We have been doing various shows throughout the year - everything from corporate parties with one couple to 45 minute dance show with twelve dancers. The current show is "Legend of Sinatra": a full length event with emphasis on singing (for obvious reasons) and live music from a 6 piece band and Simon & me doing the dancing. 

There is always a rehearsal where we run through the new / tricky numbers or go through the stuff that has been changed. The wonderful thing about it is that everyone is there on time and the rehearsal actually ends at 7pm as it should. Then it is an hour till show time - snack, make-up, costumes - and you get the "1/2 hour", "15 minutes", and "5 minute" calls through the intercom so that everyone knows where they should be and when.

When the curtain goes up and you are on stage there is no knowing whether or not anyone is sitting there because the lights make everything outside the stage pitch black.So you perform to this blackness and hope that they love it, and yes, so far they have always applaused at the end of each number (huh). 

The thing that makes performing in a theatre so much more exciting is that these people have actually bought a ticket (or rather 500-900 of them) and expect to be entertained. In a corporate party they more or less enjoy the food and drink and the band, singers, dancers etc are just something extra between the main course and dessert. And in a competition you are just doing your best - you don't have to make them think you are the best act they've ever seen. 

So far the most difficult thing is actually the bows in the very end of the show... hard to believe isn't it? Which foot, how many steps, how high up the hands, and do we put them down in between :) But yes, I do love it and wish to get many more dates.
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