PInk Lady - the Japanese experience

Of course we called ourselves Pink Ladies because of the connection to the breast cancer network logo, and we were aware of the link to Grease's Pink Ladies, but not of this 70's pop duo called Pink Lady from Japan.
Thanks to Tomomi Takahashi for the heads up!

Pink Ladies are go!



Back stage at the Pink Ladies 27 September 2010.
Cloockwise from left: Linette Voller,
Lucie Booker, Karina Francis, Sophie Long, Linda Calgaro, Erin Foy,
Cindy Tonkin, Karena Thomas



So Pink Ladies first season has come to an end.

Behind every successful woman there is sometimes a huge number of people to thank.

When all was said and done, we sent $1189 to the Breast Cancer Network and had an enormous amount of fun doing it.

And we need to thank these people who donated money directly to the BCNA because of our show:

Mario Seifreid

Lisa Every

Anne Grunseit

Rod Matthews

John Bastianon
and the 105 people who paid to see the show (we don't know all of your names, but we love you!).

And the behind the scenes people who made the production work.

John Barnier and Jon Williams and the IA Committee at Impro Australia, who donated the cost of our show's insurance, and their cut of the Roxbury Late Show door.

Jason Dunn, Jim Fishwick and Glen Bell who did our lights.

Matt Pilkington who did the door for us during the Late Show.

Our mothers and mothers everywhere, who gave us so much material for our show. We're hatching a plan for a mothers' day show in 2011, so watch this space.

We have cast!

Today the Pink Ladies Rehearsal was dedicated to getting some photos for our posters!
We got our name from the fact that the Breast Cancer Network Australia uses pink ladies as their logo, and that's where all profits from our show will go.
And it just so happens that the Pink Ladies was the name of the bad girls' gang in Grease. So we themed it up a little. We are very fortunate that Karina Francis, one of cast, drives a golden Charger. We got in it, lounged on it, played with the doors and even burst out of it. The outputs were many, and we hope to have our poster complete and therefore begin our online promotions by the end of this week.

Next blog post I'll talk about the challenges and rewards of "rehearsing" and improvised show!


Photos on this page: At top, 3 "mean" girls: Karina Francis, Louise McManus, Chloe Paul.
At left: Chloe Paul, Louise McManus, Karina Francis, Erin Foy, Karena Thomas