Colour me excited

Miss Saigon is coming.

I lived in theatre-third-world (New Zealand) for years, so have missed the first round of Miss Saigon. It's been one of my staple shows for years, and is on my list of dream shows to MD.

As part of the open ended lead-up festival to it's opening here in Melbourne, I started re-obsessing about the soundtrack today. I forgot how much I love that score!

Wild Party auditions were great! A big thanks to anyone reading this blog who auditioned....the calibre was really high! I admit that I was a little worried going in, we only had about 50 auditonees (compared to about 150 for rent), but the calibre was so high!

What was particularly nice was the well thought out and chosen audition songs that people came with. Some real treats....nothing from the Tabu list, and a few unknown numbers that were just brilliant. One of our auditionees brought in an amazing number by a pair of Melbourne cabaret writers called something like "Falling out of love (There's so much to do)". It was brilliantly written, and the person who performed it hit it out the park.

(If you're reading, I'm soooo sorry we couldn't cast you in the show. Yours was the hardest casting decision I've ever had to make!!)

Rehearsals are going extremely well....albeit very rushed. We set the vocals for Gin & Wild, one of the most complex pieces of musical theatre written in modern times (makes Sondheim seem a doddle) in one rehearsal - 3 hours. It was a mammoth effort, and the cast pulled it off without even breaking a sweat.

Anyway....That's all for now, more later.