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A Night with Mel and Sue - Norden Farm Maidenhead 3rd August 2003
As before, the show opened with Mel and Sue onstage in bed, only this time Mel was reading from Jane Austen and laughing out loud, annoying Sue who was trying to sleep. Despite employing various methods in her attempts to block out the sound of Mel's laughter, Sue was unsuccessful. So, unable to sleep even after a game of scissors, paper, stone, the pair settled down to watch television.
There then followed the first of several dream sequences that formed the narrative of the show. Mel dreamed of Sue as being the perfect girly friend and this resulted in Sue appearing onstage in an outfit that clearly horrified her. Worse then that, she was too knowledgeable about make up, cookery and gardening and thought that Brad and Jen were scrummy. However, it turned out that Sue wasn't as perfect as she seemed. Back in bed, Mel's dream having turned
into a nightmare, Sue advised her to seek help from Dr Susan Freudling.
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Following
on from their 2002 gigs, Mel and Sue announced further dates. For
their first few performances of A Night with... in 2003, Mel and Sue had
made
slight modifications to their material and gradually reduced the running
time down to an hour. By the time they played the Komedia in July, it
seemed that they had settled on the show that they would be taking to the
Edinburgh Festival in August. However, prior to heading up north, Mel and
Sue had a gig at Norden Farm in Maidenhead on the 3rd August and it was
here that they decided to introduce some new material and change the
scenario.
This
lead us into a Leather Island sketch, whose characters are familiar to
listeners of The Mel and Sue Thing which was aired on Radio 4 in
the autumn of 2002. Sue took on the role of Jim Bergerac, the shammy-faced
detective in tight trousers, and Mel played Lovejoy, a three foot antiques
dealer. Bergerac and Lovejoy solve all the crimes which take place on the
smallest island in the British Isles. This sketch involved dragging a
lucky? member of the audience onstage to star as the corpse, blissfully
unaware that they were going to be checked for hallmarks. As Leather Island
concluded, Mel and Sue returned to bed and after Sue, despite being a
'Loony, Leftie, Lesbo', said goodnight to Patchy, Mel's sinister cuddly
toy, they both fell asleep.