Tommy opens

March 24th, 2007 | Comments: none

Tommy opened last weekend. It’s been quite the ride. Tech week — or more like weeks, plural — was grueling and demoralizing (temporarily) and everything you’d expect from a show this ambitious. There are something like 950 light cues, 200-some costume changes, and, for us, nearly two hours of solid playing. Fortunately, it’s all behind us now, and the show is awesome.

Last night’s performance was the breakthrough for me. I’d been closing every night feeling like I’d been bled to death by a hundred paper cuts: I played OK, but made a ton of small mistakes that added up to that not-so-satisfied feeling. Probably nothing too glaring to the audience, but enough to annoy me and keep me from getting into a groove. But last night something clicked and I was able to let go and just rock out. In that mindset I played pretty well, and perhaps most importantly, I had fun! I look forward to tonight’s show.

Oh, and if you’re visiting this site from my bio in the show’s program, welcome. You can hear some of my songs on the “songs” page. More will be coming soon as I finish my stockpile. If you’re wondering what the Eastern Bloc Rock reference is, well, that’s my old bio from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, used by mistake instead of a new one.