Opening night

[angelophile]

Went okay. Everyone's individual parts went well. Disappointing audience - I wouldn't put it much over 60 people, but apparently there was a big schools concert on in the area, which probably affected us. Audiences should be better other days as we have a couple of schools taking part, so I'd expect families to come along to support them. And Thursday's usually quiet anyway.

Everything went well, I think. A very old friend of mine who I knew as a kid and who's gone on to become a professional actress (well, I say professional. She was in Bad Girls) did a section that dragged the quality up. One of the cast who's a very good actor had written a comic monologue that's a very funny summary of Jane Eyre written in the form of dirty limericks. Absolute genius.

Our section went well anyway - we've rehearsed it enough after all. In fact, the show seemed pretty strong in terms of individual parts - the only problems, as expected, were technical ones with scene changes being a bit sloppy, or curtains not closing when they should and us all standing there like lemons willing them to close and so on. And a weak closing number that fell very flat. Will have to take the words on tonight I think. Apart from that, the audience seemed to have a good time and the quality was pretty good, with lots of readings of things members of the Arts Club had written (poems and prose), comedy sketches by people like Alan Aykbourn, a bit of Shakespeare, a lot of strong musical numbers, some very professional ballet and so on. My dad is even doing a duet of "I Remember It Well" which is excellent - he's a great performer and I'm in his shadow somewhat.

Just a shame the tech side lets things down a little. Hopefully it'll get better, although there's only two more nights to go.

Oh, and NEW ICON. :)