Caruso and the Quake

What a way to finish the run! My best performance and more people in from San Francisco. Within minutes of finishing, I was loading up my friend Richard'd 4 by 4 with my boxes and mirror and it's all over. It will be strange not to be performing tommorrow but I doubt my partner will miss going up to strangers asking: would you like any ideas for things to do today! Anywhere beyond Edinburgh and you could get yourself a police record.

We are celebrating tonight at the party for Pleasance Shows and by seeing our last show: The Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger.

I am amazed at the amount of feedback that I've had from this blog, so thanks to everyone who read my random madness and an even bigger thank you to everyone who came. Also thanks to Richard Jordan, Martin Shippen, Emma Betteridge, Sophie, Katie, Mark (at Below) and Richard Hawkes and in the best tradition....everyone else who knows me. Cheers!

This maybe the last entry on this blog. Today despite rather low pre sales, we had a very respectable house. Attentive and engaged and much younger than my normal punter. The performance is at its zenit, the voice is doing well and although I am looking forward to a little rest, I would like to start touring asap

The next show is in my home village, Hurstpierpoint as part of the Festival in September. I'll bring my quotes and critics from the Fringe, it will be a new experience. I am also looking forward to reuniting with the Brighton Gay Men's Chorus, I want to start planning the new season and facing the challenges of a vibrant, ever growing group of talented singers and performers.

There is also a collaboration with West Sussex Rural Arts, a new version of the Coffee Cantata by JS Bach BWV211, with a new text written by Andrew G Marshall (Caruso and the Quake) and a new orchestration....will be presented in November

Today was one of the best performances undoubtedly, the singing was effortless and round. Andrew commented on it and also friends who know the show very well. The performance seemed so easy and controlled, people were with tears in their eyes, not the best in terms of numbers but very engaged...some came to congratulate me personally, including the wife of my producer whom I hadn't met yet.

It is funny, now that all feels so easy, we have to finish, wrap up and go. I suppose it is the same every year for everybody but it doesn't make it easier! I hope to go back home and keep up my work routine that I created here...sounds like a New Year's resolution...but thankfully I have already some engagements that will keep me on the strait and narrow, looking forward to more yoga...