The Little Mermaid

I am proud to announce that my daughter, Cassandra's next production at the Civic Theatre in Oswaldtwistle will be The Little Mermaid on the 29th-31st January next year.

High School Musical

It's been a busy weekend, starting Thursday night. My daughter's drama school, ReAct, were performing High School Musical at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday afternoon and evening. Lin and I were working front of house on each of these performances, Lin selling programs while I handled the raffle. We also watched every performance. It says something about the standard of the kids on stage that we enjoyed them all, especially the final night. They were tremendous. Some great singing, brilliant performances and an unbelievable amount of energy!

Sunday was our daughter, Cassandra's 30th birthday, which we celebrated with a family meal out at the Red Lion in Blackburn.

The birthday card and cake that my wife Linden made

ReAct Academy's next production: High School Musical

I am really looking forward to my daughter, Cassandra's next production from ReAct Academy: High School Musical, at Oswaldtwistle's Civic Theatre on the 26th to the 28th June.

ReAct Academy of Theatre Arts - end of first year

My daughter's academy of theatre arts came to the end of its first year last week, with awards and an end of year show. It was a great success, as shown in this report in tonight's Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

Click the image twice to increase its size to read.

Animated Accrington

This is a film about some of the artistic activities that have been taking place in the Accrington area this year, including my daughter, Cassandra's involvement organising the Flash Mob.

Alice - The Musical

Last night's performance was the best yet, with an enthusiastic audience and some brilliant performances from the young cast.

There are some new photos here.

Alice - The Musical - Opening Night

Last night, despite the ice and snow, was opening night for Alice - The Musical and, thankfully, it went well. All the cast turned up and, though the previous night's dress rehearsal had its occasional problems, opening night went as smooth as it could have been, with an appreciative audience.

Then back home to catch up on the latest Dexter and The Walking Dead!

Alice - The Musical

It's the dress rehearsal tonight. The show starts tomorrow, running through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights, with a matinee on Saturday.

I've been "volunteered" to act as promp, which is something I've done once before and swore never to do again. So much for never. Ha ha.

Linden will be in one of the dressing rooms, helping the girls into their costumes. there are some quick changes during the performance.

Linden and I were both up till three in the morning Saturday night. I was making a three and a half foot tall mushroom while Linden was doing a caterpillar costume. Then Sunday afternoon till early evening we were both across the road at the Civic Arts Centre for the technical rehearsal.

Anyway, fingers crossed but everything seems to be going okay so far.

Cassie's husband, Allan, is a professional light and sound engineer and is in charge of those aspects of it. So there are no worries there. Luckily he will be available throughout the show - he travels all over the place with his job. Not long ago he was in Albania!

One of our other daughters, Christy, is involved too as assistant director. As a schoolteacher by profession she's great at helping with discipline - and has a great sense of humour. Our son, Dharamn, has helped out too, providing various things, and his girlfriend Leesa has volunteered to help backstage in the dressing rooms too. Lots of family support!

If anyone would like to order tickets and access a map of where the Arts Centre is, they should use this link .

Alice the Musical - Lancashire Evening Telegraph article

Youtube video of Cassandra dancing at the ReAct studio

You wouldn't think she was six months pregnant (baby due in February)! This was a practice run for the Flash Mob event held in Accrington town centre on Saturday.





This was her comment for this practice video: "Hi... this is me, (pregnant dancing girl on vid)... if you are interested in learning the routines for the Flash Mob event please use these to learn from. I am performing them the correct way, (not a mirror image) so you will have to think and not just copy. I punch my left arm first for instance.

If you have any questions post them on here.

Cassandra"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWkilPyKJo

Flash Dance - Accrington

My daughter, Cassandra Webster, is at it again. This is from tonight's Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Alice the Musical - photos

Photos were taken of the cast for Alice the Musical, the first production of my daughter's new drama academy, ReAct, which will be held from the first till the third of December at the Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre, Union Road, Oswaldtwistle.

photos

My wife, Linden, has done the costumes - and I provided the teapot and cups.

Alice the Musical

Here is a link to ReAct Academy to see pictures of the rehearsals for Alice the Musical.

Quiet lately

I haven't entered many new subjects this week. That's because I've been busy with other things, notably my wife's annual tax return, a VAT return on the bookshop and creating props for my daughter, Cassandra's forthcoming production at the Oswaldtwistle Arts Centre of Alice the Musical. I have been making a ridiculously large tea pot and cups out of papiermache, which, as anyone who has ever done this before will know, is a long drawn out, slow process. Still a lot to do on it, including a final sanding, then painting.

Alice the Musical

There's been a slight adjustment to the poster:

Alice the Musical

Alice - The Musical

This timeless classic is wonderfully retold in a creative combination of song and dance, narrative and drama.

Performance dates at The Civic Arts Centre -

Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd December at 7pm.

Saturday 4th December at 2.30pm.

Tickets now available from http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/. Tickets are priced at £5.

This is the first production put on at the Civic Arts Centre by my daughter, Cassandra's new theatrical arts academy.