Spamalot is opening tonight, NYE for a special 5pm show. The dress rehearsals have been going really well and I am playing the book better and better every night. I hope that will continue for the run of the show!!! I’m really starting to get my way around the lower end of the Low C bass clarinet and it sounds awesome!! Discovered a leak in the low C# key today so Kara and I did a quick running repair and it makes things a lot easier. I need to glue another cork back on again and will have to remember to do that tomorrow.
I’m loving the reed 2 book in Spamalot. Some really jazzy numbers on sax, a bit of klezmer and some beautiful ballad playing on clarinet and the awesome, terrifically fun bass clarinet parts. I’m loving getting more of a handle of that instrument and playing with more confidence means an increase in volume so I can now actually hear what I’m playing, as can my reed playing companion for the show, Kara.
It’s really hot here but I’m going to do my best to sleep so I can be all prepared for the show tomorrow night. It’s going to be a short run but heaps of fun. I just wish I could see what is going on on stage!!!
