THE DERA FARNBOROUGH AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY PRESENT:

TTThhheee SSSoooccciiieeetttyyy President — Mr. J.C. Mabberley

Under the distinguished patronage of The Worshipful the Mayor of Rushmoor

Life Members:

Mr. M. Binning, Mrs. B. Candy, Miss. M. Dalziel, Miss. E. Hillier, Dr. I. Jones, Miss. M. Kitson, Mr. J. Mitten, Mrs. M. Molyneux

Vice Presidents:

Mr. P. Adams, O.B.E. Mr. C. Balchin, J.P. Mrs. R. Coulter Mr. R. Debenham

Mr. M. Evans Mrs. M. Harvey Mr. T. Higgins Mr. T. Hughes

Mr. D. Jackson Mr. T. Kerr, C.B. Dr. A. Macadam Mr. E. Short

Mr. D. Strike Mr. G. Woolger Mr. R. Yeomans

Associate — Patron — Full — Junior Members

Mrs. E. Adams Miss. W. Allen Mrs. P. Alner Mrs. C. Atkinson Mr. P. Atlee Mr. M. Bailey Mrs. M. Benger Mr. E. Blake Mrs. J. Bonney Mr. D. Boys Miss. D. Bracknell Mrs. E. Brooks Mr. D. Brown Mrs. M. Brown Mr. B. Busby Mrs. D. Busby Miss. S. Busby Mr. J. Bushnell Mrs. V. Bushnell Mrs. C. Canfield Mrs. J. Cate Mrs. C. Chamberlain Mrs. K. Christopher Mr. R. Christopher Mr. R. Cockell Mrs. R. Cornick Mrs. M. Crawford Mrs. J. Dance Mrs. B. Davall Mrs. T. Davis

Mr. M. deNoronha Mrs. R. Dempsey Mrs. P. Devereux Miss. S. Doust Ms. J. Drake Mrs. M. Dugan Mr. A. Eade Mr. J. Earles Mrs. S. Ferrier Mrs. E. Flitcroft Mr. J. Flitcroft Mr. S. Fox Mr. M. Foster Mrs. J. Franklin Mrs. L. Galley Mr. M. Garrood Mrs. C. Gibbs Mr. G. Green Mrs. I. Hall Miss. B. Hall Mr. F. Hambrook Mrs. P. Hammick Mrs. J. Hammond Mr. P. Harben Mr. A. Harding Mr. M. Harfield Mrs. D. Higgins Mrs. A. Hutchinson Mr. D. Hutchinson Mrs. M. Inker

Mr. M. Jacklin Mr. F. Jewell Mrs. D. Langridge Mr. H. Little Mrs. M. Little Mr. T. Mann Mrs. E. Mann Mrs. V. May Mrs. H. McLoughlin Miss. L. Miles Mrs. A. Mitten Mr. C. Molyneux Mr. I. Morrison Mr. A. Morrissey Mrs. I. Mowat Mrs. F. Newman Mrs. M. Payen Mr. G. Peake Mrs. G. Peake Mrs. L. Pelling Mrs. M. Phillips Mr. R. Phillips Mrs. M. Pole-Baker Mr. H. Prall Mrs. C. Randall Mr. G. Randall Mr. D. Reeves Mrs. J. Rickard Mrs. B. Saunders Mr. C. Sharp

Mr. A. Sharples Mrs. E. Sharples Mrs. D. Short Mr. E. Smith Mr. L. Smith Mr. P. Smith Mr. R. Smith Mr. K. Speck Mrs. M. Speck Mr. M. Squires Mrs. M. Squires Mr. D. Stead Mrs. E. Stevens Mrs. M. Strike Mr. G. Sutton Mr. B. Tansey Mrs. P. Tattershall Mr. P. Tattershall Mrs. A. Toll Mrs. J. Vincent MBE Mr. C. Voller Mr. D. Walters Mrs. C. White Miss. L. Whitfield Mr. F. Whitfield Mr. A. Williams Mr. M. Williams Mr. S. Williams Mr. D. Wood Mrs. B. Woolger

