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Saturday night I got to sit in on a performance by the Eau Gallie High School folks of the Broadway play Beauty and the Beast. Most of the leads (especially the Beast and Gaston) were great and the ensemble was fantastic. The dance numbers were astoundingly good (I have no clue how the cast kept all those steps in their heads, or how the choreographer(s) put all that together ), the band’s music was great, and the sets were impressive.

It was pretty easy to forget we were watching a performance by a high school cast and crew — apart from a lackluster Belle and some minor problems with two wireless mics (apparently a flap of fabric on two of the costumes cover up the little mics, but fortunately the two actors with the problem had strong enough voices that they projected just fine without the mics), this is the caliber of show you could expect to see on Broadway. The $10-per-seat ticket price was a steal for this

My congratulations to the cast and crew! My buddy Shannon snapped some shots backstage with my camera (hehehe — nobody said the cast couldn’t snap a few pictures behind the scenes!); they’re available right here, or right here on a separate page in case the “embedded” version goofs up. Standard procedure for both: click the thumbnails for bigger versions; a little magnifying glass w/plus sign icon in the bottom-right corner zooms in even more.

You heard the rehearsals, now listen to the final performance at the MPA’s at Merritt Island High School.

(Same as before — these files are fair game to download, listen to, and share)

Unfortunately there was a bit of a glitch in the first song of the second set; the damned recorder dropped one line of the first song. Sorry about that, folks

New and Improved! Now with working !@#$ing “download” and “play” links. The silly audio module that handles that stuff added some new permissions that I needed to actually enable before downloads and playback worked for everybody. I’m a bit new to this whole “make the site work for people who are actually reading it” thing I’m not used to visitors To download these, click the title and then click “Download File” on the page that follows.

Finally, I’ve added in the rehearsals here as well, so they’re all gathered up on one page. Just in case anyone was interested in snagging it all

[Edit: Welcome, EGHS MySpacers! These files are completely free to listen to, download, and share — have at it! Thanks for giving all of our ears pleasant songs to listen to!]

The Eau Gallie High School Concert Choir and Women’s Choir held a public rehearsal this evening for their upcoming performance at this year’s MPA’s. I used my dinky little HTC Excalibur to record it from the seating in the auditorium.

The performances were very good — this recording is absolutely awful. The phone just barely had the horsepower to compress this to MP3 in realtime and it did a poor job of it. The next recording will be direct, uncompressed WAV. This audio has been “massaged” as much as possible to be audible. It sounded much better in person, I promise.

There are two songs in each file below; feel free to snag these and have a listen! Click the titles of these files for a details page that includes a link to directly download the MP3s if you’d prefer to play them in your own player instead of listening to them here in the browser.

New and Improved! Now with working !@#$ing “download” and “play” links. The silly audio module that handles that stuff added some new permissions that I needed to actually enable before downloads and playback worked for everybody. I’m a bit new to this whole “make the site work for people who are actually reading it” thing I’m not used to visitors To download these, click the title and then click “Download File” on the page that follows.

I’ve added the final performances here, too.