Wow! What an amazing evening it was! I'll keep it short, but suffice it to say that the Disney Symphonic Legacy concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall was incredible. Not only was it very well received and evidently successful. It was also a blast and such a rush. It was the first time the Disney Concert Hall featured an entire evening of Disney music. It featured pieces (including our 50 minute version of Snow White) that featured the original studio film score charts. (In the photo above, from left: Blake Griffin, Rick Wasserman, Harrison White, Ruth Williamson, Jeff Lee, me, Ashley Brown, Bob Bouchard, Jeffrey Polk, Michael Arden, Matt Crabtree.)
Maestro John Mauceri had been curating this collection for years, and Disney Theatricals (Jeff Lee, Dusty Bennett, and Thomas Schumacher) had been working on this project for a year and a half. A wonderful enthusiastic audience included the president of the Disney Company, Bob Iger, the head of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, and many more influential folks in the Disney world. By the time the audience had finally stopped applauding, everyone knew the evening had been a success. It sounds like the project will live on in some form. Whether I'll tag along I don't know. I'm really just thankful to have been a part of it.
I'm incredibly grateful... to Mark Brandon at Binder Casting for picking me, to Jacole and gang at KSR for putting me out there, to John Mauceri for dreaming up this vehicle, to the gang at Disney Theatricals for dreaming up this way of presenting it (and for picking me), and to the amazing gang of musicians and vocalists and crazy actors who made this an experience of a lifetime. I'm still floating and I'll bet I won't touch down for a while. Peace and love, y'all!
