Stage Mum by Lisa Gee

Author:Lisa Gee [Gee, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407007441
Publisher: Random House
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14.00

Company on stage

17.45

Company out of costumes, etc.

18.00

Company break

19.00

Company back into costume/wigs/mics

19.30

Company on stage

21.45

Company out of mics

22.00

Company break

I emailed back

Thanks Jo.

Aaarrggh.

Any tips for extra stuff I should send in with Dora that week – e.g. books, comics, colouring accoutrements, espresso?

On the up side, I was hoping that this might initiate Dora into the joy of lie-ins. These hadn’t been a feature of her life to date. In fact, on the one occasion before then that she’d slept beyond 8.15 a.m., I’d found myself checking that she was still breathing …

While Dora and two of the other Gretls were each attached to one team throughout the whole rehearsal period, Adrianna’s schedule was now changing weekly. She’d done the first couple of weeks with Geese and Alicia, the next one with Kettles and Lauren and was now about to join Mittens and Dora for the next week. Dora was pleased. As far as she was concerned, the more the merrier. Shana, however, was a bit worried. Did it mean, she wondered, that Adrianna was the spare Gretl? Number four of four? I thought it unlikely. It was more probable, I felt, that they were making sure that she could work with all the teams and preparing her to do the opening night. It made sense. She was the oldest of the four Gretls, with the most experience of live theatre, and I was certain – especially as she skipped out of rehearsals looking as gorgeously pristine as when she arrived – she was the least fidgety and, consequently, the most likely to be where she was supposed to be when she was supposed to be there.

With one more week to go at the Jerwood Space, I was starting to wonder where I’d set up my temporary office near the Palladium. I would, I knew, miss Café Arlington, where I was happily ensconced for much of the time that Dora was rehearsing, even though I knew there would be much more to do around Oxford Circus and many more opportunities to spend money. And then I started wondering whether I would be setting up a temporary office near the Palladium. I’d be taking Dora in on the Bakerloo line, but couldn’t imagine doing the return journey with an overtired, over-excited six-year-old after ten o’clock at night. I would, I realised, be dropping her off, hopping back on the tube, and driving back into town again to pick her up. Oh well, once performances started, it would only be twice a week at most, and then only for a few months. It didn’t seem like too onerous a commitment if I thought about it quickly. And I was sure that Laurie, my dad and my Auntie Ruth would help out from time to time.

The final week of rehearsals at the Jerwood opened, with me and Dora dashing in after school so that she could have a costume fitting, as they had been arranged on the one day that week that she and Mittens weren’t rehearsing. It didn’t take long and we headed back home in time for dinner and an early night.

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