The autumn was pretty much dominated by rehearsing and touring with Songs From a Hotel Bedroom for the Royal Opera House, New Wolsey and Watford Palace theatres.

This was a very unusual cross-genre show featuring Nigel Richards and Frances Ruffelle, dancers Tara Pilbrow and Amir Giles and Neil Charles, Clive Deamer, Charlie Brown, Dai Pritchard, Romano Viazzani and myself as musician/actors, led by MD/arranger Jim Holmes.

The show was conceived and directed by Kate Flatt with writing and dramaturg assistance from Pete Rowe, and was based around some lesser-known songs by Kurt Weill.

I had an absolute ball doing it, working with a great and extremely talented bunch of people and learning a lot about combining dance, theatre and music. There wasn’t a lot of acting to do in it, but having been concentrating a bit on other things recently, I really enjoyed the bit there was. It was also a bit of a kick to be performing at the Royal Opera House, which felt like far too swanky a place for the likes of me to be performing.

Still, I kept it real by doing a new comedy show in a pub in Camden in the same week. Phew.

Photographs here are copyright Alex Rumfeld