Mischa: Hi Kerry you were amazing. Is it okay if I take a group picture of you and the girls.

Kerry: Oh I think you got enough on your camera tonight already ;)

Cue Mischa going really pale and apologise.

Sorry people, no more of this. Just glad she didn't seem to mind that much.

Oh and here is the reason. Look out for the head shake haha.

Current Location: Work
Current Mood: embarrassed

I'm off to Marbella in 3 and a half hours. BYE everyone. I will be back on Monday. Hmm isn't that the same week as cast change???

See you around

xxx

Yes, it's happened. I'm just tired of it all. Tired of being labelled and concidered weird and crazy. I was planning on going tomorrow but I'm not anymore. I want to but anonymously which I fear is impossible. And some new members on that forum thingie has really put me off. Besides I have no money unless my trip to Spain next week will be horrible. I still love the show and I will go on cast change week and on cast change and after cast change but for now I need a long break from Apollo Victoria. 

I will however go to Pride and listen to Kerry :D Going to be great. Hope to see some of you there.

Tags: pride, tired, wicked
Current Location: Work
Current Music: Macarena - Los del rio

This is a normal working day for me.

Decided to wake up a little later and take the late train today. Got up at 08.35 and got the 9.24 train which was late so I got in to work at 10.00. Started the day like I always do. Checking emails and Internet for about 1 hour while chatting to some workmates and taking a 20 minutes to the bank with a friend. Worked for 1 hour. By work I mean work 5 minutes and take 15 minutes breaks while going on msn and facebook. At 12.30 I took 1 and a half hour lunch. Mmmmm, pasta Bolognese. Did my Internet run for 1 hour after lunch. Answered a few work related emails and then watched a movie. After that I made a few phone calls to friends and family in Sweden.

Then I decided to get really creative and ended up doing this, much to my work mates amusement.













Then I left at 17.30, half an hour before my normal quitting time. And tomorrow I'm doing it all again exactly the same. And I can't believe that the MOUSE is paying me for this.

Just thought I would share so everyone knows exactly what it is I'm doing for a living.

And on a side note. The days go by so slowly. Probably because this weekend that starts on Thursday for me is going to be freakin' awesome.

Tags: disney, work
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: good
Current Music: DARE - Gorillaz

First of all I would like to apologise for my lame posts. I can't do fancy layouts or hide texts and whatever??? So you have to bear reading it all through HA. And yes, my avatars stink. But I don't really care. And I don't really have anything interesting to say. I'm just posting to waste a few minutes at work.


It's been a few very event-full weeks with drunk Wicked and comedy Wicked. Drowsy Chaperone with Sabrina which was awesome, go see this people. Bob Martin wins at everything. And then there was a LSOH midninght matinee wich always is fun.

Since I was boss less last week at work I think I in total got in about 4 hours of actual work during the whole week. The rest of the time was spent on facebook, watching Disney movies and leave work early, way too early lol. WWRY with pookienandpookie

 

on Wednesday. Got third row which was awesome. I kind of like the show but only for the songs, the actual story is beyond crap. On a sad note Chiara's wallet was stolen just before the show :(. 

Got to meet Peter Johansson (Galileo) after the show and we talked for a while in Swedish. He was great. See him while you can, he is moving back to Sweden in September to do Footloose. Also got a picture with the understudy Meat, but only because she is beautiful :-)

 




The Thursday was Wicked again. A sort of meh show but still enjoyable. And yes I have started to appear in my pictures. Even John, the SD guy said when taking a pic of Helen that I must have over a million by know. It's bad when the staff notice that I take a lot of pics lol.



My little Kady-Jo





She really holds you tight :)








Then it was dad this weekend. I don't really want to go in on it here, but I'll be happy to talk about it when I see you. Basicly ever since he left my mother two months ago he has been acting very weird and it's like he is pushing his family away from him and he doesn't care about it. Still, he took me on the London Eye which was cool and then we saw the spectacle that is Lord Of The Rings. That was one cool show. They have changed the story and a lot of things gets lost and the songs maybe weren't that good aside from maybe two of them. But WOW what cool special effects and Gollum was awesome. Go see it, just for the special effects.

And now there is a new week, with new awesome stuff starting on Thursday with Shona's last show and Spamalot MidKnight matinee leading in to Jenny's birthday and I do really think I need to be home "ill" on Friday hehe. And then there is West End Live. I don't know when I get to sleep properly next time?

