Just between you and me, we could have done without the tenors, but at any rate she did tell all the ladies to sit out that particular session. She didn t come right out and say it, but I know for a fact that she wanted to hear our clear, dulcet tones without the ladies messing everything up. We basses are so proficient, in fact, that if you should attend the performance you will notice that while there are microphones suspended above various sections of the choir, I don t believe there s a single microphone anywhere near the bass section. Not one near me, anyway. I wouldn t mind singing into one, but I m sure the rationale is that with a powerful set of pipes like mine, I don t really need a microphone.
Microphones are for sissies.
But I digress. The point is that I sing in the shower and I sing in the bass section and I know a good song when I hear one, and this particular musical has plenty of good songs. Really good ones. The kind of songs which keep going through your head and rattling around up there inside your cranium and distracting you, until you find yourself singing them not only in the shower, but also while doing everyday things like sitting at the breakfast table eating your oatmeal, or listening to your wife reprimand you for spilling your oatmeal on your clean shirt, or shaving the cat. Those of you who know Alana Allen may think you already know just how talented she is.