Good morning, all! Yes, Dear Friend BK, I did get a ride to my hosts' home by Mr Richard Berent, the musical director! He and I were both happy over how smothly all the band cues ran last night, and today around 6:30, we'll make cutrs in the Cusrtain Calls music to help them land with the actors' entrances.
Yes, THE BRAIN was quite fun last night and the first time I felt comfortable with my work since the sitzprobe on Monday. I've had a good time with the musicians on the show, and I will digress here for a second to talk about the breed: they can make or break you, especially the rhythm section, since most of the drums part is a bunch of illegible squiggles that you hope the player will turn into magic and you hope that on a rock number the bass player and guitar - if you're budget can afford one - will take your elementary scrawls and (sometimes) chord symbols and spinthem to gold.
I've been lucky on BK's albums and other projects to work with Ron Tierno, Chris Coluzzi, Ray Marchica, Danny Gross, Mark Minkler, Kevin Kuhn, and so many other wonderful players; I feel we're lucky to have Dan and Shannon giving the same talent to this show, If my work sounds good, I owe a lot to them, and to Matt on synth, Curt on the reeds, and the fantastic playing of MD Richard on keyboard 1. I am mighty proud of my work on THE BRAIN, but I can't say enough about how wonderful everyone in the cast and crew, as well as the LACC staff, has been.
The ever-beautiful PennyO came by to help me yesterday, as I was finishing up the parts for the Curtain Call, so we chatted as I finished them up, and then she stayed for Act One and the Entr'Acte. She's coming tonight, along with a lot of friends I care for, and I lok forwards to the festivities. I look forward to getting back to my own space on Sunday, but I will miss the show and everyone enormously![move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/move]
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Thanks for asking me to score "The Brain From Planet X!"
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