Oh and one last thing.

I LOVE you all!!!!!!! Thanks for making my stay here in London so awesome as it is. I don't know how I would have handle it without you:)

Tags: dad, london, musicals, wicked
Current Location: work
Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Carrie - Europe

Any dream will do courtesy of Jenny and Kayleigh along with some Wicked stage dooring. Could it be any better?

Met up with J and K at Apollo at 12.30 for some stage dooring, my first time without seeing the show. Met Rosanna, MJ, Shar and Perry there too. Here are the pics from this marvelous day.

Two cool girls, my company for the day.




Philippa looking very beautiful




Kerry is such a doll. She did her usual routine when I asked for a photo.

M. Kerry can I have a pic?
K. Sure come here....
M. By yourself
K. Oh noooooooo (leaning head and being beautiful as always lol)




Random pic of K and J while Caroline was busy being "fangirled" by Zanna and MJ LOL. You know I'm just kidding Zanna ;-)




Andy Wizard :D




Finally saw Dianne. She's lovely. :D




Now this was fun. Helen walking out in the middle of Wilton Road and stopped all traffic. I'm Helen Dallimore I have the power to stop traffic LOL.

"In the name of goodness, STOP"




James MD is so great. he gave us good news. Gareth is leaving at cast change and he and Joel is staying. Hurray.




Now this is a funny story. This photo took place 40 min before the show and Olly was late but of course he stopped to have a chat and do a favour for someone in the cast which was secret. And of course when he did it that certain cast member started crossing the road so Kayleigh had to hide what Olly was doing. It was very funny.







At this point James G had walked in but then he came out again and said that he was going to be outside instead, enjoying the nice weather LOL, so he just sat down on the sidewalk and started tanning. And I wanted a pic of Oliver since he had his shirt really buttoned down, way down, showing a conciderable amount of chest. But then James goes "Oliver, button up" WTF. I said "delay that for a second" but it was too late and Olly went, "this is a family show" LOL. Here is the pic.




And then there was a Shona of course and she was crazy, falling over everywhere LOL.

And then we were of to BBC to queue for three hours in the boiling sun. Go go go Joseph. Apparently we could be seen on the TV quite a lot. How embaressing. Ben went out and Lee was awesome as usual.

Tonight it was Clare Foster's last performance at Avenue Q so after Any dream I rushed to the Coward to meet up with Manuela, Chiara and Elle at the SD to do an epic movie. It was very emotional but nice.

Here is a pic of a very tired me and Chiara. It was a very long but oh so fun day. Thanks everyone who made it special.





Goodnight.

Tags: any dream will do, avenue q, chiara, elle clare foster, jenny, kayleigh, manuela, rosanna, wicked
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: happy

Basicly I'm doing this because it was suggested by Amy when I asked her what I should do since I'm utterly bored at work (how unusual). So this is going to be a sort of a review of the last  week  I think. Mostly musical related of course. 

Last Monday, the 21st of May I was seeing Wicked.... again, well for the 30th time so yay, time for celebration. Went with Sabrina, Gemma and Petra who came all the way from Croatia. Had a nice time in the queue except a tramp who constantly complained about his itching balls and proceeded to scratch them, very pleasant indeed. I was officialy sick this day as well. I'm good at being sick, especially when I happen to go to musicals the same day ;-) So since I was "sick" I had to spend the day doing something so I hit the town and did some shopping. Do you ever walk around in the city thinking that it would be kind of cool to run in to different cast members totally randomly. Well I was thinking that anyway. And so I was walking around town figuring I should go to the Novello and maybe buy a ticket for the Drowsy Chaperone. And there I was, walking on Strand when suddenly out of nowhere a shape stops in front of me and goes "oh helloooooo". It was no other than the green girl herself, miss Shona White stopping me in the middle of the street LOL. We chatted for a while and I took some very special pictures of her that very much amused her. Got my Drowsy Chaperone ticket and headed to Apollo Victoria. met up with the others and had a nice half price dinner at Wagamama, thanks Sabrina. Before the show started we armed ourselfs with alcohol and we figured out that between us four we had seen the show 120 times!!! We got a "FREAKS!!!" look from some woman next to us LOL. If you want to read a rather strange review go here http://www.witchesofoz.com/forums/viewtopp.23296-0-asc-0.html let's just say it was a fun show with two male ensemble members down. That stage looked EMPTY. Here are some random pics from the SD.






















