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Went to Veronica’s Room again last night, and I can honestly say it was just as awesome as it was the first time, possibly even better.
It was so funny because I was sitting up with back with two of my friends (from the company) and the director. Garry has seen every show apart from one (he says it still scares him?!) but Lorraine and Sue hadn’t seen it before, so I was sitting there having to keep my mouth shut! The only thing I said to them, after every twist in the plot was “It gets worse!” I was a little surprised I didn’t manage to pick up any other little hidden “bits”, but I suppose there were only so many that Ira Levin could fit in the script!
After the show ended and the rest of the audience was leaving we were out in the foyer and Ursula (Veronica) and Jamie (Larry, who IS Veronica and Conrad’s son!) came downstairs.
I’ve usually only seen Jamie in pantomimes, so I was quite surprised at how good he was in a totally different genre, but another one of my friends said “Jamie’s still Jamie”, so I guess different people see different things. Ursula is incredible though. She’s one of the best actors I know, in every single show she’s done she’s been the best by a long shot, although in this show, Justin (Conrad) was pretty close!
It was hilarious because before the show I said to Lorraine, “You have to watch out for Ursula’s wig, it’s hilarious”, and as soon as the show started and she came on, Lorraine cracked up, because she just looked so different! I didn’t realise this the first time I saw it, I just thought she’d had a particularly unflattering costume, that made her look as though she’d gained a lot of weight, but she’d had padding on underneath, when she’s “pretending” to be Maureen the housekeeper! Garry told us that at interval and we were like “Oh! That’s why she looks fat!” She told us she’d heard us laughing at her, as had other audience members, who would have bene wondering why we were laughing at something that wasn’t supposed to be funny!?
As for the issue of who in the cast is the real psychopath, most people I talked to seem to have come to the conclusion that it is Veronica. That she’s manipulated everyone and sucked them into her disaster of a life. I was right about the “exorcism” thing though, she’s trying to kill Veronica, but because she can’t/won’t commit suicide, she has to threaten other girls into taking on “Veronica” and kill them instead.
Anyway, the show was really good, one of the best I’ve seen there, I’d jump at the chance to do a show like that, it sounds as if both of them had so much fun!
