 The musical anyhow Tuesday to Saturday there's some nights gone tickets for other nights to the best of my knowledge and the music of course is or the musical itself is based on the film that starred Helen Myrne and Julie Walters which in turn was actually based on a true story. Plunkett Ferry who is the director is with me in the studio now so Plunkett maybe you can tell us a little bit more about the actual story itself. Hello John, yeah thanks Billy for having me. Yeah it's based on a true story of a woman called Angela Baker who lived in an adult village in Yorkshire and her husband died off of Hodgkins Nymphoma a type of cancer and you know they were visiting the hospital a lot herself and her friend and the waiting room was in the best of conditions and the city they were sitting on was very pretty poor and they said let's raise some money and get a proper city for that waiting room. That's how it all started. But then it was the concept it was the idea of the way they decided to raise the money. That's right they were part of the local WI the women's Institute and there's they always used to do calendars of the local churches and all this kind of stuff. This let's be different so as all very austere and all very PC what they decided to do a new calendar and they had six of them they should talk six of them into doing a new calendar and against the WI's wishes of the time of course they plowed on as you do and they had a very successful counter sold really well locally but then word got out around the country and around America. It was a new calendar with all the all very casefully done yes really as well as I was sure would be a very tastefully done they knew but it's all very tastefully done and in the case of the first calendar all the bits and pieces where we're using different things like yeah as you do yeah things they do the sewing and knitting and painting and doing art stuff and flower arranging and all that all the sort of activities you associate with the women's Institute. Absolutely so they used that for the calendar and it went all around the world the news of it they went to America they were in a Jay Leno show and all that kind of stuff and they sold millions and millions of calendars and made millions over since that time for different cancers around the world. A brilliant story and a brilliant success and then out of that came the film and out of the film came the musical. Well the play first we did the play ten years ago the play is the same basic story just told differently and different characters now in the music that weren't in the we have the same basic six ladies who were in the camp but then we have now their husbands and their children are now part of the musical and funny I heard an interview with them a couple of weeks ago on the radio and they said of all of the film and the play and the musical the act of the music is the most true to life of actually what happened on the other things more so than the play more so than the play or more so so than the film yeah of the there are Kenny music and drama groups a presentation of the play are there any of the cast the same we have a few of the cast we could have at the mall but unfortunately they all have to sing in this and we have three of them who were in the original play are still in the musical although it's unfortunate they couldn't sing and the music I have to say is beautiful there's some beautiful singing you know some beautiful songs so the the cast is the main cast yeah the main cast we have well we have Kierigallar who was a who was originally in the show Rachel or Kutch she is in the town from many many years originally from Dublin yeah they're the two that's Chris and Annie they were the original two who started it all off yeah right and then we have Geraldine Galligan and her sister Mary Mary Hart and then we have Mary Ruddy or sorry Mary Lane as she is called and then my my well she's my McGinley now she was my old Donald up to a few weeks ago she got married in the middle of the show on us so they're the six main ladies right they're the ones to do the new one right of a few surprises and okay but in the show it's not all women in this there's there's no husband's we have the three husbands of the three main ladies around it as well and they play like your own Rodney I'm sure yes brother-in-law brother-in-law of John's here he's one of the main characters and and Martin Gallant and Martin Anderson they're in it they play a good part in it as well yeah and then we have there three of the children as well in it two two boys and one girl yeah so it's it's a lovely story and the concept is all original music original music written by Gary Barlow yeah and the music is absolutely lovely every night you go home you get up in the morning there's a different song playing around my head yeah that's a good sign that's a really good sign and it's different one because they're really lovely yeah and Gary Barlow a lot of people might be surprised by the fact that Gary Barlow from take that he was involved with the play as well and he did the script for the music as well how long how long has it been for yourselves we started I picked we picked all the parts me some Denise Ropers as the music director myself and Denise we came together in end of May beginning of June we picked all the parts and then we took somewhere off because it's hardly any point meeting doing this summer because people are so busy so we did picked all the parts and I think one practice before the end of June and then we started off big time in September so it's been busy we've had two practices a week the first couple of weeks but then we've had three and four practices a week since then it's a big show it's a long show and it's a it's a very bitty show very difficult because you have mixture of of dialogue in the middle of a song it was all very hard to get all tied up yeah quite technical very technically that's for you to worry about that's for me not for them no not for the audience they won't know any difference yeah show is a show exactly show is a good show exactly it's been but it's great just be back playing in front of you know a packed houses live audiences back doing proper rehearsals oh it is really yeah and not well made you say covers on the up again but hopefully so far as a good yeah our cast are fine yeah hopefully we'll be all there tomorrow night's rare to go yeah I think 2019 legally plan was a last show nearly four years ago in 2019 that's right yeah and I suppose it's a concern because as you say with COVID on the way back up again you just you'd be conscious that any of the particularly the main players absolutely yeah absolutely yeah so hopefully fingers crossed exactly that doesn't happen everything goes to plan yeah so it opens tomorrow night runs to until Saturday night and seats are like there's limited seats available so I would urge people to go and book fairly soon okay you might get some of the night but it's like I know the play we were sold out before it opened at all but there were different times people had more money and the more people were free or to go that time and they booked well advanced because nowadays it's different people like to book yeah far and advanced absolutely you know and the theater will say that about a lot of shows oh yeah unfortunately it's just well I think it's COVID's done that it's because it's the other day it's just left us with a slightly different side people have read that might lose their money but the guarantee that and every books and that they can't go for one reason one reason or the other they will get the money back it's not just about you get your money back so okay people should realize that so limited availability but check with the box office as to that and the best look with their own calendar girls in agreement theater from tomorrow night through until Saturday thanks thank you candles lanterns Christmas trees decorations and all types