Blog: Back On The Road Again

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This morning I packed up my guitar, ukelele, some CDs and the Prop Bag (aka The Dressing Up Box) and STRUGGLED out of the door, heading first to work and then, tonight, to the Etcetera Theatre to do the first Total Hero Team preview.

I've been so busy over the last week learning lines, making props, PRACTICING and worrying about people coming, that it had pretty much slipped my mind that we are actually DOING A SHOW tonight! It was only as I stepped out the door, thinking "I haven't done this for a while" that it HIT me. We are BACK ON THE ROAD! Back to lugging props around, back to SHOWS, back to pre-gig curries and post-gig ANALYSIS. Back to people SEEING it!!

We DID have a readthrough at the end of last year, but the show has changed a LOT since then (as a RESULT of said readthrough) with whole new SONGS and a very different structure, and it's been entirely confined to Rehearsal Room 3 at the lovely Bally Studios. We were in there again yesterday afternoon - we've got into the habit of rehearsing on Sunday afternoons, which feels PROPER, also EASY. Bally is in Tottenham, which is easy to get to from our HOUSES, and there ISN'T a pub nearby, which means we go, practice, then go home again, without BOOZE. For some reason this makes it all feel a bit more SERIOUS and DEDICATED - though goodness knows now we're Back On The Road there'll be BEERS AHOY!

I'm feeling pretty good about it, I must say. Now we SORT OF know it (mostly) the SHAPE of the show is beginning to show itself, and GOOD BITS are appearing. My favourite bit, at the moment, is when Steve sings "Cleverer Than You", but there's some DEAD THEATRICAL parts in it this time, and it seems to make more SENSE than any of the previous shows. And it's got It Only Works Because You're Here in it, which is my FAVOURITE.

But tonight we must SHOW it to people, and people who have PAID to get in too! [NB tho we will be giving out free copies of Dinosaur Planet to say THANK YOU] I'm sure that, once we've got an audience, whole OTHER things will suddenly materialise, things I think are HILARIOUS will turn out not to be, and entirely unexpected LARFS will, hopefully, arise. It all starts tonight - I can't wait!

posted 7/1/2013 by MJ Hibbett

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Comments:

I can't wait either
posted 7/1/2013 by Tim

V Excited! In the "downstairs theatre" having a pint right now. Good luck!
posted 7/1/2013 by Gareth

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