Thrilling Thursday

You can see where I'm going with these headlines, can't you...?

Against the odds, last night's was reportedly one of my best performances yet. My upper register was very croaky, so I had been planning how I could modify my songs slightly to account for this. I think this led to me being much more controlled in my singing, which, in turn, made for a better performance.

"Heaven..." went really well, apart from singing the last verse twice! Keith thought he'd turned 2 pages over by mistake, but it was just me - too busy thinking how I was going to reach the last note that I wandered into the wrong verse. The audience wouldn't have noticed tho.

"Strange thing Mystifying" reamined intact as it is not too high, but "Everything's Alright" was more spoken than sung.

Everything else was really slick....the chorus did brilliantly, sounded great and they seemed to be moving so much easier now. I think we're all getting comfortable with it now. "Simon Zealotes" rocked and "The Temple" was great - Pete was in fine voice, despite having spent 4 hours being sick today - a bit of a worry!

Caroline did her usual stunning performance of "I Don't Know...". I think this gets better every night. I then had quite a job to sing "Damned...". As you know by now, it's a bitch of a song to sing, and clearly I was not in the right state to do it properly...but somehow I think I managed to do it okay.

At the interval, everyone seemed really pleased with how it was going and I was glad I wasn't pushing my voice - I still felt very in control and ready to get on with the second half.

"The Last Supper" was great as ever - the lads did us proud!. The argument was more shouted than sung by me, but I guess that's realistic. It kind of made me more emotional doing it this way, which probably added to the perfomance.

As usual, the rest of the second half sounded great from the dressing room. It's good to hear Steve's voice getting stronger each night. David also goes from strength to strength I think. He really is great as Pilate.

My death was a bit more restrained, but, I think, more menacing for it. "My mind is in darkness now..." was all very low, only raising to a cry at "Your foul, bloody crime". Off I stepped and hung myself again...this time i swear I heard "Oh my god!" from the audience - great stuff. Just the reaction I like. I managed to get down the steps okay again and dashed off for "Superstar".

I think I went a bit wild in this last night. Something got into me and I just went for it - wiggling hips, thrusting the pelvis - all very Elvis. I nearly landed on top of poor Sarah when I took a leap from the steps, but she survived unscathed! I was singing it low, sounding very Elvis as well! it went down a storm, thanks goodness!

And there we have it, another superb night. I'll do a similar performance tonight and hopefully my voice will be back to normal by Saturday for a big final blast.

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