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Pirates from Scratch

Post 21

David B - Singing Librarian Owl

I spent a fun hour and a half or so last night singing all my bits of Pirates loudly in my living room, and weilding my lovely prop (a plastic truncheon) with gusto. It's much easier to sing the right notes when you're singing along to a CD!


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Post 22

Vestboy

I assume that's a PC CD smiley - winkeye


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Post 23

David B - Singing Librarian Owl

Well, it's all over now. Our little audience (my eight attendees accounted for about a fifth of the spectators) enjoyed it very much, as did we. We raised a couple of hundred pounds for cancer nursing, and while it was disappointing to have such a low turnout, it was worth it!

I managed to sing all my notes in the right key and to make people laugh. smiley - smiley


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Post 24

Pimms

smiley - applause Well done on a good performance. You can't be blamed if more people did not take opportunity to attend.


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Post 25

Vestboy

WEll done. I used to work in a cabaret nightclub in Birmingham. There was room for 1200 people to sit and eat while watching the acts on stage.

One week we had Danny LaRue and the place was packed every night.

Another week we had Frank Ifield (A yodelling, Australian balladeer famous for "I Remember You"). Only two tickets had been sold and the two fans had booked to come every night to see him. As he strode out on stage the view was horrendous. A huge room with only two people in it. He couldn't sing.

The management very quickly made all of us waiters and waitresses take a free half of lager from the bars and sit in the front seats. This small but reinforced audience then had a show for an hour. At the end fo the night the staff were given a huge number of free tickets to paper the house for the following nights.

Well done for performing. It takes a lot of courage to perform before a small audience.


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Post 26

David B - Singing Librarian Owl

There were more of them than there were of us, which helped. I can certainly understand not wanting to perform to an audience of two, though.


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Post 27

Hypatia

Congratulations, David. This is such a busy time of year, I'm sure the audience would have been larger otherwise.

Vestboy, did people take advantage of the free tickets? That was a great move on the part of management. Booking in a yodler wasn't, apparently. smiley - silly


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Post 28

Vestboy

The management generally let the staff have some free tickets but they found out that there had been a "black market" in selling the free tickets cheap to people who would otherwise have paid the full price. The theatre didn't even get the reduced payment. Because of this they took a firm line on not allowing any free tickets to go out. Frank Ifield was the first act to "benefit" from the new rule. It was immediately dropped and we were back selling free tickets the following week.


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