[DuddersMonster]

Just wondering if anyone called in sick/booked a day off/skipped uni/was just lucky enough to be free yesterday to actually carry a watermelon to the Aldwych? Alas, I had to work. Also, who knew there were national days for fruit? Ever so strange......


Could You ‘Carry a Watermelon’ to Dirty Dancing???
Date: 8 May 2008

[img]../images/gossip.jpg[/img] Fans of Dirty Dancing will know that “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” isn’t the only classic line from the 1987 film. “I carried a watermelon?!” – uttered by Baby when she first encounters sexy dance teacher Johnny Castle at a private staff party to which she, um, carried a watermelon – is right up there too. And if you can carry a watermelon to the Aldwych Theatre, you may be able to see the West End musical based on the film for free.

To celebrate the UK’s first-ever National Watermelon Day this summer, producers of Dirty Dancing have issued a challenge to fans. The first 20 people to carry a watermelon to the Aldwych - where the screen-to-stager has been selling out since it opened in October 2006 - at 10.00am on National Watermelon Day (Monday 4 August 2008) will win a free pair of top-price tickets to see the show that night. The race is on!

[Haz]

sadly not, but a friend of mine was at the show by coincidence yesterday and was walking home after when she noticed a bunch of people at the stage door getting watermelons autographed.

god knows what'll happen when they start to go off. nice.

[DuddersMonster]

sadly not, but a friend of mine was at the show by coincidence yesterday and was walking home after when she noticed a bunch of people at the stage door getting watermelons autographed.

god knows what'll happen when they start to go off. nice.

I wonder if they will last long enough to appear on eBay.....

[LaBrosse]

No that's not a watermelon, I'm just pleased to see you...

[xXAngelofMusicXx]

That's fabulous, wish I'd seen it...I guess a signed melon is cool if you take a pic of it....when it rots though, must be a little sad lol.

[Matthew Winn]

I guess a signed melon is cool if you take a pic of it....when it rots though, must be a little sad lol.

Properly kept, soft fruit dries out instead of going off. Many years ago at work we put a banana in the ceiling cavity. It didn't rot as we'd expected, but shrank and blackened. After about a year we varnished it, put it on a plaque, and gave it to somebody as a leaving present.

[xXAngelofMusicXx]

Wow...there's an original present. The autographs wouldn't still show through though would they?

[DuddersMonster]

Wow...there's an original present. The autographs wouldn't still show through though would they?

It almost sounds like your planning on drying out a signed melon.....
Personally, if I had carried a melon to the Aldwych and the oppertunity arose to get autographs I don't think the melon would strike me as first choice thing to get signed. There were probably stacks of programmes a few feet away!

I guess the novelty value of a signed dirty dancing watermelon is a pretty powerful lure.

[xXAngelofMusicXx]

Lol, it would be a bit late if I was. I do love the idea, dunno if I'd ever be bothered enough to lug a watermelon around all day if I'd done it though lol.

[DuddersMonster]

Lol, it would be a bit late if I was. I do love the idea, dunno if I'd ever be bothered enough to lug a watermelon around all day if I'd done it though lol.

Perhaps a tiny watermelon?

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