Impossible - never!

We have had a progress meeting, which is when the members of the production team meet together and discuss, well, our progress! And, yes, there has been some. Avril, our chief L.X., has sourced all the practical lights and the Stage Management team has made a good start on the props. People were pretty busy last week, getting ‘I Ought to be in Pictures’ ready for opening last Friday, ( the audience loved it, get your ticket now!) From now on Glengarry will be the top priority, at least, during the day, so progress should be swift. We usually discuss the rehearsal notes, those little messages from the rehearsal room to the rest of us, which so often ask for most inconvenient or indeed impossible things, but always in the most polite language! At panto-time such a note might read “ Mr Smith wonders if Ms Croft could design an extremely large soft frying pan which Mr Green will use to wallop Mr White over the head on several occasions, It will then need to fold up and fit into Miss Scarlet’s pocket.’ (Sorry, no picture of comedy frying pan, this will have to do).This company are proving to be most reasonable in their requests and have made no difficult-to-satisfy demands so far; in fact the only request I have picked up is for an extra chair in the office. I was quite pleased about that because there was a chair in the backstage ladies loo, which I have been hoping to get on-stage for ages, but it has never quite made it, It’s a rather nice Mid-Century modern tubular steel item and could look very good in the office, so I have sent it into the rehearsal room to see if it will be suitable. I expect to hear one way or another via a rehearsal note!
I've just got back from Liverpool, having seen the set in progress - see photo, and I have finally found grey 80's desks! I have put stickers on a few things to reserve them, so next week we will have to return with a van and a wad of cash!