I have returned from our rehearsal with an opening number to lay out. I will have to recopy some sections now that keys have been set, and there will be some some cutting and pasting, but it should go rather quickly. It is a long medley composed of these:
Bright Morning Stars Are Rising (sunrise on Christmas morning - the hostess/ family matriarch)
People, Look East (Della getting her family ready)
16 bars of "West Virginia Mine Disaster" (widowed Mamie dressing her autistic son)
Dame, Get Up and Bake Your Pies (the hosts in the kitchen)
There Was a Pig Went Out To Dig (Jarrod Emick and his children gettng ready)
Sing, All Men/Ring the Christ Church Bells (the new minister, leading into the company's arrival)
We began the morning with a new funny song, written by David Lutken and our director DJ called "Snowman on the Mountain," and it's a hoot. The read-down of the new choral parts for "I Wonder As I Wander" read down well, and I'm starting to feel that we will have a good presentation for Friday morning. The cast is truly an amazing group of performers and musicians. I like all thirteen of them enormously.