WESTLIFE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE 4/2001
What were your tour rehearsals like?
Nicky: We did ten days in Dublin, we all drove in our own cars and met up to work.
Mark: They were long and hard days, sometimes! But the end result is a good show. We�ve managed to make people think we can dance, whether we can or not!
Who helped you make the show as good as it is now?
Nicky: Kim Gavin who is our production manager, came up with the set idea. There�s our musical director, who deals with the music, our choreographers Paula and Priscilla�
Shane: �we�ll be here all day. Every single person who is involved is important. It�s a team effort, completely.
You also had pre-tour rehearsals in Bray. What did you do there?
Kian: Very little actually!
Bryan: The technical rehearsals took up those days so we just hung around and worried instead.
You had problems with the stage set during rehearsals�
Shane: Yeah, we have moving towers which didn�t want to work.
Kian: I was standing on one when it stuck. Someone had to come on stage and push it around. It was jerking all over the place and I had no idea what was going on!
Who took to the dancing most quickly?
Kian: I think we all took to it pretty well. Once you�ve got the basic steps you�re looking in the mirror trying to make it look as cool as possible.
There�s a filmed portion at the beginning of the show. What was it like to film that?
Bryan: That was great fun! We had a brilliant day, then.
Kian: The girl dancers had to wear catsuits with just enough space cut out for their eyes. And we slagged them all day. They�re great girls, but don�t be thinking any of us are about to run off and get married to one of them!
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