11 rehearsals to go...

Tues – 11 rehearsals to go - Photos- headshots. Had to wear a plain black t-shirt, but I only had my Beatles one which I wore on the weekend so I had to wear it back to front. (It was only kind of smelly!) I didn’t bring a brush with me so I wasn’t confident that my hair looked ok.

Thurs – Sick. Felt like I’d been hit by a moderate sized, ill tempered Mack truck. The kind of sick where you get into the shower and want to stay in there until you’re better (level 5 water restrictions not withstanding).

Sun – 9 rehearsals to go - Still sick. But I went. Shouldn’t have. – really shouldn’t have. But anyway…

Rehearsal got delayed till 3pm and there was a painting spree before that. Lots of fiddly bits of the set got painted and it’s looking great.

Lesley looked stressed, Brad wasn’t coming in till later in the afternoon, and she and Pam were wrangling the kids when I walked in and it seemed they weren’t catching on as quickly as she wanted them to (or should be). They were stuffing around a bit (as kids generally do) and they got growled at.

We blocked the last song. The ‘celebration now that Joseph and his brothers are back together again’ song. Brad was all, now all the men are going to have a Nymph, so boys grab your Nymph! Maranne, who seems like such a nice quiet girl (not) kept making Nympho jokes. I was partnered with Corey, Jane’s boyfriend, and we were on stage behind Jane and her partner. Corey kept pinching her on the bum and I kept telling him to stop feeling up other men’s nymphs!

The dance involved lots of spins for the girls (why don’t men ever spin?) and I was so sick I had to stop and hold on to the proscenium arch to stop the room spinning every time we stopped. But thanks to Corey who’s a very good dancer, I managed to get through the routine unscathed. I’m not used to A) dancing with a man, and B) having a strong male lead to actually spin me, so I kind of resisted Corey at first, but after a while I realised that he did all the work and spun me and stopped me so all I had to do was smile and spin!

We also did the ‘Benjamin Calypso’, which had been blocked on the Thursday I missed. It’s one of my favourite songs and Ben gets to do it. I heard him sing it for the first time on camp, and for a white guy he sounds just like Harry Belafonte! Of course he didn’t know who he was and we had to tell him!