update on weekend

[burntcopper]

It seems I will never learn. Never eat a Cadbury's egg in one sitting, you always feel queasy due to the sheer amount of sugar they put in to compensate for the lack of cocoa mass and cocoa butter. (and yes, I may not like Cadbury's that much but someone always gives me one and ...well... it's *there*. It looks lonely.)

This weekend was a bad skin weekend. :grumble: Spots appeared on friday on chin and bridge of nose. No, they have nothing to do with chocolate.

I have had actual normal levels of sleep! 7-8 hours each day!

At pubmeet, we espied one Nicholas Courtney, aka Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from Dr Who. After freaking him out by everyone doing an impression of prairie dogs to see if it really was him, Shaun went over and asked for definite, then said 'There's a whole bunch of sci-fi fans over there.' He was very flattered and surprised that we recognised him (um, sci-fi geeks? Our knowledge is encyclopaedic), and on his way out, told us we'd made an old man very happy by recognising him. Awww.

Sloopy and Claire are attempting to bully me into doing a Beauxbatons uniform for School Disco night. I'm somewhat trepidatious. I already have my Gryffindor Cheerleader outfit...

Saw my mate Steph's bump, finally. She's due on her birthday, at the end of August. It's seriously weird seeing her with a stomach. She's always been slim (at one stage very underweight), but it's just... stomach. With baby. Distinctly odd.

Buggering off to spend late afternoon in London with Taz, then go onto Wimbledon to watch Anything Goes.

Comments

[delle.livejournal.com]

you saw Lethbridge-Stewart?????????? squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (is old old OLD DW fan. uses icon to prove it.)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Awww, you made the Brigadier happy! *is heartwarmed*

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Davison was my favourite Doctor. And yeah, it was such a wonderfully pleasant surprise when someone said "Isn't that Nicholas Courtney over there?"

[andromakie.livejournal.com]

Anything Goes is back! I LOVE Anything Goes! How was it? I need to see it again, I knew I shoulda gone that third time when it was in London. How come nothing good is playing here?

[mrslant]

At pubmeet, we espied one Nicholas Courtney

Was this on Saturday? He was at the Doctor Who first-ep party earlier on before heading to the pub. There was a queueue of children wanting his autograph! :-)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

yep, about 5-ish.

Brigwatch

[mrslant]

Aha, in that case it was before the DW party. You warmed him up for us! :-)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Fabulous. Turns out some songs are so much better (and funnier) when on stage. Mostly hysterical with great dancing and singing Billy Crocker was a very Adam Cooper-ish bloke, fantastic dancer as well as great voice. Ria Jones, who played Reno Sweeney, can do the basics of dance, but stayed out of the major dance numbers - she's mostly there for the fab singing and I saw her in High Society in autumn as the female journalist, it turns out.
'Goodbye Little Dream' is boring as always.

Um.... because they were biding their time until you left?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:modest: we try.

[andromakie.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I always disliked Blow, Gabriel Blow until I saw it in Anything Goes! Rino doesn't need to dance a lot, as long as she sings. It's a fab show. There was a film made with Ethyl Merman, but the guys in Dress Circle said it wasn't anything like the show. I might buy it anyway. I'm so upset I missed High Society, I never saw it on stage, only Philidelphia Story, which was great. The humour didn't feel dated at all. (Or maybe I can't tell because my sense of humour is stuck in the 30s anyway)
I hate Toronto! All we have is stupid Lord of the Rings.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

According to the program notes the book for the Ethel Merman film version was severely re-written to focus more on Mr. Crosby. There's another version which I think was done in the fifties or sixties which is apparently closer to the stage version. And I enjoyed High Society immensely, it's worth seeing if someone does a production near Toronto. If only for the dance sequences. (suspect sense of humour also affected by the thirties, since I get all the jokes. may have something to do with being raised on Wodehouse.)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

okay, scratch all comments about the fifties version. According to imdb it just contains the songs and the plot bears even less resemblance.

And the thirties version? Only kept *4* of Porter's songs (with several rewrites) and stuck a bunch of other people's in there.