A Chrsitmas Carol ... Bah Humbug! What The Dickens???

Can you believe its that time of year already? Its crazy how time flies ....

A few months ago it was brought to my attention that my stake was putting on the production A Christmas Carol. To start off with I wasnt too sure if I wanted to be apart of it. Im a singer not an actor BUT after being apart of the British Pageant in the summer I felt I couldnt pass this oppertunity off.

BEST CHOICE EVER!!!!!

I havent blogged for awhile but I felt it right to blog about my experience during these last few months of rehersals and the final product. It has been crazy and as I sit here typing im struggling to think of how best to explain my thoughts and feelings. So bare with me ... Are you ready??

Firstly to start off with I feel that its important to mention our wonderful producers who worked so hard on bringing this magical Christmas Production together. Without the likes of Aaron, Jenni and Freda this would not have been possible. I cant even imagine how much theyve done that we havent seen. They are seriosuly the best and of course talented. Its amazing how a group of people can get together and produce such an amazing outcome. I feel truly blessed and honoured that I was able to work with these 3 talented people ... From day one im pretty sure they knew who they wanted each and everyone of us to play and man did they get it spot on!

The A Team :)



My better half :)






 

So briefly The "A Team" casted me as a Soul and as Beth .. I had so much fun getting into my different characters! On one hand I had to play a tourtured soul who looked rather angry and slightly depressed and then on the other hand I had to play Beth wife of Scrooges Nephew Fred who was slightly posh ... for anyone who knows me knows that I am far from posh :P But ... thanks to those around me and my wonderful on stage hubby formally known as Karl I was able to feel comfortable and confident and yess I think I pulled both roles off rather well if I do say so myself. I cant express my grattitude enough to my coco Fred ... He was literally my rock. He helped me to stay calm on both nights of the performances and we just had such a laugh. I really dont know what I would have done without him!!! :D

So performance night was approaching and we had a dress rehersal on the Wednesday, I wont lie after doing this particular rehersal I was rather scared as to how the actual nights were going to go because it didnt go too well ... I for a start forgot my lines!! But when Thursday came and we had a little audience for a REAL dress rehersal all hope was restored and we were all excited for the real thing!!!

I feel like im babbling on here but I did tell you I would struggle for words .. anyway lets continue :P

Just before we hit the stage for our first performance.

Dunnnn Dunnn  Dunnnnn ... It was D DAY! Friday night had approached and it was our opening night. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! It went so well, we had some slight technical problems but thats nothing our Technical master James couldnt sort .. He was fab! I think there was around 300 odd people watching on the Friday night including some of my non member friends .. They loved it.
Everybody did so well. It was so tiring when we had finished but we were all so excited at the thought of doing it all over again the following night ... Safe to say Friday night we all slept pretty well!!


This was it, it was our final night .. I think we all had mixed emotions as it was our last night but man did we go out with a bang!! Saturday night, our final show was just the bees knees ... Nerves had well and truly left the building! WE SMASHED IT! the crowd loved it and everything went amazingly! I was so proud to be apart of it!

There are so many things that I loved from this experience, it was so nice to be able to spread Christmas Cheer for all those that attended and it was so important to us that we showed the true meaning of Christmas and I think we did a pretty good job ... I was able to go through this process with my mum. Everybody including myself was able to see a side to her that we really never usually see .. shes crazy, a darkhorse! Ive loved meeting new people and making new friends. I know that my testimony has been strengthened so much by doing this and by doing it with the people I have done! Ive had the time of my life and I owe it all to you ... ( Oh yes a bit of dirty dancing in there haha)

Thank you to everybody that had any involvment within this you really did make it special!

God Bless you! <3

We did it!!!!!
I love my second family!
ACC 2013