I just have to accept it's over....

I thought that if I didn't do my last blog it would mean it's not all over. But that doesn't seem to have worked, there's a new Director on the block and a new Producer and pretty soon a whole new cast too and the cycle starts all over again - although I don't know if there's someone to blog for them....



We ended our run on a massive high. The Friday night before curry was wonderful and we had our lovely Director in the audience who got the clap just after we did, which I think he was quite pleased about actually. On the Friday night of the show it is tradition that we all go for a curry and this show was no different! Now, some background information here will explain a few things to some of the cast who may not know where the song of the show came from.

During the day on the Friday of the show, Director Guillotine gave blood (my hero) and I worked from home. We had lunch together and put the TV on while we sat and ate. During which time "The Magicians" film was on. Now for those of you that haven't seen this film, it's a very funny British comedy with Mitchell and Webb in and also features a couple of scenes where the magicians assistant does a rather funny dance to "Gay Bar" which is by Electric Six - I think. So a discussion followed that instead of having the deeply moving and intense song by Kate Bush and instead of taking Darnay to have his head cut off, we could put "Gay Bar" in it's place. So the French Prosecutor, instead of saying "I pronounce this sentence, death, in four and twenty hours", would say "I pronounce this sentence, we're gonna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar!". Obviously, much hilarity followed with us relaying this throughout the curry evening to the rest of the cast, who thought it would be hilarious also. Evremonde went outside for a ciggy and could hear us all singing it through the windows of the curry house.

Saturday arrives (with no lie-in as Saturday is football day, although well worth it for a 6-0 victory!) and Director Guillotine and I spend a small fortune of crew gifts then went to Lucie and Defarge's house for some tea and to drop our stuff off as we were staying the night with them. The show is fabulous, the cast, magnificent and French peasant teaches us how to say "hello spider" in French (although I can't remember what it is now). Gifts are given out, including some beautiful flowers for me that I wasn't expecting! And Defarge and Lucie give out gifts to the cast - which was extremely thoughtful of them.

Aftershow party was held at Dr Manette's house (I do feel sorry for his neighbours) and went on to the wee small hours although Director Guillotine, Lucie, Defarge and I were quite lame and sloped off at about 2am.

Sunday set strike (with snow!!!), the usual suspects were missing, which is a shame because although it's a bit crappy and although no-one ever wants to be there to tidy the hall and take the set down, we do all go for Sunday lunch at the pub and it's a nice way to unwind after the show and would have been great for everyone to have been there.

All in all a very successful show, in terms of profits - we made £875! - in terms of audience appreciation - so many people said it's the best thing we've ever done - and in terms of cast morale - you just have to ask what the downer was like!

I have to, just one more time, say how proud I am to have produced this show, how proud I am of the cast and crew who did such a magnificent job and how proud I am of Director Guillotine.

To you all I say: Look what we did!