Tuesday, March 13, 2007
They are all noblemen who have gone wrong.
I really must write a bit about Pirates of Penzance before the experience fades, but this post is going to have to be written fragmentally, in odd moments, as I'm ridiculously busy this week. So much for recovery! I even for-went (forgoed?) my planned evening off yesterday to go to the pub quiz... but we did come second, so it was worth it.
So, anyway, this weekend just gone saw the first, and quite possibly only, sightings of the PGD on stage (not counting the usual high school nonsense, that is). It wasn't as scary an experience as I feared it might be, but then I did spend a lot of the time hiding at the back! Also, the audience is in darkness, of course, so although you're aware of them, it's only dimly... and perhaps most importantly, you can't make out their faces. And as a chorus member, I always had chorus-mates nearby for support. Overall, it was a fantastic experience, and I'm extremely glad I stuck with it, so I guess thanks go to Jon and Dave for dragging me along in the first place!
The show itself went better than I think some of us were expecting ... in fact, it couldn't have gone much better at all. Almost-full-houses every night (apart from the matinee, which was a little bit pointless!), good audience reactions, principals all on top form, and all the "veterans" said it was one of the best LOpSoc shows for ages. Whoop!
The final night was utterly crazy. After the show, which finished at around 10pm, we had to immediately clear out the entire stage and set, and put everything away in various locations around campus. All that took the best part of four hours... only then did we finally get to party. Myself and James (who had very kindly come to support me, as had Rae the evening before) took a detour back to my flat to get booze, where my housemate Bob and friends were just about to conk out after their own evening shenanigans. This was gone 2am. If we'd sat down at that point, it would've been all over; but we resisted, and headed back out into the night, to the after-show party. And there we stayed, all night, getting steadily drunker, sleepier and sillier; which was, of course, excellent fun!
I now really must try to stop making Gilbert & Sullivan-based responses to anything anyone says....
(Pic courtesy of my Dad -- thanks, Dad!)
So, anyway, this weekend just gone saw the first, and quite possibly only, sightings of the PGD on stage (not counting the usual high school nonsense, that is). It wasn't as scary an experience as I feared it might be, but then I did spend a lot of the time hiding at the back! Also, the audience is in darkness, of course, so although you're aware of them, it's only dimly... and perhaps most importantly, you can't make out their faces. And as a chorus member, I always had chorus-mates nearby for support. Overall, it was a fantastic experience, and I'm extremely glad I stuck with it, so I guess thanks go to Jon and Dave for dragging me along in the first place!
The show itself went better than I think some of us were expecting ... in fact, it couldn't have gone much better at all. Almost-full-houses every night (apart from the matinee, which was a little bit pointless!), good audience reactions, principals all on top form, and all the "veterans" said it was one of the best LOpSoc shows for ages. Whoop!
The final night was utterly crazy. After the show, which finished at around 10pm, we had to immediately clear out the entire stage and set, and put everything away in various locations around campus. All that took the best part of four hours... only then did we finally get to party. Myself and James (who had very kindly come to support me, as had Rae the evening before) took a detour back to my flat to get booze, where my housemate Bob and friends were just about to conk out after their own evening shenanigans. This was gone 2am. If we'd sat down at that point, it would've been all over; but we resisted, and headed back out into the night, to the after-show party. And there we stayed, all night, getting steadily drunker, sleepier and sillier; which was, of course, excellent fun!
I now really must try to stop making Gilbert & Sullivan-based responses to anything anyone says....
(Pic courtesy of my Dad -- thanks, Dad!)
# posted by Pgd @ 12:51 pm 
