Jingle Bells recap

Ruben posted about Jingle Bells the other day. Since Jason obviously isn't saying anything about it, I thought I would step in as a fair and impartial observer....

Jingle Bells is a quartet piece (arr. by Kevin McChesney, IIRC) that occurs as the 3rd piece in the 2nd half of our concert. There are funny hats involved - sorry, Charlotte, but the Japanese audiences simply eat it up!

Anyway, Ruben's hat is under the table. Jason's is supposed to be, too.

See where this is headed?

The schtick starts. Ruben does his thing. All of a sudden, Jason comes running offstage, past all of us gathered there, watching via the monitors. As he runs past me, I hear him say, "My hat is in the dressing room!" I tell the others to make way for him as he's going to be coming back through at a pretty fast pace!

Meanwhile, Ruben is left onstage alone. He covered well, looking around and acting surprised that he was alone on stage (well, maybe that part wasn't an act!). He does a big dramatic shrug for the audience and calls out, "Merry Christmas!" The audience laughs heartily.

Finally, Jason comes running back past all of us backstage, onto the stage with his elf hat on. The audience gives him a round of applause.

The rest of the schtick proceeded as normal (PL, with reindeer antlers & red nose, saunters (like the diva she is!) onto the stage before Michael steals her spotlight with his blinky-light jacket).

After this incident, an Executive Decision was made to pack Jason's hat in with the equipment & put it out as part of the regular stage setup.