What a buffoon!!!!!

Well, that's panto over for another year! Aladdin has left The Arnaud.67 shows, 8 weeks (including rehearsals) and I even lost half a stone! Good grief.....

There are many stories I could tell of course, such alot happens in these shows, on and off stage! But I will simply hold my hand up to the one occasion when I actually lost control entirely in front of a full house and my thespian colleagues. It was the word "buffoon" that set me off. Something about the word did it. It raised its ugly head during a scene in the show where I am on stage all the time, but actually have little to say. This is dangerous as it gives me more time to look and think at what others are doing. In this case, one of them said the word "buffoon" (its still making me chuckle now).....then another one did.....then another one did.......and then even Mr Havers did!!! Well that was it......the shoulders started rising and falling, the tears started flowing down my cheeks and the rest was simply embarrassment. I then became know for the rest of the run a chief "corpser" (to corpse is to giggle on stage!)....and I was fair game for anyone who wanted to have a go at making me laugh. Luckily, I was on my guard and nothing quite took me over in the same way again.

But really.....a grown man (well physically anyway).....dressed in a silly golden gown......with a hat that looks like a space ship.......laughing at one silly word. What a buffoon....!

PG