Saturday 26th June, Burton Town Hall. Private Function. And so finally the last show of the season is upon us. Boy has this been a long run. Normally we would have finished around the beginning of June, but this time it couldnt be done and we are still travelling as of today. Today is an evening only show for The Oddfellows Society, and their 200 year celebration. A bit of a weird stage to work, and no wings. Bill our stage manager is put down to audience level to do his stuff and as there are no front curtains there are no props being used. Easy night for Bill. Tonight is also Alex's last show with us. After 3 and a half years, she is now going to concentrate on teaching, but will also help us with rehearsals and other bits and pieces. It will be very strange doing a show without her. She is part of the fixtures and fittings. Not only that but she has been the perfect professional since day one, and we will miss her badly backstage. Of course the cast bought her a few gifts, and she was quite emotional all night. Bless her!! Good luck Alex!!!! So that is it for another season. What will next season bring???? Scary! We should know in the next few weeks who the cast will be. Like every other season, we expect that there will be a few changes, as singers and dancers do tend to move around quite a bit in this industry. Hopefully we can keep everyone, as it has been one of the best casts we have had for a long time, with a great atmosphere backstage. Marie and Jenni plan to keep up their horse riding lessons while Colin is undecided. Bill might just get a game of golf under his belt. Joanne will keep the office afloat in a weeks time while Colin and Marie go off on holiday. Jenni is now already in Malta taking a weeks sunshine. Jamie will continue to eat square sausage and work his solo gigs. Most of the dancers will step into temp jobs until rehearsals start at the very end of August.
Its been a tough start to the year both on and off stage with family bereavements, credit crunches, and other stressful events, but we are still here, and still fighting. We are taking a big push on the international front with the launch of our new web site www.timelessinternationalproductions.com. Hopefully this will lead us to more work abroad for our shows, and help while things are tough in the UK. We consider ourselves very lucky that we have such a great following for our theatre shows here. There are many production show companies out there who just haven't survived the recession. We have, and we cross our fingers that this will continue. So that's it for now. A sincere thanks to all our followers and friends out there. Any major events will of course get an emergency mention on here, and dont forget you can now follow our blog on http://timelessinternationalproductions.blogspot.com/
We wish you all a great summer, and look forward to blogging with you when rehearsals start at the end of August. In the words of Colin and Marie's former manager Ralph Barry, 'That's me done....follow that'!!!!
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