Back in May of 2010, a buddy of mine called me up and asked if I could take his place playing bass for a local musical production. It was Texarkana's Downtown Youth Theater doing "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". Since I was available, I said "yes". (I pretty much always say "yes" if there is any way possible for me to do the performance.) This turned out to be one of the most enjoyable and musically rewarding performances of my life. The cast and crew were all wonderful people, and extremely talented; the musicians were all top-notch and the music itself was challenging and engaging. They even paid me a little money for doing the show--bonus!
Around Easter of last year, one of the movie channels put on special showing of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Godspell". While listening to the music, I posted online about how cool it would be to get the bass chair for either of these shows, but the first was really packed with rocked-up, funky numbers. And that was the end of the discussion . . . until this week. It was just announced that, for their spring show this year, the Downtown Youth Theater will be putting on "Jesus Christ Superstar" . . . my head just about exploded. I think I sprung a couple of keys trying to get the email off fast enough putting my name in for the bass chair.
While I am considered by some to be the front-runner for the spot due to my previous experience, they could go with someone else (lots of GREAT bassists in the Texarkana area), or even just go with prerecorded tracks (I would rather lose out to another bassist than see that happen). All I can do now is wait and see. Oh, the anticipation is just . . . :)
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