Post Office Scandal - work in progress

 It was on Friday morning, 19th January, waking up at 5am in my hotel room (room above a pub) in Enfield ahead of a day in school, that I came up with the idea of Post Office Scandal The Musical. By the time I went to work I'd written the lyrics for Post Office Rhapsody and had designed the first rough idea for a poster, which I tweeted to the world (the ITV base image which I subsequently thought better of).

Since then I've written a few short sketches, a few songs, and recorded a few videos. Below is a list of what we've got so far. 

The thing that prompted the writing of the show was the fact that we've sold very few tickets for our three Leicester Comedy Festival shows - something which is not helped by the fact that we appear in the body of the programme, but don't appear in the timetable at the beginning of the book. Which mean that if anyone's planning what to see at, eg, 6.15 on Friday of 7.45 on Saturday, our show doesn't show up as a possibility. Added to this, of course, we're just listed as The New Show, which is not unusual given that I put the show in the programme at the end of last year, at which point I never know what the next year's show is going to be. So let's keep a helpful tally of sales too, shall we.

Sales as of Sat 27 Jan: Fri 23rd 3, Sat 24th 9, Sun 25th 4
Tues 30 Jan: Sales now at 3 / 11 / 4

Thu 1 Feb: Sales still 3/11/4

Tues 6 Feb: 6/17/6

Videos as of Fri 26 Jan:

Leicester Trailer 1

Leicester Trailer 2

Fujitsu routine

Delivery driver gags - a - b - c - d

What I Did On My Holidays routine

Alan Bates song

Scripts as of Fri 26 Jan:

Fujitsu, Holidays, Delivery drivers (as in videos)

Interrogation routine

Alan Bates song (recorded)

Post Office Rhapsody (recorded)

Could Be Worse song (recorded)

Roland Hill song - from an idea by Hev (recorded)

Neighbourhood song (script only)

Mon 29 Jan: Wrote Assyrian/Roman routine

Launched Zoom Preview on Feb 10 - £1 minimum donation

Designed and ordered 250 A5 flyers to be sent to John (Morris) in Notts 

Tues 30 Jan: Zoom Preview has sold 14 tickets, £88 donated

Thu 1 Feb: Zoom has sold 18, £124 donated

Sun 4 Feb: Wrote 80s Medley + It Wasn't Me

Zoom has sold 21, £136 donated, Leicester shows are up to Fri 6, Sat 17, Sun 4

Sat Feb 10, Zoom finally sold 37. Donations £229, payment to me £223.53

Fri Feb 16: Leicester shows stand at Fri 9, Sat 21, Sun 13

Mon Feb 19: Fri 9, Sat 25, Sun 13

Fri Feb 23 (am) Fri 15, Sat 30, Sun 19

Which suggests I have rather a lot still left to write! Watch this space.