The weekend? I blinked and missed it.
Saturday afternoon was spent doing geeky things around the flat. We’ve been saying for ages that we needed to shift things around a little to make more room and, despite the heat of a very warm and humid day, Saturday turned out to be the day that we finally did it. Actually, if you open the windows in the flat, you get a very pleasant breeze through which made the whole afternoon more bearable.
Saturday evening we were off to see ‘Batman Begins’ with Rosie and Ping at the Wimbledon Odeon. It’s a good movie – more realistic than the others, I feel, although the first third is rather tedious as they set the scene for Bruce Wayne to become Batman. Just a little bit too much back-story. Still, the remainder of the film was excellent action-adventure.
Sunday was entirely taken up by a Chorus rehearsal. We were staging the second half of the show and having a costume inspection. The weather was still sweltering and we were rehearsing in a turn-of-the(-last)-century primary school with skylights in the roof and no ventilation. A very sticky experience not made any more enjoyable by the Production Team slurping on slices of watermelon as they directed us, while us poor singers had to make do with tepid bottles of water for refreshment. I’m sure there’s something in the Geneva Convention about behaviour like that!
Still it was good to see the second half of the show coming together – some of the pieces have been quite tricky to learn, but they make more sense when you realise the context in which they are being used and there are going to be some really powerful moments, as well as the really enjoyable ones.
The costume for the show is supposed to be fairly varied. We’ve been given a particular colour (From a Dulux paint selection, would you believe!) to try to match in a shirt or t-shirt. Finding something that’s close enough to the colour has been the talk of the rehearsals for the last couple of weeks – so much so that, as I passed a rather attractive young chap on my way from work tonight, my first thought was actually ‘Oh, that t-shirt is Celestial Cloud 4. I wonder where he got it.’
Anyway, at least my and Brett’s shirts were approved as being close enough to do, so we don’t have to worry any more…
Worked on the finale piece for the show at the rehearsal tonight which is a bit of a medley of the main songs and concludes in a great cacophony of sound. No chance of any of the audience nodding off at the end of our show! Nope.
The prospectus for the piano course finally turned up in the post today, so I signed-up online tonight to (hopefully) make sure I secure a place this September.
Still having trouble getting a decent poker game together for Friday – although tonight I realised I’d overlooked two likely candidates in John G and Nick B, neither of whom we’ve seen in too long, so I shall drop them an invite and see if they can make it.
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