DP
News
16th June
Death
of a Salesman
was a great success, with good audiences each night, and lots
of very positive comments. It was very hard work , but the
final production was a credit to Carol, our director, and not least the
actors. Congratulations to Neil, Chris, and especially
Malcolm, for giving tremendous performances of such huge parts.
We are now having a well earned break before our next production,
which is to be 'The Mystery of Talbot Manor' , a murder
mystery night in our usual October slot. Jacqui Padden has
agreed to direct that as she has experience of these productions,
unlike the rest of us!
Besides that, we are holding our reading and casting nights for the
christmas panto on the 7th and 14th July, so if you want a part, make
sure you're there.
15th February
We're now
well under way
with rehearsals
for Death of a Salesman, with Carol directing. It is a very
challenging play, and I don't envy Malcolm having to learn the part of
Willy. It is starting to shape up though, and I think it
should
be a very successful production - all we need now are the ticket sales!
We held a committee meeting this week, and I thought you might like to
know some of the decisions taken. We have been invited to
perform a Murder Mystery night for Carol's sister in September, and so
it was thought that it would be a good idea to make our
October
production the same Murder Mystery, with the usual hotpot supper.
That will save a lot of learning of scripts, and we hope it
will
prove popular (and profitable).
Peter has offered us his 'Old King Cole' for the christmas panto, and
we hope to be reading the script soon.
It was also decided that as most people are involved with 'Salesman'
there would not be sufficient people with the time or inclination to
enter the Preston one-act festival this year, and so the committee will
not be supporting any entry.
On the subject of money, we made a healthy profit on the End of the
Pier show, and a reasonable profit on Wind in the Willows. This has
enabled us to decide to order a full set of black curtains for the
Civic Hall stage, which we should have in time for 'Salesman'.
It was also agreed to make a charitable donation from our profits to
the NW Air Ambulance Service.
We are still on the look-out for cheap storage. We looked at
a
potential site last week, but as is usually the case, it was too small,
and very expensive. If anyone knows of any unused garage/barn/shed
going cheap (ideally free) please let someone from the committee know.
Tickets for 'Salesman' will be available soon, so please start
canvassing your contacts. As it is not a comedy we will probably have
to try extra hard to sell tickets.
14th
January 2008
Well,
another
one in the
can as they say. Wind in the Willows was a great success, and
played to reasonable houses. Everybody seemed to enjoy it,
which
is the main object of the exercise. A big thanks to Irene for
directing, Ann and Tony for providing the musical accompaniment, The
Ormskirk Theatre Company for all of their excellent help backstage
(we'll do the same for you sometime, guys!) to Caz for being stage
manager and keeping everything under control, plus the loan of her
splendid sound equipment courtesy of SCAT, and everyone else who helped
out backstage and front of house. Without these people we
just
couldn't function.
We'll be reading the next play on the 16th (the day after
tomorrow as I write this - yes, a whole 3 days off!), which will be
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. We will see how it
reads
before we decide whether or not to do it. I'll keep you up to
date with developments.
16th
November 2007
As
you
can see this newsletter is a lot more informal than previous ones, as
it is
designed for email distribution and posting on our website.Please refer
to the website in future for
further newsletters.
As
we
had
a committee meeting last night I though it would be a good time to
produce a
short newsletter to let you know of our plans.
Wind
in
the Willows is well into rehearsals now, and plans are in hand to
make
most of
the scenery cut-outs which will be required.There will be a 'work
party' assembling at the scenery store on
Sunday
18th November to draw and cut out the various pieces. Hopefully we will
also be
able to get some paint on as well.Contact Malcolm for further details
as to times etc.
I
would
like to reinforce Irene's call for anyone who is unable to attend
rehearsals
for whatever reason, or is expecting to be late, to please contact her
and let
her know. It is important that everyone be there on time.
We
now
have the final figures for Steel Magnolias, and the loss wasn't as bad
as expected.The End of the Pier
show was a great success
and enjoyed by all. We
should also have
made a healthy profit to help offset the other losses.Thanks to Peter
for all of the organisation
of EOTPS.
We
have
'Death of a Saleseman' pencilled in for our spring production, but this
depends
on whether Carol can cast it as she wants and how it reads in
rehearsal.'You're
only young twice' has been suggested
as an alternative if 'Salesman' isn't suitable.
We
have
been asked to perform a murder mystery play, and Jacqui P has offered
to cast
and direct 'Talbot Manor' that we have previously purchased from OTC,
but have
not yet used.This will be our first
venture into the field of murder mysteries and should be a lot of fun.
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