Any MST3K fans?

Last night was our last rehearsal before the big Thanksgiving Versus Christmas musical tonight. It's a thing that my friend Molly Lewis is doing with a bunch of her friends.

In addition to the fact that the musical is awesome and hilarious, and that it's filled with great performers and musicians, it also happens to include one of Molly's more well-known friends, Kevin Murphy.

My band is the house band for this show, so last night I spent an evening in a room with about 20 amazing and interesting people, and occasionally being in the backing band for someone that I've been a fan of for over 20 years, and whose current work still utterly slays me. Outside of the actual rehearsal, I also got a chance to just chat with him a bit, and he's just a really nice person. I think (I hope) I managed to be calm and professional, and not fanboy on him too much.

And of course, for his part in the show, he's just absolutely killing it. He's perfectly cast as an angry Santa that's fed up with how the Christmas season starts too early every year. He nailed his song and all the over-the-top parts of his role, and it felt surreal to be the one playing the music to back him up. I'm pretty excited about this.

I think there are one or two BBS members here in the Seattle area? Highly recommend you come to the show tonight, it's going to be hilarious and awesome. Tickets here, for both the 7pm and the 10pm shows.