*music*
Carrie: Yay!
Alex: Thank you, Carrie. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
C: This is Alex Parker, I don't think Alex Parker has ever been in a video. A: I've never been in- Hello. Lovely to see you all, Carrie's amazing.
C: *laughs* As are you.
*music continues*
C: There we go, keep the change.
Cabbie: Thank you very much. C: Thank you very much.
C: So I just had a vocal cool with Alex Parker for the Railway Children, which is very exciting. It was the first time that I properly heard
the song I'm going to be singing.
And now, I've just been dropped off in a black cab,
I've not been in a black cab for a very long time,
just been dropped off in a black cab at Covent Garden, 'cause I'm now going for a meeting with Darren Bell and
Helen Clarkson, my agent, about my concerts on March 31st and April the 1st.
I'm very very excited about it, and I just went and bought a dress in Debenhams. I saw it and I was like
that's a very outrageous dress. That's- it's pink and sequiny and a bit
much, but I saw it and went 'oh sod it', I
tried it on and loved it, but it was 220 pounds and I was like 'ooh,
'that's a lot of money'.
And I was like 'I can always bring it back, I can always bring it back and get the money refunded', so I went up to
the counter and said 'I'd like to buy this dress, please', and she ran it through and she was like 'that's 60 pounds.
please.'
I was like *gasps in shock*
It's my lucky day.
So... amazing, thrilled, today is a good day.
There's Darren.
I've just received a giant parcel from
Lush, and
I've not ordered anything from Lush, so it means they've sent me something. Just says 'love from Lush'. Whoa. Whoa.
There's a lot of, ehm,
foam peanuts in here. There is a love hearts gift box in here,
which has got a Tisty Tosty bath bomb, a Love Boat bath bomb,
Whole Lotta Love Bubbleroon, what the hell is a Bubbleroon. A Unicorn Horn Bubble Bar,
I love those, and a Rose Bombshell bath bomb. Oh my god. And there's something else in here
There is-
a Love Box. This is all very like love based. I guess that's why it's 'love from Lush'. A Love Box has
Tender is the Night naked shower cream, a Melt my Heart massage bar, cherry-ish body scrub and the Kiss lip scrub.
Well, I feel spoiled. Thank you very much, Lush. That's super exciting and
I'm having a bath today. I want to know more about this Bubbleroon. Whoa.
Oh, that looks so cool. Look at that. It looks so awesome.
Thank you Lush. I'm going for this very sweet little mug today. It's got Dumbo on it,
it says 'you make me smile'. This is all a bit too precarious for my liking now.
*whistles*
Have you guys ever noticed that on the Met Line trains, on the Metropolitan line, when the doors open it goes 'dun dun',
'dun, dun.'
Which sounds like 'ba-da-da-da.'
Which is the theme tune from Hook. You are welcome. I have spent the majority of today writing,
tidying and sorting through
everything. Mainly all the crap on my desk and around the living room area,
because one of the sofas you couldn't even sit on, because it was just covered in boxes and stuff.
So I fixed that. I had a little chat with Oliver today on FaceTime just to catch up, see how he's doing.
I'm kind of just- I'm doing a lot of catching up with friends at the moment, because
when you are in theater,
you live under a rock and that rock is the theater and you just miss out on everything.
I think I've said this before. You miss out on birthdays,
christenings,
funerals, weddings...
You kind of miss out on everything.
So I'm spending a little bit of time this month seeing friends who I haven't seen in a little while,
ehm, and,
just being a better friend essentially. I'm basically just acclimatising to being a normal human being again.
I haven't been one of those for a long time.
It's unusual for me, and I'm finding a little bit disconcerting, but it's good for me.
And I know that.
Like, actually having time to sort through stuff in my flat, and to actually sit down and write my book and to just be an author,
it's really quite wonderful.
It's really quite lovely. I'm liking it.
I mean that's not to say that I'm not missing being in shows like
hell, cause I am. I think, like I said, this is good for me.
It's good for me to have this little bit of time.
I've been looking through a lot of old footage today that I have left on my laptop, because I'm running out of
hard drive space. And so I just want to make sure that everything on here is stuff that I really really need. And a while
back, I thought I'd lost a lot of footage from my trip to
Disney World and Universal, when I last went there with Pete, and I found it all not that long ago.
But I don't really know what to do with it now, because I feel like it might be a little bit awkward,
uploading videos of me and my ex-boyfriend, now that we are
exes. I don't know- I might have to have a little think about it, because you know whilst we aren't together anymore,
they were still lovely memories, and they're still, you know, nice videos, and I'm still friends with Pete.
It's not like, you know, we hate each other, and so the idea looking back at memories with each other is
horrifying. But there's also just loads of footage of The Addams Family tour.
And it's genui- it's actually- like I can feel the back of my eyes like prickling, thinking about it now.
But I knew it- I knew as soon as the tour began,
it'd be over within the blink of an eye.
You know when you like- you look at your clock in the middle of the night,
and you're like ah it's like five o'clock in the morning. I don't have to be up for another- and then all of a sudden
your alarm's going off. That is what the Addams Family tour felt like. In fact
I've also got footage of a soundcheck of Crazier than You, and
nowhere does there exist a version of Crazier than You, sung all the way through by myself and Oliver, except for on my laptop.
So maybe one day,
maybe one day soon, I will put that on my channel for you guys to see. And it's-
just a soundcheck, like it's not in costume or anything.
But you can see me and Oliver prancing about, being stupid whilst singing through the song for
soundcheck purposes. So the Addams Family and myself are up for What's on Stage Awards, which is
super exciting. The Addams Family has been nominated for Best touring/regional production,
and I've been nominated for Best Actress in a musical
for Wednesday.
And I found out, a few
performances before the end of the tour in Singapore, and
so it was just so lovely for the entire cast and myself to spend our last few shows
knowing that we were nominated for our work and our time on the show.
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to nominate us.
You've got us shortlisted,
and we're all so,
so grateful. And voting is still open, you can still go and vote, so I will put the link below this video,
and if you came to see The Addams Family and enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing in it,
please go and vote for #TeamAddams.
And I'm gonna be at the actual What's on Stage Awards on the 25th of February, and it would be so amazing if
Team Addams won an award. That would be utterly incredible, so please go and vote for us. That would be so great.
Oh my god. I know exactly what I'm gonna put at the end of this video. At the beginning of the tour,
I have this really great idea that me and Oliver would do like a stop-motion
series of pictures
over the course of the tour, in every venue as
Wednesday and Lucas, and I think we got to
Nottingham on the tour, and then just kept forgetting to take photos.
We took quite a few, there's at least -oh, I don't know how many pictures there are.
Apparently is 127 pictures that we took. I'm gonna leave you with
this stupid project that we started and never finished.
*laughs*
Oh... enjoy.
*music*
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