The musical I want to be in someday

[celticdragonfly]

I'm listening to music from Chicago (the original musical - I loved the movie, but I don't have that soundtrack yet. I do have the DVD.) I do love that musical. Heck, I was singing "Nowadays" at one point during the thanksgiving dinner get-together last Saturday. [1]

I would so love to be in it someday. I would love to find some local community theater doing it. Okay, it occurs to me that Fort Worth, TX is not the best place to look for it. Oh well. But if I did find out about it, I would so go try out.

Okay, I'm not in the physical shape they're going to want for the main stars. And I have to get in a lot better post-surgery shape for serious dancing. (But I will, I will...) I'm not worried, though. Because the part I want to do so bad I can taste is is Matron Mama Morton. That, that part I have the body for. And I think I've got the voice for it, too. Oh, I want that part someday!

Although yeah, it'd be fun to do Velma, too. She gets good songs. And damn but I do love The Cell-Block Tango.

[1] Yes, I am the kind of person who will just spontaneously break into song now and then with the right cues. You think I'm bad, you should see the rest of my family. phoenixsinger does it more, and bkseiver will sit down and start playing 'em for you. When a friend of mine recently commented that to her music was something you only did in formal groups, I stopped dead and STARED at her.[2]

[2] Well, not exactly. She's in another state. I stopped and stared at the IM window. But you know what I mean.

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Mama Morton, yea buddy! "When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you!" Important safety tip for everyone with a Mama. Not nearly as athletic a role as the two lead girls. You could double as one of the "merry murderesses" in Cell Block Tango if they were short of cast, for that matter.

I love this show, even though not a soul in it has any redeeming qualities whatsoever. OK, maybe the poor schlub of a husband. They did "Mister Cellphane" on The Muppet Show once, not sure which Special Guest, probably Joel Grey [who played the role on B'way] but could have been Ben Vereen.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

When a friend of mine recently commented that to her music was something you only did in formal groups, I stopped dead and STARED at her.

It's that way to a lot of people, most of my friends included. It's not something you do, it's something you're passively entertained by. My dad's side of the family (er, the side that we acquired when my grandfather remarried, a year or so after I was born) are musical and play instruments and write songs, and a family get-together isn't complete until they pull out the guitars and the mandolin and the songbooks. So the filk concept, that you'd put your thoughts about stuff you read or watch to music, isn't alien to me, but to a lot of people I know, it is.

I don't sing or play anything, mostly because my immediate family didn't do that - well, I took the violin for three years and never practiced, and I took a semester of voice and piano in college, but it wasn't something we did on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind practicing singing again (I'm an alto, like you, but woefully out of practice and can't sustain a note or even hit the proper one without a good run-up), but there's so many other things I've got on my plate that I want to do more than singing that, at least for now, it's staying on the back burner.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

They don't even sing along? Yep, it's official, I'm even weirder than I thought. When I was a kid, if Mom wanted me to come out of my room, the usual method was to sit down at the piano and start playing something I liked to sing along with.

I don't play anything well enough for more than playing around with. And I can't sing a note on request - like if you say sing an E above C. But if you sing it at me, I can sing it back.

I sing with Maggie all the time. And now she's started singing to Jamie when they've been put down to bed together at night. But I don't think of myself as a singer. Not good enough, and not enough repertoire.

I am debating giving up on choir for now - sitting for an hour and a half is still pretty agonizing. Dither.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Hey there, you're being sought! This is from the Apprentice list, which I know you used to subscribe to:

Good Morning! Can anyone help me to find Lady Meghan Paget (from Caid)? I know
she's done some psyanky work & I'd like to pick her brains on behalf of someone
in my Barony who's into that.
Thanks bunches!
Molly
(Baroness Mary Isabel fo Heatherstone)

(I'm going to space her email address to help munge it from spam-bots)

ldmolly @ gmpexpress. net