So many lovely surprises...

It’s been a week of lovely surprises this week…the first came at Open Mic Night 10 on Sunday…in fact this event sparked a number of the lovely surprises.  Firstly there was the turn out, so many of you came to support your friends and fellow youth theatre members as they sang and spoke and performed.  It was a wonderful night, made especially wonderful by the first time performers…Hollie despite her resistance about singing was a joy to listen to and Ellen put on an absolute “Show,” Tom played and sang for the first time and also for the first time we had a flash mob at an Open Mic Night.  All these things made it a night to remember, and the remembering of it has been made easier by the excellent photo’s by Melissa which capture the evening beautifully.

However the surprises didn’t stop there…the ease at which Sapphire devised the opening scene of their Christmas play was a joy to behold, though not entirely a surprise as they are usually superb.  The events of Tuesday bring me to what is probably my favourite surprise.  We have been rehearsing “Something Special” our brand new musical for some time now and there is a little girl who has been struggling with her speech.  At Tuesday’s rehearsal  she sprang up, performed it by heart, word perfectly with enough confidence to set the room alight.  She was magnificent…not only that but the rest of the cast had obviously been working exceptionally hard learning lines…I had begun to lose hope of ever seeing them without a script…but there they were, scripts down and looking and sounding brilliant.

So by Tuesday I had already had so many lovely moments all provided by brilliant young people doing brilliant things brilliantly, I’m looking forward to another helping this week.