Doctor Faustus

So I've just started my first proper week at Mountview. Last week was induction week and we got to go and see Doctor Faustus at the Globe! I was soooo excited because Arthur Darvill who plays Rory in Doctor Who was in it! We were very almost late but managed to get there just in time! To be honest I didn't really notice much of the play because I was too busy watching Arthur Darvil (whoops!) and it was in old English so I probably wouldn't have understood what they were saying anyway. However if you do like that sort of thing it would be good to go and see it and I enjoyed it just being able to watch something at the Globe! The end was the bezt because they started doing this funny song which we all thought was a bit random!

The Big Move!

So today I moved to London to start my new life as a technical theatre student! (Actually today is Saturday but I don't have an internet connection so it won't be posted straight away). I'm going home next week though because I forgot a lot of stuff e.g. my bin and cutlery and I won't get very far without them, and I want to watch Doctor Who but we have no TV here (that makes me sound really sad but I may just be the biggest Doctor Who fan ever!) I was really brave all the way here and even though I nearly cried 27 times, and yes I counted, I stopped myself each time. It's not that I don't want to be here because I really do but I just miss my family so much (uh oh, make that 28 times). I've got a little hamster and we have chickens too and I'm worried they are going to forget me. But now I'm sitting in my loft room 2 hours away from them all.

I have made it look quite nice in here though and I have brought a lot of stuff from home. I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow or the next day or the day after that though.

It feels weird being here

x

We Will Rock You (Again!)

The We Will Rock You tour was at the Birmingham Hippodrome and since my dad absolutely loved it last time we went again. I was really excited (and also dreading it a bit because last time my dad was singing and dancing along, which is just about the most embarrasing thing he could do). The scenery was fantastic again. They have big screens that they use instead of backdrops. Some of the cast were better than last time, but some of them from the first time were unbeatable! The killer queen from last time (she had been in X factor) was incredible and Alex Gaumond was a really good Galileo. This time we had the understudy for Galileo and he had a great voice but his acting wasn't as good. Scaramouche was the best, she was such a brilliant singer! One of the reasons I wanted to go was because Jenny Douglas was playing Meat and she was one of the girls that I wanted to win Over the Rainbow but I think Georgia Hagen was a better Meat when i saw her.





The only bad bit was the fact that my dad was singing and dancing along again and the finale was so long my arms hurt from clapping ;)

New Layout!

As you can see my blog has had a little bit of a make over! Just thought it needed something a little bit more theatre-y than the last layout (which i've had since the blog began). I'm not too great at computery things and spent ages trying to make my own template but gave up when I couldn't get it quite right! However I quite like this layout but be prepared for it to change again if I can figure out how to make my own :)
Hannah xx

X Factor Auditions!!

I went to watch the X Factor auditions in Birmingham yesterday (well I obviously wasn't auditioning was I?) I was soooo excited! When we got there we got X Factor stamps on our wrists and kind of got herded into 'pens'. It was really sunny and hot (at least it wasn't raining!) but the morning audience hadn't come out of the LG Arena yet so they were running late. After a few rounds of 'I Spy' and a bit of sunburn the queue finally started moving (2 hours late!) and we got to go inside. We were really lucky and got seats right in the middle so had a great view. Then the X Factor music started and a man came on stage. We honestly did not know who he was! At first we thought it was Dermot O'Leary (yeah, don't know if that's how you spell it) but then he came on stage too so it couldn't have been. Anyway, he warmed up the audience and filled in the gaps between the auditions. There was such a range of people auditioning and I don't really want to give much away but there were some fantastic auditions, some hilarious ones and some not so good. So watch it! Don't know when it's going to be on TV but the first auditions are always the funniest anyway!

Blood Brothers

I went to see Blood Brothers on tour yesterday at the Belgrade. I saw the tour about 2 years ago but I think this time was better (although I didn't cry at the end!) I saw the understudy for Mrs Johnstone which meant that most of the women were playing different parts to the ones they normally do. The understudy normally played Mrs Lyons but I saw her playing that part in the last tour. Infact, quite a few of the cast were in the other Blood Brothers tour I saw. Anyway, she was fantastic and could really belt! The gun shots made me jump at the end even though I was expecting them (and I has my ears covered). If you get the chance to see it do!

Comedy of Errors, Swan Lake and uni :)

I went to see the Comedy of Errors and Swan Lake quite a while ago at the Belgrade theatre. They were the first Shakespeare and the first ballet I had seen. Comedy of Errors was kind of confusing and although I could follow the story I didn't really understand everything they were saying but then I knew Shakespeare wasn't one of my strong points anyway ;) The set and costumes were modern but they still spoke in old English which I didn't see the point of. If they wanted it to be modern then make it modern!!! (Can you tell it wasn't one of my favourite trips to the theatre?) I did enjoy Swan Lake however. I had to read the programme to understand most of the story but once I knew what was happening I was okay. I think the stage was a bit too small for ballet though and it meant that they couldn't do a lot of the jumps and leaps.

I also wanted to tell you that I have conditional places at East 15, Colchester and Mountview! MOUNTVIEW!!! I still can't quite believe it! I'm still waiting to hear from ALRA but I will most probably accept Mountview (even though it's £10,095 a year!)

That's all for now :)