YAGMCB opening night =)

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Tonight’s opening of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown was, for me, a satisfying success I was nervous, and the night wasn’t perfect, but I didn’t have any major goofs, and musically, it went very well.

The second act is the more challenging one for me. It opens with Snoopy’s Red Baron scene, where I have to sing a short but aria-like melody where the second-to-last note is a high B, so by the time I get to it, I’m a little short on breath. This is a problem when I’m nervous I had to muscle it out a little tonight, but at least it was there. Then, right after is my song, “My New Philosophy.” There’s one line in the melody that ascends, and it crosses the place in my voice where I often switch to my head voice. Sometimes I belt it, sometimes I don’t; again, nerves add an element of unpredictability to what my voice will do. Occasionally, it decides to crack But tonight, it did not

I had a few moments here and there in which I stumbled a bit on my lines, not forgetting them, but delivering them a bit awkwardly. I covered for them, though, and I don’t think the audience perceived an error…I hope. I could definitely tell that my nerves were flustering me and I wasn’t performing the way I had rehearsed, but hopefully the performance flow was all right.

AND how cute is this? At the end of the show, after I changed out of my clothes and ran up to the audience to meet Jeff (who was visiting from Houston), a little boy came over to me and asked me to sign his program! I asked him his name, and when he said John, I asked him if it was J-o-h-n. He answered, “Yes, but I want you to write your name.” I had to stifle some laughter as I wrote him a note and signed my name. It reminds me of Disney days, signing autographs and taking pictures (over and over and over…).

Yes, all in all, I’m very happy with opening night, and I can’t wait for the next 8 runs!

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