We met the following morning in Sprotbrough, the main base for the Doncaster choir. After a quick team meeting and pray, we moved on further north to Keighley, the last performance for tour 1 (and therefore my last tour 1 blog post - woohoo - not that this hasn't been fun...).
Keighley was a late addition to our touring schedule - we had initially hoped to travel to Bradford, as we had in the past, but our main contact there Darren Garforth (of Snakes and Ladders fame) had moved east to Leeds. So instead we decided to pester Amy Walters. Amy has been a friend of CMM for many years, often singing on our albums as part of the backing vocals groups. She even got a solo on the David CD - check out the last line of track 11 v 3. We'll have to give her a longer solo soon - she's studied music and singing at Nottingham uni since then!
Amy agreed to take on the mammoth task of organising a Rock venue, and training the choir too. The task was undertaken with great enthusiasm, and the result was a fantastic choir, a full venue, and a lovely lunch laid on for the touring party (can't forget the food, obviously).
The performance was held at the Keighley Shared Church, which created its own set of not unique problems, known as pillars. The audience still filled the seats however, and seemed to have a really good time. The cast had only one entrance from the vestry, but we overcame some of the problems of entrances and exits taking longer by having Cornelius sit in the audience in order to just step onto the stage for his narrations. After all, Cornelius is the one reading and experiencing the story throughout.
Congratulations to Amy and all her wonderful team of people. The performance at Keighley really was a fitting way to end our first tour with Rock. So now it's back to the office for us all, until tour 2 in March.
Keep your eyes on the blog and the website, and I'll try hard to keep things updated.
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