"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..."
Even after God-knows-how-many weeks of rehearsals and then performances, I am still not sick of this show. It's just that good. Sondheim is just that good. And I'd like to do another and another and another...
But this last weekend, what really made my day (or night, as the case happens to be) is that after the little sextet group sang our pieces on Saturday (see above picture; I'm the second girl on the right), the audience applauded as we walked off stage.
Now you might be thinking, well, of course they did, that's what audiences do. But the thing with Sondheim is that he doesn't really leave a lot of time for applause. There are moments, but the music generally starts up again in seconds, and our director, being a Sondheim enthusiast, tries to encourage the movement as much as possible. So in this particular scene, even though the music does stop for longer than a moment, the folks from the next bit are generally already onstage as we walk out, so the audience remains silent. Sad, but I didn't mind overmuch.
Except apparently they were late to walk on stage that night, because the applause came, and now I crave it every performance.
Maybe a little unrealistic, but oh, well...
I just know I had the hardest time trying not to grin as I walked off stage, because Damn RIGHT, they applauded us!! Or me, because I'm clearly the best in the group.
(HA!)
I wish every night was a musical...
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