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Wednesday, 9 July 2014

I haven’t seen my friend Kate since she appeared in the lead role of Hello Dolly, which I was amazed to look up in my diaries and find that it happened in November 2012. Where has the time gone? I’ve just got home from the Playhouse where she was one of the cast of The Full Monty, another brilliant performance from all involved. As I said yesterday, this was a bit of a last minute writing gig for the paper and one that I couldn’t really fit into my schedule, but I felt the need of a night at the theatre. Oskar Productions is a new company but made up of the same people who staged the Saturday Night and Sunday Morning musical. The cast did an amazing job and you’ll be able to read it in Friday’s edition of The Nottingham Evening Post (as I still call it), if you can’t wait or don’t live in Nottingham then you can find it online from sometime tomorrow. Once again it made me want to be in a musical, something I will of course never do.

Mandi came with me so I was able to treat her to a night out, if free tickets count as a treat. Maybe at some point in our relationship I’ll take her somewhere that I’ve paid to get in, but then again who wouldn’t do what I do? After the show we had a drink in the bar and made congratulatory overtures to everyone, I would have stayed longer but I had a review to knock out and I imagine the cast were probably too knackered to stay out too long. Mandi suggested watching the film but she was ready to drop when we got home so we’ll probably do it at the weekend. I was going to suggest watching it before we saw the show but I’m glad we didn’t as it was different enough to not be automatically distinguishable.

The rest of the week is going to be a bit of a work pileup now though, with a podcast series to plan out for recording soon and The Sunday Alternative to record before the end of the week. Saturday is a work day of sorts as I’m writing the review for Waterfront. It will be exhausting enough without the writing commitment when I get home, so I’m going to attempt to write as much as possible while I’m out so all I have to do at home is type it up and send it in. I already know what bands I’m keenest to see so it shouldn’t be too difficult. What will be difficult is compacting it all into a word counted review.

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