Congratulations to all the winners!

Wow what a weekend - not only the Napta Awards on Saturday but yesterday ALL DAY coverage of the Academy Awards! (oh and a full day rehearsal for a little show I am doing on Sunday!).

First the Naptas - well no real surprises this year (Beauty and the Beast scooped most of the awards it was up for, with James (see pictured) garnering the best male performer). Winners are posted here: NAPTA WINNERS! The night was okay - nothing spectacular - lots of air kissing, drinking, smoking, gossiping, applauding, more drinking, more smoking, more gossiping, catching up with friends, selling Grease to everyone, finding out about auditions etc etc - you will notice here that I did not mention eating as even though we paid a VERY large amount to go to the "night of nights" the food was virtually inedible (think cold chicken/ pasta with no sauce and an Aunty Betty's pudding for dessert! - hardly The Governors Ball) - so much so that I had to have a late night snack (when we finally got home at the very respectable hour of 11.45!).

And then onto the Grease rehearsal the next day and I felt very proud of myself that I had no sore head post Napta and was all keen and ready to go when I arrived for the supposed rehearsal at midday (note the word supposed!) Needless to say when we had still not got onto the stage by about 1.30 I was feeling a tad less than enthusiastic! We are going to get there, and of course there is the old "she'll be right on the night" adage but I must admit to feeling a tad hesitant at this stage. We only have something like 6 rehearsals to go until we are in front of the public and I personally have not seen my first act costume, hair, make up, props, sound checks etc etc - I have a teeny tiny role in the show so can only imagine what others are thinking - the big numbers are spectacular I just hope and pray that everything comes together in the last minute - and knowing amateur theatre I am sure it will (she says fingers - and toes crossed).

As for the Oscars yesterday - well I am sure everyone in the world knows by now what happened - all very predictable, Ellen was fine, very safe, certainly nothing spectacular, the countdown however on E! was great - to be honest much more interesting than the actual awards show. I did however REALLY like a couple of the things they did - the Jack Black/ Will Ferrell/ John C Reilly skit dedicated to "clowns at the oscars"/ going home with the Oscar and Helen Mirren was spectacular - one of the best Oscar skits ever - and the Hollywood Sound FX chorus showing how SFX can be produced by humans rather than machines - very cool! But again a night of no real surprises, some of my picks were not exactly on the money BUT I will say in my defence I got all four of the acting awards correct and as I had only actually seen about four of the nominated movies (The Queen, Dream Girls, In Pursuit of Happiness and Happy Feet!) I was definately not at my best with actually knowing who was what! and also I have said it before and I will say it again BRING BACK BILLY CRYSTAL!

So that is it - the Oscars and the Awards Season over for another year - so what will 2007/08 bring as far as movies/ shows go? Who knows - but I will endeavour to put in my 2 cents about whatever I go and see and do - and yes I do take bribes :o) xxx