Yes, Friends, we've all done it haven't we - coming away from a musical, humming a different tune from the one that the majority of your fellow spectators have chosen, and getting a few hostile 'stares' in return, for your pains? A pity, especially if you were quite certain you'd chosen the right real 'humdinger' from the songs on offer - no pun intended!!!
Well, whatever tune it is that you're humming, with the nights drawing in, "musical theatre" season is here again, no question about that! And nothing signals that "change in the weather" more than the moment popular tabloid Onion News starts stuffing their pages with their annual pre-winter colour supplement "Hoofer News", that's for sure!
Here's "Colin's pick of the dooziest" from this morning's issue!
It's all a bit mad, though, isn't it, if we're honest! And yet these stories and all the others "with legs" (!) bring a cheeky smile to the chubby cheeks of me and my wife Lois, here in semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire this morning - no doubt about that!!!
me and my wife Lois - a recent picture
As a couple of struggling "old codgers", in regular receipt of help from our daughter Alison and family, who live about 5 miles away from us, we're always glad when we get the chance to help them out occasionally - like today, when Alison and husband Edward have tickets to see Abba Voyage at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
There's been a bit of a diary "double booking", however, because, also today, Alison and Edward's 16-year-old son Isaac has committed to taking part in another rehearsal of "Nine to Five - The Musical" at the local Haslemere Hall, and needs Lois and me to give him a lift to get there.
Oops - alert! Diary 'snafu' !!!
(left) a typical performance of the avatar-version of Abba Voyage, with [inset]
our daughter Alison and husband Edward, and (right) a local production of
9 to 5 The Musical, with [inset] our 16-year-old grandson, who's attending
an important rehearsal for, at nearby Haslemere Hall - what madness!!!
It's almost unbelievable that the two events - the Voyage avatar-concert in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and, simultaneously, a rehearsal for the local Haslemere production of "9 to 5 The Musical" in Haslemere Hall - should have been timed to coincide! What madness !!!
Has the wholw world gone stark staring mad!!!!!
an unfortunate clash today between two rival venues: (left) the Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park, London, and (right) Haslemere Hall, our local arts "mecca"
Isaac can't skip today's rehearsal, however. He's a key player in the production, playing the second biggest male role, as Joe the junior office accountant, who becomes the "love interest" for senior manager Violet, after Joe catches her eye at the weekly business meeting or some-such routine office event.
"Joe" also doubly wins Violet's heart, by standing up to the sleazy, wicked, tyrannical, office boss Franklin Hart Jr, played by David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff, which is sweet!
In the recent London's West End production, sleazy office boss Franklin Hart Jr
was played by American TV star David "The Hoff" Hassellhoff - cue for audience boos !!!!
And later after hours, "Joe" is also caught serenading "Violet" with some of Dolly Parton's most tear-jerking songs, as they duet on "Let Love Grow", for example.
The young scamp!!!!
pictures from the West End production: senior manager Violet (Caroline Sheen) takes
a shine to the office junior accountant Joe (Christopher Jordan Marshall) during
a routine office meeting, and ends up getting close and personal with him after hours
- the saucy minx!!!
And the actress playing Violet in the local Haslemere production will need our grandson Isaac, playing Joe to "bounce off" at the rehearsal at Haslemere Hall this morning, no question about that!
Lois and I have been thinking of advising Isaac to "
wear something rubbery", so that Violet can "
bounce off him" with the requisite agility and aplomb today, but it turns out that all the cast have been asked to come to the rehearsal in Haslemere
in their pyjamas this morning, to raise money for a well-known children's charity, so that's put the kibosh on
that "brilliant idea" of ours, which is a pity!
Next time, perhaps!!!!
Don't let that particular "
wardrobe malfunction" stop YOU from donating, however - just saying!!!!
13:00 The rehearsal now over, Lois and I drive over from our home in Liphook to Haslemere, just over the county line in neighbouring Surrey, to pick a young pyjama-clad Isaac up from the stage door, and take him home to nearby Headley.
Altogether, it's been another typically busy day for Lois and me, also fielding our weekend "catch-up" zoom call with our daughter Sarah, who lives in Perth, Australia, with husband Francis and their 13-year-old twins Lily and Jessica.
Busy busy busy!!!!
another typically busy day for Lois and me, here seen fielding our weekend "catch-up" zoom video call with our daughter Sarah who lives in Perth, Australia
with husband Francis and their 13-year-old twins Lily and Jessica
Weirdly, when we video-call them, they're often in their pyjamas too, our little "Australian family", all four of them, because of the crazy time difference: 7 hours in summer, and 8 hours in winter, with the time difference varying, because Western Australia "don't do daylight saving", which is mad, particularly as most of the other states do it, although some have bungled it by always being "half an hour out", which is mad too!!!!
different colours indicates different time zones (left) in winter, and (right) in summer
People in Western Australia "just have to be different" don't they, for some reason !!!! And when we video-call them 1:30pm our time, it's 9:30pm over there, which is totally crazy!
Or, come to think of it.... could "wearing their pyjamas" be a subtle hint to Lois and me by Sarah and family, not to keep them talking too long, perhaps?
I wonder.....!
But your ideas welcome - postcards only, naturally!!!! And if you haven't got a postcard handy, just print off the one below and cut round the edges: it's a great money-saver, plus it'll save you having to write our address, so it's a "win-win" haha!!!
Be that as it may!
We hear today that our twin granddaughters Lily and Jessica have been earning more brownie points this week at school, getting commendations from their favourite teacher, Mrs Hughes in the arts room, for their gaily painted mugs, which they showcase for us today.
Meanwhile dad Francis has been (allegedly!) working hard outside installing some garden lighting, or some-such nonsense! The young scamp!!!
our 13-year-old "Australian" grandchildren, Lily and Jessica, todayshowcasing the mugs they painted for favourite teacher Mrs Hughes, which is nice!
(left) the family home in Perth's northern suburbs, just 5 minutes from the Indian Ocean,
and (right) our son-in-law Francis "goofing off" on the tree swing he installed,
when he was supposed to be installing some garden lighting - the young scamp!
[That's enough young scamps! - Ed]
They had a high temperature of 79F (26C) today in Perth - it's their springtime, soon coming into their summer. So while Lois and I were shivering at our end, here in Liphook, we notice that Sarah and family had even got their electric fan on during our video-call, would you believe!
What a crazy planet we live on !!!
[That's enough madness! - Ed]
Finally, here's a pic of our daughter Alison at Abba Voyage earlier today, which is nice!
Will this do?
[Oh, just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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