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| News Page This is where you can find new and archived news stories! NEWS FLASH - NEWS FLASH! St Annes on Sea AO & DS Announce their 2008 & 2009 Productions, exclusively here online! 2008 Production - Jekyll & Hyde
2009 Production - Hot Mikado
AWARD WINNERS! St Annes on Sea AO & DS won the award at the Regional NODA dinner for Best Programme for our 'Summer Holiday' souvenir programme! The award was presented at the Hilton Hotel Blackpool at the ceremony on Sunday 6th May 2007.
October 2005 Annual General Meeting - 2007 Show Named as 'Hello Dolly' The annual general meeting held on the 13th
October 2005 revealed the 2007 show as 'Hello Dolly'. Hello, Dolly! is the
story of Mrs. Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known
half-millionaire, so that she can send his money circulating like
rainwater, t not her late husband Ephraim Levi taught her. Along the way
she also succeeds in that matching the young and beautiful Widow Molloy
with Vandergelder's head clerk, Cornelius Hackl; Cornelius's assistant
Barnaby Tucker with Mrs. Molloy's loop assistant, Minnie Fay; and the
struggling artist Ambrose Kemper with Mr. Vandergelder's weeping niece,
Ermengarde. Mrs. Levi tracks Vandergelder to his hay and feed store in
Yonkers, then by train back to Mrs. Molloy's hat shop in New York, out
into the streets of the city where they are all caught up in the great
14th Street Association Parade, and then to the most evident and expensive
restaurant in town, the Harmonia Gardens, where Dolly is greeted by the
waiters, cooks, doormen and wine stewards in one of the most famous songs
in the history of American musical comedy, "Hello, Dolly!" September 2005 Award Winners The NODA award ceremony is to be held at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool on Saturday 5th Nov. Tickets are priced £24.50 per person. Please contact the Secretary Peter Taylor for further details June 2005 'Summer Holiday' is named as the 2006 production! Visit the micro-site www.summerholidaythemusical.co.uk for further information! June 2005 'Calamity Jane' - A Huge Success The 2005 June production Calamity Jane was hailed a huge success by audiences and critics alike. Playing to capacity on each Saturday and Friday performances made this a box office smash! November 2004 - Kiss Me Kate Scoops Top Awards 'Kiss Me Kate' once again allowed St Annes to live up to the occasion scooping 3 NODA awards at the ceremony held in Blackpool. Joan Aitcheson & Nigel Taylor won joint awards, with Peter Taylor & Sarah Appleton scooping most entertaining. May 2004 - 2005 Production Named as 'Calamity Jane' We can exclusively reveal that our 2005 Summer Production is 'Calamity Jane'. So it's off to the Black Hills for this truly memorable and show stopping production, brought to you once again by the award winning St Annes on Sea AO & DS. More details to follow soon! April 2004 - Photos & Site Go Live! Now publicity photos for 'Kiss Me Kate!' are live and on the site, click the link for more details. Plus, the domains kiss-me-kate.co.uk and stannesoperatics.co.uk are due to go back on line within the next 7 days for you to catch up on all the gossip and news. Plus, check back for more details coming soon on our 2005 production!
That’s the message star of St. Annes Operatic’s newest production said when she found out who her leading man was! Joan Aitchinson is set to make a welcome return to the Lowther stage in the groups latest production ‘Kiss Me Kate’ to be staged this summer in which Joan takes the title role. Playing opposite Joan is Nigel Taylor fresh from his performance in the Tower Circus Christmas Pantomime, ‘Pinocchio’. Joan and Nigel are no strangers to playing these to parts together as they have played both Kate and Fred no less than two previous times TOGETHER. Nigel explains, ‘I was thrilled to be given the part of Fred which I enjoy so much, especially as I am playing opposite Joan, the only problem is on the last two occasions Joan has had me in hospital and out cold on the floor’ Joan maintains that these were all accidents explaining ‘On the first occasion we were practicing a fight scene. It is usually very choreographed but Nigel forgot to move his leg and I kicked his shin bone – live on stage. However, Nigel remained professional throughout and carried on with the show – I only realised it was more serious after the show when he was rush to hospital for an x-ray. Thankfully it was just badly bruised.’ In a separate incident Joan also knocked Nigel out cold by mistake – thankfully that was during a rehearsal. Company spokesman, Peter Taylor said ‘We are all thrilled to have Joan and Nigel working with us and a whole host of other excellent singers, dancers and actors. The standard this year is truly professional and we look forward to our performance. Of course we’ve still got a lot of hard work to do before then!’
February 2004 - 'Mack & Mabel' nominated for
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