master0rolando
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My Director kind of sillyim doing this at a community theater this summer...
im definitely a Bass and i tried out with Ol' Man River (i knew nothing about the show when i tried out...plus i wanted to show off)
and yet i was still cast as the calypso brother...technically im listed as Reuben...but i dont think that really matters...
i saw the music at first and thought in my head that i couldnt do it...
but because of the whole Jamaican accent on the song, i can actually Baritone my way out of it...and i love the part where you falsetto the
"not heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
I must say that this is a rather...how should i say..."flamboyant" show...but i like it anyway...
a ton of girls tried out...its a shame that theres only one female part...(the other ones are too small to count)...so they divided it up between three ALTOS...the director is kind of dumb but luckily one of them can belt out the Soprano notes...sort of...she squeeks it...
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katethegreat
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Re: My Director kind of silly | master0rolando wrote: |
I must say that this is a rather...how should i say..."flamboyant" show...but i like it anyway...
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Flamboyant musical theatre? 
Never heard of it....
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Gwen
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A production I was in had three narrators, but they weren't all altos. Their voices harmonized well together...
good luck with it is all I can say I guess. It sounds pretty cool that you found a way to make your part work. 
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master0rolando
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Re: My Director kind of silly | katethegreat wrote: |
Flamboyant musical theatre?
Never heard of it....
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this one especially...and of course weve all seen Don Osmond...(the narrator in that movie was a slut...she was humping everyone...)
our Pharoah is a really bad choice...hes this heavy asian guy and i cant hear him over the piano...his elvis impression is this odd leg whipping thing...and he does it way off tempo
i didnt do too well trying out for Pharoah at callbacks myself...the director had a guy that played Pharoah a couple years back with him to choose the part...
the guy didnt like me...they were taking out the "heeyy" whines...and i told the guy that Elvis actually did that and it should probly stay so we dont confuse the orchestra...he gave me this long empty stare...  
"so sorry for disagreeing with you"
besides i wasnt sure what to do for a dance...afterwards my friend was like..."why didnt you do your hound dog dance? dont you remember your Grease impression at Broadway Knights?...why didnt you do the hip shift?"
my respons to her: 
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Beagle On Stage
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Re: My Director kind of silly | master0rolando wrote: | im definitely a Bass and i tried out with Ol' Man River (i knew nothing about the show when i tried out...plus i wanted to show off)
and yet i was still cast as the calypso brother...technically im listed as Reuben...but i dont think that really matters...
i saw the music at first and thought in my head that i couldnt do it... |
The Pharaoh's part goes higher than anything written in "Benjamin Calypso."
And the "hey-hey-hey" bit is not done ad lib in the score. You may have made an enemy when you tried to instruct the audition panel on their vision of the show.
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master0rolando
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it wasnt instruction...it more like an opinion...
anyway...the show is nw far underway and ive become really good friends with the director... The French bro., the Cowboy bro., and I seem to be gettin the most laughs from the audience...
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