Panto Time

'Panto time is here again'...but this time it's my actual Job. YAY. We start rehearsals tomorrow and start touring on Saturday, which is all very exciting and after three months of mind numbingly boring day jobs I am more than ready for the challenge. HOWEVER...I have lost my voice, and with seven solos and two or three shows a day, I am slightly concerned. I am hoping that my voice will be back in time for performances, but who knows. Then again judging by how this year has gone in general nothing has been simple so maybe this is yet another hiccough that i am going to have to get through.

I am back at my parents house at the moment as the Panto is in Leeds. So I have had to leave my little flat in Romford till after Xmas. Which is strange, I like my life in London it's fun and comfy, and for the first time when I came up on the train on Saturday and looked out of the window at the terraced houses, fields and fog, the North did not feel like home. Later I went to the Playhouse that i used to be part of in Pateley Bridge, and again for the first time, I couldn't wait to leave. I didn't like the play, I found the people to be small minded, and I felt too big for the space. A little bit like when you go back to your primary school, you remember everything to be a lot bigger, but through adult eyes it looks small. I remember a time when I tried so hard to become a part of that Playhouse but now it's just part of my childhood. I haven't been in a play there since I went to University in 2007, and since then I have finished my degree, finished drama school and had a couple of years of living as an actor. and although I have been back numerous times since 2007, this time it felt different. Or maybe it is the same and I am different, either way It's not for Sarah any more.

Anywho in other news I went to see Nativity 2 on Friday, it's not as good as the first one but worth a go. Here's a song from the first one to get you in a christmassy mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJCVlf4IE0