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Apr. 24th, 2008 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiffel_71
Thank goodness this morning's shift was peaceful. I got an old lady who happily did the survey - it was the last time for her - and then, on completion, proceeded to hold forth for several minutes about how much rubbish there was on TV these days. Whether she thought we were a general public opinion polling organisation, or just wanted to air her views to just anyone, I'm not sure.
Just got back from Half A Sixpence at the Mayflower. On the walk into Fareham station I found myself being a Good Samaritan for a young single mother who'd lost the outward half of her return ticket to Bitterne - she showed me the return half as proof she wasn't spinning a yarn - and was going frantic because she needed to pick her daughter up there. She lamented that several people had just passed her by. What could I do but agree to buy a single for her from the machine? It could only be a couple of quid, I reasoned to myself. I wasn't quite prepared for it being £4.50. But I couldn't leave the girl in the lurch at that late stage.
After picking up my ticket at the Mayflower box office I popped next door to the Encore pub. The place was festooned with St George flags and adverts for Wells Bombardier bitter. Although that is a beer I'm very fond of, and if I'd been there yesterday I'd certainly have had one to toast St George's Day, they also had Bulmers Pear cider which I've yet to try, so I had to sample a pint of that. Very tasty, though my beloved Kopparberg still edges it for me.
The show was fantastic. Gary Wilmot was a brilliant Kipps and replicated Tommy Steele's cockney accent perfectly. Thanks to my Good Samaritan act I had to go without a programme, but got a good enough look at that of the old lady in front of me to see that Claire Marlowe was playing Ann, and Gaye Brown - whom I remembered as Irene, a middle-aged lady Rodney had a fling with in Only Fools And Horses in 1982 - was Mrs Walsingham. Both these ladies were superb, as was Helen Walsingham (sorry, didn't see who was playing her). They've introduced new touches into this production, which I really liked, such as several new songs - many of them reprises of my favourite number in the show, All In The Cause Of Economy - and nice little nuances like having Ann on the stage singing He's Too Far Above Me To Care to Kipps while Kipps sings it (as She's, of course), about Helen. My only moan was that in the pub scene Laura the barmaid, sexy though she was, didn't really flirt with Kipps like she does in the original. There's a new ending, showing Kipps and Ann a few years into their married life, the happy keepers of a bookshop with a couple of kids, at the point where Harry delivers the good news about Kipps' investment in his play paying off. I wish that scene had showed Kipps having finally bought his banjo, though. Then at the curtain call everyone comes on for a reprise of Flash Bang Wallop.
Very jolly.
Just got back from Half A Sixpence at the Mayflower. On the walk into Fareham station I found myself being a Good Samaritan for a young single mother who'd lost the outward half of her return ticket to Bitterne - she showed me the return half as proof she wasn't spinning a yarn - and was going frantic because she needed to pick her daughter up there. She lamented that several people had just passed her by. What could I do but agree to buy a single for her from the machine? It could only be a couple of quid, I reasoned to myself. I wasn't quite prepared for it being £4.50. But I couldn't leave the girl in the lurch at that late stage.
After picking up my ticket at the Mayflower box office I popped next door to the Encore pub. The place was festooned with St George flags and adverts for Wells Bombardier bitter. Although that is a beer I'm very fond of, and if I'd been there yesterday I'd certainly have had one to toast St George's Day, they also had Bulmers Pear cider which I've yet to try, so I had to sample a pint of that. Very tasty, though my beloved Kopparberg still edges it for me.
The show was fantastic. Gary Wilmot was a brilliant Kipps and replicated Tommy Steele's cockney accent perfectly. Thanks to my Good Samaritan act I had to go without a programme, but got a good enough look at that of the old lady in front of me to see that Claire Marlowe was playing Ann, and Gaye Brown - whom I remembered as Irene, a middle-aged lady Rodney had a fling with in Only Fools And Horses in 1982 - was Mrs Walsingham. Both these ladies were superb, as was Helen Walsingham (sorry, didn't see who was playing her). They've introduced new touches into this production, which I really liked, such as several new songs - many of them reprises of my favourite number in the show, All In The Cause Of Economy - and nice little nuances like having Ann on the stage singing He's Too Far Above Me To Care to Kipps while Kipps sings it (as She's, of course), about Helen. My only moan was that in the pub scene Laura the barmaid, sexy though she was, didn't really flirt with Kipps like she does in the original. There's a new ending, showing Kipps and Ann a few years into their married life, the happy keepers of a bookshop with a couple of kids, at the point where Harry delivers the good news about Kipps' investment in his play paying off. I wish that scene had showed Kipps having finally bought his banjo, though. Then at the curtain call everyone comes on for a reprise of Flash Bang Wallop.
Very jolly.