Right, on to next show. Avenue Q with one half of pookieandpookie and agirloffewwords last Friday. Front row seats and the first and last time I saw Clare Foster as Kate/Lucy. I didn't think I would enjoy the show that much since I've seen it 8 times before but I was positively surprised. I absolutely loved it and I laughed so hard that I cried. And the best blooper ever happened. In the beginning of the money song when Nicky is yelling at Princeton for being selfish Simon accidentaly flung the hat out in the audience. After the laughing and the cheering had settled from the audience they tried to continue with the scene but Simon realised that he needed the hat so he just stopped the scene and asked a guy on the front row for the hat back. More cheering. Simon then totally forgot where he were so Jon goes, "you were saying?" Took a while for Simon to get back on track after that, he even said "where was I". And of course when he sang "give me a quarter, here in my HAT" more cheering. We had to tease them at SD about it and I randomly got this pic of Simon and Jon, even withouit asking for it. LMAO.


Clare was also a doll at SD, she is so nice. And I'm sad that she is leaving. Oh forgot to say that before the show I picked up a ticket for Little Shop of Horrors midnight matinee on the 11th of June. And I migh as well mention that I'm going to Spamalot midKnight matinee on the 21st of June along with a bunch of cool people. 

On Saturday I attended what must have been "the most expensive and don't get anything in return for your money" stag party ever. Here is what we got for 130 pounds!!!!! Sumo wrestling and sandwiches from Pret a Manger in Hyde Park. A beer at a blues bar in SOHO. Sauna and shower at a gym and dinner at a Russian restaurant. Meeehhhhh. Well we had fun anyway and that's what really counts I guess even though I thought that it was many musical tickets down the drain lol. 

Sunday was cabaret day. I won't really review since xx_tothestage and agirloffewwords already done a perfect job. I just want to say that Primark is like the clothing shop from hell. All I wanted was to buy was a pair of socks but the queue was crazy. Anyway, met up with Rosanna, Amy and Katie on a rainy Piccadilly Circus. I had a hard time finding Pizza Hut until the girls kindly pointed it out to me right across the street. We had the most overenthusiastic waiter ever who promptly wanted us to go large, ON EVERYTHING. And everything according to him was "awesome" and "cool". And no Italian bases left, what's up with that. After complaining a tad we were offered free ice cream from the ice-cream factory to go with our delicious chocolate fudge cakes. And this is the point where I realised I was out eating with children, well at least one child. Clearly Amy is having trouble behaving and as others said, you can't take her anywhere lol. Nahhh, just kidding hun. I loved your creation. And I loved that it was like in your face to our waiter haha.





As for the actual show I absolutely loved it. And it was fun to see all the cast members there too. And especially Helen who's laugh can be heard above all. CJ was amazing and Jye was good too. It felt really intimate and cosy. I want another cabaret. Highlights were Congestion Charge song, Climbing uphill, Cold and everything from Tick Tick Boom. And CJ was so sweet talking to us after the show. In the theatre I also got a randomly "I'm sorry darling" from Nadine when we passed eachother in a tight space ;-)

I just want to end this... whatever it is with saying that pink umbrellas rule. Thank you all for Sunday. I had a fab time.

And wohooooo, so many fun things to look forward to. Wicked, Wicked, Wicked, Walk For Life, Spamalot, Little Shop of Horrors, Drowsy Chaperone and probably much much more. See you all out there. 

KISSES xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tags: amy, avenue q, cj, jye, katie, louder than words, manuela, rosanna, shona, wicked
Current Location: work
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Idina Menzel - Defying Gravity Remix

All last week I dreaded the Friday. My mother and brother was coming to visit me over the weekend. I love my brother and my mother but mum can be a bit difficult and demanding to say the least. From picking her up at the bus stop it took her 10 minutes before she began questioning my lifestyle. She wants to control my life. She wants to decide who I should date and in which friend circles I should hang out with and that does not include the people I've met through musicals :(. You are in her opinion "not good" for me since I will never meet a girlfriend or whatever. She just can't understand that this is what makes me happy. And her excuse is that all she ever does is for my sake, not hers. 

