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Mid May blog
Hello, am still treading the boards 8 times a week, business is a bit slow, especially at the beginning of the week and it seems competing with the big musicals is a bit tricky – slightly sick of catching the bus home only to be surrounded by punters clutching Legally Blonde programmes!
But the audience continue to love the show and by the time we are doing the extremely sophisticated ‘Fly Pass’ at the end, they’re all on our side.
Course you always have the odd dodgy night and so far there was one Wednesday night where the chemistry all went a bit wrong and the audience didn’t seem to care that we’d actually made it onto the stage - there is an old show business myth that says there is no such thing as a bad audience, this is a wrong, I’ve been in the business for thirty years and have come to the conclusion that occasionally an audience turns into a collective bunch of arseholes, fortunately this situation is v rare.
So what else is new?
Well Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum have taken over the running of the country and from recent press calls it all looks very Cambridge Footlights/Oxford Revue, they just look so young, though as my friend Julie says it’ll be interesting to see how dramatically they age over the next year!
Interesting times and a beautifully staged exit from Brown.
Anyway, back to me, life is slightly in limbo, I don’t do much apart from the Grumpy show, though I have started writing a new stand up hour which will set off round the country in the Autumn - it’s called ‘Old Dog New Tricks’ - maybe I shall jump through a flaming hoop, or do a cartwheel, not sure yet.
Me and the old man have taken to seeing stupid films on Sundays (my only day off) – word of advice, Date Night is actually quite good, but Hot Tub Time Machine is only ok if you’re a fifteen year old boy. I’m just not very good at watching people be sick on screen - or as the American’s would have it, watching people ‘barf’.
So, three more weeks at the Novello, tickets are available for fifteen quid, or a tenner, if you are a mate!
Bargain!
RECENTLY I HAVE READ
The Lessons By Naomi Alderman - Oxford undergraduates out of their depth and wading further out - a quality easy read.
Jill - by Philip Larkin - see above - written when Larkin was 21, this is a small classic - I loved it.
BOUGHT
Too many stripy things and a beautiful pair of trousers from Nicole Fahri which are far too good for me to actually wear.
17-05-2010 |
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