This was my third show with Rosebud Theater as a professional artist. It was one of the most challenging. It's a collection of three stories: A Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, and Borther Heinrich's Christmas. Morris Ertman, the Director, had found John Rutter's What Sweeter Music  and fell in love with it. He started to research more about this composer and found these stories written into choral song. Morris then began to dream about staging these three stories on the Rosebud Theatre stage. And we did just that. For the first time, John Rutter's music was staged and presented as three magical stories who told three important morals: home is where we want to be, tolerance is important for making a community, and miracles still happen. 

 

I loved this show. I would tell people, it has all of the whimisical and lovable qualities of an older disney movie. It felt like home, singing and working on this show. Before, I didn't think of mysef as a musician. I learn music well, but not this kind of music. It was the hardest work I've ever done and it was deifintely the most rewarding. I had a fantastic crew to work with and Bill Hamm is a great music director. These songs were originally done by The Kings Singers who are at the top of their game vocally and musically. Bill had read that they sit around a table, spread out their music, and work. That's how they interview new group members: to see if they fit. We did this a couple mornings of Tech Week rehearsals and it made such a difference. In those moments, we grew together and I discovered how true each of the story morals were. And that's exactly why the final performnce was so emotional. I saw that everyone else had disovered what I had.