DOS January 2010

Quiz & Chips Night

Friday 26^th February @ The Studio Starting 7.30pm

Teams of up to 6 (including children)

£6.00 each

This will include a Fish and Chips supper

Question Master: Sue & Kevin Jude

Bring your own drinks

A good opportunity to get together and catch up with those folks you haven’t seen for a while

Contact : julia.havis@btinternet.com

Or

Tel: 01362 820936

For the Dereham Festival we will be performing a concert entitled

“Made in Heaven”

A blend ofsongswith a spiritual theme from your favourite musicals and films.

Wednesday 26 May in St Nicholas’ Church Dereham at 7.30 pm

Dereham Festival 2010 - DOS concert, 26 May

The following will all take place in the DOS Studio.

Sunday 7^th February at 7.00pm.

There will be a ‘Get together’ for everyone to find out more about this production.

Sunday 14^th February at 7.00pm Auditions.

(If you cannot make the audition on 14th February:- Bring your choice of a song to sing on the 7^th February)

Sunday 28^th February at 7.00pm First Rehearsal for everybody.

Tuesday 16^th March at 7.00pm & Thursday 18^th March Main Rehearsals start.

Then each Tuesday & Thursday though March, April & May at 7.30pm.

(Not everybody will be required at all rehearsals; a list will be issued at first rehearsal.)

This year the Dereham Festival Committee has asked DOS to contribute an evenings entertainment to the programme on Wednesday 26th May, and with the refurbishment of the Memorial Hall,this means that DOS needs to "move out" temporarily to explore other venues! The venue for the Festival concert will be St. Nicholas Church, which as many of you will already know,is a beautiful Norman church, and one which I know we can fill with music and fabulous voices!

Thinking about how St. Nick's, over the years, will have seen countless people coming through its doors withso manythoughts and emotions, has given us the theme for the concert. "Made in Heaven" will be a wide variety of songs (so something for absolutely EVERYONE) reflecting the joys, prayers and celebrations, comfort, inspiration and hope which its walls have heard and provided throughout its history.

We will be singing these out through some of the fabulous numbers from best loved musicals, films and popular music, includingsongs from, for example: Sister Act, Jesus Christ Superstar, Carousel, Joseph, The Sound of Music, Rent, Godspell, Anything Goes,Martin Guerre and more- plus loads of other great songs originally performed by all sorts of artists.

I am delighted that Charlie Caine, our MD for Scarlet Pimpernel, Pirates of Penzanceand Anything Goes has kindly agreed to MD this one-night only extravaganza, and now what we really need is a wealth of the terrific voices which I know the Society has to offer. It will an opportunity totake part insome great ensemble singing, in harmonies, together with various solos, duets and group numbers, in a concert style format, and I hope that as many of you as possible will want to come along and take part.

Auditions (see dates above)for those who would like to be considered for solo, duet, trio work etc, But If you would simply like to come along and be in chorus numbers, that would be fabulous and no audition for society members isrequired!

Above all I would like it to be a thoroughly enjoyable experience for the company.

I look forward to seeing yousoon.

David Rees

Our Musical for 2010 will be:

“The Matchgirls”

Book and Lyrics by Bill Owen : Music by Tony Russell

Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30^th October 2010

Northgate School

BOX OFFICE:

HALLMARK in Nelson Place Dereham. Tel: 01362 694222. Priority Bookings from 13^th September 2010

October Show 2010 - THE MATCHGIRLS

This factually-based musical follows ‘Kate’, a tenement girl, and her fellow workers, as they join forces with the famous social reformer ‘Annie Bessant’, to fight for better conditions in the Bryant & May match factory. There are also sub plots, which include Kate’s threatened relationship with docker ‘Joe’.

Despite the subject matter of the musical, a strong emphasis is placed on the positive mentality and natural ebullience of the so called 'cockney sparrows', this leading explosively to a number of cheerful, toe-tapping songs and dance routines (think “Oliver” meets “Half A Sixpence”!).

The show boasts eleven named female parts, although there can easily be more! They are referred to as “girls”, but all ages are represented. There is also Joe and his fellow dockers, and other characters, to be cast!

This is a dynamic, passionate, moving and, above all, fun show, and requires an enthusiastic cast to portray the characters and set the stage alight!

Tony Wilds will be producing the show, with Andy Lofthouse as Musical Director. A Choreographer has yet to be confirmed.

A couple of evenings will be arranged soon, to introduce DOS members to the characters, music and story of this little-known show! Watch this space!

Any queries, contact Tony on 07894 919088.

 

September 2010

Diary Dates

The Matchgirls