Joseph - the end!

The rest of the shows are a bit of a blur and I’m not going to bore you by going through them one by one. So, notable highlights are:

· Sara (Diva) being fine just before we went on stage one performance, then not being there 2 seconds later. She was downstairs being sick so we had a ‘Diva Down’ and had to go on without her. Deon said he was ready to take her place – all he needed was 5 minutes and to borrow someone’s wig. We almost had Lesley convinced to Diva – up for act 2!

· The next show we had a ‘drummer down’ when James didn’t realise we had a matinee and was committed to work. It was bizarre not having drums but Matty managed to play keyboard and do a 180 degree turn (in time of course) to bang the cymbals at appropriate times. The next joke was that we’d have a ‘Director Down’, but it didn’t happen.

· The game of ‘tit cricket’ started by Jane. The game goes something like this; during a performance, you get 1 run if you pinch someone’s bum, 3 runs if they’re a soloist and in the middle of singing their solo, and the men get 6 runs if they ‘accidentally’ brush a Diva’s breast with their arm. Not grope with their hands, just brush it.

The girls weren’t supposed to know about it but I overheard Jane explaining the rules to someone so I quickly spread the word and the girls were ready to retaliate. I made sure I clamped my elbows down to fend off wandering hands and arms. – C’mon, you don’t want to make it that easy for the guys!

The wall on stage left was covered with everyone’s scores! It started off slowly but by the end of the show it was an absolute grope-fest, thanks to Jack and Julie, and was noticed by some of the audience, so the following night the ‘cricket’ was rained out… You know, that was our best show ever, not just because of the game, but the energy, and we were having so much fun with the songs and the show in general.

· Just before the final show started, Julie got us all to sign an ‘official’ waiver stating that we’d all be attending the nik-e-noo spa party, and stuck it up on the back of the flat where Brad was sitting so he’d see it.

· The after show partay! No sleep was had by anyone. The long awaited (and anticipated) “nik-e-noo spa party” actually happened, with a few daring peoples actually stripping off for the spa. I hope Brad cleaned the spa out afterwards!

· Julie and I shared a bed in the spare room like we did for the ‘Nunsense’ party last year, so we thought we’d get a decent night’s sleep while all the others were on mattresses in the lounge room. We were soo wrong! Our room was attached to the spare bathroom, so there was a constant flow (so to speak), of people needing to go to the loo. Of course, there was a line up so they chatted to us while they waited.

· They didn’t just chat, we got sung to, jumped on, people climbed into bed with us and fell asleep while we were so squashed we couldn’t sleep. Ben dry-humped Julie and my legs! And the highlight of my evening was Jack giving me a ‘good morning’ kiss!

· Finally Matty (Joseph) being accepted into NIDA – he’s going to be famous and thank us ALL in his Oscar acceptance speech!

Aah the memories, I miss them all already *sniff*