Ok ........... Well we did it the show i mean, and it was huge fun
I shall set the scene.
Smallish stage , large audience (ticket sales better than expected).
Props =1 sleigh side all painted up and lit by Alan (my hubby)
Cast= 8 service users = 5 reindeers, 1 Rudolph, 1 scarecrow, (wizard of oz style) 1 Bert ( mary Poppins) 5 staff members (which is all of us!!)=1 Mary Poppins, 1 Dorothy, 1 Pinnochio, 1 Blue fairy ( that would be me ) and one pregnant mother christmas ( she is acting she is not really pregnant) confused?? so were we
Well the idea is we put the reindeer out front with mother christmas and the rest of us stand behind the sleigh to make our entrance, so off we go across the stage to the tune of "jingle bells".
All is fine until we run out of space and there is a reindeer pile up in the opposite wings
no one had thought to turn round,sleigh grinding to bumpy halt centre stage, mother christmas starts giggling but untangles the guys and redirects them, so now we all go backwards,which isnt easy, carrying a sleigh side and hanging onto ya wand let me tell you!!
Finally we are all in place and our first sketch begins, with Dorothy and the screcrow doing "were off to see the wizard" skipping about like demons, well what we hadnt noticed was that the scarecrows hat had slid round and now she cant see bcause she has a face full of straw, so good old Dorothy is dragging scarecrow about, until Blue fairy hooks scarecrows hat off with her trusty wand
All is well in OZ and thier sketch finshes to the sound of much laughter, next up is Mary Poppins and Bert, off they go ( as each act begins we are coming out of the back of the sleigh i should have added)to the tune of "supercalifredulisticexpialidoshus" its one of those tunes that seems to speed up , well at one point Berts chimney sweeps brush was waving about as they danced, like a weapon and Mary was turning purple and having to hold her hat on which meant she kept hitting herself in the head with her carpet bag!, but troopers we are, undaunted they carried on until the end of thier sketch, by now the audience, apart from the front row who were ducking (sweeps brush!) were in fits
Its now the turn of Pinnochio and my good self, to 2 tunes the first being "high diddley dee" the 2nd " got no strings" now remember we are coming out of the back of the sleigh, Pinnochio and i, with me holding my puppets strings in one hand wand in other hand, we are meant to skip round the back of the sleigh bringing us to stage front, which would have been fine had my tutu not got caught on the end of the sleigh!!!
Pinnochio dosent realise i cant keep up until some one releases me and ends up coming to a very abrupt halt half way out.
Im freed and off we go dancing about really rather well i thought, then the song changes to " got no strings" and starts to get a little faster, Pinnochio for some reason best known to himself decides the can can is perfect for this song!!! which is fine for him he is short and light in weight, any way off we go doing the can can, and its then that i could feel my knickers start to fall down
Well i will bet not one of you has seen the Blue Fairy walking like Frank Bruno legs akimbo stomping about trying desperatley to keep her bloody knickers up above her tutu have you
(why is it always me) All cast and audience thought Jason and i had done this walk deliberatley and were howling with laughter.
Song ends fairy makes incredible exit, she nearly did fly trust me, to pull her drawers up!!, then reappears in time for finale of " white christmas which im releived to say went without a hitch.
Bliss its over