Affiliated to the National Operatic And Dramatic Association

DERA Farnborough Amateur Operatic Society (Founded in 1920)

presents

Music & lyrics by FRANK LOESSER

Book by JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS A musical fable of Broadway based on a story

and characters of Damon Runyon

15th-20th May 2000 PRINCES HALL, ALDERSHOT

Nightly 7.30pm Saturday Matinee 2.30pm

This amateur production is given by permission of JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The society gratefully acknowledges the valuable support received from Patrons, Programme Sellers, Stewards and all those who have contributed to the production. Special thanks are due to the Theatre Manager and his staff for their help and co-operation, and to the members of the local St. John Ambulance Brigade who are on duty in the hall throughout the week.

Programme, poster and leaflet design was by Tim Canfield. The foyer photographs were taken by Stewart McPherson, programme photographs by Philip Alner. The costumes are from the Haslemere Wardrobe. The scenery, furniture and properties are hired from Scenic & Property Hire, Newport, Gwent. Lighting by 'Prism'. ‘Hot Box’ shoes were supplied by Dancers World & Swimscene, Blackwater.

PROCEEDS TO LOCAL CHARITIES Charity No. 257135

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Welcome to our production of Guys and Dolls, a musical play based on the unforgettable characters created in the 1930's by Damon Runyon, who drew his inspiration from the racy types he met during his career as a newspaperman in and around Broadway. The musical, which appeared in 1950, is the masterwork of the lyricist, writer and composer Frank Loesser principally and though written half a century ago, it still comes over as fresh, as tuneful and as astringently funny as when it first hit Broadway and became one of its best-loved shows.

The basic theme of the show stems from the originators' belief that one of Runyon's stories of unusual romance had the potential love-interest which had helped to make South Pacific such a smash hit in 1949.

Strange to relate, the latter will be our autumn production this year! Following that in March will be the very robust Seven Brides For Seven Brothers – yet another odd romance with some echoes of the classic story of the Sabine Women.

As formerly the Farnborough & R.A.E. and, currently, the DERA Farnborough AOS, our Society has put on over a hundred shows in the locality since it was formed in 1920 - about half of them in Farnborough at either the R.A.E. Assembly or the old Town Hall and half in Aldershot at the Princes Hall (and not forgetting the old Theatre Royal during the war years). In this special millennium year we are delighted and honoured that Rushmoor has asked us to present our production of Guys And Dolls as part of the Borough's Arts and Local History Festival 2000.

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Meet inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit, always eager to set up a crap game, but much less inclined to marry his fiancée of fourteen years. The long-suffering doll in question is Miss Adelaide, star of the seedy Hot Box cabaret whose wedding anxiety is manifested with chronic sniffles.

When Nathan needs money for a new game site, he contrives a wager with his gambling buddy, Sky Masterson. The dapper Masterson bets he can convince any girl Nathan chooses to accompany him on a date... to Havana, Cuba. Nathan is sure the pot is his when he names the target Sarah Brown, reformer of sinners at the Save-A-Soul Mission. But it's Sky who comes up the winner when Sarah agrees to go with him to Havana on the condition that he deliver twelve sinners to the mission. As the Cuban night fades to morning, Sarah and Sky find themselves falling in love. Can the impossible happen?

Can the upright Sarah reform her gambler? Will the lengthy relationship of Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit come to a happy end? It remains up to our spirited heroines to bring their romances and this musical to a happy conclusion.

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Street this particular night, though sometimes it is over a restaurant in Forty-seventh Street, or in back of a cigar store in Forty-fourth Street. In fact, Nathan Detroit's crap game is apt to be anywhere, because it moves around every night, as there is no sense in a crap game staying in one spot until the coppers find out where it is."

Sounds logical. In the 1930's, short story writer Damon Runyon recreated a world of gangsters, gamblers, and New York's other assorted sinners in his own hilarious works of fiction. As in the excerpt above, Runyon presents his lawbreaking lowlifes as somewhat innocent, simple fellows, no matter how dangerous they may be. By telling the outlaw's stories with a light, sincere quality in perfect bad English, Runyon transformed deadly villains into quirky heroes.

