A small thought

This just popped up on my twitter feed...

"Theatre should always be about life, but will always be more than life. Theatre exists in the mysterious world between life and dreams."

Covent Garden

A little snap of Covent Garden looking ever so festive. I love Covent Garden. It has to be my favourite place in London, bursting with art, theatre and street performers. Just lovely.

And we're open...

What a week. I am shattered! Tech week was long and tedious. I think emotions were running high after such a stressful week but we did it! We opened on Friday night with a fantastic show and a brilliant audience. It was such a hectic day; we had our final dress rehearsal in the afternoon where all of the production shots were taken. By the time we had finished it was just before 6 which meant we had half an hour to quickly grab some tea and run back to the theatre to get into costume ready for the off at 7! Here are a couple of pictures from opening night… 

I was in London yesterday and met up with my best friend Becky for the afternoon before she goes to Austria for 5 months!  We had a lovely day, I am going to miss her so much but I’m sure she will have an amazing time. I will have to go out for a visit when it comes to our birthdays in February.  What a perfect excuse for a holiday!

5 days and counting!

Here's a picture of the panto set earlier on this week. We had our first walk through of the routines on the stage yesterday and it was our last day with David our choreographer. Tech week starts tomorrow and it's going to be a hectic one! I had better get some sleep...








                                                                            Picture - @harrogatepanto

Bright and Shiny

My run up to Christmas has officially started.  I am back doing Pantomime at Harrogate Theatre which I am genuinely so excited about.  I have a massive love for Panto and I adore Harrogate Theatre.  I consider it to be like my second home and it is definitely my ‘happy place’.

The show is ‘Beauty and the Beast’ this year - Oh yes it is! We are currently half way through rehearsals and I am trying to juggle it around my job at H&M (which turns out isn’t as easy as I first hoped!) My days consist of a lot of rushing about - going to work, running down the road for rehearsals with the main cast followed by dance rehearsals with our amazing choreographer David Lee. When we get to the shows I will also be chaperoning the younger dancers so my life is super busy at the moment.  I know I have probably given myself too much to do but that’s me all over. I prefer my life to be busy.

I went to see Michael McIntyre last night at Leeds City Varieties which was awesome. It was a ‘work in progress’ show where he tested out some new material to use in his Christmas day TV programme.  Although the show wasn’t particularly long, I don’t think my sister Sophia and I have ever laughed so much in our lives. It was lovely.

So yes, I’m feeling good.  As Meredith would say on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ I am now “Bright and Shiny”

What a wonderful feeling.

Lovely Harrogate

Charles Dicken’s visited Harrogate in 1858 and noted 

"Harrogate is the queerest place with the strangest people in it, leading the oddest lives of dancing, newspaper reading and dining".