Another opening, another show rewrite

The lurgy was proving a little hard to shift, so on Friday we invited our resident tenor to join the show. The soprano at this point had about 5% volume left, but she has superb cut on her voice so the audience got an incredibly focussed, tiny sound from her, followed by the tenor giving it everything on the high Cs (that would have played havoc with anyone's hearing aid). And on Saturday, a hasty phonecall to our baritone had him driving up from London to Macclesfield for the third version of the show, the mezzo and baritone selection. Small hall, tiny stage, and a fantastic audience who were out for a party from the very beginning. Doing the show that night was like riding a bucking bronco - you never knew quite what was going to happen next.