A lot of fans are likely looking forward to the release of Jurassic World Rebirth next week. Many of them may be especially excited to see the next big role by Wicked star Jonathan Bailey. We’ll get to see a different side of him in the sci-fi action adventure, but it turns out we’ll also hear a different side of him in the film’s score.
We knew Jonathan Bailey could sing and dance, but I certainly didn’t know he could also play the clarinet. It turns out he’s also pretty good, as he ended up sitting in with the orchestra recording the Jurassic World Rebirth score. He tells SiriusXM that he went to Abby Road Studios to watch the recording for fun and was inspired to break out his clarinet. He explained…
I was doing ADR the week before with Gareth, and they were recording in Abbey Road Studios the following week, and I went along, obsessed with sort of film scores and Alexandre Desplat’s score in this. It’s just like knockout, and so I just sat there, you know, on the first day I was doing a play at the time, so it was like a calming thing to do and Conrad was there, the original orchestrator for John Williams, and it was 105-piece world class orchestra, and then I was like, ‘Oh, I could bring [my clarinet],’ I hadn’t really played the clarinet for properly for like 18 years.
John Williams’ iconic Jurassic Park theme. It turns out that even if it had been 18 years, Bailey’s a solid clarinet player, as Rebirth composer Alexandre Desplat told him he was welcome to stay. He was even offered a solo, though he initially turned it down as he didn’t want to upset the professional musicians. Bailey continued…
watching Jurassic World Rebirth next week and you see Jonathan Bailey touch a dinosaur and hear a clarinet solo, now you know it’s actually him performing the music as well. Makes me wish I hadn’t quit the clarinet in the fourth grade.