Videos - Dave Janes Video
Sweeney Todd- Collins Center for the Arts: Feb 25th,2009
(Female Singing in Background)
Dave Janes ’04 – Actor/Musician – “Sweeney Todd”
“We’re here in the MCA, now the Collins Center for the Arts, and yeah, this is like coming full circle. I love what they have done with the inside here. I think it’s very Sweeney-esque.”
(Dave Janes as Sweeney Todd singing in background.)
Dave Janes: “You know when I left at the end of my senior year, which was ’04, I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be cool to come back here someday and sing here?’ Because I always loved singing here at this house and well here I am doing all the stuff that I learned to do here and more.”
(Dave Janes as Sweeney Todd singing in background.)
Dave Janes: “I wanted to go out and do everything that I learned how to do here. Play the trumpet, play guitar, utilize all my musical capabilities, singing and everything. I went off to theater school and now I’ve become and actor as well, and here I am.”
Maine Steiner’s Concert 2004
(Dave Janes Singing with the Maine Steiners)
Dave Janes: “You know, the Steiners really helped me develop some performing skills and everything. Singers really develop a passion for music and for a lot of technical proficiency as well. I learned a lot about the mechanics of music here and I still use all of those basics when I’m working now. A lot of ensemble work here really taught me how to be a team player with everyone here.”
(Dave Janes as Sweeney Todd singing in background.)
Dave Janes: “I keep in touch with Dennis Cox, who is head of the singers, and Laura Artesani, who is the accompanist and who is a wonderful teacher. She gave me really a lot of help developing myself as a musician while I was here. (Triangle chime.) Everyone that was here gave me a piece to take with me and put in the tool bag to go off to the next step. It’s as much as you make it. You know there’s lots of a reason not to do things and I think some people might give up on their passion because they listen to a lot of those reasons, and I’m lucky that I didn’t. You know, I hope I can serve as a Z-list example of, if you keep going after what you really have a passion for, you’ll find it.”
