Hello Dolly

A couple of days ago my partner and I were having a meal. The local Radio station mentioned that the TOADS am-dram society were doing Hello Dolly at the Princess Theatre, Tickets were available. The cost £13 each so knowing my partner would like to go I said, "Do you want to go, it's only 13 quid." The response was, "Yes but I don't finish work till six so I will meet you there, we'll have a drink and a meal, maybe a bottle of wine." With the cost of the tickets, drink, meal, bottle of wine, program, raffle tickets, interval drink the evening out came to slightly less than a hundred quid. But we don't get out that often. Any contributions towards the cost of the evening will be gratefully accepted.
Anyway while we were enjoying the meal in the Theatre restaurant which overlooks the Torquay Marina we noticed two groups of people. One lot were boarding a boat for an evenings cruise, part of the weekend Gay pride event taking place here in Torquay. Sad to say it was raining, windy and not the best of evenings for cruising round the bay. The other group, about 15 of them were all wearing black tea shirts with Jesus, Saviour printed on them. They were apparently expressing their disapproval of the Gay Pride event. Now I had believed that witch hunts of this kind were a thing of the past but you live and learn. Didn't spoil the evening, the meal and wine were good and the show was very enjoyable. There was one unscripted incident I remember. The sets these days get changed in front of the audience while the cast continue. In one change of set an actress was reclining on a chaise longue and was wheeled off the stage. Unfortunately the person steering hadn't been to chaise longue driving school and hit an other part of the set which resulted in said chaise longue coming to a sudden stop and the poor actress ending up on the floor. Moral of this story, get driving lessons before being let loose with a dangerous chaise longue.