{"id":5014,"date":"2011-05-12T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2011-05-12T19:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:55:40","slug":"counting-theatrical-dry-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5014","title":{"rendered":"Counting theatrical dry seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been watching the latest series of Dr Who – the latest series that some people have mistakenly called ‘Series six’.<\/p>\n

Some people who can’t count all the way back to 1963.<\/p>\n

Is it only me who finds the idea that some people have chosen to start counting Dr Who series from just 2005, completely weird?<\/p>\n

It’s almost as if they’re such shambling neophytes that they can’t bear to admit that the programme existed before they ‘discovered’ it.<\/p>\n

Or before they were intellectually mature enough to cope with the content.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I used to like Karen Gillan.<\/p>\n

Even if she was born in 1987.<\/p>\n

Which is almost as ridiculous as counting Dr Who series’ from 2005, obv.<\/p>\n

[pause]<\/p>\n

Where was I?<\/p>\n

Oh yes, Karen Gillan.<\/p>\n

I used to like her.<\/p>\n

But lately she’s just.<\/p>\n

You know.<\/p>\n

Become something rather.<\/p>\n

Ordinary.<\/p>\n

I’m scouring the inside of my head for a description and the only thing that gets serves up is the phrase: ‘wankfodder for geeky 12 year-olds’.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n

It’s not a perfect description, but it’ll do.<\/p>\n

My old schoolfriend, Simon, has a closer-than-close association with the whole Dr Who production.<\/p>\n

I must ask him his opinion of Ms Gillan.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I’ve come up with an idea that seems to be worth a pitch to a theatrical agent.<\/p>\n

‘Damn You Auto Correct – The Musical’.<\/p>\n

I think it would be a barnstormer.<\/p>\n

The idea is we’d take selected entries from the DYAC website, write a scene or a song around it and, you know, put the production on the London stage.<\/p>\n

There’d be numbers or scenes based on this:<\/p>\n

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and this:<\/p>\n

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and this:<\/p>\n

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What do you think?<\/p>\n

I reckon we’d end up with not a dry seat in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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