Two things. First: last night, I had a dream. This dream, at some point, involved a bunch of my friends going off to a rehearsal of Nayf, The Musical. I remember there being at least five songs, one of which was a re-imagining of Debussy’s “Girl with the Flaxen Hair” entitled “Boy with the Golden Hair”, and another one (I sadly don’t recall the tune) was called “Mad as a biscuit”. I even stole a glimpse at the sheet music, but sadly didn’t recall any of it well enough by morning to write it down.

Second: In a weird piece of synchronicity, there was a feature on Today about a new Radio 4 programme concerning the worst musicals ever made. They reckoned it was probably “Sister Bernadette”, which ran for only two weeks in the West End, and featured a vision of the Virgin Mary represented by a large polystyrene ring wheeled – by hand – onto stage on trucks, and had songs that sounded like they’d been written by a bunch of schoolchildren chanting in the playground. I reckon even Nayf would have a hard time outdoing that, to be honest.

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