Green room alterations approved...

We received confirmation this morning that consent has been granted to our plans for alterations to the green room members’ bar! We’re pressing forward for this to commence as soon as the contractors have finished in the auditorium. The wall facing you in the photograph (left) will be knocked through (with head height matching that of the purple wall) and most of the existing bar area will become part of the overall green room. The new bar will occupy the space adjacent to the snug – the door at top right will still be the door into the bar.

In addition, the current spirit store at the other end of the existing bar will be removed to allow the installation of a platform lift, allowing disabled access into the sunken rehearsal room known to all and sundry as ‘the dungeon’. This will be sited where the settle is in the photo (right) while the existing entrance will remain for the rest of us.

In the auditorium, the other wall to the front of house corridor is almost finished, the underside of the new steel and wooden floor down in the pool is being fireboarded and a new permanent orchestra rail (complete with removable central section) has been installed. Most of what’s left to be done is either cosmetic (plastering and painting), installation (seats and carpet) or electrical. Rumour has it that carpeting may commence this time next week…