So I got invited to this conference, just out of the blue. It was actually really prestigious. We stayed there overnight.
The whole thing was for auditions for a play. Obviously I went. I'd been hoping there was some kind of community theatre up here.
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Anyway I was practicing my song. We had to choose a song just to show off our singing ability. I picked one from a musical I'd been in -- "
Guys and Dolls" -- called
Guys and Dolls, Benny's part (the first guy to speak). I auditioned with this part for the musical in high school but failed miserably, never having heard the song before. But, having done a singing role in a musical since then, I had some confidence.
Then suddenly someone decides they want to steal my song. I'm all for not repeating audition songs for an ambiguous part, so I switched over to
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, sung by Nicely Nicely Johnson. I've always loved that song.
But you know what? It'd almost be
illegal to sing that song between my friend and I, the one who ended up playing
Nicely Nicely. He sings it so flawlessly and so much as his own song that I can't even touch it. I envy his singing talents, and it's his fault I'm obsessed with singing (and dreams of singing apparently).
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