PBGS awards for Yeomen and Pinafore!

Congratulations to all our NODA Eastern District 3 winners and nominees at Sunday's District Meeting in Toddington! We had quite the PBGS line up. 

 

Well done to our winners David Crew and Sue Wookey as Sergeant Meryl and Dame Carruthers who won Best Performance in a Musical for “The Yeomen of the Guard", Katharine Crew who won Most Innovative Director for her wartime “HMS Pinafore” and to Margaret Johnson who won Most Innovative Production Team Contribution as MD for “HMS Pinafore” with her wonderful interval Jazz music.

 

We also had runner up certificates in a very tight field for Emma Crew who was nominated as Best Actress for Phoebe in "The Yeomen of the Guard” and Manda Fraser & Katharine Crew for Best Costumes in “The Yeomen of the Guard”.

 

It’s a wonderful tribute to all the stellar performers and varied talents that PBGS has in its ranks. Congratulations all round and many thanks to our rep Nova Horley for recognising all the hard work performers do across the region.

Sorcerer booking now open!

Booking is now open for our fantastic and fantastical production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer!

You can buy your tickets online now by clicking on our booking link wherever you see it or by scanning the QR code.

"This two-act comic opera was the third collaboration between W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. The plot satirically challenges the Victorian class system and creates the sort of topsy turvy storyline we now expect from their work.

Alexis, the son of Sir Marmaduke Poindexter, is captivated by the idea of love as a way to level all social ranks and distinctions. He invites sorcerer J. Wellington Wells to his wedding celebrations and asks her to give them a love potion for use on the villagers. This causes all those who drink it to fall in love with the first person they see, resulting in some comic mismatching. To overturn the spell, either the spell-purchaser or spell-caster must pay with their life. This aspect of the drama is brought to the fore in this production, which highlights the moral ambiguity of the characters who are perfectly happy to sacrifice an outsider to ensure they get their classic G&S happy-ever-after.

The opera was first shown in 1877 and then revived in 1884 and was so successful that Gilbert and Sullivan went on to write ‘HMS Pinafore’ and a string of other hits culminating in ‘The Mikado’ and ‘Yeomen of the Guard’."