In 1950, Frank Loesser took the next sensible step: make the gangsters sing and dance! Turning the Runyon tales into a musical comedy called Guys and Dolls was an ingenious move, and, ironically, many of Loesser's songs, such as ‘Adelaide's Lament’, ‘I've Never Been in Love Before’, and ‘Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat’, have become some of Broadway's funniest, most romantic, most well-known show tunes.

The musical, much like the stories, immerses us in the corrupt but whimsical world of Broadway's baddest gamblers, the guys, as well as their delightful sweeties, the dolls. The focus is two very different couples: one wonderfully romantic, the other lovably goofy.

Guys and Dolls first opened November 24, 1950, at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers). Winner of eight 1951 Tony Awards including ‘Best Musical’, it ran 1200 performances (3 years) and the top ticket price was $9.60! Enjoying its third Broadway revival in 1992, the show grabbed another four Tonys including ‘Best Revival’.

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Act One

Overture ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

1 Opening,Runyonland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

2 Fugue for Tinhorns ... ... ... ... ... Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet and Rusty Charley

3 Follow the Fold ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Sarah, Arvide and Mission Group

4 The Oldest Established .Nathan, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southsreet and Crapshooters

5 Follow the Fold ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Sarah, Arvide and Mission Group

6 I’ll Know ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Sarah and Sky

7 A Bushel and a Peck ... ... ... ... ... . ...Miss Adelaide and the Hot Box Dolls

8 Adelaide’s Lament ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Adelaide

9 Guys and Dolls ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Nicely and Benny

10 Havana ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

11 If I Were a Bell ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Sarah

12 My Time of Day ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Sky

13 I’ve Never Been in Love Before ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Sarah and Sky

14 Entr’acte ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Act Two

15 Take Back Your Mink ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .Adelaide and Dolls

16 Adelaide’s Second Lament ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Adelaide

17 More I Cannot Wish You ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Arvide

18 The Crapshooters Dance ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

19 Luck be a Lady ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Sky and the Crapshooters

20 Sue Me ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..Adelaide and Nathan

21 Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...Nicely

22 Marry the Man Today ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Adelaide and Sarah

23 Finale, Guys and Dolls ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .The Company

24 Curtain ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Sky Masterson ... ... ... ... Philip Mumford Nathan Detroit ... ... ... ... Paul Tapley Nicely-Nicely Johnson ... ... Jim Prescott Benny Southstreet ... ... ... Ron Walker Arvide Abernathy ... ... ... Haydn Thomas Rusty Charlie ... ... ... ... ... Tim Canfield Harry the Horse ... ... ... ... Duncan Heard Big Jule ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Martin Sampson Lt. Brannigan ... ... ... ... ... David Main Joey Biltmore ... ... ... ... ... Stephen Woolford

MISSION BAND DANCERS

Richard Dawson Chris Armes Brian McMahon Stuart Armes John Canfield (+Havana) MENS CHORUS Julian Clinton Philip Alner Roger Johnson (+Havana) Tony Doherty Eric McLoughlin Mike Lehman Gary Oxenham (+Havana) Malcolm Wellard Darren White ORCHESTRA Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax Lisa Hill Melanie Thorne Clarinet, Alto Sax ... ... ... ... ... David Whittle Clarinet, Tenor Sax ... ... ... ... ... Harvey German Simon Briggs Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax ... ... Ann Barker Horn ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Austin Pepper Trumpets... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Annette Peters Annette Cowles Ruth Woodhams Trombone ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Peter Jones Violins ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... David White Richard Mayall Ann Lloyd Tessa Welford Cello ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Richard Toll Bass ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Geof Russell Percussion ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Derek Vickers Keyboard ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Derek Canfield Rehearsal Accompanist ... ... ... ... Enid Culver

Sarah Brown ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Siân ThomasMiss Adelaide ... ... ... ... ... ... Vanessa Higgins General Matilda B. Cartwright ... Sue Sampson

