Ok why bring in guests to read out
of a phone book?
Apparently "they say truly
great performers can read the phone book and make it
entertaining" so Stage D'Or productions have done just that!
On Friday 25th August Chris Neill
was the victim, after a brief introduction to both the show and Chris he
was asked what the phone book meant to him, to read from his chosen
letter of the alphabet and finally to autograph the book he read from
and auction it off on the day to raise funds for help the children, the
chosen charity of the show.
Chris stated he no longer uses a
phone book but gets any required numbers on line. He then reminisced not so much on the use of the book but
more the abuse of it. How
as a group he and his friends phoned up those with unusual names or
addresses, the local businesses and some top class London hotels causing
trouble. He then started to read from the Neill's in the book as
his paternal grandfather came from Leith. His take on the reading was
who he would like to make love to. The auction of the item raised a reasonable
sum which Chris matched penny for penny.
Interesting concept and possibly
fantastic show, Chris was extremely funny in explaining his use of the
book but mildly funny in its reading.
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I believe our dear friend Mitch
Benn did the reading on Thursday 24th but it wasn't so much a reading as
a singing. All the guests have autographed three other phone books
which I believed are to be auctioned off for the charity. For further
information see www.thephonebooklive.com.
See also Cart D'Or's other production 'Spite
The Face' our 300th review.
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