I was musical director for a teen production of The Sound Of Music some years back. On the whole, a talented cast.
But there was this one performance where...
First, Maria found herself unable to remember the downward ("backwards") solfege at the end of "Do-Re-Mi." She made up something, but oh, I could see the Von Trapp kids barely able not to laugh...(and me as well...)
AND - somehow that night, Max mixed up his lines in the concert scene, with the result that "Edelweiss" was skipped over. We joked afterwards that we had just done a record-setting performance - a Sound Of Music with no "Edelweiss." (I'm tending to think that we still hold the distinction for that, lol.) |
