Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers: A Must-Read for Fans of Glee, High School Musical and Twilight by S. Stevens

Author:S. Stevens [Stevens, S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781466434127
Google: MmmepwAACAAJ
Amazon: 1466434120
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-11-23T08:00:00+00:00

13: Oldies and Goodies

AS MR. LORD REQUESTED, the songs kept coming. Motivated by the script, the casting or – most likely – the chance to create singing parts for themselves, the CDC cast churned out songs.

Nigel surprised us with an Irving Berlin show tune, confirming my suspicion that he was a closet musical theatre buff, despite his claims to the contrary when I’d helped him prepare for auditions. Seriously, who would come up with “Anything You Can Do” from Annie Get Your Gun except someone who knows their theatre? It’s not like he got the idea from his housemate Ben. Even though Ben was an original CDC member, he knew nothing about musical theatre, except for the shows we’d done.

However, Ben’s contribution to the song list was very cool. I admit we were wary at first.

“You wrote a song called ‘That Smell’? You’re joking, right mate?” Nigel asked.

“I didn’t write it. That’s what it’s really called. I heard it on my father’s classic rock radio station the other day. When I heard the line ‘ooh that smell’, I thought of the scene in the biology lab when Edward can’t stand Bella’s smell,” Ben explained.

“He loves her smell. He can’t stand it because it’s so good, not because it’s so bad,” Lucey clarified, sounding offended.

“Whatever. I was going to write words as a joke, but the more I listened to the song, the more I realized it could be a great piece for the show. It’s hard-edged, and we need some fast songs. And it’s got great back-up vocals.”

We pulled up the song on YouTube in Mr. Lord’s room and had to agree. He’d found a winner.

After that, we pulled up “Anything You Can Do” for those who didn’t know it – basically everyone but me. It sounded corny after “That Smell” but I made a case for keeping the song on the maybe list, not to support Nigel but because we needed at least ten songs to fill out the show. And the refrain “anything you can do, I can do better” did have the potential to be pretty funny, sung by a family of vampires with super-human capabilities

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