Morning Everyone,
Happy Thursday - and what a glorious day it is! Amazing sunshine - well in London anyway, I apologise if it's miserable where you are!
So what's new?
I'm sat in my lounge with the windows wide open having just done an abdominal work out and had my breakfast! Enough to put anyone in a good mood I think ha.
I feel my age is getting the better of me when I try and think back a week now and remember what I did last Thursday. Time goes so quickly, but then last week seems like it was ages ago - that's why I'm glad I write this blog as it's a way for me to document what I'm up to instead of just letting life pass me by. You should try it for yourselves!!!
So after the show last Thursday I headed home to get a good night's sleep as I had a photo shoot on Friday for YOU magazine which is in The Mail On Sunday and will be published sometime in May I'm told - in a feature about 'the upcoming stars of the future' focussing on six male actors etc etc etc. So I woke on Friday and did a quick 100 lengths of the pool before heading to make myself look more alive than dead before meeting the photographer. The shoot was done by a lovely photographer who took some very nice shots in the auditorium of the Apollo Victoria theatre and in my dressing room and then I had a good 45 minute chat with the girl writing the feature which was fun. I think its only when I actually chat to people like that who don't know me at all and ask me questions, that I realise whilst answering just how many things I juggle in my day to day life. Some of my friends call me 'The hardest working man in show-business' haha - and i realise when I chat about it just how manic it can sometimes get! Great though because I like variety and would get bored just doing one thing!
After the show on Friday I was pretty tired so headed home to have a nice cuppa and headed to bed. Saturday I went to work for the two shows feeling ready for the day off the next day. It was fun on Saturday. I really enjoy the weekend shows. Saturday night after the show we had a few drinks in the pub next door then I headed into central London to meet Haley my friend as I was staying with her as her flat mates were away. We had a lovely catch up over carrot and walnut cupcakes at 2am before heading to bed. Ha.
Sunday was a busy day for me but a really enjoyable one. I had a chill out morning and some breakfast with Haley - which consisted of toast, made from gluten free and wheat free bread with soya butter - which I kinda described as 'Bread Free' - what's the point in having bread without the breadiness??? Ha.
I then went to meet some friends for lunch in Piccadilly before watching a new show at the Jermyn Street Theatre (where i worked a few years back in the show 'Jet Set Go') called The Kissing Dance - when I say new I mean an adaptation of an old musical. It was really enjoyable. Very witty, good cast and my friend Tim Jackson was the choreographer and i thought he did a wonderful job - He is actually one of the west end artistes I've got teaching for me on my summer school West End In Wales this summer - which is really exciting because he's brilliant - by the way if you know of anyone aged 10-18 who would be interested in working alongside myself, Tim and a couple of other west end performers in a week long musical theatre summer school then point them in the direction of www.WestEndInWales.com for more information.
After watching the show on Sunday, I had to quickly dash over to freedom bar in Soho where i was the last guest of the day on the final live broadcast of the series of the Jonny and Phill show for Radio Jiblets. I was laughing because the show actually aired at 4pm but I was obviously still in the theatre and wasn't due to arrive until 6.30pm before the show came off the air at 7pm - Well my Twitter feed was going crazy during the afternoon with people monitoring my progress between the theatre and the radio venue "radio-jiblets he's on his way guys"………"Mark Evans has left the theatre and his heading across London to do the radio interview"………."He'll be with you shortly chaps"- I felt like Anneka Rice in treasure hunt (kind of liked it! ha) -
I just randomly decided to YouTube Anneka Rice after writing that, to remind myself of that programme so take a look at this clip incase you don't know who or what I'm talking about and imagine me dressed in that orange boiler suit running across London shouting unnecessarily at everyone I see trying to find Radio Jiblets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYNSFLNIyw&playnext=1&list=PL99B8D9DA8A1CDA23
"WHERE'S THE DRUM"…Crazy woman!
Anyway, the radio interview was really fun and can be heard if you go on itunes and just search Radio Jiblets in the podcast section and you can listen for free. The whole programme is fun but if you wanna hear my bit it'll be in the last half hour. Let me know what you think.
During the interview, I hadn't realised just how much Chris Clegg who was there from M magazine had been topping up my glass of wine that he'd given me - I think i had about three glasses in 20 minutes - naughty boy! Ha. Not that I was complaining.
