Hi everybody,
Well, the Acadia Music Theatre production of “Working” opens tomorrow (Thursday). I have a big ol’ media release copied at the bottom of this email. I’m excited to see it… I’m not able to be in it after all, since my schedule got in the way of making any band practices, but I know it’ll be a good show from helping out earlier.
Of course, sometimes not practicing with a group works out, too. At the Chorus/Vocal Ensemble concert on Monday, I stepped in to play the piano part of Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder for the Vocal Ensemble, as their accompanist was sick. Luckily I already know it for the recital with Susan Dworkin on the 15th.
In old news – the Sonic Lab show went well, and emceeing it was a blast. Hopefully it will be on the MusicTech website
(http://musictech.acadiau.ca/) at some point in the not too distant future (along with the Chorus/Vocal Ensemble concert from Monday). The Colby Ale House gig with Susan Dworkin also went well.
In new news – I have a steady gig for the summer playing at The Spanish Galleon in Lunenburg, on Thurs, Fri, and Sat nights, starting sometime soon. It has awesome food and is a nice place; playing there will be good times! It’s also conveniently right across the street from Elizabeth’s Books (run by my Dad). Both are on Montague St, one street up from the harbour. Feel free to email me for more specific directions to books and/or food/music if you’re headed Lunenburg way at some point.
That’s it for me,
Party on,
Gus
http://www.gnote.ca/
Media Release
“I would like to see a building…I would like to see one side of a foot-wide strip from top to bottom with the names of every bricklayer, every electrician – all the names. So when a guy walked by, he could take his son and say, “See – that’s me up there on the forty-fifth floor. I put that steel beam in”. Picasso can point to a painting, a writer can point to a book. What can I point to? Everybody should have something to point to.”
The Acadia Music Theatre program presents it’s second production of the 2006/2007 season, Working: the Musical. Based on the Studs Terkel novel, composer Stephen Schwartz explores the existence of the average working man. Stephen Schwartz is well known for his musicals Wicked, Godspell, Pippen and The Bakers Wife. Working won Schwartz a Drama Desk Award as director. With song contributions from Craig Carnelis, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz and James Taylor, the stories of everyday workers are told using folk, rock, Motown, and Broadway styles.
The artistic team consists of Director Robert Seale, who has worked internationally from Australia to Norway and the USA as actor, director, educator and Fight Master; Musical Director Lisa St.Clair, ECMA nominee, teacher, musical director, sound designer and performer who works Nationally and Internationally On board also are Choreographer Mary Lou Martin, who has been choreographing and directing in Canada for many years; and Associate Musical Director Paula Rockwell, a well known performer and educator with the Acadia music department and abroad. Lighting and sound design and live band are provided by students of Acadia.
The Musical is being presented at the Al Whittle Theatre April 5th – 8 pm opening, April 6th – 8 pm, April 7th – 2pm and 8 pm with a special student preview being offered April 5th at 1 pm. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors and are available through the music department (585-1512) and at Box of Delights in Wolfville, as well as at the door.
