The Regard of Flight was a bit short, so we rounded out the evening with some of Bill’s shorter pieces, under the title of The Clown Bagatelles. The last of these was a dance piece called “The Marionette.” I played this piece hundreds of times, and always approached the final cadence with relief: we made it through another show.
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1 Jacob Smith // Sep 20, 2017 at 5:50 pm
Hi Doug, I’m Jake, I did sound for you guys for In Regard of Flight at the Seattle Rep around ’82 or so, and the Marionette piece at the end was my favorite moment, a bit different from the perhaps earlier version I see on youtube. Glad to see there’s any archive of it at all, your piano for the bit as well as the whole show was great, and your uke and ventriloquist work sublime. Thanks, Jake
2 Doug // Sep 20, 2017 at 9:31 pm
Thanks, Jake! Nice to hear you remember it fondly. I think Bill has videos of all the versions; it did change a bit over the years.