An evenings entertainment

We decided to introduce our beloved nephew and niece (now aged nearly 11) to the joys and delights of Gilbert and Sullivan. (The small one has just turned 6, and is too young for this type of evening outing. His time will come when hes older)

Several months ago, I found out Pirates of Penzance was coming to town, so I went onto YouTube and found some relevant clips to test Martha and Leos reaction to the music. Pirates went down very well, so dates were discussed, and plans put into action.

The day before the show, Martha hurt her leg, and was unable to walk on it. This could have an end to our plans of taking her with us, as our tickets were up in the balcony, but I phoned the theatre who very kindly swapped them for a seats in the stalls, so Martha could come, wheelchair and all.

The performance started at 7.45, but we had to be down in town early to swap the tickets, so we picked the kids up at 6, and were chauffeur driven into town by their dad (my not-so-little-anymore brother)

We swapped the tickets over, and went to a very nice Italian restaurant for tea.

If you have read this blog before, you may remember that these two rascals absolutely adore Spaghetti Carbonara, so you can imagine it didn't take them very long to choose what to eat! Douglas had the same, whilst I opted for a very nice vegetarian pizza.

Smiles all round.

We read the synopsis out to Leo before the performance, but Martha said she had a pretty good idea of what it was all about, and wanted to work it out for herself.

All four of us enjoyed the production immensely - this photo was taken in the interval. You can see how close we were to the stage.. we could even see the eyeliner worn by the pirates!!

The performance finished at about 10pm.. at least half an hour after normal bed time.. but as we waited for Thomas to pick us up again, both kids were absolutely full of beans.. Leo was bouncing around singing "With Cat Like Tread, upon our prey we steal" Martha, being in her wheelchair decided to sing "With Cat like wheels..." which we all thought was very funny!

We got to bed at about 11pm, very happy but very very tired!! We look forward to our next theatre trip with the kids, as this one was so much fun.