Alex Jones ('Mad Garlic Jack'), Robert Dalton ('Backbeard'), and Taylor Hoffman ('Scarlet Doubloon') in music rehearsal. Photo

From: BWW Blog: Samantha Tirrell - The Music of BACKBEARD

We've just finished our first week of music rehearsals for Backbeard at the Theatre Institute at Sage! Because Backbeard has been workshopped with our department a couple of times now, most of the cast is already very familiar with the music, so the trajectory of our music rehearsals was naturally a bit different than it would have been if we were rehearsing a licensed show. The familiarity that the cast has with the material already allows for the polishing of the music earlier in the rehearsal process than is standard, and this musical stability will assist with the fluidity of rehearsal once staging begins.