Wednesday February 3 - Witnessing 'Witness Uganda'

Tonight the featured presentation at Disney/ASCAP was 'Witness Uganda', an amazing work in progress by Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould.  Since our first presentation was last night (and we aren't presenting again until the 18th) I was able to relax and just pay attention and enjoy while someone else was in the hotseat.

I was completely blown away by it all, really more of a 'play with music' than a musical, merging a compelling story and dialogue with some amazing African music.  The performers kicked butt, sure, but they had some amazing stuff to work with.  And composer Matt Gould was so impressive to me; such mastery of the style and harmonies and rhythms... okay I've gushed enough.  I can't wait to see more.

I have to confess that I was more than a tiny bit jealous of all the attention and buzz the project got afterwards.  The panel recognized (quite rightly) their genius.  Meanwhile, Jason Alexander last night called our show 'pleasant.'  Cindy reminded me that it isn't a competition.  Still, the Sarah Diamond in me was assessing our moderate success-high and wondering 'where's my Higher?'

Insane reaction, right?  Oh well, I suppose the first step is realizing you have a problem.