Or thinking out of the box, or some other piece of management-speak. What I mean is doing something I don’t usually do – in this case singing some Gilbert and Sullivan. I only do this rarely, but when I do I always find I enjoy it more than I thought I would.
In this case it was a come-and-sing Mikado. The chorus was carefully seeded with members of the local G & S society so I was able to mug along with them on the less obvious bits. Doing a whole opera, rather than just an excerpt, allows you to identify the various targets of the satire as they appear – everything from general officiousness to penny dreadfuls. And it was the first come-and-sing performance I’ve been involved in where there were more in the audience than performing!