new show

Tomorrow we are doing a new wide eyed stories show at a local primary school.  This afternoon we had a final run through before a critical audience made up of our progeny (6 between Juliet and I).  The new show involves three of my favourite puppets - Dizzy, Frankincense and Margaret - a ukelele (since I learnt four chords a month ago the world is my ukelele oyster) - excellent overacting by both Juliet and myself - a helium balloon trick that could go terribly wrong - and enough props to fill the back of the Prado.  And a very funny script (Lisa you may need to learn this one - it is sticking around for a while!).

Comments from the test audience this afternoon at the pre show screening included:
'we liked it when the balloons flew up'
'mummy you are funny and embarassing'
'that song is awesome'
'woo woo' (from the one year old)
'can I have a drink of water?' (three year old)
'can I have one of the balloons?' (three year old)
'can I touch Dizzy?' (three year old)
'can I have a balloon?' (eight year old)

We will see how it all goes tomorrow.  Three shows.  150 kids.

We may need bags of lollies and giant cups of tea.

The cast:

Princess Dizzy herself - it is very hard to get a good photo of her eyes....

Margaret. She will be playing the role of a magpie.  I don't want to type cast but...

Frankincense.  Making his premiere wide eyed stories appearance.

Overactors squashing a kid between them.  Lookout.