Worst Into the Woods horror story and why high schools should think twice about doing the show. I was in a pit for the show playing the synthesizer part (yawn... lots of rests.... lots of reading time) and the kids had done all the rehearsals with RehearseScore (basically, a computer program that plays the score along with the vocal parts)- which is nice when you are learning it. Well, they didn't wean them off it like they should and when the band came in, the cast had the hardest time with entrances. The band was off stage, it was hard to see the conductor... oy and vey, it was a bloody nightmare. HOWEVER, that's not the horror story.
Because the kids couldn't make their entrances or count, or whatever, for "Your Fault", the conductor added the drum kit player playing what turned out to be a techno type beat all the way through the song. I was MORTIFIED. I thought I was in the middle of a rap version of "Your Fault" I almost called the Sondheim police.
Are there Sondheim police?
