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A Busy Couple of weeks.

So it's been a busy couple of weeks for me but I feel it has also been a bit of a learning curve! We had a cast change at 42nd Street. Half of our old cast have left and moved on to other things and we have 22 new members of the company. I have also taken on board an extra understudy responsibility but more about that later. The new cast members all seem so lovely and have fitted in to the 42nd Street family with no fuss at all. We were doubling up, doing rehearsals during the day, for the cast change and still doing the show at night, so it was a tiring time but exciting too. Not surprisingly, this hectic schedule took its toll on the existing cast members which resulted in me having to take on a role in the show, that I don't even cover, one day after the new company's first performance. I played this particular part, the role of Phyllis, for 6 shows and there was a lot of pressure on my shoulders, to do a good job at a part I wasn't supposed to know. I definitely l