MISSION BAND

Catherine Allinson Catherine Goss

Katherine Little Emma Loader HAVANA DANCERS HOT BOX DANCERS

Lucy Armes Tania Armes Nicky Hammond Lisa Fletcher Lynda Taylor Deborah Graves Joanna White Sue Grosvenor

Barbie Miller Jane Mumford

‘Fluffy’ the dog Charlotte Walker played by ‘Robbie’!! Susan Watt

LADIES CHORUS

Jean Collington Eve Earles

Claire Fryer Sophie Fryer

Jenny Goodman Giga Phillips

NOTICE TO PATRONS: Please do not bring cameras, tape recorders or mobile phones into the auditorium and please remember that noises such as coughing, whispering, rustling programmes and digital watch bleeps can be disturbing to the performers and also spoils the performance for other members of the audience. All gangways, corridors and external passageways intended for exit must be kept entirely free from obstruction, whether permanent or temporary. NO STANDING ALLOWED. NO SMOKING IN THE AUDITORIUM. NO VISITORS BACKSTAGE. NO PHOTOGRAPHY OR RECORDING.

PPrroodduucceerr JUNE THOMAS

CChhoorreeooggrraapphheerr JOYCE ATLEE

MMuussiiccaall DDiirreeccttoorr DEREK CANFIELD

SSttaaggee MMaannaaggeerr MIKE DAVALL

ASSISTANT TO PRODUCER Eve Earles

LIGHTING Melvyn Fryer

ASSISTANTS Alan Davis

John Mitten Mike Williams

SOUND

Sean Connor

PROMPT Carrie Canfield

FRONT OF HOUSE

Peter Adams

STAGE DOOR Peter Taylor

SCENERY SUPPLIED BY

Scenic & Property Hire, Newport, Gwent.

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Ted Hills Jeremy Freke

STAGE CREW

Peter Atlee Rob Christopher Fred Hammick Andy Harding Robert Phillips

Andy Piercy Andy Williams

Stephen Williams

ASSOCIATED SCENIC CONSTRUCTION

Mike Davall Anne Garrood Fred Hammick Andy Harding

Ted Hills Barbara Leedale Robert Phillips

Andy Piercy

ASSISTANT TO MUSICAL DIRECTOR Sophie Fryer COSTUME MANAGER Sophie Fryer ASSISTANT Philip Alner MAKE-UP MANAGERS Karen Canfield ASSISTANTS Alison Bedford Diane Bedford Lisa Miles Jean Pharo Victoria Taylor PROPERTIES MANAGER Anne Garrood ASSISTANT Barbara Leedale WARDROBE MISTRESS Rosemary Doherty COSTUMES SUPPLIED BY Haslemere Wardrobe

THERE WILL BE AN INTERVAL OF 20 MINUTES BETWEEN ACTS I & II

Sarah Brown ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Siân ThomasMiss Adelaide ... ... ... ... ... ... Vanessa Higgins General Matilda B. Cartwright ... Sue Sampson

MISSION BAND

Catherine Allinson Catherine Goss

Katherine Little Emma Loader HAVANA DANCERS HOT BOX DANCERS

Lucy Armes Tania Armes Nicky Hammond Lisa Fletcher Lynda Taylor Deborah Graves Joanna White Sue Grosvenor

Barbie Miller Jane Mumford

‘Fluffy’ the dog Charlotte Walker played by ‘Robbie’!! Susan Watt

LADIES CHORUS

Jean Collington Eve Earles

Claire Fryer Sophie Fryer

Jenny Goodman Giga Phillips

NOTICE TO PATRONS: Please do not bring cameras, tape recorders or mobile phones into the auditorium and please remember that noises such as coughing, whispering, rustling programmes and digital watch bleeps can be disturbing to the performers and also spoils the performance for other members of the audience. All gangways, corridors and external passageways intended for exit must be kept entirely free from obstruction, whether permanent or temporary. NO STANDING ALLOWED. NO SMOKING IN THE AUDITORIUM. NO VISITORS BACKSTAGE. NO PHOTOGRAPHY OR RECORDING.

