It was another full day of auditions in London yesterday, and yes we are nearly cast, but not quite!
Steve and Lou's day started quite badly when a 1 hour train journey into London from Coventry became a 2.5 hr epic when the train halted for no reason outside Milton Keynes - and took over an hour to get re-started again. 'Not best chuffed' springs to mind when they ran through the door just as the 1st audition was due to take place!
It was a full day of auditions combined with meetings with Nigel (one of our production managers) and Susie (from Hackney Empire) about various pantos.
In the auditions, Rob Marsden (Porthcawl director) had to head back north, after auditioning people for Porthcawl in the morning, leaving Iain Lauchlan (Imagine Creatives, Director of Inverness and Coventry pantos this season, and playing dame in Inverness), Steve Boden (General Manager of Imagine, producer of all our pantos and director of Crewe and Halifax pantos this year), Louise Redmond (in house choreographer), Neil Bull (Loughborough Director and Silly Billy) and Matt Loughran (audition pianist, who will also MD Loughborough and Porthcawl for us)
It never ceases to amaze us just how many people fail to turn up for audition when they've confirmed attendance. I think we had 6 no-shows yesterday, and only one let us know he wasn't coming and why (and one who didn't show had been chasing us for months to audition for us!) It's so sad because without seeing actors audition, we don't know how good they are and we can't give them a chance.
Sarah spent the day working on the BBC WW tour of Tweenies and also on some panto marketing bits and bobs. Photo shoot in Porthcawl on Saturday....
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