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Last week I went on holiday with fifteen other fabulous people, and it was absolutely bloody brilliant. I’ve been going away with (approximately) this group every couple of years since 2008, at first to Scotland, and for the last couple of instantiations to a chateau in the south of France.
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emperor for doing the lion’s share of that work. It’s worth it though, not just because of the sheer concentrated awesomeness of my friends, but also because it opens up the opportunity for activities that need larger groups. We did readthroughs (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9) and singthroughs (Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar) and games and a ceilidh, none of which would have worked with significantly fewer participants.
The singthroughs in particular will stay with me.leonato had the leads in both of them, and as hot as he is just standing there, when he sings it’s positively indecent. There were a great many other spectacular performances as well - both shows were stolen by their respective villainous double-acts whenever they were on stage, and the various sympathetic malefactors of Judas, Pilate and Javert were all played to heart-rending affect. Fantine’s death drew out my first tears of Les Mis, but not the last by a long shot. As for my own performance, I’m simultaneously very pleased and very disappointed in various aspects, but that will get an entry of its own to follow.
Organising a holiday for a group that large is pretty hard work, and much approbation is due to
emperor for doing the lion’s share of that work. It’s worth it though, not just because of the sheer concentrated awesomeness of my friends, but also because it opens up the opportunity for activities that need larger groups. We did readthroughs (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9) and singthroughs (Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar) and games and a ceilidh, none of which would have worked with significantly fewer participants. The singthroughs in particular will stay with me.
leonato had the leads in both of them, and as hot as he is just standing there, when he sings it’s positively indecent. There were a great many other spectacular performances as well - both shows were stolen by their respective villainous double-acts whenever they were on stage, and the various sympathetic malefactors of Judas, Pilate and Javert were all played to heart-rending affect. Fantine’s death drew out my first tears of Les Mis, but not the last by a long shot. As for my own performance, I’m simultaneously very pleased and very disappointed in various aspects, but that will get an entry of its own to follow.
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