Rehearsals are now stepping up for this show, as it is due to go on at the end of October, so only just over 4 weeks left to go now! Sunday rehearsals are in addition to the weekly Tuesday night rehearsals, and we are all in the process of having our costumes fitted. Last Sunday I tried mine on and loved it – I am one of the prostitutes in the show and my outfit is red (my favourite colour)with black lace. This weekend, Keith, my husband, will be taking photos of the principal characters ready for preparing the programme, which I will most likely be preparing over the next week or so.
Tickets have been printed and the posters for both venues are already out, some of which have been posted up across the region. Several hundred fliers have also been produced in order to maximise the publicity for this show.
On Thursday evening last week, a group of us from Hull Musical Society visited the Academy Theatre in Birdwell, Barnsley, to see their production of the show. It was very well produced with some outstanding performances from the principal characters. Their stage, in the Take 2 Centre, was about the same size as the stage at the Floral Hall in Hornsea where we will perform for the first two nights of our run. However, the company in Barnsley had about twice the number of people on stage as we will have, so we will probably be able to move around a bit more!
We are also planning our Christmas concert, which will take the form of a selection of songs rather than a show as such, and we are hoping to use 3 separate venues for this, including the theatre in Bilton where we stage the plays for Bilton Amateur Dramatic Society.
This new hobby of mine is proving more time-consuming than I first planned, but I am loving every minute of it and hope to be a member for a long time yet!
