I can hear you now...bedspread cover? tupperware cover? coverlet? book cover???
No. I'm talking about a cover as in...cover your butt when you're in trouble! I got your back man! Lean on me! If you get hit in the knee by a psycho weilding a police baton, I'll be there! You pop a vocal chord, I'm ready to make my fabulous debut!
This has been the year of cover roles for me. In many ways, being a cover is like riding the Incredible Hulk roller coaster.
One minute you're just hanging on on the uphill, life is good, learning the music as best you can but all the while kinda knowing that you won't ever hit that downhill -- or possibly it is coming...but possibly it's all just a bunch of hype. Then....you get the phone call, "Hi Christine. I think I'm going to cancel and not sing. Do you have the music learned?" ....aaaaaaaand it's over the top down the hill, frantic texts to friends, trips to the bathroom, heart in throat, shortness of breath, sure you are going to die!!!!
Me: OMG, I can't do it. Hyperventilating here, where is my bag? Can't breathe.
Shaz: You are fine, think of what an oppourtunity this will be.
Me: Yeah, but the conductor works at the MET!!! As in, I've seen his name on the credits in the movies.
Shaz: So what? Lata worked at the Lyric. no big deal, you will rock this.
Me: omg, nerves and adrenaline. brb...have to go to bathroom.
Well....then after those first three loops you get another call. "Hello Christine? Yeah, so I AM going to sing afterall. Sorry for the scare, thanks for being there though!" This is like that little hill mid-coaster where peace and calm kind of reign for a minute and you pull your stomach out of your mouth...then it's bam for the rest of the ride with wild emotions of "man this could have been my big break" "I could have done it" "why am I learning this again??????"
I know at the end of the ride I really will have experienced something wonderful -- that having learned another piece of music can only make me more prepared in the end -- but at the moment I am in the corkscrew second half of the ride.
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