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Ok so we got 7 days to go, that's one week till it hits the West End.
Savoy Theatre
Strand
London

Get ya little butt's down there if you wanna see REAL theatre with REAL actors and REAL music!

Astonishing green eyeshadow!

A weekend that MUST be documented!

The one and only disclaimer I have for the stupidity that was evident this weekend is the fact that I spent all week unwell, hardly able to hiccup no matter about laugh. There were five days of giggles pent up inside me and on Saturday they all came whooping out into the glorious...RAIN!

Before leaving the house on Saturday afternoon I pondered for a while over my choice of footwear, my two choices were; my cosy, fluffy yet not waterproof UGGS, or my aesthetically displeasing yet practical Dr Martens. I tried them on, my UGGS were fine but I knew I'd get wet so on went the Dr Martens- revealing some sort of cross between a spider and a punk! UGGs it was.

I swam to the train station being rudely interupted by planes, trains and automobiles on the way, adding to my dampness- my feet squelched and my jeans rustled, it was generally quite disgusting. By the time I got on the train to Victoria to meet Abi I began to smell like a wet dog ideally matching my appearance. Upon arrival at Victoria I was met by an equally moit Abi! We plodded off to find a train to Wimbledon- our main purpose of the day, however the train ticket was £2.50 and between us we only had £1.90. Many scrapings of my handbag later we found the money so off we went.

I'm always one for a good entrance and Wimbledon was no exception- I fell off the train and onto the soggy platform eurgh! Muddy kneed and slightly sore, off we went tramping down the road in search of a notebook to write Al's QandA in. Mission accomplished and we headed to Pizza Hut to get to work. With four hours to kill until Al was finished the matinee we took our time. I was so sick I left half a pizza on the plate for two hours and nobody seemed to bother us- perfect! Two hours into our Pizza Hut sitting I decided that mine and Abi's phones had known each other for a while now and they should get married, they exchanged sticks and we stuck heart stickers on them. They are now and forever officially binded!

QandA completed we smugly left Pizza Hut and trunched to Woolworths to kill time- here Abi got lucky! She found an Oyster card on the shelf next to Allan Carr's biography- it was fate!! I debated over what to get little Rory for his birthday and Abi looked at pyjamas. Soon enough it was five thirty and we made our way to the theatre.

We stopped at a lovely flower stall with a lovely man who commented on the size of my tea cup- I NEED MY EARL GREY! We bought Al some white and red flowers which were really pretty and smelled devine then continued on to the theatre. At the stage door I met a lady whose daughter had already been in Fiddler with Al last year and I was like heyyyy! We had a little banter and then Silber made her appearance. I think I am unanimous in say Al's "bounding" out the stage door like an excited little puppy always makes me laugh! Her eyes light up like it's the doorway to Heaven (should we be worried?) Finally, after two months of teasing, we presented her with the QandA.....sorry....THE book! THE book got alot of giggles and I maintain my allure that it is called THE book in case she doesn't know which book and I can say THE book! The flowers seemed to go down well and we spoke about a few things, I can't remember what but it was funny....oh! The understudy for Billy- I LOVED the way she put it to another lady "You'll be amazed by Jeremiah when you see him". <3>

After Al's bid for freedom and food we trapsed around until I decided to be a bit of an idiot and go buy tickets for the evening performace!

Row X center. OK. Not perfect. Would do.

10 cigarettes, a small salad pot, a packet of crisps and 3 imodium later.....

Stood in the toilets in "Morrissons" we decided to do the all important Saturday night at the theatre obnoxious make-up! Abi has the most lush, fantastic, extrovert makeup EVER and I <3>

The little japanese cleaning man was not happy at how long the transformation took but believe me little man it was worth it!
Be astonished by the green eyeshadow!

Are you astonished?
I am!

Post - makeuping/salad eating/ bantering with the japanese guy, we went back into Morrissons because I was hungry again.
I spotted these.......



These are Al and Damian in cookie form and by god they were tasty!

Abi however......beheaded hers :(



One was not amused!

So we got to the theatre and sat in row friggin X........NOT AMUSED! It was like watching the show through a letter box and we immediately started to conjure up plans to move to the front. Abi was genius- she caught the attention of the usher and stood up, I was like whaaat?
So she gives this huge drawn out story about how I've lost my contact lense and I can't see and is there ANY chance we can move to the front. The ushers answer "There are binoculars on the back of the chairs" Abi's reply "If I wanted to watch something through binoculars I'd go bird watching!"
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So we sat and sulked in row friggin X till the interval where I spotted three spare seats in the front row. Coincidently next to Joan, a friend of ours from Hairspray!
PERFECT!

There was extremely poor show at the stage door after, we bantered with Al for a minute before she had to go for her train and then we decided to wait for Lesley who had incidently winked at us at the curtain call!
BANTER
She came out and some random foreign guy shouted "I need a photo" and she ran past saying "you're having a giggle aren't you, it' chucking it down!!"
He followed her round the corner to her car and so did Abi (nut) and we all ended up in the rain- me taking the picture of this guy while abi talks to lesley it was hilarious.

The walk back to the train station however had to be the funniest part of the day- me with Abi's jumper around my neck because somewhere along the line I had lost my scarf, Abi in a t-shirt with battering wind and rain and the crap umbrella which I'm glad she was holiding because if I had been I may have taken off!!
The drowned rat appearance returned!
Then to bed......