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To Ferneham Hall for the Gosport Gang Show. The guy selling programmes in the foyer, clearly remembering me from my mother's mayoral year, said hello, asked how my mother and I were, then, spotting the HWFC badge on my jacket, said "Still supporting Havant & Waterlooville?" so I told him I'd been to Liverpool - that impressed him. Alan, the District Commissioner, spotted me in the bar; he also remembered me from mayoral days so came over for a quick chat. Someone else who remembered me was the lady selling souvenirs, who said hello at the interval; she asked whether my mother would be coming this year so I had to explain she's busy with the local election campaign at the moment.
The show was very jolly and lots of fun. It opened up with three cast dressed as cabin crew, introducing the show in airline flight style. My favourite sketches were a 'Medieval Helpdesk' with endless Tudor-themed spoofs on customer helplines and wordplays on computer terms (a messenger boy entered, began delivering his news coughing and wheezing, then collapsed and died : "This page has expired!"); a song sung by four kids as battery hens ("Don't buy our eggs, buy free range"); a sketch of a group of lost Scouts taking refuge in a barn on Halloween night, complete with a squad of Ghostbusters and the Monster Mash; and a 'Musical Interlude' consisting of various cast members just singing songs - their songs of choice were little-known (to me, at least) but nice, though it was weird hearing 'When Children Rule The World', a song about Christmas, in April. The two girls singing 'For Good' had excellent voices (it was a shame that one of the night's several sound system cut-outs happened during their performance, though I was fortunately near enough the front to hear them unamplified) as well as looking exquisite in their orangey-gold full-length dresses, and the three girls singing 'Learn To Be Lonely' harmonised beautifully.
The finale was punctuated as usual by a speech from the director, who presented three of the cast with Chief Scout Gold Awards, and apologised for "a few gremlins in the sound system" then neatly added "But I'm sure you'll agree that it's these gremlins on the stage who count" indicating the cast, and called for a round of applause, which was generously given.
The show was very jolly and lots of fun. It opened up with three cast dressed as cabin crew, introducing the show in airline flight style. My favourite sketches were a 'Medieval Helpdesk' with endless Tudor-themed spoofs on customer helplines and wordplays on computer terms (a messenger boy entered, began delivering his news coughing and wheezing, then collapsed and died : "This page has expired!"); a song sung by four kids as battery hens ("Don't buy our eggs, buy free range"); a sketch of a group of lost Scouts taking refuge in a barn on Halloween night, complete with a squad of Ghostbusters and the Monster Mash; and a 'Musical Interlude' consisting of various cast members just singing songs - their songs of choice were little-known (to me, at least) but nice, though it was weird hearing 'When Children Rule The World', a song about Christmas, in April. The two girls singing 'For Good' had excellent voices (it was a shame that one of the night's several sound system cut-outs happened during their performance, though I was fortunately near enough the front to hear them unamplified) as well as looking exquisite in their orangey-gold full-length dresses, and the three girls singing 'Learn To Be Lonely' harmonised beautifully.
The finale was punctuated as usual by a speech from the director, who presented three of the cast with Chief Scout Gold Awards, and apologised for "a few gremlins in the sound system" then neatly added "But I'm sure you'll agree that it's these gremlins on the stage who count" indicating the cast, and called for a round of applause, which was generously given.