[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Sylvia Fairley

Ha! Quite possibly. I nodded off once, and had to be woken when the player next to me noticed I had a solo coming up...

Did you by any chance ever play in the pit for La Sonnambula?

[Martin Parker]

I hope your Macbeth has been given the public performance it clearly deserves.
How about combining for a Gilbertisation of the entire First Folio -- provided we could agree in advance just which play we were going to start on? Or even mixing odd bits together -- though perhaps this has already been done. Does anyone know?
(A thread which has included Shakespeare, Carroll, Coward and Gilbert lacks only Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer to complete a full roster of my main wordsmith heroes. Next time, perhaps.)

[Sylvia Fairley]

Originally Posted by Brian Allgar

Did you by any chance ever play in the pit for La Sonnambula?

Strangely enough, no - though I'm sure Bellini wrote it specially for me!

[Sylvia Fairley]

[quote=Martin Parker;314118]I hope your Macbeth has been given the public performance it clearly deserves

Sadly, it never saw the light of day. The Speccie had a comp to write a Shakepeare soliloquy in the style of W.S.G. but, though I put my heart and soul into it, it never even got a mention. Life's a bitch.