*Big Fun Friday music*
*Carrie singing 'Beautiful' from Heathers*
Hello, and welcome to Bank holiday Monday. I have a day off from Heathers rehearsals,
because it's a Bank holiday, which means the next week of rehearsals is going to be extremely intense.
I think we're rehearsing from ten o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the evening.
But this not so sunny Bank holiday Monday, I am taking Oliver-
O: *drops phone* Both: Aw...
C: That failed, didn't it? O: I wasn't ready for it. C: That failed, didn't it?
C: I'm taking Oliver
to see the house I've bought. I bought a house.
*Oliver laughs*
C: What do you think of my house? O: What do I think of it? C: Yeah.
O: It's like- it's nice. It's- I wanna say small,
but that gives like wrong impression. But it's like quaint. C: It's a cottage. O: A little cottage. C: It is. Describe it in three words.
O: Cute little cottage. No, I don't know. It's really good. It's really- it's really pretty. And the garden is lovely.
C: I love it so much, I'm so pleased. O: Yeah. C: I'm not- I'm not showing anyone what it looks like at the moment,
because I-
I'm just worried that something might fall through- the deal might fall through, so it might go wrong.
So until it's officially mine and I have the keys in my hand, that is when I will show you guys.
C: Saying that, I did post a little teaser on my Instagram. O: It's exciting. C: Oh my god,
I'm so in love with it. We are now backfrom going to see my lovely little cottage.
We did a little bit of shopping after that, and got some lunch.
And now we are back just like editing videos and tidying up, and doing
normal human being stuff, before I go back to rehearsals tomorrow.
*music*
*cast warming up*
*dance party*
It is Thursday the 31st of
May, I think that's right. I have completely and utterly lost track. We are currently rehearsing from ten a.m
in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening, every day.
I woke up this morning to a parcel- a couple of parcels.
Don't look at my dress. A couple of parcels being delivered, oh and that one there.
And I've been sent some
gorgeous makeup products from a company that I don't know how to pronounce I want to say 'Bes-samee',
but I know it's gonna be like 'beh-same'. They've sent me this little parcel of some gorgeous gorgeous
makeup. So this is called a mascara cake, I've never heard of this.
It's literally like a little cake of mascara, and then a little brush to dip in it and run through your eyelashes.
I quite like that. That's very very cool. And then some lovely lipsticks,
there was one I wanted to open, 'dusty rose', because that sounds like
this colour- this is like my very natural normal colour, everyday colour that I like to go for.
Well, I'm a big fan. I like that a lot. And they send me these nice brushes as well. So thank you very much,
Bes-sa- bes-samee? Beh-same? Bes- Beh-same? Beh-same.
'Bee-same'. If someone can help me out, I'd really appreciate that. I've also been sent two very
theater-ey books. This one's called 'Theatrical' by Maggie Harcourt.
Oh, it says 'the UK's answer to Rainbow Rowell'. Oh, and the main character's called Hope. Ooh.
And this one is called 'The Swish of the Curtain' by Pamela Brown.
Oh, thank you very much to both authors and their teams for sending me those. Very much looking forward to reading those.
Let's see what else is in here.
So this has come from Jasmine Renard, who is actually two years older than me,
which is quite rare when I'm opening letters and stuff.
But she has sent me two boxes of Disney postcards for me to reply to my letters. I've never seen that one before.
The princess postcard box. Ah!
Jasmine, you have made my morning. Thank you so much.
Oh, I love that. And you have sent me a stamped and addressed envelope,
so I will of course reply as soon as I can. I don't know when that will be but as soon as I possibly can.
*hand kisses*
WkD have also sent me some of their cocktails, and
apparently they're coming to see Heathers. It says 'I've got tickets for July, can't wait to see it. '
'We encourage everyone to 'pick a mixed', and find which flavour suits their personality.' Thank you very much, WKD.
For anyone watching this, obviously drink aware, drink responsibly, but I will enjoy these very much. Thank you so much.
