We thought we were preparing a music concert for Valentine's Day and, as it turns out, we were filler material between the MC's clowning around, reading bad poetry and her other antics. She was on stage longer than all the other music put together.
When she wasn't talking, she was horning in on other's songs, up staging the song.
I thought I had a resentment through out the rehearsal phase of the show.
But NNNOOOOOO!!!!!! It got worse during the show.
She summed it up well with her Facebook entry when she wrote: "Come see my very own Valentine's Day show."
What were we, chopped liver! Hell, we didn't see her for more than 30 minutes during the entire month of rehearsals!
Putting aside the MC hogging the show, the music went from terrible to fantastic.
And, the audience loved it. This place has the best audiences I've ever experienced. They will appreciate anything you can throw up on a stage. (I'm wondering if the term "throw up" is a Freudian slip)
About 80 folks saw the show. That is one hell of a small audience for all the work we put into the production.
To add insult to injury, the producer, otherwise known as the MC hog, credited Yella as the Music Director on the program. Yella was livid saying, "I don't want any credit for that piece of crap show."
If you recall, Yella offered to direct the music but they refused. So they prohibited Yella from directing, many of the songs sucked because of it, then they credited her with the job she didn't do.
What the F$#@$#!
The best news of all is that it is over!
We learned a lot.
And in the end, it may work out for the best because we are thinking about producing and directing a concert later this year and doing it right.
Uh oh, that is the kiss of death in The Land of Unfulfilled Expectations.
Stay tuned, more later.
1 comment:
Since I wrote this, I have had 5 people, unsolicited, tell me the show was not good. One person was pissed at the up staging and the others, in a more polite way, said they show was not up to local standards. And indeed sucked!
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