I got the part.
I’m the soprano soloist of the most exciting production of The Messiah to hit Chicago since…ever. David Richards, one of the biggest names in opera, is singing the tenor role. Every opera critique will be there.
This is it! My big break.
I hope. I mean, there’s always a chance a show won’t go as well as anticipated and that the reviewers will despise it. But that’s the risk you take a performer. You practice, do your best and hope that the audience loves the results. I couldn’t ask for a better chance to launch my career. I just need to focus all my energy on being the best I can be and everything will work out the way I hope.
Okay, maybe not all my energy. I mean, I still have my day job as a high school show choir coach. And the Winter Wonderland concert for Prospect Glen High School is the same week as The Messiah performances. Ever since the curtain almost came down on me while running into a killer, the kids in my choir have actually paid attention to me during rehearsal. I’m not sure if it’s sympathy due to the near death experience or respect for my leadership and directorial abilities that has brought about the change, but whatever it is, I hope it lasts. Because juggling The Messiah and Winter Concert rehearsals is going to be tough enough. Especially since this is the first time my show choir team will perform the numbers they’ll be competing with in the spring.
The good news is my sexy co-choreographer and Prospect Glen’s theater teacher, is on my side. So is the head of the choir program, Larry DeWeese. He even let me rearrange the Winter Wonderland Concert rehearsals to fit around my Messiah schedule. And I can always count on my Aunt Millie to bolster my confidence if I start to freak out about anything.
Hopefully, that won’t be necessary. I’ve practiced my music until I can sing the arias in my sleep. The show choir’s numbers look great. The kids have worked hard. So have I. Everything is going my way.
What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks to Penguin, I have one (1) copy of END ME A TENOR to give away. Leave a comment to be included in the giveaway. The book will be shipped directly from the publisher. Contest ends April 24; US entries only per publisher’s request.
You can read more about Paige in End Me a Tenor, the second book in the “Glee Club” mystery series. The first book in the series is Murder for Choir.
Meet the author
Joelle Charbonneau has performed in opera and musical theatre productions across Chicagoland. She now teaches private voice lessons and uses her stage experience to create compelling characters in her books. She is the author of two mystery series: The Rebecca Robbins mysteries (Minotaur Books) and the Glee Club mysteries (Berkley). Joelle’s also the author of The Testing young adult trilogy that debuts with THE TESTING (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s) June 4th. Learn more at www.joellecharbonneau.com
Books are available at retail and online booksellers.
I can’t enter ,,,but I will be at Malice the week after the contest ends. 😉
sounds like a good read. I will have to check out the first book in the series. thanks for the review.
I would love to win a copy. Dee
love this cover!!!!
thank you for the giveaway!!!
Thank you for the chance to win this fun book.
The cover is great and I am sure so is the book!!
The cover grabbed me right away, would love to win this book!
Love the cover. Would love to win this hooky!
I loved the first book in the series, Murder for Choir, and would love to win END ME A TENOR. Thanks for having this contest.
I loved the first book in the series, Murder for Choir, and would love to win END ME A TENOR. Thanks for having this contest.
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I enjoyed the first one in the series and look forward to reading this one. Thanks for the opportunity!
Wow another cozy series to try…thanks for the info.
Looking forward to this one!
I would love to win!
Ah, show choirs and the Messiah. Quite a combination!
Loved the first book in this series. I’m looking forward to the next one. And seeing you at Malice, Joelle.
Music lover’s will enjoy this series.
Joelle,
Sounds like a winner. I’d love to win the copy.
Show choirs should add a nice twist to a mystery. My husband belonged to a choir for years and there was always some drama happening. Thanks for the contest–I’d love to win.
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I want to see what goes wrong with this production.
Thank you for hosting this giveaway, cute cover.
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This is a cute series. Anxious to get my hands on the latest release. Thanks for the giveaway. Fingers crossed. 🙂
I would love to win this book too. Another of my I-want-to-read series.
As a former glee club member, I think I’d get a chuckle out of this production. I’ve seen another of Joelle’s series featured, but I’ve yet to read one of these books. Maybe I’ll win the chance to do so. Thanks. judydee22002@yahoo dot com
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