first time. But like anything else, all it takes is the first few notes before the singers felt the support and understanding of actually singing something for the first time outside of your car and in front of someone more than a housecat. These people are truly professionals and they sound like it. And they're really nice people as well, which is ever so sweet icing on the cake.
I took a lot of time to explain my concept of the show. I think the cast was relieved that I essentially rewrote the very opening of the show. We all felt that the written opening was corny and not very effective. I really wanted to use the urban street scene setting for this review that I talked about in the introductory video...but how to establish a group of people suddenly singing the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein on a city street? Well I think the concept I came up with will work well and the cast really seemed to like it a lot better. We're off to a great start and I'm already excited for this show. We start with music rehearsals, learning the group numbers and moving onto solos and then putting the show on its feet with blocking. These people are amazing and I can't wait to see how the arrangements organically grow with their increasing confidence which will give them the freedom to explore these most popular of musical theatre songs. I already heard- yes, in day one - the glimmers of unique and fresh approaches to these songs which will be ever so important to my concept of this revue. The balance comes in staying faithful to the songs - trusting this wonderful music - while still breathing new life into them and presenting them out of context of their original shows, as stand-alone songs. I think they will be fantastic at that.
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