After the interview I met my friend and we were hungry so went for dinner to Balans restaurant in Soho which serves amazing food practically 24 hours a day! Then we went to a members bar for wine and cheese and then I went home and ate lots of biscuits! I know that most of you have been reading my blog regularly for some time now which I love, so you will know that i am a healthy eating guy on the whole who exercises a lot - WELL…..imagine how my body hated me on Sunday then when I decided to shovel in all of the following….
2 x Toast with M&S strawberry jam (Yup….not just any strawberry jam….it was M&S strawberry jam)
1X Huge salad in Wagamamas & 4 chicken dumplings
1 x muffin in costa coffee
1/2 pack of cadburys chocolate peanuts (during the show)
1/2 pack of cadburys caramel nibbles (during the show…yes the same show)
1 X Lamb and veg pie & mash AND a side order of fries with Mayo
1/2 platter of cheese and biscuits
1 x entire pack (apart from 4) of milk chocolate digestives
All of the above casually washed down with tea, Rose wine, white wine and a cocktail and a half (pornstar martinis)
Isn't that disgusting! No discipline at all on Sunday - Gillian Mckeith would faint reading this - or at least pretend to! An amazing day of happy catching up with friends though so I didn't care.
However I woke on Monday feeling bloated and horrible so since then I have been on a detox….I feel recovered now.
Monday morning I did end up back in that same Balans restaurant for a meeting but only had fruit and yoghurt ha. It was a very productive meeting, which again consisted of me having to talk about myself for a long time which I'm bored of now…….he says…. a good few hundred words into a blog about himself- But what i mean is, I get bored of talking about 'the development in my career' with people, I just think 'yeah yeah yeah, whatever that's just work, let's enjoy life' but anyway there's some good things on their way me thinks!!!
Lots of preparation happening with my album too and within the next few weeks I'm going to be releasing more and more information on it to you so watch this space!!!
Monday afternoon I worked really hard at the gym - so much so, I had zero personality at the theatre haha.
I had some friends watching the show on Monday night though which was nice so saw them briefly afterwards then headed home for a good nights sleep.
Tuesday I did a big food shop so I had no excuse but to only eat the healthy food in my kitchen, then met a dear friend of mine for lunch which was lovely. Then I had a meeting with my agent before 100 lengths of the pool - I know what your thinking and yes, keeping count is boring but it gives me a sense of achievement when I leave. OCD!!!!!
Yesterday (Wednesday) I let myself have a chill out morning with Phillip and Holly (This Morning) before heading to work for two shows - and in the first one, I was singing my first number dancing through life and where I'm suppose to casually spring onto a statue I missed and stacked in on the floor - yup that's right, cool guy Fiyero, fell over! But I really didn't care because Fiyero wouldn't care - I just thought, so what, I fell over, it happens!!!
Then after last night's show I met a couple of friends from Oklahoma! for a drink in central London before heading home to my bed.
And that my friends brings us up to today! A day in which I was tempted to belt out 'Oh What A Beautiful Morning' as I looked out the window, but to be honest i'm just not that theatrical.
Couple of parish notices…
I am duetting with the wonderful Jon Robyns on his debut album Open Book soon which is available to pre-order now - follow the link below. Jon was the original Rod/Princeton in the West End cast of the hilarious hit show Avenue Q and has played both Marius and Enjolras in Les Miserables. The album will also feature a duet with Gina Beck who was in The Kissing Dance I saw on Sunday and trust me - the CD is worth buying for her voice alone - beautiful! Gonna be a good album!
http://www.curtainrecords.co.uk/
Also…I need your help….I have been challenged by a friend that by the end of this year (2011) I must get to 10,000 followers on Twitter. I have no idea how I'll do it but you all know me, I'm determined so please help if you can to prove him wrong and get your friends to follow.
I have decided that soon I'm going to be doing more on Twitter instead of just tweeting, I'll be running competitions etc. Love hearing from you all and thanks for getting in touch. I am getting through the replies of the fantail at the theatre pretty quickly now so if you ain't heard back yet you will soon :)
Anyway, I have a bazillion things to get on with so I bid you all farewell. Thanks for reading.
Next week I'm heading home to Wales on Thursday - Monday, which probably means I'll try and fit in my blog on Wednesday while I have internet - 'cause there ain't none at my parents farm!!!
Thanks for reading-
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Sh-boom
Mark
