Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:05 pm
A wild and wacky night at the Woodland Opera House! Apparently all of this traveling is catching up with me – I didn’t put together the set list before the show, so I was just winging it for most of the night, and that turns out not to be the best way to put a concert together. Thank you, fine people of Woodland, for putting up with my thrilling memory lapses and endless blather.
Lesson of the night: If you decide on the spot to do a song that you haven’t even thought about in two years, don’t be surprised if you screw up the lyrics completely.
All Things In Time
I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You
Long Long Road
I’m In Bizness
(This was the one I thought would just be “fun” to pull out of my back pocket after not having performed it since Fargo, North Dakota. Suffice to say that it’s hard to keep up the momentum of this song when you cannot for the life of you remember what the next line is. Sorry, Woodland, I owe you one.)
Wondering
Stars and the Moon
Being A Geek
INTERMISSION
Nothing In Common
When You Say Vegas
Out Of The Sun
King of the World
The Old Red Hills of Home
Caravan of Angels
Moving Too Fast
Someone To Fall Back On
Many thanks to Jeff Kean and Mary Hayakawa and all the folks at Woodland Opera House for putting together a great day, and best wishes to the amazing kids doing 13 up there later this month!
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Thanks so much again for coming up to Woodland (of all places)! It was such an amazing concert, and I LOVE all the new material (the Honeymoon in Vegas songs were hilarious).
Those in attendance witnessed the greatest performance in the 127 year history of the theater. You created a few hundred life-long fans last night. I mentioned Des MacAnuff to you at the reception area and please, I hope you come back so we can pack the place to the rafters. Thank you, Jason, for an amazing night. (Did you sign the wall in the dressing room?)
[FROM JRB: Thanks so much, Tom! I did not, in fact, sign the wall in the dressing room. I figured I’d leave that to the kids; I did sign the guest book. See you next time!]
Jason, it was a pleasure to meet you and be able to spend the day with you. I hope you get some well needed rest! I can’t wait to hear about all your exciting upcoming projects. Thanks for sharing your gifts with the kids — it meant a lot to them!
My theatre club has 495 members, but only 16 of them joined me in at WOH last night for your concert. The word today is that the others missed the best concert in years. You knew you were winging it; we just enjoyed watching and listening to you wing it. Hope to get you back up here again so we can sell out the house (Tom [above] and Gary are an awesome team when we put our minds to something.) Oh, and I promise you I am not stalking you around California as you mentioned. This is only the third time (the cast party of “13” and the talk-back of “Parade” in LA and now WOH) our paths have crossed. 🙂 It was great to see you and chat again.
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