Over this last six months I have been so thankful for the amount of theatres that have released whole plays, musical shows, opera and concerts to keep us in touch with the very best evenings out, sharing with the theatre fans, now stuck indoors of an evening. The wonderful productions that were recorded live, before our normal world was brought to an abrupt halt. Our circle of friends all have a love for these wonderful productions when we can be lifted into another magical place for a few hours and can forget the morbid news, which does not seems to be getting any better, but rather it seems, that many people are simply getting used to the daily death toll around the world and have slipped into a river in Egypt, (a kind of self-hypnosis denial).
Sadly, our entertainment world has been denied us for a while and most of the seats we had booked and paid for well in advance, have followed the route of our sports events and have also been postponed for a year or in some cases they have been cancelled altogether, when the theatre has asked ‘IF’ we want our money back or would we like to donate that to the theatre to help it through this disaster in funding! I’m afraid we have a funding disaster to cope with here ourselves, since our business is struggling for life in a time when the people we knew as clients, are in lock-down themselves, but rent is still to be paid on the warehouse. It is a life changing time in many ways, when all we can do is hope to survive with some changed form of livelihood.
The fact that we are at least well entertained in our homes gives us some lighter moments and a degree of gratitude to the companies sharing these great shows with the public. As my husband sifted through the many things on offer on TV, I spotted one that we had not seen and he slid back to the place where I had halted his high-speed search.
What I had seen, was a concert version of Carousel from The Lincoln Centre in New York. Like some of the concert versions we have seen from the Royal Albert Hall in London, this version of Carousel, was in costume but performed on front of the orchestra. It was such a lucky moment and by sheer chance that we got to see this wonderful staging of the show that we loved from the first moment until the last when we were both on tears and almost sobbing with the emotion. The unfortunate thing is that I do not know the names of the fabulous cast because the credits went up at such a speed. Thank heaven for this special treat. I will find out who they were later, since they were all star performers who should be credited and indeed thanked. Yes; Thank you.
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