These recent times have been some of the hardest challenges we've faced and as a community, it hit us pretty hard. However during these difficult times, here at Pocket Size Theatre, we wanted to spread a little positivity and share some peoples experiences because we are all in this together. Each day we'll be speaking to our friends in the industry to share their experiences with you all so take a read and see how people are getting through these hard times.
Let's stick together, share the love and get through this as a community!
Kellie Gnauck is appearing in Bat Out of Hell on the UK Tour as Valkyrie, her other credits include Ensemble/ 1st cover Patty in School of Rock (Asian Tour); Tinkerbell in Peter Pan (Qdos Pantomimes); Ensemble/ cover and playing Eva in Evita (West End & UK and International Tour); Lead Vocalist/Dancer for Pop Factor (UK Tour); Lead Vocalist/Vocal Captain in Vegas! The Show (Norwegian Cruise Lines) and Hip Swing and Bride of Frankenstein in Universal Live Monsters Rock and Roll Show (Universal Studios Japan).
On Monday 16th March 2020, The Society of London Theatre announced the closure of all Theatres in London. This followed suit with regional venues. Where were you when you found out and what was your initial reaction?
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Kellie Gnauck is appearing in Bat Out of Hell on the UK Tour as Valkyrie, her other credits include Ensemble/ 1st cover Patty in School of Rock (Asian Tour); Tinkerbell in Peter Pan (Qdos Pantomimes); Ensemble/ cover and playing Eva in Evita (West End & UK and International Tour); Lead Vocalist/Dancer for Pop Factor (UK Tour); Lead Vocalist/Vocal Captain in Vegas! The Show (Norwegian Cruise Lines) and Hip Swing and Bride of Frankenstein in Universal Live Monsters Rock and Roll Show (Universal Studios Japan).
On Monday 16th March 2020, The Society of London Theatre announced the closure of all Theatres in London. This followed suit with regional venues. Where were you when you found out and what was your initial reaction?
This actually affected me a couple of days prior as I was in rehearsals for the new production of Bat Out Of Hell. We were in rehearsals on the Friday evening learning choreography to the final number "I'd Do Anything For Love" (What a tune) and we could see the swings/crew etc filming us from the sides, laughing and all talking in groups. They'd seen the announcement on Twitter and were finding the comedy in us all still working our butts off at 6pm on a Friday without yet knowing the show had been affected. In hindsight, I can absolutely see the comedy in it! I was absolutely devastated as we were set to fly out the following Wednesday to start the tour in the US. The one thing we did as a production that was amazing and I'm truly grateful for though, is we all came in the next day and did a run, start to finish (however thrown together it may have been)... Almost as a celebration of the hard work everyone had put in over those 2 weeks of rehearsal. It was so so lovely to see everyone's work and to get to do the show as a team for what at the time felt like our only chance of doing so.
