Ok, totally unrelated to Boxers, but I just had to share! I've been singing and dancing in shows since I was 4, and this year I played Ruth in the Irish premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie. We entered the show in the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera (www.waterfordfestival.com), and our competition performance was last Sunday. We were really disappointed with our performance and were really disheartened coming off stage.
Fast forward to last night, which was the awards ceremony, and we won:
Best Choreographer - Laura Martin
Best Comedienne - Aoife Cartwright as Miss Dorothy
Best Comedian(s) - Derek Yeates & Ronan O'Beirne as Bun Foo & Ching Ho
Best Female Performance - Bronwyn Andrews as Millie
We also came 2nd overall - narrowly losing out to the University of Lincoln, Nebraska, who were the overall festival winners.
Needless to say, we are CHUFFED! We are an amateur group and it was a struggle to even get the show down to Waterford (it costs a FORTUNE!) and after thinking we did a terrible performance, it was amazing to get such a result at the awards.
You can see & hear Bronwyn as Millie doing "Gimme Gimme" here:
Fast forward to last night, which was the awards ceremony, and we won:
Best Choreographer - Laura Martin
Best Comedienne - Aoife Cartwright as Miss Dorothy
Best Comedian(s) - Derek Yeates & Ronan O'Beirne as Bun Foo & Ching Ho
Best Female Performance - Bronwyn Andrews as Millie
We also came 2nd overall - narrowly losing out to the University of Lincoln, Nebraska, who were the overall festival winners.
Needless to say, we are CHUFFED! We are an amateur group and it was a struggle to even get the show down to Waterford (it costs a FORTUNE!) and after thinking we did a terrible performance, it was amazing to get such a result at the awards.
You can see & hear Bronwyn as Millie doing "Gimme Gimme" here: