My parents only came to see NewsRevue once and it seems to have escaped my diary as an “event”.
In those days, I was regularly going on a Thursday evening as long as I didn’t have anything else on, so it could easily have been scheduled quite casually and I do not recall anything as event-like as having dinner with the folks before the show or anything like that.
Of course, we now (he says writing in 2019) know that NewsRevue is a Guiness World Record holding show which has been going for over 40 years:
…but I think to my folks, especially my mum, it was just some sophomoric thing I was doing as a vague hobby.
I remember dad liking the show.
I remember mum not liking it.
I remember the director, Michael Eriera, ever the professional, making a fuss over my parents for a while when they visited, which helped to make them feel special and was a nice touch.
The reason I think it was probably this particular Thursday (or the one after) is linked to my Michael Eriera-linked memory of that evening. I wasn’t around for all that many Thursdays of Michael’s runs.
I remember mum saying, I paraphrase only slightly:
I’d have thought you’d got all this sort of thing out of your system when you were at university, dear.
That was me told.
