bookings, plays and frocks

So, things are moving on apace for Friday’s show, with the most exciting booking we have made yet:

http://www.myspace.com/pbdt is the home of Jackson Pinto, director of Pure Brasil Dance Theatre, expert in Afro-Brasilian dance styles and sometime star of the West End production of the Lion King. He will be performing a solo for us to top off the first half of the show. We are very excited. Oh yes. YES! OH, YES!!!

Apart from that Patsy will be making a departure in musical terms. Not just because she will be singing all-Brasilian songs, many of them for the first time, but also because she will do so with the ccompaniment of a cello, a piano, a guitar, a percussionist and possibly also a few berimbaus. Rehearsals are coming along, there will be pieces that we have never all practised together, so expect some slick numbers and a big bunch of lovely warm Brasilian jam!

Yesterday we went down to the LSS (http://www.londonschoolofsamba.co.uk/public/default.asp) for a clear-out of their costume cupboard and plundered their shelves for a good deal of sparkly fabric. Now we are getting our needles out, so expect yellow blue and green galore and a sparkly frock to die for!

Rumours abound that there will also be Brasilian beer-bar type plastic yellow chairs, so you may actually find yourselves momentarily confused as to what part of the world you are in. And most importantly we have a surprise cachaca sponsor so we will be doling out cut-price Caipirinhas until you have drunk us dry – that’s the way to do it! Uhuh 🙂

B-e-l-e-z-a!!!

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