Simply the best!

 With only about a month to go things are getting busy. Time has passed quickly. It seems like only yesterday we were sitting there, frantically trying to decide who we were going to cast. Now we're running through the entire show rather smoothly, and within the week hopefully our brilliant cast will be off book (providing they've done their homework).

 As I just mentioned above, before half term we managed to run the show in it's entirety with a nearly full cast (we were missing Oliver, but he's only the title character). It all went swimmingly, the actors remembered where to stand and kept their characters throughout. It was all brilliant! I have all the faith in the world that this will be a fantastical production. We just need to fine tune things now but we have 3 WEEKS for that, which is great. 

  After the run through we went through some blocking and character bits that needed to be polished. This included me going through some of the Brownlow scenes, rehearsing in our newly acquired Rose, Emily Cheshire, a current member of our cast. After this I then went through Fagin's speeches with him, trying to highlight and fine tune the emphasis on certain words and find the bits where he goes mental. It all looked great!

  I'm really looking forward to the finished product. It's been a pleasure to work on so far and I see no reason for that to change. Hope everyone's enjoyed the break over half term and I look forward to seeing the cast and crew again soon! we got singing next week!