Friday’s over…just two more performances to go.  …and a fantastic audience last night.  And a really nice curry afterwards.  Friday audiences can be a bit hit and miss as I said yesterday but they were brilliant.

Now, a word about eyeliner…

Last night our second performance.  …to an almost full house equally as enthusiastic as our first night.

Scene changes are getting even better and I am happy to report that the nightshirt scene" went without hitch (any pun intended as I was told that on the first night, unknown to me, the back of it caught up on the microphone pack and took a while to drop down.  It was described, quite vividly by director John Taylor – bless him – as when a lady comes out of the loo not knowing that the back of her dress has been caught up in her knickers).  Ah well…and with that picture in your mind…

So we had the Dress Rehearsal last night.

It was much better than the Tech. (enough said) but we still have a way to go for a smooth show. Still, if we make the same level of progress tonight... (I say "if", we are, of course, opening tonight so we have simply got to!!!) then I think the show will be ready for our paying audience. There is no question, this is an incredibly challenging show to "stage manage" and the cast have a lot to think about as they are doing such a lot of it.  Mercifully I am not doing any of it.  Good job too as I failed to bring on a pencil and a pouch containing money to pay Pringle and the boy with the sledge.  None of this will mean anything to the random reader but to the in-crowd; they will know exactly what I am talking about.  Suffice to say that if I also had scene-setting duties, we'd probably end up in Oklahoma!