PPrroodduucceerr JUNE THOMAS

CChhoorreeooggrraapphheerr JOYCE ATLEE

MMuussiiccaall DDiirreeccttoorr DEREK CANFIELD

SSttaaggee MMaannaaggeerr MIKE DAVALL

ASSISTANT TO PRODUCER Eve Earles

LIGHTING Melvyn Fryer

ASSISTANTS Alan Davis

John Mitten Mike Williams

SOUND

Sean Connor

PROMPT Carrie Canfield

FRONT OF HOUSE

Peter Adams

STAGE DOOR Peter Taylor

SCENERY SUPPLIED BY

Scenic & Property Hire, Newport, Gwent.

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Ted Hills Jeremy Freke

STAGE CREW

Peter Atlee Rob Christopher Fred Hammick Andy Harding Robert Phillips

Andy Piercy Andy Williams

Stephen Williams

ASSOCIATED SCENIC CONSTRUCTION

Mike Davall Anne Garrood Fred Hammick Andy Harding

Ted Hills Barbara Leedale Robert Phillips

Andy Piercy

ASSISTANT TO MUSICAL DIRECTOR Sophie Fryer COSTUME MANAGER Sophie Fryer ASSISTANT Philip Alner MAKE-UP MANAGERS Karen Canfield ASSISTANTS Alison Bedford Diane Bedford Lisa Miles Jean Pharo Victoria Taylor PROPERTIES MANAGER Anne Garrood ASSISTANT Barbara Leedale WARDROBE MISTRESS Rosemary Doherty COSTUMES SUPPLIED BY Haslemere Wardrobe

THERE WILL BE AN INTERVAL OF 20 MINUTES BETWEEN ACTS I & II

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After 26 years as member of this society, and many principal roles, Siân said she was running out of things to say about herself in this write up, which her friends in the company said they found hard to believe! She feels very fortunate to be a part of this Society, particularly as this is the first show of the millennium, and because we are also celebrating our 80th anniversary.

This is a very different role from ones she has played in the last few years – namely the title role in Calamity Jane, and Velma in Chicago, but Sarah has nevertheless provided just as much of a challenge, most notably coping with the transition from poker-face to drunkard!

SSSkkkyyy MMMaaasssttteeerrrsssooonnn PHILIP MUMFORD

Philip has been seen in shows as diverse as Orpheus in the Underworld (Orpheus) to Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus). He has also been known to play the guitar on stage (Crazy for You), dance in a baby costume (Chicago) and go mad with panic in a lift! (Oscar in Sweet Charity). It was in Sweet Charity that Philip last played opposite Siân and is pleased to renew the partnership for Guys and Dolls.

Philip works as a Computer Consultant with various city investment banks.

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A regular performer for the Society, Paul is delighted to be playing Nathan for the second time (no, the first was not in our 1983 production, we don’t think that he would have brought as much weight to the part as a spotty teenager!).

Despite re-treading old ground, in his opinion this is the most fun you can have in front of an audience!

MMMiiissssss AAAdddeeelllaaaiiidddeee VANESSA HIGGINS

Adelaide is Vanessa’s third principal role with the Society following Susan in Calamity Jane and Irene Roth in Crazy for You.

She has enjoyed playing Adelaide immensely and although the ‘Hot Box Club’ is a far cry from her real-life job as Church Secretary for St Paul’s, Camberley she took comfort in knowing that the ‘Save a Soul Mission’ was never far away!

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Jim has performed in numerous comedy roles for the Society since joining in 1974. Principal roles include Billis in South Pacific, Hines in Pajama Game, Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Capt. Andy in Showboat. Cast as the Society's ‘Herman’, having played Herman in Rose Marie, Most Happy Fella and Sweet Charity.

Jim took the role of Nicely-Nicely (his favourite role) when the Society performed Guys and Dolls in 1983. He is also a member of the stage crew when not treading the boards.