I will do a bunch of these this weekend,
I promise. It's really difficult to film in rehearsals, because Veronica literally never leaves the stage.
So I never have time to get my camera ready and set it up, and also anything I do film of the show,
I'm not actually allowed, preferably.
So...
I don't know how good this week's 'Big Fun Friday' is gonna be.
Sophie: We got presents.
Person: Say 'raining cats and dogs'.
Cast: Raining cats and dogs.
*laughter*
Carrie: It's ten past eleven, and all three boxes of treats that I brought in have already been broken into.
*laughter*
*Sergio eating a Mr. Kipling cake*
S: Hmm, these are good.
S: These are one of my favourites. C: Yes!
S: It's like an almond-ey taste. Dominic: That marzipan- S: Marzipan! D: -with sugar. C: Sergio is our token American in the cast. So far you've tried tea cakes,
Twister ice lollies, and now Battenberg. I'm proud of you, mate.
Jamie: Oh hey. C: Hey. J: Hey book.
C: Is it any good, Jamie? I've heard it's a bit sh*t. J: There's long words in it that I do not quite understand.
J: You see, thou-sands. C: Thousands, babe, thousands.
J: I like that. C: Yeah. C: What about Sue, Dom? What's happening?
D: A quiz. C: *laughing* You don't look very sure.
D: I'm not sure. C: But the winner wins a hundred pounds.
Andy Fickman: Ladies and gentlemen,
I may present you one and two.
*cheers*
A: The person with the most amount of points will win.
A: Ready?
C: I'm so stressed out right now.
*laughter*
A: Three actors from the original movie. Person: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty.
*applause* A: Ooh, well done.
A: What was the radio program's name? Carrie?
C: Probz. A: Hot Probz, Carrie for one.
*applause*
*music*
A: What bridge does Martha try to jump off?
A: Currently in the show, we could use it.
*Jamie whispers something*
What is the commercial for Big Bud Dean?
*confusion*
*Carrie chuckles*
C: Na-ah na-na na-ah na-na.
*laughter*
A; We will start again on another day. There is no winner.
*cheers*
C: Oh, yeah. we're all back in. Yay!
D: We have another chance to win.
I am now home from our last day of rehearsals in the Paddington Art Centre. Next week,
we move into our new home, The Other Palace in Victoria, which is so exciting.
I'm so excited to get into a dressing room, to get on the stage, to get all the set in
place, and to start tech-ing the show and figuring out
whether everything we've done in the rehearsal room works on the stage or not.
I'm having a little lie-down, because I think I pulled a muscle in my back, and I think it was from the fight call
that we did yesterday. Yesterday a stunt coordinator called Lisa came into rehearsals to teach us all
who are involved in various different fights in the show how to fight with each other safely, but I got a bit overexcited.
And as soon as my adrenaline kicked in I just went full out with feeling, and I think I've just twinged something in
my shoulder. But I literally felt like a superhero yesterday doing that stage combat.
Very fun and very cool. So our wonderful creative team, namely mr.
Andy Fickman and his wonderful wife Kristen, have very generously given us some amazing gifts over the last few weeks.
All Heather's related obviously, but today I have to say is my favourite. We've got given these pencil cases,
they've got the Heathers logo on one side, and then 'Hey Yo, Westerberg' on the other side.
And in said pencil case was a little Heathers notebook. And then these incredible pencils. 'Freeze your brain',
'I love my dead gay son', 'our love is God',
'let us be seventeen' and 'what's your damage'. And they had a variety of different colours made for us, obviously the Heathers colours, and
Veronica Blue, so I had to take a Veronica blue pencil case. How amazing is that? I absolutely
love it. So thank you very much, mr. Fickman and Kristen, and everyone who is involved in making these incredible gifts for us.
We're all very very appreciative. And I told you today, mr
Fickman, that I would write my next book in this notebook. And a promise is a promise. I will keep it.
So I think that's all for this week. I hope you've had big fun, and I shall see you at The Other Palace.
Aaaah!
*click click*