day three.three

despite rain earlier, the close is now full of people enjoying... wait for it... sunshine. Incredible. Popped down to the Garrick Theatre to say hello to Rosie Kay and her dancers and all was going to plan down there. So great to finally have Rosie here in Lichfield. I had wanted to book The Wild Party for the 2007 Lichfield Festival, but Rosie unfortunately injured her leg. I've been waiting over a year and a half to bring her here, and she finally is.
Also just had a brief meeting with Jeffrey Skidmore about seating for tomorrow rehearsal for The Traveller. The Festival Chorus is being joined by reinforcements - Young Voices from Lichfield Cathedral who have been working with the fab Cathy Lamb, and a few people coming from Salisbury Festival Chorus who performed in the world premiere at the end of May and jumped at the chance to perform again.
Alec Roth has also been using his time since the Chelsea Festival performance in June to best effect and has revised orchestrations of several patches and added a bar here and there. He arrives later tonight. One of the wonderful things about the four-year Confluences project, is that Alec has been a regular visitor to Lichfield Festival since 2006, staying for alomst the entire ten days last year. It will be great for audiences to have him around once again for several days...