I think the show went well. I thought beforehand that four hours would be insanely long, and that by the end we'd be struggling to put together a set. Turned out not to be like that at all. The time flew by and we had a whole list of great songs we didn't get to.
The first half hour was kind of chaotic because the playlister crashed on us, and we couldn't view it or make any changes. We wrote the songs down on paper for about 15-20 minutes and then finally the system timed out and let us log in again. Somehow we ended up with 3 playlists -- the first one that crashed, another one that we tried to start which didn't appear to work but apparently it did create something, and then the third one in which we entered most of the show. I'm going to go back and combine them all into one; for now here's the playlist for most of the show.
I haven't listened to the archive yet but I think we may have played a few too many novelty songs. What the heck, it was fun while we were doing it. And we got several requests, which was a nice surprise. I don't usually get any requests during a theme show. I think maybe they think I've got the whole show planned and requests would be an intrusion or something. There was one request I couldn't fill, for a song I'd never heard of called "Clyde the Camel." It sounds like it would have fit in well with our silly animal songs set -- "Rabbits Have a Christmas," "I Want a Hippopotomous for Christmas" etc. I'm going to try to find it for next week.
During the show I was totally jazzed up and was even regretting that I hadn't also signed up for the 7-9 pm show. But as soon as we left the station I started to realize how tired I was, and what a good thing that the show was four hours long and not six. Right now I'm resting my feet (I feel like I can't reach everything from the chair so I always end up standing for the entire show) and trying not to snack on my stocking candy before dinner.
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