At the Playhouse

We’d booked to see a show at the Edinburgh Playhouse this evening, so after picking Daughter One up from the ferry we set off for the capital.

On arrival we dropped D1 off at Daughter Two’s flat before driving out to the Holiday Inn next to the Zoo, where we had booked a room - at the Inn, not the Zoo!

We then took the bus back into town where we met the girls and enjoyed a meal at Howies, In Waterloo Place, before walking down Calton Hill - the road, not the hill itself - into Leith Street and thence to the Playhouse where ‘The Jersey Boys’ was playing.  This is the story of the rise to fame of the 60s group ‘Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ and the play was premiered in California in 2004 and has played around the world ever since. Three of us had seen it before, but still found it quite amazing. How they manage to find so many actors to play the parts, especially of Frankie himself I don’t know, as he had a remarkably high voice.  Not only was the singing and acting incredible, but the stage management, the scene shifting and everything else about it was so perfectly done to be almost unbelievable.

Unfortunately some dramatic technical problem happened in the first half which brought the production to a halt. It was sorted out in reasonable time and the play restarted to tumultuous applause.
The girls went back to the flat and Mrs M and I bussed back to the holiday Inn. My Blip today is a shot of the Playhouse before the production began.