MJ. Mortimer

Well I suppose now I can reveal what I’ve been working on for the past month with Secret Cinema as Assistant Stage Manager for Guardians of the Galaxy The Live Immersive Experience. 😍

I’ve loved every minute working on this one so far with an incredible all round global team & cast. Here’s to the next several months with the dream team!! Let’s smash our final preview day before we open to the world next week! 🎉❤️💪🎭

I’m absolutely in awe right now. We completed the impossible…We managed as a company to put on Singin’ in the Rain in Japan, which is currently a closed country to all 194 countries in the entire world and get granted special permissions from the top level of the Japanese government to bring this show to this truly amazing country and its people. We have all been so fortunate to get through shows in both Tokyo and Osaka, without a single covid case or cancellation (Miracle in itself!✨). We have managed to break many records.

So much thanks goes to the incredible UK Team and an even bigger thanks to the Japan team who have all made this impossible situation, become a reality from many a bento box, many a delivery and many a vending machine drink.

We faced many a hurdle with an entire month isolating / bubbling. We managed to all put on 22 incredible performances with such a talented, unique and truly wonderful company - many goosebumps and tears along the way from both the uk team as well as the Japanese producers and Japanese people for being so honoured for us to be here. Being able to bring the “ハッピー・レイン” (“Happy Rain”) after so long has truly been mesmerising - the support, love, standing ovations & kind words have been overwhelming to see and read - show after show! 🤯❤️

While times have been difficult on the old mental health and missing loved ones, every sacrifice we made to make this happen, has been one that will stick with me for the foreseeable future and I will remember just how lucky and honoured I am to be around such wonderful & supportive people day after day.

I have learned and covered 4 different plots in just as many weeks from Sound 2, SR ASM, Crew 2 and Crew 4, all while learning a whole new video system I hadn’t worked with yet. I’m truly blessed and honoured to work with some of the best in musical theatre, and I most definitely mean both on and off it! 🙌 Thank you to everyone I’ve learned from so far and giving me guidance, support & patience where I needed it, I am truly grateful! 🥰

Technical Swing Over and Out in Tokyo & Osaka 2022. 🇯🇵🙏

What feels like the end, is quite often the beginning! 🙌❤️