BBBeeennnnnnyyy SSSooouuuttthhhssstttrrreeeeeettt RON WALKER

Guys and Dolls marks Ron’s 46th show with the Society. He has performed a variety of principal roles, his favourites being the Red Shadow in Desert Song, Ko-Ko in The Mikado, and Lt Cable in South Pacific. More recently he took the part of Frances Fryer in Calamity Jane.

Ron is currently the chairman of our Social Committee.

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PPPrrroooddduuuccceeerrr JUNE THOMAS

Although June has been involved with the amateur theatre for many years, she has never had the opportunity to direct, or even perform in Guys and Dolls, which she considers to be a great oversight on her part. This has now been put to rights by her directing the show you will see tonight.

With a wonderful script, excellent and tuneful music, a strong and talented cast, she has found this show to be a rewarding and enjoyable experience, as well as a great deal of fun. Hope you all enjoy it too!

MMMuuusssiiicccaaalll DDDiiirrreeeccctttooorrr DEREK CANFIELD

Derek is pleased to be able once again to conduct Guys and Dolls for the Society, as he much admires Frank Loesser’s skill as a Musical composer and lyricist, and Guys and Dolls must surely be Loesser’s most popular show.

Derek’s working life has been in defence systems, but he now faces a change of life, retirement, and looks forward to being able to devote even more time to the Operatic Society, his life-long ‘second occupation’.

SSStttaaagggeee MMMaaannnaaagggeeerrr MIKE DAVALL

For those of you who have been following our shows of recent will have noticed that we have been somewhat adventurous of late with our presentations.

For Guys and Dolls however we are returning to a more conventional show, with ‘proper' curtains. The one thing that still remains is the ever-present members of the Stage Crew appearing on stage. Our producers always seem to want supernumeraries (or flunkies as they are know in the trade!) and we are usually eager to assist, so keep your eyes peeled to spot a flunky.

Do enjoy the show and make a note of South Pacific for our next production in October.

CCChhhooorrreeeooogggrrraaappphhheeerrr JOYCE ATLEE

Joyce has been with the society for 18 years now as choreographer and during this time has also been part of the stage crew, spot light operator helped front of house as well as actually getting on stage from time to time.

This is the third time Joyce has either danced in or choreographed Guys and Dolls but familiarity hasn’t lessened the hard work required by this well known but deceptively challenging show. Working with the male chorus on the ‘Crapshooters Dance’ has been interesting and amusing but mostly extremely rewarding to see the high standard of dance they have achieved, and the practical problems posed by ‘Take Back Your Mink’ vary with every production but always end in the same way – dancers wearing less clothes at the end of the number than at the beginning.

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Chairman - Mr H Thomas Publicity Mgr - Mr T Canfield Treasurer - Mr E McLoughlin Minutes Secretary - Mrs V Higgins Secretaries - Mrs A Mitten Gen. Committee - Mr P Adams - Mrs L Taylor - Mrs A Garrood Business Mgr - Mr C Armes - Mr H Prall Box Office Mgrs - Mr P Still - Mr R Walker - Mrs E Adams - Mr D White Librarian - Mr P Taylor

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DON'T MISS OUR FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS:

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The title of the Show tells us of the idyllic location of this most memorable of Rodgers and Hammerstein's creations. After Pearl harbour the American CBs were stationed on the Pacific Islands with little to do but dream about the delights of ‘Bali Hai’ and hunger after the US Nurses – ‘There is Nothing Like a Dame’. Living on the Island is a French Plantation owner who falls in love – ‘One Enchanted Evening’ - with the delightful Nellie Forbush who tries to ‘Wash That Man Right Out of Her Hair'. Can she accept his love and the children from his marriage to a native girl or must she obey the prejudices that she has been taught in the small town where she was brought up? This show features wonderful melodies, comedy, courtesy of Luther Billis and Bloody Mary, and a romantic story set in the turbulent times of World War Two - Don't Miss it!

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If you enjoy seeing musical theatre, why not book a date to see our Spring 2001 production, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It began as a screen musical in the 1950s, and is best remembered for its colourful tale of the taming of seven wild backwoodsmen, its delightful score teeming with catchy songs such as ‘Bless Your Beautiful Hide’, ‘Sobbin' Women’, ‘Spring, Spring, Spring’ to name but a few, and the energetic dancing that came out of its unusual story.

