Good morning, all! Yesterday's rehearsal went very well. The cast came in in tiers, so we began with David Lutken and the little boy learning "Snowman on the Mountain," which s a funny song written by David and DJ, the director. Then all the men learned "Goold Old Mountain Dew" and their version of "I Wish I Was Single Again." By this poit the ladies had arrived and they learned their version of "I Wish I Was Single Again" and the two tunes work in counterpoint. Before Ian arrived and we did my new arrangement of "I Wonder As I Wander," we worked on "The West Virginia Mine Disaster." The rest of the rehearsal was spent on learning the complete opening sequence from scraps of many pages of music that I'd photocopied from books. Last night, after the whole sequence was solid, I put the shebang together and we'll learn today if I remembered it all correctly.
Last night I completely vegged out, mostly looking at the new edition of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and epsodes of BONES on TNT. My subway/bus reading material is Congreve's WAY OF THE WORLD, a comedy I've never read before, and when I finish it, I'll begin MURDER AT THE MASQUERS.
This morning our rehearsal is at CAP 21 on West 18th Street, and I may stop in Academy Records on my way back uptown. I need some Gilbert and Sullivan recordings from the 1920s.