19 march 2009

term 2, Week 9 – come on, move your feet, everybody, to the right, click to the left!
Weight loss – 11.5lb

We ‘got in’, to the hall, and assembled on stage … this time in chairs. None of that waiting to get on stage again, and off again like the last concert. Instead, soloists will have to tread on the toes of the front row, and the front row will have to try not to fall off the edge when they try to dance like Becky, in buttercup. Or was it in joyful, joyful?

I think joyful, joyful will have some clapping, off beat only please, and buttercup will have some step and click, opposite legs and fingers, so we don’t end up doing the ‘dad-dance’. Ed is very god at the dad-dance!

We had to run through all songs and practice standing up and sitting down. Two ‘Catherines’ will be used for this purpose, of having the job of watching for Ed’s signal to stand. When only one Catherine was employed, the choir did a wonderful Mexican wave, but that’s not quite the effect we are after!
The second Catherine is me. I really hope I don’t forget to watch Ed, and then make us all look silly.

What a giggle we had when we realised that the wrong words for two of our songs were on the memory stick. We did quite well despite this, but it just goes to show, we need to learn our songs. This point was hammered home when both Michael and Ed grabbed radio mics to give us some critique. I wont repeat what they said here, as this is a family blog. We did decide though that
California dreaming, circle of life, and shine, will not be sung at the Best of Dorset.

Eventually, everyone apart from the ‘boys’ singing shine, and some soloists, shuffled off home. After singing shine with the lads, and running through a solo song, I too went home and was so tired I nearly forgot to drop Daphne off!