pauline daniels Hi there, now I know you will probably be fed up reading about the Floral but I just wanted to say that I enjoyed every minute of hosting the night and well done to all the acts the show was brilliant. It was worth coming up from Essex for!!!!
Pauline Daniels is the first lady of comedy. Her reputation goes before her when it comes to entertainment as she is also an accomplished actress and an incredible singer. /paulinedaniels
I know, well the thing is I was offered a play in the Queens Theatre in Hornchurch we open 18th April till 7th May, so it meant me coming home from rehearsals. I also came home to do The Elegance Bridal birthday bash which was great fun, apart from the obvious fashion shows there was a great spot from local boys Tequila, now I know I, getting old, because they are fully grown men now and I remember them so well when they were BOYS!!!!! I have been telling everyone about my menopausal magnets and nobody believes that I have these magnets in my knickers well I’m putting a picture on this page this month to prove it, perfect for robbing cutlery. Anyway more about the play, written by Nichola McAuliffe of Surgical Spirit and Coronation Street fame and it’s very funny, I was offered the job because the director is Glen Walford who
many years ago was the artistic director at the Everyman but since leaving Liverpool, I have worked with her on quite a few occasions and she said when she read the play I was the first person she thought of for the character of Cerise, who initially was a cockney Gangsters Moll, but although I offered to be a cockney they were over the moon with Cerise being a scouser and so there you go, she is now a very funny scouser. During the play one of the cast does a radio interview and so Nichola asked her good friend Christopher Biggins to be the voice, so last week he came into rehearsals and after he had done his recording we all went to lunch, now I will be honest because I always am, I expected to dislike
46
the man with a passion but, no, I like him very much, he’s a real sweet man. The thing about being in the south is so different to being here in the north, I really did think that in this day and age you can actually just control your career from wherever you are in the country but I’m afraid it’s not true, I’m afraid that you really do need to be in London for anyone to even bother to come and see you working. All the years. I have been working up in the north, not only as an actress myself but also with having the small theatre, I knew how hard it was to get casting directors to come and see your work or the work of an actor that you thought really had talent, and I was right, there is a list as long as your arm of “important” people coming to see this show because the actors all have agents from London, me, well sadly my agent can’t come, but then she’s in Manchester so if your own agent can’t be bothered what chance of you got of any Manchester casting directors popping in? Yes that’s right........None. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to June and the Woman of The Year Awards again, I love hosting it we always have a great day but this
year will be a little sad because one of our winners Bernie Bucket, sadly passed away early April, the woman was a total inspiration I’m sure that most people will have met her, I had the great pleasure of doing many a show for her to raise money for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, sadly we were supposed to be doing a show at the Floral in July, that will no longer happen but my thoughts are with Keith and her family, thank you Bernie for being a part of my life. Have a great month and remember get out and about and make sure that you see as much live entertainment as you possibly can.