Ok, the test worked, so now onto the main post for the evening. First of all many apologies for the lack of pastage recently I have been exceedingly busy with the business and to be perfectly honest havent had the time or energy to actually write here! Ok first of all lets look at what i wrote last...so i actually can work out what I have done since then!!!.........Ok, so last blog i was off to see The Wicker Man....Jesus...was it THAT long ago??? right ok im gonna have to abridge my life so I wont go in chronological order or anything I will just blab on abotu what I can remember.
Ok well the best event since then by a long long way was Wicked. Those of you who know me know I have wanted to see this bloody thing since it opened on broadway 3 years ago so when it was announced it would come to london 12 months ago naturally tickets were GOING to be bought. Then in April, after months of casting speculation and the producers basically announcing they would have a fairly unknown all brit cast an email went out that was more fantastic than anyone could have expected, the picture just said it all:
the producers had announced that Idina Menzel would recreate her Tony Winning performance as Elphaba (The Wicked Witch) when Wicked opened in London for a limited run. Ok that meant tickets would definately be bought for the very start of the run so as soon as booking opened I was awarded by my parents with 2 3rd row tickets for the day after press night as a 21st birthday present. The show started previewing, my mate laura mcgowan went to see it and came back not being able to talk about anything else....this show was gonna be great! and it was....I went last thursday with Jess H and wow, I cannot begin to describe how spectacular this show is, yes ok the plot is not the strongest but the music is fantastic and the scenery, lighting and staging are just out of this world, i dont want to spoil it for any of you who are going to see it so if you WANT to know about the spectacular finale of the first act then select the text below to reveal!
Ok, so at the end of the first act during the song defying gravity, elphaba decides she will defy all those around her and strike out alone in an awe inspring song that end with her rising high above the stage (with no strings attached!) to bawl out the final words of the first act screaming at her enemies to look to the western sky as she makes the first of many decisions that will eventually make the understood bullied green girl the infamous wicked witch of the west!
Ok, you can look back now. I will stop talking about Wicked now as people will get bored but seriously see this show...and see it before the end of the year as Idina Menzel has just such an amazingly powerful voice. The website is www.wickedthemusical.co.uk. If you happen to be from a different country, the show is currently open in London, New York and Chicago and on National US tour, and productions are apparently opening in the coming year in LA (definatley opening Feb 07), Germany, Holland, Australia, Japan and Toronto. I will leave the subject with some photos of the show for you tho!
Ok well the day after Wicked was pretty damned good too, I went straight up to Leeds to see Ed and go and see an american band I have wanted to see for....well since i think year 11....so a LONG time, the Goo Goo Dolls, and they didnt dissapoint, ok the set was a little on the short side but they did ALL the songs that count (Iris, Slide, Broadway) and loads of songs from their new album (Let Love In, Stay with Me). It was the first date of a fairly lengthy UK tour so if you get the chance listen to some of their music (www.googoodolls.com) and go see em, I mean who wouldnt....they rock!
Ok, lets move away from social life for a bit and move onto work life. Work is moving......nice and quickly but very slowly at the same time. We have 2 big contracts that we are awaiting go aheads for and they seem to be taking FOREVER!!!! As is the delivery of our new uniform....yes we are getting uniforms here at SiMILE Media Solutions, we have the swatch showing how our unis WILL look like eventually:
So thats how we will eventually look we hope!!!
On the busy side of the business we are doing lots with the university at the moment, we have about 6 bookings in the television centre, the first of which is tomorrow, and have been commisioned to do a short film showcasing disabled sport in the region. So there is PLENTY of work to be getting on with!
Uni is now back so the place is alot busier than it was just a few short weeks ago, I am once again a member of the drama society, though no matter how hard they tried i am not on the comitee this year (tho i was voted onto it without standing for election at the end of last year, so I immediately stepped down) I felt i could give the comitee what they would need from me with my work comittments as they are this year. For that reason I am also not audition for any shows, at leats this semester, though if the planned Variety show takes off i will appear in that. I went to Stoke drama to see everyone on wed, was good to see everyone again and I ended up at ians till about 1 i think playing singstar with ian, jess M (M to distinquish form Jess H :-P) and charis which was funny cos none of them knew i actually could sing! I tell you something, its bloody funny playing singstar with 2 drunkards (charis and jamie), a very very outwardly camp guy (Ian) and 2 quite shy about singing girls (Jess and Nicola).
But anyway I think i may have now babbled on enoughand can quietly go back to a land of producing, accounting, and listening to musicals on my computer no matter how much the housemates take the piss out of me.
Oh a few bits of news for you all about musicals, because as you know i do love them so LOL. If you are a student and buy your UCAS Extra card for £10, Ticketmaster are currently offering buy one get one free tickets for the 5.45 friday performance of Avenue Q at ALL price levels, so you can get 2 TOP TEIR best house seat tickets for £47.50, that pays for your UCAS extra card and STILL saves u about £12! Chicago is doing similar also. And on the me organising a west end trip. I am still hoping to do that, but it will prob be in the xmas hols now ill start sorting it in the next few weeks so keep you eyes peeled. If anyone is interested I should be off to see Wicked again before the years out as my sis wants me to take her, and Rach Beattie (my friend from staffs last year who has now gone to LA) wants to see Idina when she comes over in December so her and her fella tom will prob come too and i think ian and jess m from drama may wanna come but anyone is welcome just let me know soon as i will be booking soon!
And to leave you.....just because she is SUCH a good damned singer, one more pic of Idina Menzel in what i think is the best musical out in the west end at the moment (Yes it beats Avenue Q!)
See you all soon!
Ben x
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