Anyway, on Saturday it was Shona Day and queue was fun with arriving at 3.20 am. I didn't get any sleep before so was very tired the rest of the day. I didn't dare telling mum what time I got there and how many times I've seen Wicked, she would freak out. Or as she said when she arrived at the queue "you should do a documentary about this and then move on", stuff like that really hurts me, but she would never understand. 

The plan was to spend the whole day on the town and then go to the theatre. But I couldn't do it. I had to get a break or else I would have gotten a mental breakdown. I felt dirty and tired so I went home got a few hours of sleep and a shower. When I got back to town I was kind of sad. Sad that I knew I couldn't enjoy the show as much as use to. I would be too concerned about what mother would think. I had a great time, don't get me wrong but I also realised why I love it so much, it's not just the show it's everthing around it. The stage door, hanging with you guys, talk about the show, taking pictures, talking with Shona's dad and the list goes on and on and on. I couldn't go Wicked crazy like I use to go and I really missed that.

My mother went home today and I'm absolutely exhausted, I need to sleep for a week. I know that she thinks she is doing everything out of love for me but she just don't know when to quit. And I guess I'll have to live with that for a very long long time. One important lesson I have learned this weekend is that Wicked is much more fun when you go with fellow fans rather then with people who doesn't appreciate it the way we do. 

Next show, Monday the 21st with Petra. Jye as Boq and Oli as F :)

Tags: brother, emotions, mother, wicked
Current Mood: exhausted

Me going to work in London???

When I visited my cousin in London last year I swore that I would never move here. Then suddenly last August I found myself here with an underpaid employment for six months. I had a few friends here but it didn't take long time before I found myself lonely and wanted to go home. I liked musicals back then too but I always went to them alone and with the prices like they are it wasn't something I could do on a regular basis. In the beginning of October I seriously was thinking about just packing my bags and leave, I was really depressed. Can you imagine me depressed lol? But then the strangest thing happened in my life. And as crazy as it sounds it actually was WICKED the musical.

On the 18th of October I saw the show for the first time and the third time I saw it, it was from the front row on the 30th October. I was already starting to develop an addiction. First time in the queue I met without knowing it then, Manuela. And when I got home I joined wickedtheforum and shortly after that witches of oz where I first talked to Rosanna. It took some time but I soon realised that I met people on various boards on the actual show. Even though I saw the show 9 times before the new year I always went alone but I met and said hello to various people I knew was on the boards. Apart from going to the show so many times I also started to seriously become a hardcore fan. I always took pictures and talked to the cast. I even wrote a letter to Idina Menzel.

After the new year I realised that I've actually started to become friends with forum members and that I from then on always have seen shows together with fellow fans, not just Wicked but other shows aswell and that I have become a part of a big musical society in London.

AND I LOVE IT. You guys and the things we do became my rescue. I have made so many new friends here because I saw Wicked on that cold October day. And I was glad when I got a new work contract that extends to the end of this year. I have now seen the show 24 times and I'm not tired of it at all. But I do think it has to do with you too. It's become a social thing with all of you to go to musicals and I absolutely love it.

Now to the strange thing that I don't understand myself? Why do I have this addiction? I mean other people in my life thinks that I'm crazy and sometimes I myself thinks that I'm crazy. I mean I'm a pretty normal 26 year old guy from Sweden that NEVER acted like this in my whole life. Taking loads of pictures of Adam Garcia and Helen Dallimore, come on.... why???? I've never been a harcore fan of anything and now it feels like Wicked is controlling my life. I even take sick days off work and "sleep" in late just so I can day queue, I wake up at 5.00am on Saturdays and go see the same show 2 times in one day. Even I think it's crazy.

The bottom line is that knowing myself I shouldn't act like this, it's not who I thought I was. Don't get me wrong, I love it and I will continue doing it. But something doesn't feel right.

Because of all this I have made loads of new friends which I'm truly grateful for. And I must say that this period has been one of the best in my life. You are all wonderful and I'm so glad I know you.

I just wanted to say this to let out my feelings for these past few months that has been very strange and yet so fun. As I think I said, from the outside this is not who I am at all but I think that it is who I am on the inside. Does this makes any sense at all or has this post just been very confusifying? (I would never use that word outside this community)

There, I'm done...

Tags: confused, london, wicked
Current Mood: confused

Tags: avenue q, bbq, misery
Current Location: Work
Current Mood: angry