Day 11 - the day before the big show

I had loads of fun today with Grandma, Grandad and Auntie Roxanne while Mummy and Daddy and the rest of the Savoynet Gondoliers cast had their final rehearsals in Trinity Church before going to the Opera House tomorrow. When they had finished their rehearsal they had their final talk and then the 'big clean' of the church, that they do every year to make sure the church is lovely and clean once rehearsals finish. I got there just before the big clean started and before everyone had got out of their costumes from the dress rehearsal so I got a sneak prieview of all the beautiful costumes - I thought Daddy's act 2 costume was really funny, well the wig was, especially as Daddy kept putting it on and taking it off again! :) I also helped out with the big clean by picking up odd bits of paper, thread and other bits and pieces off the floor, everyone was really impressed that I was helping and I felt proud to be helping everyone out, even if it was only by doing a little bit of tidying for them.

Tonights show, which Mummy, Daddy, Great-Nanna, Nanna, [great-]Aunty Val and [great-]Uncle John went to see was the university production of Pinafore. (It was meant to be cast solely from university students who were visiting the festival, but in reality some of the men's chorus and most of the women's chorus was made up of other festival goers as they did not have enough applicants to fill the places.) They thought that the show was quite good, though far from the best they had seen at the festival. Overall they felt that the male principals were much stronger than the female ones (they thought that Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph were particularly good) and didn't really like Josephine or Buttercup's characterisation or accents, as they felt the accents especially got in the way of their acting as, Josephine especially seemed to be concertrating more on the accent then putting any emotion or feeling into her part, although the adjudicator seemed to disagree saying she had done the compleate opposite! Ah well, it's mostly a matter of opinion anyway! :)