Otherwise, Thanks for the continued Congrats regarding my potential conducting duties over at Mary Poppins. I'd say the earliest I'd ever get on the podium would not be until sometime in November, and, frankly, I don't think I'd be comfortable getting on the podium - with a stick in my hand - until sometime in November. Late November.
However, after observing last night, from my stand point at least, it would be an easier show for me to conduct than it would be to play. There are just a LOT of notes in the Keyboard 2 book - I don't even want to think of tackling the Key 1 book at all right now - and having to coordinate the MIDI piano technology is quite the feat in itself. But that's where I'll have to start off. *And, thankfully, by playing the rehearsal book, that should make learning the Key 2 book a little easier. In the meantime, I'll have to brush up my scales and arpeggios.
But conducting the show is by no means an easy feat. With all the dance sections in the show, there's a lot of tempos that have to be locked into my body. Additionally, there's a ton of rubato - give and take of the tempo - throughout most of the musical numbers in the show. And there's a lot of music.
I'd have to say it would be one of those situations where if I were called in an emergency situation to conduct the show sooner than later - say, like tomorrow (which I'm not) - that that would be "easier" to do than conducting the show a few weeks from now. I'd just have no time to be scared. Well, I would be, but I seem to have a knack for dealing with last-minute musical emergencies. There's just no time to think of the (possible) mistakes I could make.
-Does that make sense?