The E Word

The thing I like best about this show is it really lets you get in touch with your inner kindergartener.  Adam Sultan, Eliot Haynes and I sat down for our first meeting about Adam's contribution - original arrangements for both instruments and a cappella 3 part harmony.  The idea is to have all the music the actors interact with have the same kidsy feel to it.  I took Orff instruments (percussion - zylophones, cow bells, triangles, drums, add piano, throw in kazoo and animal noises) as the starting point.  Adam's top of the line animal noise maker is seen in the photo.

But it's also serious work as well.  Which things fall in Adam's style?  Which pieces need choreography, so need to be done first (so I have time to choreograph them).  Which music acts as ambient mood, and what's the mood of the scene... that we haven't even started rehearsing yet? The teacher "appears" only as a disembodied voice - what, exactly, does that sound like?  And on and on...  It gets tiring.