Loopy Loupie

In an update to Tuesday’s post on my audition Rob, the director, has just phoned and offered me the part of Sollum. For those of you still a bit confused he likes jewelssssss and other preciousss things, and has a brother in LotR.

So in other words I get to do what I’ve been doing for a very long time and impersonate Andy Serkis. Though as a side note to Pippin if she reads this, I promise note to use it to scare you this time :p

Ive just come back from an audition for The Little Mermaid. I read for Dither and Sollum, though I’m hoping more for the latter. Seemed to go ok. Had to read a bit from each character (plus quote LotR), sing and tell a joke.

Well at least it’s over now. Its definatley my least favourite bit about productions.

So this Saturday me and Skippy went to Vicky’s 30th birthday party. The twist, this was a jungle party. I had a great time, and I’m sure everyone else did too.

Though lessons learnt of the evening; you can enjoy playing with hand puppets whatever your age, conga lines don’t work in spirals, no matter how nice it is Rob’s punch is DEADLY and you get less strange looks dressed as a panther when going round Tescos than you do if you wear a velvet cloak in Swindon!

I didn’t get the part

Following a really interesting audition which involved a workshop style thing where we got to practice and then read parts I recieved an email informing me I didn’t get in.

Though Chuque told me my accent was good, I figured that it must have been good for an American to say so!

Yes I’m disapointed, but thats the way these things go. I might stll get involved backstage though.

Oh and thanks to all the people who encouraged me to go for it, I don’t think I would have without your encouragement, you know who you are.

I have recently recieved the details for the next Woodhouse production. Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, trans. Charles Laughton. All the details about the various parts available can be found here.

The audition is on Wedensday and will be a workshop type thing, though at the moment the main thing putting me off is the requirement to at least attempt an American accent (that and I can barely breathe at the moment due to a stinking cold!)

Then again I was put off from the panto audition by the requirement to sing and still went for it and got the best part I could have wished for, wonderful character. Thanks Rob!

What do you think?

I believe I’m right in saying that tickets for the panto are now on sale.

You can find all the details here just click on book at the top and then drop them an email or phone call.

The rehersal on Wednesday seemed to go really well. I really like my character and I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with him!

Though it did seem to raise one or two questions as to whether or not some of us are a little type cast. For starters Phil who played the Pied Piper two years ago is now Mordecai, the evil magician who wishes to take over the world by overrunning it with rats!

My character seems to sum me up really well, he has a sadistic sense of humour, a tendancy to break things and likes horses.

And as I said to Jackie (Elvi) afterwards, we are both a little type cast. She’s a lesbian and I’m breaking things!

This is it, I have my first panto rehersal this evening. My first chance to see the script (other than the bits I read in my audition) and to meet those members of the cast I don’t already know!

So a chance to find out exactly what I’ve let myself in for. So on the one hand a chance to see how much fun I’ll have doing this and on the other I get to see how much oppotunity there is for Skippy to embaress me in return for the dress incedent and whether or not the director has forgiven me for accidently dropping a piece of the E.D.E on him. (Sorry Rob!)

I know there is a bit of a risk in posting this as if certain people read it they will hold me to it but I will go ahead anyway.

After a series of particuarly bad jokes whilst in Plymouth Skippy jokingly said that I should write the next panto. Something I automatically said no to. However this got me thinking, why shouldn’t I write a panto. I’ve seen enough of them. Been involved in a few. I even have a few ideas for one now.

Before anyone else says anything, I am NOT commiting myself to writing one for next year. Nor am I promising that it won’t be so bad I never let anyone other than myself read it!

After moaning constantly at Skippy about doing too much, it seems I am now doing exactly the same thing!

After visiting him this weekend I rushed back up to London for Jekyll and Hyde Wedensday evening. Where I spent a rather busy evening as stage crew. Yesterday we had a matinee as well so I was up there all day and had the added drama of the second half of the evening performance being delayed slightly as one of the title characters was being sick. Though I was enormously impressed at his ability to carry on after this!

Today we have two more performances and the manditory curry evening, then another two tomorrow and the end of show party. I’m thinking I’m going to be dead on Sunday. Just in time for me to go back to work on Monday!!!