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Today has been mostly spent at the Priory Playhouse in Arundel, rehearsing for a production of The Drowsy Chaperone which opens a week tomorrow! A fluffy musical parody, the show's central character is the inventively named Man in Chair, who takes the audience through his favourite musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone' by playing the recording. The show and its characters come to life around him, and clues to his own character and his idiosyncracies are revealed every time he pauses the recording and interjects as he sees fit.

I am playing Mrs Tottendale, a delightfully forgetful and slightly batty lady of advancing years. Great fun - especially the "spit-take" scene - although I have to keep apologising to my fellow actor playing the butler, Underling, as I do get him rather damp!

Feel free to Google "spit-take" - it's not as obscene as my description of its outcome suggests...

The scene here shows the leading man on the eve of his wedding, who has been blindfolded and put in roller skates by his best man because it is less dangerous than tap dancing! He's with his fiancee, although she's pretending to be a French girl called Mimi.

Did I mention, being a parody, it also has a very flimsy plot?