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Have you ever - voluntarily or otherwise - appeared in front of an audience? How badly did it go?

(, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:26)
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When we were in the 6th form (1981 or '82) I co-wrote a whole pantomime with one of my best mates. It was a version of Cinderella, all in rhyming couplets and it would have been a hoot.

We were asked to submit the script to the deputy head for 'vetting' and he ruled that it wasn't 'suitable'. Don't forget this was the early '80s, so it must have been our version of the famous hit by Ottawan 'D.I.S.C.O.' that was too risque...as our version was adopted for the panto and we'd changed the words to 'B.A.L.L.S.' - from memory, it went something like:
B - they are so beautiful
A - we all adore them
L - they're so luscious
L - really lovely
BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS!!!
B.A.L.L.S. etc.

A tragic loss to the world of musical theatre.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 8:18, 4 replies)
And yet, in Edinburgh in 2011
there are people still peddling things like this without the excuse of being school children.

I'm looking at you, Horse and Louis.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:09, closed)
Difference being
there's no deputy head to tell them to shape up or shut up.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:41, closed)
Musical theatre about bollocks?
This is the gayest thing I've ever heard of.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 20:52, closed)
Yes, far too outrageous
for Finchley in the early '80s, darling.
(, Wed 24 Aug 2011, 11:51, closed)

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