Just finished printing and folding the programmes for tonight’s performance of Sondhiem’s Into The Woods, being performed this week by the Riverside Youth Theatre in Sunbury.

I’ve had a lot of fun working with them on my Sunday afternoons over the last few months, with warm ups, characterization workshops, and the all important (dreaded) line learning - oh, and not forgetting: juggling! (I know it’ll come in handy at some point!)

Tonight is their first performance, and after the usual dress rehearsal nightmares last night, the omens are good for a really great first night.

If you fancy coming along to the Riverside Arts Centre in Lower Sunbury, then you’ll be in for a treat. (14th - 17th May 2008, 8pm - Tickets £8)

I’ll be in the wings down stage right doing a variety of things including: raising and lowering the gauze - having sorted the problem of it getting repeated stuck during the tech; re-attaching the clips on the Princes’ radio mikes - they unclip relatively easily (Agony!); assisting the Baker with his quick costume change - love the hat; helping Rapunzel climb up and down from her tower - winding, binding and minding hair; filling up cast members’ water bottles - dry throats from all the smoke (sorry, mist) in the woods; finding a pen - theres’s never one around when you want one; listening out for the cries of the Baker’s wife - “Paul! Help!”

It’s great fun, and really good to see all the excellent performances from the young people involved - I keep having to sneak a look on the stage manager’s monitor!

And so to Luke (Narrator), Fleur (Cinderella), Mark (Jack), Tahi (Jack’s Mother), Adam A (Baker), Claire L (Baker’s Wife), Frances (Cinderella’s Stepmother), Lara (Florinda), Georgie (Lucinda), Adam D (Cinderella’s Father), Chloe (Little Red Riding Hood), Emma (Witch - Act I), Claire H (Witch - Act II), Annabel (Cinderella’s Mother / Giant), Tom F (Mysterious Man / 2nd Narrator), Alex (Wolf), Laura (Granny), Rianna (Rapunzel), Tom A (Rapunzel’s Prince), Peter (Cinderella’s Prince), Ryan (Steward) and Daniel (Page), you are a brilliant cast and there is only one thing left to say before ‘curtain up’ in two and a half hours time:

Break a leg!

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