Four shows a week for the next five weeks

Well it’s been a while, but I had a few days off so raced home to Kent to spend time with the family. I’m now back in Leeds, with all rehearsals finished and just performances left.

Mind you tomorrow I have a rehearsal for a different A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not the Britten but a concert of the Mendelssohn incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We’re not singing but just acting! Haven’t done that for a while!!

I’m sat in my dressing room having just sung the prologue to Act One of Roméo et Juliette and now have a while before my next appearance in Act Three. Roméo et Juliette opened on Saturday 17th. All went very well and the audience seemed to have a good time. As for Dream on Friday the audience had decided that is alright to laugh and have a good time at the Opera, it was a great night, everyone on good form and the audience went mad at the end.

So now its four shows a week for the next five weeks, I’m only used to doing two or three so it should be quite a challenge.

I had to force myself to sit down and book trains and accommodation for the tour. Six of us have decided to book the Whitley Bay caravan park for the Newcastle week, hope the weather is good; it should be quite a laugh. I think I spend the rest of the tour in hotels except for the Woking week when I can commute from home!!

This is my tenth week in Leeds and I need to start clearing up the flat, just as well that I have the car with me. Being away from home is tough, but I have a very understanding wife and the children love the fact that Daddy sings on stage, lots of press cutting and programmes taken into school for ‘show and tell’. Sue is bringing Ellie and Rosie to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Woking along with their Grandmother who will take them home while Sue and I go to see Yvonne Howard singing Lady Macbeth. Can’t wait!