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Sophie's mum led the way across to The Barn Theatre with Sophie, Cressida, John, Harry and Beaky following cautiously. Hen and Abby stayed in the house to look after Lou and Susie who were still terrified. ‘Right-ho. Where were these ghosts?’ asked mum. ‘They came from backstage,’ said Beaky, hardly daring to look. Mum went backstage. She looked behind all the curtains, under the stage and inside the props cupboard. ‘There's nothing or nobody here,’ she called. ‘But ghosts wouldn't leave anything anyway would they. They just sort of disappear into thin air ... just like ... ghosts.’ ‘Hmm,’ said mum. ‘I think you must have been imagining things. Why don't you go and get the others and finish the rehearsal. You don't want them to go home frightened or thinking The Barn Theatre is haunted. I'll stay and watch. That should scare off any ghosts that might want to come back!’ ‘Thanks mum!’ said Sophie relieved. John went to fetch the others. Just as he went across the yard he remembered how he had seen those two shadowy figures lurking in the dark earlier on. This time he spent no time looking but ran into the house 86
as fast as he could, thinking that he would tell Sophie about it later. Right now he had to encourage Lou and Susie to come back into The Barn Theatre to finish the rehearsal. Mum switched all the lights on in The Barn Theatre and everyone began to feel more confident. She took Lou and Susie on a tour backstage, checking under the stage again and in the prop cupboard so that they could see they were empty. Sophie decided that they would just rehearse the final act with Scrooge waking up, a changed man, and shouting out, What? Awake! Christmas Day! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! I am as light as a feather! I am as happy as an angel! I am as giddy as a drunken man! A Merry Christmas to everybody! and being so jolly that everyone felt happy by the end and had almost forgotten about ghosts. After the final scene everyone bowed and mum clapped. She found she was not the only one clapping. A few of the other parents had crept in including 87
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daisy drama club STAGE FRIGHT! writ
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Contents How It All Began 1 Putting
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How It All Began Sophie and Cressid
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‘If only we could be in a proper
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Putting up Posters September came a
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But then I deliver the immortal wor
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A Royal Arrival The Daisy Drama Clu
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good bit of kit. Need a few nails h
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Ten? Twenty? Thirty? ... she would
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‘You're going to be an actress wh
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Jumping jellybeans! Sophie was impr
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There were Harriet and Henrietta th
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Once the twins had got over their s
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‘May I join?’ asked Lou awkward
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She reached in her top pocket and p
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‘The one with Scrooge and all the
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clouds of sad dust which was that t
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‘Doth Tiny Tim die?’ whispered
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‘What about the barn?’ suggeste
Page 42 and 43: ‘That,’ said Sophie in a hushed
Page 44 and 45: ‘I'm sorry dad. It's just that we
Page 46 and 47: Disaster for Cressida The good thin
Page 48 and 49: ‘No. We've had the cottage for te
Page 50 and 51: had come when John and Cressida pul
Page 52 and 53: ‘How much?’ asked Sophie. ‘Te
Page 54 and 55: He switched off the normal lights a
Page 56 and 57: Rehearsals Begin The next Saturday
Page 58 and 59: Cressida and Sophie exchanged glanc
Page 61 and 62: they were planning on performing A
Page 63 and 64: ‘Tiptop!’ said Cressida impress
Page 65 and 66: ‘Although, I do have a bit of a b
Page 67 and 68: Dreary and so feeble! We're meant t
Page 69 and 70: ‘I'll never ever, ever, ever lear
Page 71 and 72: Things to DO The weeks sped past an
Page 73 and 74: ‘Leaping liquorice! Those are bri
Page 75 and 76: ‘And mine!’ said Cressida. ‘N
Page 81 and 82: ‘Worse news than worse news, yes,
Page 83 and 84: A Terrible Fright On Wednesday nigh
Page 85 and 86: ‘I can’t thee a thing,’ cried
Page 87 and 88: Then came act four, scene one. Only
Page 89 and 90: I fear you more than any spectre I
Page 91: The children raced out of The Barn
Page 95 and 96: The Ghost Hunt School the next morn
Page 97: hung from the beams. Forty seats we
Page 100 and 101: ... NOTHING! Only an empty blacknes
Page 102 and 103: She pointed to two small muddy hole
Page 104 and 105: Pink Lollipop Farmer Bagwash was go
Page 106 and 107: called Puff Puff Pink if you're int
Page 108 and 109: Lollipop, sensing help was at hand,
Page 110 and 111: The cottage did look forlorn. ‘Cr
Page 112 and 113: The Disappearing Ladder When the gi
Page 114 and 115: is business. I have an agreement wi
Page 116 and 117: Dress Rehearsal Drama! The dress re
Page 118 and 119: Finally Lou stood back to have a lo
Page 120 and 121: ‘berwooomphing’ about all over
Page 122 and 123: easy to see that dad wasn't hiding
Page 124 and 125: So the girls wrote a leaflet out te
Page 127 and 128: figure flew into the air, shooting
Page 129 and 130: Trapped! The day of THE ACTUAL PERF
Page 131 and 132: ‘It’s not just make up Susie. I
Page 133 and 134: ehearsal. I'll lock it again now. T
Page 135 and 136: flinging them to the ground as they
Page 137 and 138: From where they were hiding Cressid
Page 139 and 140: in the most terrible trouble.’
Page 141 and 142: Farmer Bagwash stormed off down the
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Chaos and Calamity! By six o'clock
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fairy lights amongst the festive gr
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I have a merry Christmas tale to te
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It was dark backstage behind the bl
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an enormous ‘berwooomph!’ Farme
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No you did not! Sophie as the miser
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never coming back was knowing Beaky
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Barrels of oysters, luscious pears
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Grubby fingers stretched up to catc
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Grandpa Albert had saved the day! H
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‘Berwooomph! I've got something t
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The grim thought of having to move
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