Well, Saturday night's episode of Doctor Who felt like a nice full stop for Sarah Jane Smith. The character played by Elisabeth Sladen made a lovely return to the programme in School Reunion, and she finally managed to get a proper goodbye from the Doctor. After a year of working on the Sarah Jane Smith audio dramas, I feel like I can also move on. The last story in the four-part series, Dreamland, is out and attracting a (mostly) positive response. A few people have absolutely hated the unresolved nature of the cliffhanger ending, but they'll get over it - eventually. Should Big Finish ever decide to produce a third series of SJS audios, I'm not sure I'd be involved. I feel I've said all I have to say about the characters of Sarah, Nat and Josh. It feels like time to move on, focus on new projects...Meanwhile, the crunch is coming on the musical with which I'm involved. We're got a week to get the sets up and painted, the last of the costumes finished, the lighting designed and practised, and a fistful of rehearsals to get the show ready for opening night on Tuesday May 9th. Tickets are on sale and going fast from Bryden's Newsagents - not sure we'll sell out all five nights. In the past we only ran musicals for four nights and we've added 16 seats to the auditorium, effectively pushing our maximum capacity for the run up from 412 to 595 seats. But I'd love us to get good houses the first couple of nights and sell out the rest, as a reward to the cast and crew that have worked so hard for so long getting Sweet Charity ready.
Got official notification of when my radio play is being rehearsed and recorded in a studio near Edinburgh: next Tuesday, May 9th, from 2.45 pm - 7.30pm. Yes, you guessed it, recording is due to finish the exact minute Sweet Charity begins its first performance 40 miles away in Biggar. I'm determined to go to the recording, but have to be back in Biggar no later than 7pm, which means leaving the studio some time between 5.30 and 6pm. Methinks next Tuesday is going to be a rather stressful day.
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Sarah Jane did make a return to Doctor Who in 'The 5 Doctors' where she met the 3rd Doctor but she just said something like,"it's you ?! But you changed ?!" she then went on to meet all other Doctors including the 5th but didn't seem to ask where the 4th one was !! It would have been nice if she'd have said that the last time she seen the Doctor was in the Tomb of Rassilon but they didn't get much time to chat ! :)
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