Different Theater, Same Results
So I'm subbing in for the extended run of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and I really do enjoy performing the show. I just seem to have a complicated relationship with theaters - I go in to play, and the gear goes wrong somehow. Club gigs, private shows, large venues - never seem to have a problem. Put me in a musical, though, and things go wacky. This particular performance has some bass-focused music, too, so there's no hiding behind the synths in case something goes wrong. Fortunately, everything that went wrong went wrong before the start of the first show and I could remedy the situation easily:
- Bad cable - lifetime warranty doesn't beat the spare cable (or the Stage Ninja cable when I was told the backup cable was too long for the stage
- Radio station in the amp - really? In a grounded bass amp with no other indication of issues? Managed some gain and EQ tweaks to minimize, and I'm not going through a PA anyway, so it's not noticable
- Lightbulb on music stand goes out - alright, that's not my fault. Stage lights and a quick replacement carried the day.
I suppose that's why I keep the spares around, but I'm moving on to another musical this weekend, and I wonder what's going to break there . . .
New IMN Podcast and Musical Theater Stuff
The new IMN podcast is up - download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2 Thursdays at 4pm and 10pm.
Also, it looks like every weekend I have through the first weekend in August contains musical theater goodness. This weekend and the next, I'm subbing in for the extended run of the "Great American Trailer Park Musical" at Theater On The Square, and then after that comes the BOBDIREX production of "Something Funny Happened On The Way to the Forum" at the Athenaeum. Back into the world of weirdly reproduced scores and pencil notes.