Louisa Taylor

Elf the musical - Tickets on sale!

Tickets for Elf - the musical are now on sale from our tickets page so get booking before they’re all gone.

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Elf - The Musical: Introduction Night

🎄 Elf The Musical - Intro Night coming soon! 🎄 Exciting! Our next intro night is coming up Friday 24th May, 7.

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“Joseph” – Out of the Desert (Part 2)

So, there we were: show week. For 15 weeks it had been sitting on the far horizon just beyond our reach and nicely out of view.

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Joseph – the aftermath

“Way, way back 15 weeks ago Not long after rehearsals began I looked at the size of the cast for this show And said to myself: “Is this a good plan?

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Joseph Guest Post – “The Well”

Here is the next guest post on the theme of Joseph. Don’t forget to get your contributions to the Barnstormers website team soon!

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“Joseph” – A Feasting Story

Week 4 of rehearsals. The passage of time is frightening, isn’t it? I wonder if that’s how Joseph felt as the weeks, months and years rolled by while he wasted away in prison?

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“Joseph” – Choral Reflections

The calm remains. It is an odd feeling. I have now begun to think that something must have gone horribly wrong after all, but then I look back at my notes and the schedule for this week and realise that it is all ticking along quite nicely, thank you very much.

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“Joseph” – Oh, Fickle World!

The world of a director is a fickle one. Several weeks pass in a frenzy of chaotic CD listening and prancing around on the kitchen floor (much to the dismay of one pet dog who is determined to take us both off for an evening walk) and then, suddenly, peace reigns again.

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“Joseph” – Goat curry anyone?

My first visit to the costume cupboard of 2012 is complete. What a sneeze-inducing experience it was. Thankfully the lovely ladies in charge of all things “Wardrobe” had already pulled out the big box stuffed full of old robes and headgear used in the last production some ten years ago so there was no immediate reason for me to climb into the attic space.

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“Joseph” – The case of the angelic jelly bean

Unbelievably we have already passed the golden landmark that is the first week in rehearsal. Time is ticking by until the first performance now…tick tock, tick tock.

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