Guys and Dolls worked – the kids pulled it off, while the adults working backstage…well, they took forever for each and every scene change. I’ve decided that theater parents are as bad as – or worse than – band parents. Imagine having the nerve to ask the accompanist to play a song in a different key for your child twenty minutes before the house opens! Now, I’m capable of transposing music, but not by sight, and certainly not when the song is 10 pages long, and written in 4 different keys that switch about every 8 measures. This is tough stuff, and I actually spent hours practicing just this one song. I eventually had to have the director intervene, because the mom wouldn’t take “no, I’m sorry I can’t do that” for an answer. The kid singing, by the way, was fine with singing it in the key we’d been practicing it in for the past month, it was just his mom that had an issue. I really get annoyed with parents who live vicariously through their children in extra-curricular activities – I have no problem with supporting your kid, but it can get to be a little much. I hope when I have children I don’t do that. Anyway, I chose to spend all day yesterday watching football and knitting*. So, the song won’t be transposed for this coming weekend either, but honestly, they don’t pay me enough to spend my entire day off trying to rewrite the music. Sorry, rant over. :)
*Christmas knitting is coming along, and I’m not panicked yet, but I’m tossing around ideas in my head for alternate gifts if I can’t get to one or two of the things I was planning on making. I think I can finish the items currently on my needles by the end of Thanksgiving week…if not, I’ll really have to start cutting back on hand-made items. Next year, I’m starting my Christmas gifts in January.