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Hello, Claire here, I’m eating crisps in the office, thinking about the tour that has just finished, and my mind started to wander to all of the memorable moments we’ve had during ‘Lilly’ and I thought I’d share them with you.
So here, in no particular order (you can decide which is best) are the memorable moments/events…
- During a scene with The Alice, Lilly’s foot quite obviously falls off, Clare Pointing grabs it on her exit and the sweet sound of gaffa tape can be heard behind the box as I frantically gaffa it back on, while Andy Gray stalls for time at the start of The Willow scene.
-A rehearsal during which a roll of black LX tape was discovered, which lead to all cast members (and puppets) emerging with little Hitler/Chaplin moustaches at regular intervals.
- During our very first scratch when we had some very bizarre ideas in the piece…The Willow had a cage and a massive Resident Evil style claw, the strange moaning clay figures, when Rottenpockets was more like ‘Hoggle’ from Labyrinth and had tentacles that were puppeteered, the scene where Lilly fell into Rottenpockets’ Pocket and became queen of some feuding fruit(?!)
- (This might be my favcourite) Imagine it, the final scene, Lilly is hanging from the moon and is about to make her decision to go home, the atomosphere is tense and everyone stares in awe up at the glowing moon….and the moon falls off of its hook, smacks Lilly in the face and falls into my arms. Oh the Horror. A quick look to Clare and seconds later the moon is held aloft in her hands and all is well again….phew!
-During every technical rehearsal replacing the word ‘Lilly’ with the word ‘Willy’ and the word ‘Moon’ with the word ‘Poo’.
-When we discovered that one of the books was Terry Wogans autobiography, so took out a photo of Terry that became our mascot behind the set. Then consequently during that days rehearsal Terrys image would appear from books where props were supposed to be. My favourite was Terrys appearance in the final scene in the book that opens as a window in Lilly’s room (all credit to Andy Gray for that gag)
- A beautiful paper man emerges from a book, tenderly and delicately his opens the door and breathes…then his head does a 180 degree spin and suddenly its the exorcist.
I must stop now as there are so many more and I really must do some real work today. If you were in the audience for any of the above incidents do drop us a line!
Thanks for reading
Claire
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