It’s 8:30am. By 11am we will no longer have a flat in Edinburgh. By 1pm all of us will be on the train home. By 8pm we’ll all probably have reached our destinations. By the end of the weekend we’ll all be missing one another terribly. Yet there are still things to do for this year – the final admin work goes on for the next couple of months and sometime soon the initial...
read moreMusical salutations from your resident nutjob! Ha ha, just kidding, we’re all nutjobs really… O.o Anyway, thought I’d drop an update on this site with regards to the music! Following our very successful weekend in Greenwich, I came to the decision that I wanted to play about a million and one instruments for the show. Live. So, I compromised with myself; I made backing tracks...
read moreRight, most important things first: the giant fake boobs. While it would be possible to shove a pair (or twelve) of socks down a bra to give a reasonable impression of a rack for the audience’s sake, as a light entertainer I know full well my fake jubblies are going to be groped. Therefore I feel I would be doing my fellow entertainers a disservice if my fake jugs were not at equal or greater...
read moreHello all! Harry here currently sitting in the kitchen of the lovely Antonia one day into the Sound of the Baskervilles rehearsal weekend. Huzzah! Most of us have been encamped in a house together since Friday night, working on exciting swordfights and exciting songs. This morning we all decamped to a park where Gareth, who is also cunningly our Dr. John Watson, taught us all many exciting moves...
read moreThe loyal but dim-witted Dr John Watson and his long-suffering mentor Sherlock Holmes. What ho! Sound of the Baskervilles director Ros here, with an exciting (and excited) update on the Edinburgh Fringe’s only Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie crossover spoof murder mystery farce, with songs! The cast has been cast, the script has been edited, and last weekend saw [almost] all of these vital...
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