The Crews Travel Day Off

While the cast stayed in Edinburgh, the crew advanced towards Billingham, stopping in Middlesbrough for the day off. After a leisurely drive down the coast of the north-east, we arrived at our humble residence, paying a visit to Neil's Mum & Dad. We asked Neil to suggest an enjoyable activity in which we could partake in order to fully appreciate the local landscape. He enthusiastically recommended we "bag a peak" (to translate the local lingo means climb a hill), so after fuelling up on tea we set off into the country side and parked at the foot of Roseberry Topping on the outskirts of Middlesbrough.

To our amazement this so called "hill" turned out to be a one and a half mile trek up what is officially described as a mountain, to an altitude of 320 metres above sea level.




We set off, and 45 minutes later after much puffing, panting, stopping, starting, slipping, and the (extremely occasional) bout of running, we arrived at the peak of the mountain, emerging above the fog and mist and witnessed views and a sunset that you only see in books entitled "Roseberry Topping" (by Joe Cornish.)






We looked down, proud with having overcome this incredible feat of endurance, and after taking a few pictures we began our descent back, which proved trecherous and jean-destroying, but took a mere 15 minutes thanks to a little help from gravity.





We arrived back at the welcoming Atkinson residence to a home-cooked roast dinner and now off to the pub for a celebratory pint,

See you soon

The Crew

Happy New Year

Hi All!

Happy New Year!

Here are a few photos from our Christmas Show and New Years Eve.

Nottingham 13/05/07

Well that was a first!
Sunday 13th Dave and Sonia, two TBTD fans, were married on stage at 5pm before the show went on at 7.30pm.
Dave and Sonia discovered they were both fans of the show and that led to Sandra enquiring if it would be possible, Her favorite music is the 60's and her favorite song is 'I'm into something good' (Hermans Hermits). Her favorite singer, Who else? Roy Orbison!!
The Meal and reception were held at the Royal Centre and the wedding partywatched the show, The audience were brilliant and everything went very smoothly.
'Cliff Richard' attended the service only to be stopped whilst in full flow by Insector Blakey!! All good fun.
We've had an engagement during the show, we even some years ago had a member of the audience pass away just before we went on, but never a wedding.

Congratulations to Dave and Sonia from all the cast and crew, We look forward to seeing them as Mr & Mrs at a show soon

Denmark 2007

Denmark/Hamburg 2007

Days 5, 6 & 7 - Holidays In Hamburg

Left Sonneborg and headed for Hamburg for three days R&R. We'd seen Copenhagen on a previous trip, so we tought Hamburg might be a nice idea as we were already close to the German border. Two hours after leaving Denmark we were at our hotel in the city of Hamburg, in the middle of the red light area.

We were staying at a hotel on the famous Reeperbahn, where the Beatles played at the Star Club back in the early 60's. Unfortunately there is only a plaque in written in German to commemorate the Beatles days in Hamburg. The original Star Club burned down 10 years ago.

Hamburg is a fantastic city and we made the most of our time there, seeing just about everything from the Reeperbahn itself to a trip on the riverboat. Clive explored the railway system (well you know what he's like!). Kate and Andy did the bus tour, hopping on and off and exploring. Neil, Andy, Mark, Natasha, and Trevor went for a jog around the harbour, and we all met up on the first evening and watched Manchester United play the European Cup.

The food was terrific and not expensive. The weather was mostly warm and sunny and it was great fun because we don't often have the opportunity to get together socially on the daily theatre tour in the UK.

Iain didn't feel too good on arrival in Hamburg and called the doctor who recommended that he was checked into a local hospital. He had an infection in his leg and the hospital wanted to keep him in for treatment and observation. Trevor and Gary visited him, the Hospital was superb, Iain had his own suite and was being looked after very well. They wanted to keep him in for a few days more, so we left him and took the bus back to Denmark on day 8.

Day 8

We travelled back to Denmark via coach and ferry to our next venue - the Super Arena and Ballerup. This venue is an indoor sports arena and cycling track, and you can see from the pictures it's huge. We rearranged the show, and Ollie Gray, our side-stage monitor engineer stepped into the breach and played guitar. He had rehearsed himself and we had a couple of hours to run through the show. He did a fantastic job and the audience went crazy again. It was a great effort all round, but all praise to Ollie for being cool in the situation. Neil had to work extra hard with some added PA equipment, Ferdy the truck driver and Natasha stepped in on spotlights (brilliant!) and Sam called the show, operated the lights and engineered the monitor desk, well done Sam and everyone for what turned out to be a terrific night!

Pictures below of the cast waiting for the ferry, Sam doing his stuff, the super arena inside and out, and some tourist attractions in Hamburg and Denmark.

Never a dull moment on this tour, we'll keep you informed on all fronts...

Trevor

Denmark 2007 Photos