Yet again...

I haven't posted in a long time! I've been quite busy volunteering on the Olympics! Sounds exciting eh?  As a volunteer I have been given quite easy jobs which is okay but I love learning new things, however it's great being part of something so big that the world will see. We start dress rehearsals tomorrow and it will be my first day back for a couple of weeks as I've been ill. I'm sure it is all going to be a bit overwhelming seeing the whole thing put together at last! I'm quite excited for it now! However, at the moment I am sitting and home with a cup of tea trying to get my energy back for a very busy week and wondering if I handed all the paperwork I was supposed to for my assessments (oh well, it's too late now anyway!)

In June I did my first sound role on a show! It was actually two shows in rep, 'Promises Promises' and 'The Pajama Game' at the Royal Academy of Music. I really enjoyed it and learnt so much! I was allowed the day off for my birthday and I went to see West End Live at Trafalgar Square with my family. It was a good day out even though it got a bit rainy towards the end and I got to see all my favourite shows perform and also saw a few others that I haven't yet seen which I now want to!

One show I have been to see is the Mountview postgraduate musical theatre students 'The Match Girls' at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Seven Sisters. I really enjoyed it although the songs were a bit samey, but there were some funny bits to lighten the mood of what would otherwise be a very serious story. It finishes tomorrow (Saturday 21st) with a performance tonight at 7.30pm and one tomorrow matinee at 3pm so go and see it!

Mountview does 42nd Street!

As a Mountview student I have to go and see Mountview shows and get a free ticket so me and half of the techies in my year went to see 42nd Street on Wed 28th at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham. It was the 3rd year musical theatre students performing and there were two casts. We saw cast 2 and there were some really amazing people in it. Not to say that some of them were bad because they were all really good and it was like going to see a professional show it was so good. It's finished now but Mountview do lots of shows every year so if you get a chance go and see one or two of them. The tickets ar really cheap, like under £10 I think which is very good for what you get to see. And just to mention the 2nd year technical theatre students did the stage management, lights, sound etc. for the show too and they gave us a tour of the theatre so we now know what one of the theatre is like that we will be working in next year!!
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