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Impeach Mike Johnson for refusing to perform the most basic of his duties.

We did it and received praise. Some of the praise is due to the exceptional arrangements, the songs themselves and the programed multimedia experience. But some of the praise is just because we had good sound and singing. We put on a good show. I’m proud of that and I’m proud of us.

(And a separate one for Outreach music, as we couldn’t perform any of the Disney songs outside of this run of four shows.) One of the Disney songs was 49 pages by itself. Another challenge was performing to preset video. The songs had to be executed precisely to match the screen.

…and to commiserate with tongue twisting lyrics.

We (the full chorus) learned and performed 8 or 9 songs more than we normally do in the same timeframe. I usually have one notebook for all my sheet music per show. I had a notebook for each act for this show.

Disney is specific with their requirements—and beyond that, there’s pride OF and WITH with the people I performed with because we all pulled together and dug in to do extra rehearsals, to help each other with our own personal musical challenges, to do more homework…