Red lorry, yellow lorry
I had the good fortune some years back to have the chance to see behind the scenes of a west-end musical in the making. I was in fact making the 'making-of' video of this musical in the making, which never made it to the West End, the reasons for which were clear to all those making it. I digress. The good fortune I speak of was witnessing the warm-up routine for the actors just before their performance. A sweaty musical director plonked away at a piano while he put the cast through their linguistic paces. That is, he gave them exercises to loosen up their voices for the two hour singing session they were about to embark upon. There were scales, of course, and lots of tra-la-la-la's and me-me-me-me's but to my surprise there was also red-lorry-yellow-lorry. At the time I thought getting a room of professional actors to monotonously sing red-lorry-yellow-lorry was quite amusing, and in fact I had a hard job at the time of not bursting out laughing and sneering shamelessly. Since having got over my [...]