Frank Loesser - born June 29, 1910, died 1969

"I Got The Horse Right Here...!" A Musical Fable of Broadway Big-time gamblers, undercover cops, night-club singers, savers of souls, rogues and racketeers these are the "guys" and "dolls" of syndicated newspaper columnist Damon Runyon's Broadway, around Duffy Square, circa 1950. He introduced some of them in a short story, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." Playwrights Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows scripted Runyon's fable for the stage, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and they called it ‘Guys and Dolls’. "Nothing is in there that doesn't belong," Burrows said of his script. Loesser is quoted as having said "I write for the here and now; I write entertainment." Guy and Dolls proves both correct. FRANK LOESSER (Composer and Lyricist) was one of top Hollywood and Broadway songwriters during the late forties and into the early sixties. He was born in New York City on June 29, 1910, the son of an immigrant German piano virtuoso. Loesser never took lessons from his parents, rather he was self-taught in piano and harmonica. He graduated from high school but dropped out of City College in 1926 at age 16 and worked a series of odd jobs, including process server, office boy and roving reporter. While attending a Lions Club dinner one night, he wrote some silly couplets as part of the entertainment. Other members encouraged him to continue writing. Soon he began to write lyrics for popular songs. He sold his first, 'Armful of You’, for $15.00 to a vaudevillian. In time, Loesser was hired by the Leo Feist Music Publishing Company, mostly writing lyrics to the music of Joseph Brandfron, none of which was published. In 1931, after Loesser had left, Feist did, however, publish one of his pieces, with music by William Schuman, who later became president of the Juilliard School of Music. In 1932, Loesser took a job with RKO, but none of his work ever reached the screen. He soon left and became a night-club singer on New York's famed 52nd Street. He continued penning lyrics, and in 1934, supplied the words to an Eddie De Lange and Joseph Meyer hit tune called, 'I Wish I Were Twins’. In 1936, composer Irving Actman and Loesser teamed up to write most of the score for a revue called The Illustrator's Show, which only ran for five days at New York's 48th

Street Theatre. But those five days were enough to convince a scout from Universal Pictures to hand Loesser a contract. That job didn't last very long however, and Frank went back to New York. In 1937, he returned to Hollywood, this time to Paramount, where he stayed for four years. Among the films for which he wrote lyrics were: the Bob Hope comedy, Thanks For The Memory; the Bing Crosby film, Sing You Sinners; and the films Destry Rides Again and Forest Rangers. Frank worked with many other composers during this time, including Jule Styne, Arthur Schwartz, Jimmy McHugh and Hoagy Carmichael. But with the start of WWII, he began composing music on his own. A Private First Class during the war, he worked in the Army's Special Services Division, supplying sketches and songs for all-soldier revues. He also managed to write a few hit songs during that period, including 'Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition', 'Roger Young' and 'What Do You Do In The Infantry?' In 1946, he was discharged and returned to Hollywood, where wrote such successful numbers as 'Tallahassee’, 'I Wish I Didn't Love You So’, 'Now That I Need You' and the Academy Award-winning 'Baby, It's Cold Outside’. In 1948, Frank produced the score for the Broadway smash hit Where's Charley, a George Abbott adaptation of the comedy Charley's Aunt, starring Ray Bolger as Charley. The musical produced two hit songs, 'Once in Love With Amy' and 'My Darling, My Darling’. In 1950, he had an even more successful Broadway hit with Guys and Dolls, which ran over 1200 performances. Later, MGM made it into a motion picture

starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Some of the hit songs in the show included: 'If I Were a Bell’, 'I've Never Been In Love Before’, 'Fugue For Tin Horns’, 'Take Back Your Mink’, 'A Bushel and a Peck' and 'A Woman in Love’, written for the MGM screen version. Loesser's last screen musical was in 1952, Hans Christian Anderson, starring Danny Kaye, which produced the hit song 'Thumbelina’. In 1956, The Most Happy Fella opened on Broadway. Loesser's score was extensive and superb. It included over thirty numbers, with duets, canons, folk hymns, arias, parodies, recitatives and instrumental interludes. In 1960, he scored the Broadway show Greenwillow which met with little success. But the following year saw Loesser with another big hit -- the Broadway musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. It starred Rudy Vallee and Robert Morse. In 1996, the show was again performed on a Broadway stage. Frank Loesser died on June 28, 1969 at the age of 59, a victim of cigarettes. JO SWERLING (Book). Born in Russia in 1897, Mr. Swerling grew up on New York's lower East Side. His creative career began as a reporter and feature writer in New York and Chicago. His first theatrical sketches were written for vaudeville. In 1929, after having collaborated with Edward G. Robinson on the play The Kibitzer, Swerling was summoned to Hollywood and began a lengthy list of screenplays for motion pictures, including Leave Her To Heaven, Blood and Sand, Pride of the Yankees and It's a Wonderful Life. ABE BURROWS (Book) did two shows with Frank Loesser Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (for which they received the Pulitzer Prize). He started his career in radio and then moved on to television. Among the Broadway musicals he wrote or directed are Can-Can, Silk Stockings, Say Darling, Two on the Aisle, What Makes Sammy Run?, Cactus Flower and Forty Carats and the movie Solid Gold Cadillac for Judy Holliday. Mr. Burrows died in May of 1985.

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1922 The Pirates of Penzance 1923 Patience 1924 The Mikado The Yeomen of the Guard 1925 Les Cloches de Corneville 1926 The Gondoliers 1927 The Pirates of Penzance 1929 The Rebel Maid 1930 The Geisha 1931 H.M.S. Pinafore The Yeomen of the Guard 1932 Iolanthe 1933 Patience 1935 The Mikado 1936 The Gondoliers 1937 Ruddigore 1938 Les Cloches de Corneville 1939 The Yeomen of the Guard 1940 The Pirates of Penzance 1941 The Mikado 1942 A Waltz Dream 1943 The Desert Song 1944 The Vagabond King The Gondoliers 1945 Good Night, Vienna Iolanthe 1946 The Rebel Maid 1947 The Yeomen of the Guard 1948 H.M.S. Pinafore 1949 The Mikado 1950 The Pirates of Penzance 1951 The Arcadians 1952 The Quaker Girl 1953 A Country Girl

1954 Rose Marie 1955 Waltz Time 1956 The Desert Song 1957 The Gondoliers 1958 The Vagabond King 1959 The Gypsy Baron 1960 Iolanthe 1961 White Horse Inn 1962 Brigadoon 1963 Night in Venice 1964 South Pacific 1965 Show Boat 1966 The Land of Smiles 1967 Oklahoma! 1968 Merrie England 1969 Orpheus in the Underworld 1970 Chu Chin Chow 1971 Camelot 1972 Die Fledermaus 1973 Fiddler on the Roof 1974 Kismet 1975 The Music Man 1976 The Merry Widow Robert and Elizabeth 1977 Le Belle Hélène The King and I 1978 Kiss Me Kate My Fair Lady 1979 Rose Marie Half a Sixpence 1980 Carousel Oliver! 1981 Carmen Brigadoon 1982 Die Fledermaus The Most Happy Fella

1983 Guys and Dolls Annie Get Your Gun 1984 Show Boat The Yeomen of the Guard 1985 Camelot Orpheus in the Underworld 1986 Oklahoma! The Desert Song 1987 White Horse Inn South Pacific 1988 Kismet The Pajama Game 1989 My Fair Lady Cabaret 1990 The Merry Widow Variety Showcase 1991 Gigi Street Scene (Premiere) 1992 Fiddler on the Roof The Gypsy Baron 1993 High Society Sweet Charity 1994 The Mikado Hello Dolly 1995 Jesus Christ Superstar Kiss Me Kate 1996 The Pirates of Penzance Carousel 1997 Orpheus in the Underworld Chicago 1998 Calamity Jane Carmen 1999 Crazy for You Sweeney Todd

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