Yes, The Mikado has been over for a week and it's time to let it go and start concentrating on our next show: Calamity Jane. Yet I don't quite feel able to say goodbye to what has been the highlight of my singing career …

I realised that some of my readers might not know the story of the Mikado and that it could be confusing to try to stop and explain the context every other sentence, so here is the synopsis as described by Wikipedia. I'v…

One week to go and some things are falling into place. Others are not. The chorus, especially the women's chorus, are patchy in the extreme, missing entries and forgetting movements. Some of the ladies, I know, are watch…

Rehearsals are going fairly well, now. We've only had one temper tantrum, and only one of the three people who were absent following not being voted main characters, is still absent. Admittedly, another is only back beca…

Firstly my apologies for not having updated in a while. I was just reading a woman's wartime diaries and it encouraged me to blog again about what I'm doing. Thought I would try to keep a running diary about our next sho…