Clock!
 

What? Did you think I was going to say something else?
 

BEFORE YOU GET FURTHER, COME SEE THE SINGER’S THEATRE SHOW THIS WEEKEND - it’s connected to this week’s blog, I promise - OKAY NOW CONTINUE!
 

During COVID, I went on a little spree of listening to musicals I did not know much about, or that never really had as full a shining moment as other shows.
 

On this venture, a few musicals I  “discovered” were:

• Dracula The Musical - Frank Wildhorn & Jeremy Roberts

• Rebecca - Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze

• The Lord of the Rings - Matthew Warchus and Shaun McKenna

• The Clockmaker’s Daughter - Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn
   

And while I love them all (Stay tuned for a blog about The Lord of the Rings…), The Clockmaker’s Daughter is the one that started to respark the musical light in me.

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It’s about a Clockmaker (go figure) who, after losing both his wife and daughter, creates a clock daughter (again… go figure), named Constance, who comes to life with the winding of a key. Forbidding her from ever going outside, one day she defies him and explores the village, where she makes friends, falls in love, and eventually it gets found out that she is a clock, and it starts to take a Frankenstein turn, with the village out for blood. Abraham, the clockmaker, tells her it’s her fault and that she should have loved and listened to him when he said not to leave the house. She then sings a powerful song about what true love means and how Abraham’s love always came with conditions and wasn’t the genuine love the village has for each other.
 

When I found this musical, I was feeling very much like Constance. It was the time of having to be locked inside, as it was the safer option while the world sorted out what was happening (NOTE: I am not here to start a COVID debate… we all took that time differently and to each their own).
 

I also was living in a time where I still believed that love could only come with forms of conditions. Some were made by others, and some were ones I simply made up in my head and didn’t really exist.
 

Over the time of listening to the musical, and over the time of COVID, and the changes in my life that happened during it, different songs, or moments of songs, became important to me - it helped me on my journey.
 

1. A Story of My Own (Fun Fact: It was the song I used when auditioning for Anne of Green Gables): Before defying Abraham and leaving the house, Constance only knows what she reads in books and what she can see out of her windows. At different parts of life, but especially during COVID, books were my escape and what I found joy in. Creating a world that I could only imagine living in, much like Constance, till she finally took that step outside.

2. Raise a Glass: Specifically the line “…unsure if I’ll survive…” This is one of my favourite numbers from the show. Full of joy, love, and celebration, yet what can be interpreted as the darkest line in the whole number is one that often brought me to tears. During COVID, my separation, my divorce, there were a LOT of times I had this song on repeat, in my car, and sung that line from the top of my lungs as the tears rolled down.

3. Clockwork: Then will all phases of grief, there was finally that time of sheer anger. Finally, a moment to think clearly and realize how much frustration I had bottled up. For how long? Who knows? But it felt good to get it out. Especially Constance’s lines: “How can a man with such vision be so short-sighted… Build a heart’s desires and regret how it behaves…”
    

Cue December 10th, 2025! Singer’s Theatre was in the midst of hinting at their Senior Intensive, and seeing the hint, “A town, a secret and a girl”, I commented, “The Clockmaker’s Daughter?”
 

Three days later, it was confirmed - and on January 24th, I had the absolute honour of signing my contract to join the behind-the-scenes crew that would help bring this show to life!
 

And now we’re here. Show week!
 

A show I never thought I would ever be a part of, one that helped me get through some of the worst years of my life, is finally about to be performed for hundreds of people, so that they too can fall in love with this story and the people of Spindlewood.
 

Join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and become part of the story!