Last night saw the first Tenbury Wells Regal Chuckle Night. Three comedians, Carl Donnally, Andre Vincent & Michael Smiley, performed and the show was hosted by Tiernan Douieb, who today commented on his blog today thatlast night's show being unexpectedly lovely despite our dressing room being in a toilet and Tenbury Wells being further away than anything else ever,
I wasn't quite sure what to expect having not been to any live comedy events since working with the likes of Jim Davidson, Jasper Carrot and my personal favourite Mike Harding in the early 1980's.
Well, it wasn't very long until the audience of over 100 were rolling with laughter and had tears in their eyes. All the comedians sets were observational comedy, with among others, tales of their inward journeys to Tenbury and their futile planning of their onward journeys.
It is great to see the Regal being used for such a variety of live events, but we must resist anything in the current renovation plans that are retrograde steps and reduce the ability to host live shows, and encourage any plans that will enable the facilities to be improved with such minor necessities as dressing rooms etc.
If we are not careful we could end up with a beautifully restored White Elephant that cannot host live shows, and cannot show films because the projector is too old.
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It was a truly lovely gig. I apologise for my use of the word 'unexpectedly'. It was meant in the terms of 'we didn't know what to expect', rather than that we didn't expect it would be.
I shall be looking forward to the toilet dressing room and seven year journey at the end of this month on my return!
No apology necessary. Tenbury is often a very 'unexpected' sort of place. You can never tell how people are going to react here, to any given situation. I'm just glad you had a good audience, as many of us wish to see a vibrant and well used Regal.
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