Because for the second set, she’d only gone and written an entire 14-song, 7-principal, 45-minute musical! In a matter of a couple of months!
(Open-mouthed amazement. See icon.)
Even more daunting than my fellow cast was the idea of doing it without lyric sheets, as I know from embarrassing experience just how capable my brain is of blanking on the right words to a song (to the point of often having to replace them with some of my own… ).
This reminds me of Gary McGath's and Terri Wells's The Filkado (http://www.mcgath.com/filkado.html), where we all performed pretty much with script in hand. I was Dr. McKoko, the Lord High Evil Genius, and Gary lent me his "Mad Scientists' Union" lab coat, so I had a handy pocket to keep my copy in. Having managed to pretty much learn my part, I was able to leave it in there most of the time, But, since this was a filk of The Mikado, "I've Got a Little List" became "I've Got a Little File" -- at which point I pulled it out.
That also enabled me to make a pretty good save, if I do say it myself. In one of the two performances I forgot part of a line, and ad-libbed "Just a moment; I've got it in my file" and checked.
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Date: 2011-02-08 01:40 am (UTC)(Open-mouthed amazement. See icon.)
This reminds me of Gary McGath's and Terri Wells's The Filkado (http://www.mcgath.com/filkado.html), where we all performed pretty much with script in hand. I was Dr. McKoko, the Lord High Evil Genius, and Gary lent me his "Mad Scientists' Union" lab coat, so I had a handy pocket to keep my copy in. Having managed to pretty much learn my part, I was able to leave it in there most of the time, But, since this was a filk of The Mikado, "I've Got a Little List" became "I've Got a Little File" -- at which point I pulled it out.
That also enabled me to make a pretty good save, if I do say it myself. In one of the two performances I forgot part of a line, and ad-libbed "Just a moment; I've got it in my file" and checked.