Allanpark Cinema, Stirling
December 1994
by Emma
[This show took place about
one month after the Nov 1994 Grosvenor,
when we had acquired our new members]
The show was planned shortly
before Xmas 1994 and the troops were rallied for the journey. The mini-bus
delivered us and we were shown to our usual dressing room. All the "old-hand"
Forks are there, plus the "new people". Martin and I introduced the
show as a double act - both in our lab greens. We sneaked back to the
dressing room at the bedroom scene for a fag break, and I prepared my
stunt for later....I wore a kimono for the rest of the show, and at
the beginning of the Floorshow I scurried behind the curtain for the
first 4 verses.
At the RKO fanfare I (eventually)
emerged wearing a fur trimmed red corset, Santa hat and tinsel, to riotous
laughter and applause from the audience. Of course none of the four
Floorshow characters could see until we all got into the "pool", and
their ignorance made it even funnier. The show was (as always) good
fun, but alarm bells should have been ringing even then about how we
were trying to make the group work. We had recruited these new members
en masse, catching them all at their most excited (as members of the
audience) and propelling them into the group, which at that point consisted
of a small but dedicated and very very close knit group of people (okay,
well, what we were was a clique). They were enthusiastic people, but
perhaps none of us were ready for an overnight change in the group dynamic,
and eventually over time most of the new additions dwindled away, excepting
Robbie and Chris who did stick around, and the group more or less reverted
to its original membership.
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