1.) Don’t be distracted by Rapunzel’s Prince’s radio mike and follow him back stage when you’re supposed to be dropping the gauze for the scene in the cottage, else the Wolf won’t have enough time to eat Granny and get into bed before Little Red Riding Hood appears and will probably kill you in the dressing room afterwards!

2.) Remember to vacate the milking stool DSR after the Steward has killed Jack’s Mother, else when he and the Baker drag her off stage you’ll be trapped under them as they fall on top of you ’cause there isn’t much room in the stage right wings and you’re in the bloody way!

Apart from that - oh and the gauze rope’s cleat breaking after lifting the gauze and then grabbing the rope quickly as the gauze dropped a foot - the show was great!

So great in fact that my friend Jon - who wasn’t expecting much since he assumed it would be ‘just a bunch of kids putting on an amateur show’ - told me in the car as I gave him a lift home, that it was the best amateur production he had ever seen!

Jon had plenty of praise for the high standards of acting and singing, couldn’t fault it, and loved the whole show. He said that had he not had commitments for Friday and Saturday night he would have come again. He even went as far as to say that it was better and more enjoyable than some of the professional shows he’d seen at the New Vic in Woking!

Naturally, Jon now understands why I so much enjoy spending my Sunday afternoons with this talented bunch!

I’m informed that after the sucess of last night’s performance, the show is now sold out for tomorrow so we’ll be adding a couple of rows in the front for those that have assumed there’ll be tickets and turn up on the door!

PS: I noticed for the first time tonight that the Hen who lays the golden egg appears to have a mind of it’s own and moves it’s head about as Jack is talking about the Giant. It’s hillarious!

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