How to ruin a good song for everyone. One Short Day from the musical Wicked is on our set list for the Christmas concert our AmDram group are performing in Spalding town centre this weekend. Of course the proper words are “one short day in the Emerald City” but when we were rehearsing it last week, and not enunciating as well as we should have been, I definitely heard a haemorrhoid. Should have kept it to myself really but decided to share with the group. The result? Everyone now starts to snigger when we begin that number. Our musical director is not best pleased with me.
I’m slightly nervous about the whole set-up at the weekend. We’ve been told we are singing on a portable stage; the side of a lorry I believe. We know we have an hour’s set on the Saturday from 1pm but I notice that day there will also be a choir competition involving many of the primary schools from our area. We have kept the same programme for this weekend which we used in the concert for the local WI (I couldn’t make it; on holiday) which is basically a number of show tunes. So I have this vision of all these sweet children singing Little Donkey and then us bunch of old farts belting out Razzle Dazzle. I fear it could all go terribly wrong. Thankfully I’m in the chorus so I’m hoping to hide at the back with a woolly hat and shades.
No such luck on the Sunday. We’re in a different part of town that day and one of the soloists from the Saturday can’t make the Sunday so I’m doing her song for her. So Abigail will sing Tell me on a Sunday on the Saturday and I’ll sing Tell me on a Sunday on the Sunday! Our slot is 10am to 11am which is a tad early and I suspect we’ll be singing to the birds and the drunks still wandering around from the night before. But we are troopers and although we may be warbling Oh What a Beautiful Morning on a cold and piddly December day, we will do it with gusto.
Here’s a video of One Short Day: the Broadway, not the Spalding, version. But think ‘haemorrhoid’ when you hear ’emerald’ and join me in a childish giggle.
What would life be without childish giggles?
Good luck with the solo on Sunday, I hope you get an audience even if it is 10am on a Winter's day.
*snigger*
I'm sure you'll have a fine turn out for your Sunday rendition of 'tell me on a sunday'. Have fun. x
Hope the Haemorrhoid City number brings in piles of money for your charity.
Sarah – I think we're singing opposite the butcher's so if there's not much happening I'll sneak in there for a pie.
Very Bored – Yes, that wonderfully festive song by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Should really cheer everyone up haha!
Troy – Oh I like that. Prize for best pun so far!
Haemorrhoid City… a place where grapes grow wild and free and patrons walk around with cushions.
Just don't look at each other when you come to that word! Tee hee.
Steve – As long as you don't eat the grapes…
Expat mum – think I'll just keep my eyes shut, may be safer.
Oh I had so wanted to come and see you and can't make it this weekend! how is Dougie with video taping?
Libby – I hadn't thought about videoing it. Dougie will probably stick around on Saturday but two days in a row is maybe pushing it! Rory is staying away from town altogether in case anyone sees him haha!
Trish – the women's choir I sing with has this sort of thing happen all the time, although not with that particular word! I really thought that, at our ages, this sort of thing wouldn't be happening any more, but it's just as bad as it was when the a capella group I sang with in high school sang, 'Now is the month of maying' and spent all of our spare time creating our own lyrics, which we then had to remember not to sing when performing. Break a leg this weekend!
Yep, had a giggle! 🙂 Good luck with this weekend's performances, I will be thinking of you, especially on Sunday morning… Any chance of a video of the Spalding version on your blog next week?
Outside Boots eh? handy for the Anusol….
Ms Caroline – glad to know we're all the same. Am tempted to write some new lyrics for One Short Day on the haemorrhoid theme…
Funky – Thank you! If we don't video it then there's at least a chance of bits of it popping up on local radio station Tulip FM.
Sally – hee hee, yes our location is perfect then.
Haha! That reminds me of being at Primary School and getting all the words to the prayers wrong "..blessed art thou a monk swimming…" Someone wrote a book of the same name once…
My favourite is leaving a pause in one line from Circles of Your Mind so it goes: 'The ripples from a pebble. Someone tosses in a stream. ' It's one of Mr RB's favourite songs. Sadly he doesn't find it as funny as I do.
Hope it went well yesterday, and good luck for today! 🙂
Curry Queen – I've not heard that one but it's excellent. Might have to hunt the book out.
Madame SG – Now that sounds just like you!!
Bavarian Sojourn – post coming up soon to tell you all about it.