One show is done and dusted but there is always another! Our
Trial by Jury &
The Sorcerer Double Bill launch night is on Tue 22nd Oct at 7.45,
Streatley Village Hall (location details
here). Our two Directors, Graham Breeze (Trial) and
Richard Fraser (Sorcerer) will give us their vision for the shows and
Musical Director, Stuart Elliott, will give us a taste of the music.
Graham has produced many shows for us, including this year's updated and highly successful
Grand Duke and our 2018
Gondoliers, which took the Harrogate Festival Fringe by storm. Richard gave us our wonderful (and very memorable!) Essex Girls
Pirates. We can't wait to see what they both come up with for this one! Stuart conducted our 2015 concert,
Best of All Musical Worlds, and we are thrilled that he will now be doing a whole show with us.
Audition pieces will also be available at the launch (more details soon).
New members
are always made very welcome - if you would like to sing with us, just come along and introduce yourself!
If you are unsure about performing onstage but would still like to be involved, there are plenty of other roles backstage and in the run-up to the production. We can't function without our team of offstage helpers! You will find directions and contact info
here.
Here is a little bit about both shows to whet your appetite:
Can you sue someone for breaking off an engagement? In Gilbert and Sullivan’s courtroom farce Trial by Jury,
it’s a very serious crime! The fickle and bigoted defendant, Edwin,
has fallen in love with another woman and has jilted the plaintiff, the
beautiful Angelina. Unfortunately for Edwin, all of the members of the
jury (and the judge) have fallen for Angelina themselves. Edwin
proposes that in order to solve the conflict, he “marry this lady today
and the other tomorrow,” which, naturally, Angelina objects to.
Ultimately, the resolution that pleases everyone is for the judge to
marry Angelina himself! - stageagent.com
The Sorcerer’s plot involves an engaged couple who want
everyone to be as happy as they, and so the groom-to-be brings in a
“family sorcerer” to administer a love potion to the entire village. As
you might expect, the love potion works, but everyone falls in love with
the wrong partner. All is made right in the end, however, as the
sorcerer breaks the spell by the expedient of giving himself up to the
powers of evil –– in an appropriate puff of smoke. - gsopera.com
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