Hello, Y'll!
I'm back in LA - my sister Rikki had a terrible spine surgery on Tuesday, and I'm bringing her home today. I'll be staying with her at least a week.
As long as I was coming down, I booked a gig as Music Director/Arranger for a production of Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL at the Matrix in Hollywood - starring Henry Simmons and Sophina Brown who co-starred with James Woods in Shark. Sophina just booked a regular starring role on Numb3rs - can't wait to see it.
Anyway, it's a sparse, very well-acted production, and they allowed me to hire in classical cello and clarinet with a honky tonk piano, and do all the cues in 3/4 time - waltz - get it? - the three actors (three instruments, get it?) all dance around each other... the director kept changing his mind about stuff, but by last Saturday had made some good decisions - which left all day Sunday to write/re-write my arrangements, and Monday to record the cues. I used that great Russian cellist I had on the last gig. So much Fun!!!
So the show opened last night - Variety was there, Vanity Fair, blahblahblah. It all came together in such a satisfying way!