No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.
My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.
In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.