I love sheet music...

Both male singers are very experienced singers, but neither of them had seen this particular show (Love, Lust and a Damn Good Chardonnay), and the format is quite different from our other shows. This one is much more scripted, with the two girls interacting on stage, and a "relationships" plot running throughout. The baritone had brought a selection of pieces from his vast repertoire, most of them 50-year-old copies. I had a huge pile of sheet music on a stool next to the piano and spent the whole evening swapping books, sheet music and files, hoping I'd got the correct book in front of me. And that it wouldn’t disintegrate in my hand – I’m an enthusiastic page turner. The mezzo always presents the show, and is a past master at improvising and working around problems. The audience was absolutely with us, and in fact were the first audience to spot one particular joke in the Britten cabaret song (it involves snot).