Life Is One Long Rehearsal

Or at least, that’s how it feels lately. We’re in crunch mode for the musical, which opens next Thursday, and rehearsals have been running late and are beginning to feel a little stressed. At this point, I’ve been in or played for The Sound of Music so many times I think I could play the music blindfolded. Tonight was the first time I’ve played it with an orchestra, though. It was heavenly! There are definitely parts where the piano is featured, but there are lots and lots of parts where if I don’t play all the notes on a particular page it’s no biggie – which is good, because there are lots and lots of parts where I just couldn’t play all the notes on the page. (The key of G-flat? What on earth were they thinking?!? Who can think in the key of G-flat?)

And the sitzprobe (yes, it’s a strange word, google has the definition) ended early enough that I could be home to put Carrie to bed.

…and…

Netflix sent me Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire today, so I just finished watching that. I was disappointed to not see it in the theater, but hey, I got the DVD in the mail the same day it was released in the stores, so, yay! I almost didn’t watch it tonight, because the sleeve they sent it in had a running time of 4 hours and 40 minutes listed, but it was only 2 hours and 40 minutes. It was my favorite of them all so far!