Here. We. Go. **Deep Breath**.....

Week 53 odd - lots of days and days to opening night

Well...we start this week. I feel like I've been on this show forever already , and it is more than 10 months since we agreed to do this show and started work on it. But it still feels like it's come around really fast....

And now we have a very real and excited cast of 40ish people. We didn't turn anyone away, apart from one or two who went for the leads but understandably didn't want to be in the chorus - so if they turned up and wanted to be in it then they are. Makes it a nice experience if you have people in a cast who this is all new and exciting for...

So it's been a week of sorting the script out then it's been sorting out the rehearsal schedule which involves sending it off to the production team and making any changes that they needed - then it's the holiday schedule and making sure everyones dates are logged in - my house looks like a big paper factory at the mo. The script and vocal scores arrive from Samuel French on Monday and Sue is whizzing them up here from Cornwall.

And then there's the blocking. Oh, the blocking. My poor little pea brain really can't seem to cope with a cast of 40, so I've gone back and simplified everything - not creatively, just rather than ones or twos moving, it's fours or fives moving together ...but my script still looks like something out of an American Football strategy book.

However, the exciting thing for you is that from this week on we should, and I'll repeat should, have members of the cast and production team posting stuff/opinions on here, which hopefully will make me feel that this is less of a vanity project and more a proper team thing.

Good luck to everyone. Let my mental breakdown begin...

Neil