Speaking of high school musicals, and the low audtion turnout thereof, as DR Sarah was, this afternoon we held callbacks for the production of
Children of Eden for which I am vocal director.
Obviously, it's a show that is not gonna bring droves of kids in to audition (they did
Footloose last year), and that really showed in the fact that we had only six, count them
six, guys audition. Since the director decided to split two roles usually played by the same actor into two separate roles, we needed six guys just to fill the named male characters. Hunky dory, except this means that I now have to rewrite all the chorus music to work for a treble ensemble. Oh well, some of Schwarz' voicings I wasn't too fond of anyway.