Finding myself at a loose end in the West End I naturally went to the theatre. I ran into the Noël Coward 30 seconds before curtain up and had a ticket for Deathtrap thrust into my hand. Free theatre. Hurrah!

It's a very good play, very gay and meta-theatrical. Well worth seeing. And Johnathan Groff is very pretty.

I've just been asked to be a soloist for a concert at St Martin in the Fields (This concert in fact)

It's on Tuesday.

I've never sung the piece before.

There is only one rehearsal to go.

I'm flattered, exited and scared, all at the same time.

If anyone is free this Saturday night, and can drag themselves away from the Eurovision Song Contest, then I will be singing a cabaret set at South Hall Park in sunny Bracknell. I'm doing a short 40 minute-ish set of some of my favourite songs as a support act for some rather starry West-end stars. So please come and see me sing, with some ( Read more... )

Ah using my LJ for blatant advertising again, and with amazingly short notice, but I've either ill or snowed under with rehearsals or concerts, or all three at once ( Read more... )

Now I meant to update after Masquerade, really I did, but life and excessive busyness got in the way. For I am acting again, and not just Shakespeare ( Read more... )

Evil, evil British Rail ( Read more... )

Well, first I should apologise for not having updated for six months ( Read more... )

evil_nick's recent post reminded me that:

I am performing in Yeomen of the Guard at the Cambridge Arts Theatre all next week from Tuesday at 7.45. I'm playing Wilfred the lovesick torturer (really!).

It's looking really good, even if I do say so myself, and the orchestra were very good at the sitzprobe this morning.

Come and see it: please!

Thank you to fluffymark for organising his party on Saturday. Sorry I could't make all of the Peter Pan readthrough, but what I heard was fantastic (particularly the_alchemist's costume!

Since I guess I had to do it sometime - the Shakespeare meme:

List your top five Shakespeare plays, no particular order, and then your all-time hated one. You may *not* add a couple ( Read more... )

Well I have but 5 hours left of being 24. By the time I wake up (bright and early to go to London) tomorrow I will have lived for (just) over a quarter of a century ( Read more... )