It's Like The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Meets The Rockettes

I'm now in Week 2 of my Chicago Gay Men's Choir experience and I still enjoying it very much. Back in my high school and college days I sung Tenor almost exclusively, but these days they have my in the Baritone section. While I can still hit the Tenor 2, or lower Tenor, parts easily, I'm finding the change of pace to Baritone and the use of some of my lower register to be a lot of fun. Also, my vocal chords don't want to fall out of my throat at the end of rehearsal. Which is a bonus.

As we go along and learn more about the Holiday Show, I'm getting pretty excited. This weekend the choir hosted it's new member mixer/party deal at Sidetracks in B-Town and they showed the DVD of the last concert, which was blast. After watching that show, and after hearing more about this Christmas production, I'm learning that this chorus likes to put on out and out stage shows, not just a group of guys in suits harmonizing on stage. For instance, this show is going to feature dancers, a living Menorah, and a lingerie fashion show. And that's just a sampling of the event!

Our director is referring to the show as "The Mormon Tabernacle Choir meets the Rockettes," which is sounding more and more likely as we get more details of the show. They are also a few solos in the show, as well as a few quartet pieces, and I'm pretty tempted to audition for the parts. I figure I may as well give it a shot. There may be better singers in the group, but I may be just right for a given song. I'll just have to wait and see though as they haven't announced the auditions for those just yet.

The group seems very nice and friendly too. I joined with a high school friend who is extremely outgoing, so he makes it a bit easier to meet other members, but everyone I've talked to so far seems to be sociable. So far I'm pretty glad I decided to do this. Now the question will be am I still excited to do this when we get closer to the show and there are those extra couple rehearsals in the middle of the week, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.