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Yesterday marked closing night for The Imaginary Invalid, and the end of the first week of rehearsals for Jekyll & Hyde. I recorded a bit of Hyde’s big Act I song, just to show off our chorus at work.
A few notes:
- The clip’s about a minute long—I start where the chorus comes in, and we didn’t get to the big finish (EVERY song in J&H has a big finish) on this try.
- I set the iPhone mic behind the chorus, and I’m standing ten feet behind that. Otherwise it would have been all a whole bunch of people singing AHHHHH and me barely audible singing something unintelligible. It’s still unintelligible, but we’ve got time to fix that.
- Yeah, we’re totally clipping out the mic—I’m singing as loudly as I can without blowing a vocal chord to compete with the choirs of angels, and I’m sure that as individuals they’re trying to hear themselves over me.
- You don’t normally notice the choral work on this number on the cast album because of the orchestration. It’s kinda cool to hear the part that you’d otherwise overlook (overhear?) as part of the rehearsal process.
- I’m not too pitchy. On a couple of notes I sound like I have a head cold, though.
Also, my computer’s only starting up in safe mode at the moment (stupid video card). Can someone tell me if the thing actually plays?
