Totally camp and over the top, I spent last evening in the Royal Concert Hall singing as if possessed by Julie Andrews. What a great excuse for just putting all your troubles away for a while and immersing yourself in plain good fun.
There were people dressed as Nuns, people wearing curtains turned into clothes, people dressed as tea bags and jam and bread - and then there were the two old ladies sat behind us who had not a clue what was happening and had totally missed the point and had paid to watch the film!
The audience ranged in age from 4 to 104 though I suspect some of the elderly were there as this cinematic representation of the Alps was as close as their pension would get them to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
Budgets and protests and the rest of the world melted away as we joined together and sang at the top of our voices, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Lonely Goatherd, Edelweiss etc, you booed the Nazis, you hissed at the Countess, you let off party poppers when the Captain and Maria kiss, and when the family are hiding in the Convent at the end, people swithed on torches and we all laughed....then it ended and we went back to real life.
How do you solve a problem like...life.
No comments:
Post a Comment