Good morning, all! It's raining in Manhattan, and around 11:15 am, I have to head for 54th Street with a complete set of Full Scores for EILEEN, my vocal score, and another meting with conductor and producer. Things got a little testy at yesterday's meeting over a comedy duet for the principals that I want to have a humorous edge on the recording. since the humor in the operetta is primarily visual, I'd like to add a couple of short lines of during the slet moments to clarify things. The producer, who kept insisting the number was a romantic duet kept insisting it was not a funny number but a beautiful balad. No matter how much I tried to explain that it was a subtle, humorous-chuckle number, not a fall-down-LOL moment, he refused to get it. When he uttered the "I'm the money so what I say goes," I blew up. At one point he asked me why I was forbidding changes in the vocal parts (he wants more operatic high notes) and yet I was adding dialogie, I tried to explain that the number needed clarfication for a listener and I was only trying to accomplish in sound what an audience would see onstage. Oy!
So, Round Two today, I suppose. Hopefully, it will be a pleasant meeting.
I've also got prep work on the Appalachian Carols which will occupt much of my week as well.
DR vixmom, good news about the wonderful vixter! Where is she going to school?
BK, I'm happy to hear the good news about our Jason Graae. I can't wait for the recording.