21st Century Oliver!

Last night was the best show yet. The crowd was so responsive! The ensemble goes out to do a pre-show and work the crowd. After doing three shows, we are finding our cadence together; not the orchestrated, choreographed measures (and they are done well), but the small places that we can fill with the personalities of the characters we have been ripening over the past eight weeks.

During the intermission, Dodger, Fagan, Jake, one of the Tarts, and I (the town Prude) did a techno Oliver! downstairs in the dressing room. Dodger provided the keyboard (with his creative own little mouth); Fagan did the chorus of "Please sir, Please sir, Please sir I want some more"; Jake repeated "He needs me"; Tart sang "No Bill! No Bill!" and I added "Some more, some more" in rhythm to Fagan so that it perfectly coincided with an echo just after his last words.

I am going to attempt to record it tonight. Perhaps a few techies can assist me getting a link up so the rest of you can enjoy our varied talents.

For now, a three-day reprieve. We are going to go do some trails of Kolob (the link takes you to some beautifully captured images), feast at the hands of hired help (a restaurant), and come home to a sleep that replace all that that has been lost this past week.