Ahoy, I'm firing out this email in advance of the meeting on Monday night, so that you're all up to speed before you come to the meeting. It'll save me at least 15 mins of blathering... Right, here goes, The Variety Show: Provisional Running order - 1: Blackadder's Christmas Carol Sketch (I wanted to open with this one anyway, and Gary has to be elsewhere later on Tuesday night, so this suits everyone...) Needed: Table, 2 chairs, Christmas Card, Twig, Blackadder Theme music if possible. 2: Siobhan reads the 1st letter, can we get the "12 days" music for an intro ? 3: Hotel Soap Sketch (Half of the cast for this have dropped out for various reasons, not a problem as all we need are two tables, two chairs, with alternate lighting between the two. The newly appointed cast can read their lines off the script...) 4: Siobhan reads the 2nd letter. 5: Song from Bernard (don't know what he has planned, but whoever's got his number can you please ask him to be at the venue, 7pm monday for rehearsal & soundcheck ?) 6: Siobhan reads the 3rd letter. 7: Magic tricks - Again, can we get whoever is doing this to come to rehearsals at 7pm on Monday night. Especially so that they can tell us what props they need, if they need volunteers from the audience etc. 8: Siobhan reads the 4th letter. 9: The Manger Sketch (All we need here are Laura, Aislinn, a camera (which I'll provide) and a tripod (needs to be sourced). 10: Siobhan reads the 5th letter. 11: Song from Amanda Ryan. She has pledged to sing two songs, which is great, and will accompany herself on the guitar. 12: Siobhan reads the 6th letter. This will be a running gag throughout the show, with poor Siobhan getting increasingly frustrated. If we can get the theme music, by the second or third letter, the audience will start to cop on... By now, it's time for a 15 minute interval... SECOND HALF: 1: The night before Christmas, porn version. (We'll have two people reciting this, I've split it up into male and female roles...) 2: Siobhan reads the 7th letter. 3: Answering machine sketch. (Tricky technical bit: the gag is that the argument between the two leads is used as the ansaphone message at the end, to do it right, we need to record LIVE exactly what they say on stage. Can we get a tape recorder to use onstage as a prop ? Also: phone ringing sound effect) 4: Siobhan reads the 8th letter. 5: Another song from Bernard. 6: Siobhan reads the 9th letter. 7: Xmas X files Sketch. (Does anyone have the X Files theme music on CD ? ) 8: Siobhan reads the 10th letter. 9: Another song from Amanda. 10: Airline Pilots Sketch. (All we need here are two chairs and a bit of imagination....) 11: Siobhan, edging ever nearer to complete mental breakdown, reads the 11th letter. 12: Grand Finale: "To Hell with the knights" (We've got a big fuck-off bag of props, costumes etc, and we've done it before, so it should be smooth....) 13: Siobhan's lawyer reads the 12th and final letter. 14: Bask in rapturous applause, go get drunk. This should run to about two hours or thereabouts, I'd like a quickfire, Fast Show type of show: don't give the audience time to breathe. This, of course, is subject to change. I am putting it out there now, so that if you guys have any suggestions, please shout them out at the meeting. Do we need an MC ? If so, volunteers ?? There was a suggestion that we use the "devil directing traffic in hell" sketch, which is quite funny, it's just that I don't have a copy of it. I think Claire does. If you do, Claire, we'll find someone to do it (wanna do it yourself ?). I've put up posters in the H. Grattan Building (only place I could get into on Sunday) and have all the posters in my gaff. We can fire them up on Monday afternoon. The stormtroopers and I shall be at the Ballymun Rd Entrance at 8 Monday morning giving out flyers and will distrubute them to Larkfield (and the other blocks if possible) that afternoon. Unfortunately, the flyers are locked into the Clubs and Socs office (My card wouldn't swipe on saturday to let me in) so I'll have to get in there early Monday to get them. No sweat. As we say in Clare (y'know, out west, beyond the Pale), "Sure, it'll be grand..." See y'all tomorrow Bob Roibeard O Mhurcu # 54144094 DCU Drama, 1st Year Rep. www.dcudrama.ie "In Your Face, Space Coyote !" - Homer Simpson, America's second biggest schmuck -