Well, that's show week over for another year. I really enjoyed being back on the stage again and the show received lots of positive feedback from audience members, including my mum who had never seen a Glasgow Light Opera Club show before so she was very impressed. There weren't any major hiccups although one night the set nearly ended up in the pit because it wasn't secured properly and the stage is raked so it starting slipping down towards the audience! I was probably most nervous on the Thursday night because I had 11 folks from my work in to see me. I kept having nightmares that I would drop the lead role when I had to pick her up in her chair to do the wedding dance! Thankfully, everything went smoothly and I'm really looking forward to next year's performance of Oklahoma! I realised this week that my parents are bonkers because my mum sent me a photo text of my dad on the roof of our house wearing a hat and a fake beard holding my violin! Obviously they now need to entertain themselves somehow - I thought his fiddler on the roof impression was hilarious!
Other than the show there isn't much else news this week. I had taken half days every morning to have a lie in so I used that opportunity to go out more than I would normally! On Thursday night I went to the Baby Grande for drinks with mum and Donna then I went out dancing with the folks from GLOC at O'Neills and then a pub called The Box. I realised as soon as I went in that the pub used to be The Blob Shop, which brought me back to my student days partying on Sauchiehall Street. On Friday night after the show we held a gala reception in the theatre to celebrate our centenary. As I am on the committee I had to mingle and chat to folks like the Lord Provost (who was there with a bodyguard because he had his chains on!). On Saturday my friends Iona and Pete came down from Aberdeen and I caught up with Ross's folks who went to the matinee show. Iona, Pete and Ross then met me after the evening show to head to the aftershow party in the west end (I'm still waiting for someone to send me flowers to the stage door but I'm guessing I'll have to wait forever!). The aftershow party was good fun. It was mostly a ceilidh with a lovely buffet and very cheap bar (a pint was £1.20!) But it was a horrible stormy night so we struggled to get a taxi and didn't get home until after 3am, technically only 2am though because the clocks went back.

On Sunday we went to Ashton Lane to see what was happening at the Beer Festival. Answer - nothing. I think everything must have been rained off because there was no farmers market or street performers or music, booo. Ross and I saw the guys off then walked home (via a couple of pubs of course!) and enjoyed a well deserved night on the couch watching Fight Club (I had forgotten how good that movie is).
I was looking forward to this week because I have no rehearsals, no shows and no studying so I was going to spend time with my new husband. However, typically he now has to work away for most of the week so I have to find things to keep me occupied! It shouldn't be difficult and I'm planning a pamper night, a night at the orchestra and a gig (my friend George's band is playing in The Box on Thursday night). Well, you didn't honestly expect me to sit in and relax now did you??!