Scream 2015-09 - Sandgate Theatre Inc.

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PO BOX 437 SANDGATE. Q 4017
Email: [email protected] Please keep track of what’s happening at Sandgate
Theatre by joining/like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com and/or our website at www.sandgatetheatre.org
Newsletter Editor: - Glenda Lawrence
SCREAM
Presidents
Message
Sandgate Theatre Inc.....presents
from Peter Lovely
Everyone’s favourite vicar is
coming to Sandgate Theatre in
November 2015.All of the main
characters from the hugely
popular TV series are required–
Alice, Hugo, Frank, Owen, Jim,
Mrs Cropley, David and of
course Geraldine
Congratulations to the cast and crew
(and the many unheralded helpers) of
our recent hit production '
STEPPING OUT ...... The Musical '.
Director Lilian Harrington put together a
stunning show that our loyal
audiences loved.
Special thanks must go to Maxine
Chisholm who was our vocal coach and
Kara Fisher who embraced the role of
choreographer.
The display by the Sandgate Museum
during the season generated a lot of
interest; watch this space for the new
guest spot when our next show hits
the stage.
We have just started rehearsing for our
next major production opening in
November which is the popular and wellknown 'THE VICAR OF DIBLEY.'
MEMO TO ALL FRIENDS OF SANDGATE
THEATRE
Our tool chest needs donations of
all hand tools, drill bits, screws and
power drills, etc to replenish stocks.
Keep smiling, from Peter Lovely
President - Sandgate Theatre Inc.
See you at the theatre...........Peter Lovely
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See our website for further details
www.sandgatetheatre.org Or
A stage play adaption by David Jones from the
original TV series by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer with permission of Tiger
Aspect Productions.
Directed by David & Caitilin Jones
SANDGATE TOWN HALL
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20 21st 27th 28th November...7.30pm
Matinees-21st & 29th Nov...2.00 pm
BOOKINGS.. Phone Chris..32832608
or 0403886458
And the cast for Vicar of Dibley are.....
Geraldine Grainger …………..Jenny Walsh
Alice Horton (nee Tinker)…….Fran Smith
Letitia Cropley…………………Christine Linning
David Horton………………….Tom Corbett
Frank Pickle ……………….....Peter Lovely
Jim Trott ……………………….Anthony Bamford
Owen Newitt……………………Ron Liekefett
Hugo Horton……………………David Corrie
BYO food and drinks*
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visit/like our Facebook page
*other refreshments (tea, coffee, drinks, chips, chocs)
available at FOH.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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2015
2015
PRESIDENT – Peter Lovely
VICE PRESIDENT - David Jones
SECRETARY - Glenda Lawrence
TREASURER - Kerry Heath
STAGE MANAGER - Chris Packman
PUBLICITY & PR - VACANT**
MARKETING & GRANTS -Kerry
Heath & Ruth Fielding-Barnsley
YARRAGEH FESTIVAL
COORDINATOR - Ruth Fielding
Barnsley
Assisted by....Glenda Lawrence
FRONT OF HOUSE COORDINATOR
- Caitlin Jones
LIGHTING & SOUND - Vacant
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
- Bridget Robson
BOOKINGS – Chris Packman
32832608/0403886458
PHOTOGRAPHER..........Peter Lovely
TH
40 ANNIVERSARY .............results
Best Play of the Festival......’DOWN CAME A JUMBUCK’ – ACT 1(+ Perpetual Trophy & $100)
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2 Best play........................’DAD’S GIRLS’ – FRONT ROW THEATRE (+ $50)
Best Director......... JOHN SAYLES’ – ACT 1 (Down Came a Jumbuck)(+ Perpetual Trophy)
Best Actor (Male) .................JAKE HOLLINGSWORTH – ACT 1 (Down Came a Jumbuck)
Best Actor (Female) ..............CHERYL BARTLETT – ACT 1 (Down Came a Jumbuck)
Best Actor (Male) - Junior......... JARRED LANGTREE – ROAR (Like a Metaphor)
Best Actor (Female) Junior......... ASHLEY PROSSER – ROAR (Like a Metaphor)
Best Supporting Actor (Male).............PAT OCALLAGHAN – ACT 1 (Down Came a Jumbuck)
Best Supporting Actor (Female)...BERNADETTE SMITH – FRONT ROW THEATRE (Dad’s Girls)
Adjudicator Award.................JULIE BRAY – FRONT ROW THEATRE (Dad’s Girls)
Adjudicator Certificates & Star............... LIAM HARTLEY – ROAR (Like a Metaphor)
CHARLOTTE RUBENDRA –ROAR (Revolting Rhymes), ASHLEY LAW – ROAR (Stories from
the Pound) Honorable Mention – THOMAS BAPTY – ROAR (Revolting Rhymes)
Congratulations to all the winners………..
Thanks to the support of Councillor Jared Cassidy (Deagon Ward) and State Member of
Parliment for – Stirling Hinchliffe.
TROPHIES SPONSORED by....Councillor Jared Cassidy, Stirling Hinchliffe - MP Sandgate
Horace & Mary Evan, David Corrie, Kerry Heath & Family, Glenda Lawrence, Bridget Robson.
THANKS to..... UNI- DARTS TROPHIES
3 O’Dare Street, BRIGHTON. Q, 4017
Thank you to everyone who helped, worked behind the scenes, sponsored trophies &
participated. We are very pleased with how the festival went, with 8 plays in all. Looking
forward to an even bigger more successful year in 2016…..Ruth & Glenda
WEB DESIGNER - Paul Crosland
www.sandgatetheatre.org
PO. BOX 437, Sandgate, Qld, 4017.
& facebook......
https://www.facebook.com/grou
ps/315464484575/
PATRONS – Victoria Newton (Jared
Cassidy) & Stirling Hincliffe.
‘
‘IT’S ON IT’S OFF’
A Comedy - to be directed by Peter Murray
TUES 24TH & THURS 26TH NOV 2016
@ Sandgate Town Hall – 7pm
Enquiries : contact Peter Murray 0401 289 315
Many hands make light
work’ contact....Front of
House Co-Ordinator
CAITLIN JONES 0413 533 193
MEMBERS with VISION for our
COMMUNITY THEATRE’S FUTURE
(We welcome suggestions which could
help improve our theatre in anyway.
Please contact any of the Committee
members, or come along to one of our
Monthly meetings
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
nd
2
Monday of each month
@ 7pm = Sandgate Hawks
Sporting Club - Lemke Rd,
Taigum (Downstairs Room)
or [email protected]
(For performances in MARCH 2016)
UPCOMING SHOWS for 2015 & 2016
(Make a note in your diaries)
NOVEMBER 20,21,27,28,29. – “VICAR of DIBLEY” Comedy
directed by - David & Caitlin Jones
MARCH 11,12,18,19,20 – “IT’S ON, IT’S OFF’
Comedy – Director Peter Murray
* AGM - FEB 9 @ Sandgate Town Hall....7pm
MAY 20,21,22,17,28,29 - ONE ACT PLAYS – TBA
AUGUST – 12,13,19,20,21 – MAJOR PLAY – TBA
SEPT 9 & 10 – YARRAGEH DRAMA FESTIVAL
Welcome to come earlier & have
dinner if you wish
NOVEMBER – 18,19,20, 25,26,27 – AGATHA CHRISTIE tba Drama – Director Christine
Linning
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WE WANT
YOU!!!
" Your theatre would like to conduct
various informal events for members,
e.g. