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AGM Report
Our Annual General Meeting was held on 7th
July 2011 and there was an excellent turn-out. Reports from the
Chairman, Treasurer, Producer and Musical Director were all well
received.
We said a huge "thank-you" to Ann Dent-Smith
who stood down as Secretary after five years of sterling work for the
Society. Ann was presented with a bouquet of flowers and a box of
chocolates. At the same time we welcomed our new Secretary, Julie
Johanssen, and wish her well in her new job.
Ann Dent-Smith (left) and Julie Johanssen
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2011
John Westbrook Award
This
year's John Westbrook Award, for the most eye catching performance by a
member of the chorus, was awarded to Ryan Richards, for his contribution
to the chorus and particularly for his dancing in the waiters' gallop!
Ryan's success was enthusiastically endorsed by members of the Society.
Ryan (right) accepts the award from Chairman Kerry
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NODA 40 Year Bar
Also at the AGM, we were proud to present
Kaye Lee-Wright with her NODA 40 Year Bar, for forty years' service to
Amateur Theatre. Well done Kaye!! You must have started at a very tender
age??
Kaye
(right) accepts the award from Chairman Kerry
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Weds 6th - Sat 9th June 2012
Performances at 7.30pm with a
Saturday matinee at 2.30pm
Park Community School Theatre
Middle Park Way
Havant
PO9 4BU
Tickets
Tel: 01329 310849
Licensed bar available
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Quiz Night
Success
July saw the running of another
of our very popular Quiz Nights, with fish and chip supper,
hosted by Kerry and Ian iwth special guest Lou Bundy.
Numbers were lower than last year but there were still
around seventy guests who between them created a fantastic
atmosphere and raised over £650 for the Society.
Many thanks are due to everyone
who helped out on the night, especially Julie George, Dawn
Burnett and Lou Bundy for running the bar, the get-in team
for setting it all up and clearing away at the end, and last
but not least to Ian and Kerry for thinking up all the
questions!
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Titanic 1912 to 2012
Planning has been underway for some time,
but now it is upon us - rehearsals have started and the first wave of
auditions is already complete. The ship: Titanic - the Musical
has been launched and is getting ready for her maiden voyage on 6th-9th
June 2012 at the Park Community School Theatre in Havant.
They said it couldn't be done. "It's
a tragedy, for goodness sake," said the experts and even the family and
friends of Peter Stone (story and book) and Maury Yeston (music and
lyrics) wondered why anyone would want to do a "musical" about the death
of fifteen hundred people?
But great musical theatre can deal with
serious themes and do them well - look at West Side Story (one of
the first musical tragedies) and Fiddler on the Roof. Even the
otherwise light-hearted South Pacific does not shrink from the
issues of racism and the colour bar.
Stone and Yeston had a much higher opinion
of the theatre-going public than the "experts" and felt that audiences
would accept the story of RMS Titanic as a fitting vehicle for a
great Broadway show. As Stone pointed out, "Now and again, a true story
will come along that's tailor-made for the stage...Titanic has
become a universal legend, one which combines excitement, romance,
tragedy, heroism, venality and sacrifice."
But we all know it has an unhappy ending!
One wag summed up the story as "Big ship hits iceberg. Ship sinks.
People die." But there is so much more to it than that. The show does
not avoid the inevitable climax but it does end with a hopeful
denouement. In other words, the deaths are not the end of the story. The
lost are surrounded on the stage by the "survivors with their dreams and
hopes and their memories...inspiring them.", as the audience too should
be inspired.
Immediately acclaimed at its opening on
Broadway in 1997, Titanic is now recognised as one of the great
ground-breaking musicals AND an on-going memorial to those who perished.
And finally - if you're hoping for
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the prow of the ship, you're going
to be sorely disappointed! But never be afraid to try something new.
Remember - amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic.
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2011 Life Membership
At the 2011 AGM, Life Membership was conferred
on our former Chairman, Peter Lindsay. This is the highest award that the
Society can give.
Had it not been for Peter's enthusiasm and hard
work, the Society could well have folded nine years ago. But, thanks to
Peter and the sterling work of a faithful few, it has stayed afloat and
grown substantially in numbers and ability ever since. Thank you, and
congratulations Peter.
Former Chairman, Peter Lindsay |
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
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January 2012 |
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Sat 14th - "He's
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June 2012 |
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Weds 6th - Sat 9th - Titanic - The Musical |
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