And Thanks for all the Congrats on my upcoming Mary Poppins gig. I really do owe Brad big time for offering this to me, and working around the one conflict I have during the time - which happens to fall at the end of the first week of rehearsals.
I got my copy of the piano/vocal score today, and, well... There a LOT of notes. And since I'll be playing rehearsals for any of the scenes that the children are in, well, I have a lot of music to practice and learn - including a bunch of dance sequences. It'll be a challenge, but I'm feeling up to it right now. I'll basically be employed for about four or five weeks. The cool thing about the schedule is that they rehearse Wednesday-Sunday, so I'll have at least two days off a week for other work - or just to take off (which I'm sure I'll need). And I'll also start learning one of the keyboard books so that I can start covering for the associate conductor (when she conducts).