June 19th, 2017 “June’s 90th Birthday and what a day! A grand celebration organized by her family in the Empire Rooms at Festival Theatre. Honoured to celebrate with this wonderful woman and great to meet even more members of her family and the Variety Theatre community including Bob Bain from the Scottish Music Hall andContinue reading “Good At Subtraction”
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Testing The Waters
June 9th, 2017 The sharing session was well received, we had about 20 to 30 people show up and lots of colleagues and friendly faces. Unfortunately, June couldn’t be with us, we missed her, and she would be the first to say, the show must go on! The audience gathered and mingled with us, thenContinue reading “Testing The Waters”
Devising and Rehearsing
June 5th, 2017 “We were in the Festival Theatre Studio today with the whole team: Janice, Katie, Martin O’Connor, Fi Johnston, Marie, Doreen, June, Gavin, Cheryl, Millie and as Martin Clark couldn’t be here his colleague Eva was there to film – busy busy! This was the start of our rehearsals for our October Show,Continue reading “Devising and Rehearsing”
A 94th Birthday
May 22nd, 2017 “Big day today. Firstly, we’re celebrating Marie’s 94th Birthday. 94!!!! She came with her daughter and partner. Also, June was discharged from the hospital today, and she came straight from the hospital to the theatre to join us. Just amazing!” “We did some great dancing with gorgeous moments where you could seeContinue reading “A 94th Birthday”
Famous Whistling Act
May 15th, 2017 A meeting day with Martin O’Connor and Mary Turner Thomson from White Water Publishing and Paul Hudson from Festival Theatre to discuss the forthcoming book. It went well, and everyone is happy with what needs to be done – which is a lot! Then we chatted with Marie, Doreen and Katie andContinue reading “Famous Whistling Act”
The Red Shoes
May 11th, 2017 “Today we went to see The Red Shoes at the Festival Theatre, and it was marvellous! Thanks, Festival Theatre for the comps, what a treat! Janice, Marie, a volunteer befriender Xiao Yi, Doreen, her daughter, Cerin from Festival Theatre and I were all there in a packed out theatre. It felt funnyContinue reading “The Red Shoes”
Photoshoot
May 1st, 2017 “Joined by photographer and media manager Niall Walker who was in to get some photos of us all. We were keen to get great dance/rehearsal shots as well as some headshots to potentially use for press for October for our Luminate Festival Show. We chatted about Marie and Doreen’s careers to giveContinue reading “Photoshoot”
Being A Dancer
March 20th, 2017 Just Katie and Marie today, dancing for almost an hour and building on the sequence that they have been working on together. Katie’s words; ‘In order to fit in all our steps with the music, we were having to add to the beginning and move stuff around within the combo, quite complexContinue reading “Being A Dancer”
A Chip Off The Ol’ Block
March 13th, 2017 “June’s wee granddaughter Millie with us today and has become a regular and a very welcome member of the troupe. Millie is a chip off the old block, and has the family genes for dancing and performing. Her Dad has put taps on her sparkly shoes, and she is off, dominating theContinue reading “A Chip Off The Ol’ Block”
A (Very) Long Time Ago…
March 6th, 2017 Doreen brought in a few of her photos today, what a glamorous headshot! Good chat today going through books and photos, while gathering information and recollections of who, what, where, when and how. I got very excited about the facts, figures and descriptions being uncovered, which prompted Marie to remind me thatContinue reading “A (Very) Long Time Ago…”
An Audience With... 