Those rehearsal blues...

[bookzombie]

A couple of weeks ago we lost one of our four (count them, four) men in the concert for reasons far too complicated to go into now.

Last night we pretty much lost another one.

Paul (who some of you have met and who played Higgins in My Fair Lady), our best male singer, has had throat problems for a while and he went to the doctor in the last few days.

Turns out he has something wrong with his throat (he couldn't remember exactly what it is but from the description sounds like throat nodules to me) and has been told not to sing for six weeks to see if it gets better. If not he will have to have an operation.

So he has now arranged to just sing his two solos and nothing else. So we are down to two men, and Denyse who sings tenor.

Arghhh! Things have never got quite this bad before!

Just to add insult to injury, we had a request from Salisbury Operatic Society who are doing the musical of Titanic asking if we can help them out. They've got 20, but they are still two short...

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[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Rule One: There are never enough men.
Rule Two: There are never enough tenors, specifically.

But it does sound as though you've got a particularly bad case. You have my sympathies. So does Denyse. I too have sung the tenor part in my time.

I wish I could lend you my sister, who once singlehandedly recruited enough men to ensure that HMS Pinafore didn't have to have all-female sailors. (This was for a university G&S society. She even managed to enlist my brother, who was only sixteen at the time and very shy, but a perfectly decent baritone.)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough at the moment we actually have more tenors than bases - all four men we started with were tenors.

I'm a second tenor for preference and I'm having to sing everything from fairly low base right up to high tenor, which as you can imagine is a bit of a strain!

So what was your sister's secret, or shouldn't I ask?!

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

My sister's secret: she's incredibly charming and persuasive. Also, persistent. I learned early in my childhood that if she asks you to do something (even something unreasonable, for which you may get in trouble) in the long run, it's better if you just do what she wants.

I imagine all her friends have also come to this conclusion. She's a networker par excellence. I wish I knew how it worked myself...

[ddothill.livejournal.com]

I would offer but then you remember my rendition of George Michaels "Faith" last year... Nasty.