Today, Mummy and I went to the shopping centre! We shopped around for a bit and tried on some perfume or sampled in the tea shops and so on, and then we had a delicious salad-y lunch.
Afterwards Mummy used her vouchers for us to go in John Lewis cafe, and I got a raspberry and rose square and a two-cream hot chocolate! It was absolutely delish.
You may be wondering why in all the photos I’ve got my posh wedding-guest dress on. It’s because after shopping and lunching and caking, Mummy and I went to the theatre! We watched ‘Wonderland: The Muscial’, adapted from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It was absolutely amazing!! My long-time-no-see friend Ellanean was there. I met Ellanean when I did my Peter Pan show, when I was a pirate as well as Tinkerbell. We had loads of fun together!
I especially four of the characters. They were the Mad Hatter, Teenage Ellie (I’ll tell you all about these in a sec), and pop-star Jack. In the muscial the Looking-Glass was like a sort of portal to the hidden, other side of oneself. So whenever the main characters went in, they came out entirely different. The Mad Hatter was a she in the musical, and she was brilliant. When she came out the Looking-Glass, she wanted to defeat the Red Queen and make everyone work in hat factories and make hats, but she didn’t make much of a ‘good’ influence on the people, because she kept the Red Queen’s habit of chopping off people’s heads (she didn’t actually manage to do this, though she wanted to). However, when she went back in the Looking-Glass, and came out again, she abdicated and left the Queen do her stuff.
Alice, in the musical, was a divorcee with a child called Ellie, so she was an adult and not a seven-year-old, as the book said. Ellie was a perfectly nice teenager; she didn’t slam doors, she didn’t scream and shout, but that changed when she went through the Looking-Glass. She came out dressed in dungarees with black-and-white stripy leggings and a belly-top underneath, and she was wearing black lipstick and pale make-up. When her mother tried to talk to her she would throw her head back and say, ‘URRRGH I hate yooooooouuu…. OBVIOUSLAAAAAY!’ and stomp out the stage. It was hilarious!
Jack was Alice’s soon-to-be boyfriend. He lived underneath Alice and Ellie – that is, until they were whisked away into Wonderland. He had been a scruffy bin-man before he went in the Looking-Glass, but when he did, his hidden self was revealed. He came out dressed in an chest-ripped white shirt and brown leather jacket, brown leather jeggings and near-knee-high boots! It was so funny! He came out and started singing with his shirt-ripped band! Alice cried, “Oh look Ellie, he’s a pop-rock-singer!” And Ellie said in her throw-head-back voice, “Yeeeaaah, from, like, a hundred years agoooooo!” So that was pop-star Jack.
All in all it was brilliant, but there were just a few too many droning-on love-dove songs. Alice would sing, “Oh is this truly love? Is it tru-ly loooove?” And then Jack would say, “Oh it is Alice, it is Alice, it is tru-ly loooove…” And then they would just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it until everyone was bored stiff! Apart from that though, it was HILARIOUSLY AMAZING!!