Good morning, all! Last night I dreamed I was in grad school writing my thesus, only it wasn't 40 years ago but now, I was writing something political, not about theatre, and several of my Barnes & Noble friends were in the dream. Oy!
Today is another Encores! day. Yesterday, joshie and I worked through the entire "Pernambuco" ballet which took us four hours, and I have a few fixes to do this morning. After that I ran to an audition to hear Kasey Marino sing. I'm looking for young performers who can do music from 1900 to 1940 with legit voices; I don't want "American Yodeling," I don't want big band crooning. I want good "Broadway" singers who can give me a legit sound. Most operatic baritones sing with a covered sound. I want a good young legit Broadway baritone like John Raitt or John Reardon. My goal is to find several young sopranos, belters, tenors, and baritones for this project begun with the Herbert songs. Ideally, my goal is to find the new generation of Rebecca Luker, Judy Kaye, Jeanne Lehman, Kim Criswell, George Dvorsky, Brent Barrett, Hugh Panaro, David James Carroll. I love them all but they will not stay young forever except in my mind.
Today, I'm at Encores! I've got some "Pernambuco" fixes in the reeds for the last 10 or so measures. Then Joshie and I will start at the beginning of the sshow and see how far we get today. After that, I will head back here and chill out.
TOD:
DVD: the Netflix discs sit here and I want to watch the "Dark Shadow" films from DR JRand60
CD: several bootlegs, Guy Haines, Liz Callaway
VCR: same old smut