Princess Beffy

01^st Aug 2010

Sunday // 8pm // 1 year ago

30 Days of Me

Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

I thought I’d use this as an opportunity to go off on one about my endless love for all things musical theatre. I cannot actually express how much I love musicals. The first musical I saw on stage was ‘Singing in the Rain’ when I was about 6 and, tbh, I can’t remember all that much about it but I know I enjoyed the whole theatre experience and it triggered the beginnings of my love affair….

I’ve been involved in musicals myself since I was 9 and in the subsequent years have been lucky enough to star in and watch lots of shows, both amateur and professional. I don’t really have a favourite musical, it’s incredibly hard to chose when there are so many amazing ones out there. My top 5, in no particular order, are probably ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘Whistle Down the Wind’, ‘Wicked’, ‘Chicago’ and ‘Les Miserables’, which I actually saw last night for the second time. I think I’ve only ever seen one musical that I didn’t really enjoy, which was ‘Doctor Dolittle’ and, frankly, I’m not sure it even counts as a proper musical. There are so many more shows I would love to see and I hope I’m lucky enough to get to experience them all at some point. It’s frustrating that tickets are so expensive. I know they need to be to cover the huge running costs but it sucks for poor people like me!

I haven’t been in a show myself for just over four years now and I miss it so much it kills me. Whenever I go to the theatre I’m shocked by how much jealousy is mingled with the admiration I feel for the performers. It’s not envy of them personally, just that they’re able to do something every night that I would desperately love to be able to do just once more. I don’t want to go into the reasons why I can’t be on stage anymore in this post, maybe I’ll talk about it soon, but it is absolutely one of my biggest desires in life to perform again. It pretty much goes without saying that my ultimate career fantasies revolve around being a West End star but I’ve come to terms with the fact that that can never happen. All I want is to be in a musical again. I don’t care how small the role is or how short a time the show runs for, I just NEED to do it.