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A Night with Mel and Sue - Norden Farm Maidenhead

3rd August 2003

Mel is convinced that Sue is showing her a picture of Lake WindemereThe first featured Mel paying a visit to Dr. Freudling.   Next, the audience were treated to Dame Melanie Giedroyc and Dame Susan Perkins performing their own special rendition of the song 'Something Stupid'. Then it was back to Dr Freudling who tested Mel's (somewhat strange) responses to some pictures that were shown to her. Mel then regressed back to Mulberry Playgroup and her fifth birthday. The Play Leaders, Margot Random (Mel) and Teri Toweling (Sue), were rather unpleasant towards the sinister Patchy. During this sketch Sue got the opportunity to play a few chords on her guitar.

The focus then returned to the bed where Mel and Sue set up the next scene. Mel praised her session with Dr. Freudling and it materialized that Sue had been a patient of hers in the past but had been cured. Cue a Sixties regression sketch. The voice of Dr Melanie Freudling returned Sue to the present and she was then subjected to some hilarious word associations before being reluctantly regressed back to her schooldays and her mentors Ms Martin and Ms Derrick, a favourite with listeners to BBC London. Their performance of the Billy Joel song 'Just the way you are' was a big hit with the audience.

Sue refuses to be comforted by PatchyFrom all of this, Dr. Melanie Freudling concludes that Sue, to her horror and complete denial, wants to have a sexual relationship with Mel. Awoken by Sue's screams, Mel tried to calm her, but another appearance by the oddly dressed Patchy didn't really help. Mel then advised Sue to take a holiday and in the next scene the audience became holiday loonies aboard a John Thomas coach with tour reps, Sam (Sue) and Jackie (Mel). The onboard entertainment was a video of an Argentinean soap opera in which Mel and Sue donned wigs and false moustaches and played out a love triangle which ended with Sue being shot.

During her death scene, Sue tells Mel that she doesn't fancy her and Mel apologizes for wanting Sue to be her girly friend. Sue tells her that they've both made mistakes, such as Mel's dodgy accent as Dr. Freudling and their failure to remove a chair that was blocking the audiences' view. The show closes with Mel and Sue in bed reading Jane Austen together.

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