Chapter 32

I was playing a governor at the start of the show, and later, throughout both acts, a poor townsman, a rich townsman, a drunken reveler during “Oom Pah Pah,” and the aforementioned knife grinder with Major. There were only two of us performing that part, which technically made it a duet, rather than the whole group, as was the norm according to what I saw on YouTube. I felt sort of, kind of, almost okay singing in with the ensemble in other scenes. When it was just me and Major, however, it was quite hard on my nerves, even if we did basically repeat the same eight words over and over.

AJ had taken on the role of Mr. Sowerberry, the funeral director who purchases Oliver from the beadle at the workhouse. He was also in the ensemble numbers in Act 2, on top of being choreographer and principle stage and part-time musical director when the other one couldn’t make practice.