A Glasgow Girl

Here is my newly renovated wall of happiness. This wall has been heavily laden with tickets for about a year now but is now completed. (Until I need to add something else). For those of you who don't know, a wall of happiness is where you basically put all things that make you happy. As the name suggests. I believe that everyone should have one of these walls.  I am not one for minimalist decorating. I know where everything in my room is and  feel that I am quite organised. But I like to keep things around me. Memories and pretty things. This wall in particular is filled with a lot of theatre related things. As I recent musical theatre graduate, I have seen a lot of shows in my time. These are the majority of tickets from shows which I have seen or been involved in over the past 5 years. It also includes cinema tickets, quotes, photos, little notes which make me smile and just general loveliness. My advice to everyone is to start building your wall of happiness now. Y...

As I await my honours degree results (ahhhhhhhh!) I thought I would finally catch up on the last of my London blogs. On our last day we decided we would catch a matinee before heading back on the dreaded overnight megabus. We again bought our tickets from the Half-Price ticket booth and managed to get tickets for Wicked for £19.50 with a £2 booking fee. Yay! The Apollo Victoria theatre is not the prettiest theatre in the West End but it was handy for the coach station which meant we didn't have to rush after the show! We didn't get upgraded this time and the theatre was packed, (mostly with very noisy school kids) which meant that we ended up in row X of the dress circle. The very back of the entire, very tall theatre. My boyfriend ended up paying the £1 for the funny wee binoculars. I had already seen Wicked with the Original London Cast (yay!) and used to be obsessed with the show so it was nice to see a show where I knew every single line and song back to front and upside do...

Today we bought tickets for Once at one of the Half-Price Ticket Booths just off Leicester Square. I had always bought tickets from the big tkts booth (where we bought our 'A Chorus Line' tickets) or at the theatre after a dodgy online experience. I don't know why I thought these other booths were untrustworthy...I just did. But it was absolutely fine and we got super cheap tickets for what turned out to be an amazing show. 'Once' is a completely different show from anything I have ever seen before and was fairly busy for a Tuesday night (perhaps due to it's feature on a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show). The Phoenix Theatre was so quaint and cute, and as we arrived we were in for a treat yet again-another upgrade. Our seats were fantastic. We sat down and were surprised to see audience members going onto the stage. I'm not sure if you needed a special ticket or just needed to be sitting in the stalls but as the show is set in a pub, before the show...

As I said in my previous blog my boyfriend and I are currently in London and bought tickets last night for the revival of 'A Chorus Line' at the Palladium. Our tickets were for the cheap seats (dress circle) but as when we arrived we were told that we had been upgraded to the Royal Circle as the Dress Circle was closed. Yay!  We went into the foyer and I was amazed at how gorgeous the Palladium is. It's just so pretty and royal looking! We got out programmes (at £3.50 they were cheaper than a lot of programmes we get at home) and headed to the equally gorgeous bar. Once the theatre opened we headed to our seats-our view was spectacular! I had heard a member of the theatre staff say the show was like marmite-people either loved it or hated it as in this revival there wasn't a lot of set. I totally understand why they did it though. It let the actors be the main focal point and showed that behind the scenes at the theatre is not all glitz and glamour. All the perfo...

Hello world...this all seems very strange. I understand what bloggers mean now when they say that your first post seems like you are just shouting into an empty room. I'll start by introducing myself-my name is Fiona, I'm 22 and I'm from Glasgow (as the title of my blog kinda suggests). I have recently completed university and have been a fan of blogs and vlogs for a while so decided now would be the perfect time to start my own. I am planning to blog on fashion, beauty, theatre and my everyday life. Here are a few random facts about me to help you to get to know me better: 1. I have just completed an Honours degree in Musical Theatre. I am currently waiting on my results-it is completely and utterly TERRIFYING. 2. I played the cello at school. When my mother first asked me if I wanted to learn how to play at the age of 11, I was told that it is 'a big violin'. It is a HUGE violin, and considering that I was teeny tiny at that age (and am still fairly petite...