A Dirty Dancing Adventure part 1

Dear George,

I must apologise for my absence.  As you may remember from my last letter, Dirty Dancing has said farewell to the Aldwych theatre and with its departure has come a few weeks of tearing down scenery, de-rigging lights and pulling apart set.  I have had one single day off since this all began... the weather has been unknown to me as i have been toiling underground, living in the dark like some kind of Morlock.  this mornings train was 4mins late but on the whole the trains i've been catching for the last few days have been on time... this may be down to the early starts i have had to make.  There is very little going on at that time in the morning to effect the running of public transport...or it could be that i was still asleep and i just didn't notice.  One thing i can confirm is that since Dirty Dancing took leave of the West End, first class stamps have remained at 46p.

If i'm honest, i was not Dirty Dancing's biggest fan but for me the whole experience means many things for me...most of which i have shared with you George but for the purpose of all the tens of people who read this, i'll share it all with you again.  So here are a few novel bits of Dirty Dancing trivia from my point of view...

I began life on the show April 2007

My title was Assistant Production Technician when i started and now i'm Deputy Chief Electrician

I left Dirty Dancing in 2008 to work in America and vowed never to work on the show ever again... 5 months later i was asked if i minded filling in for THREE MONTHS... it's been THREE YEARS!

There were 1991 performances of Dirty Dancing with an average of 800 people coming to see the show each performance which works out a total of over ONE AND A HALF MILLION people who came to watch the show (i'm underestimating those figures i'm sure, but it's still a scary thought).

Dispite what i might say, i had a great time working on the show, you have to understand that i saw that bloody show nearly every night for 4 years so i'm going to be biased and not always say the nicest things about it... but because of dirty dancing i made a shit load of great mates, saw a lot of naked girls, earned enough money to go on some nice holidays, saw a lot of naked girls, got to go to loads of trendy clubs in London, saw a lot of naked girls...and...erm... i got to see a lot of mind blowingly beautiful, naked girls!

I think i'll wrap it up here for now.  I'm still up to my eye balls in work getting the specter of Dirty Dancing out of this here theatre...but i'll be back to tell you more about all the fun things that i've been up to... mainly thinking of all the naked girls i won't be seeing anymore...alas, alas...

Take care buddy
Yours
Little Dave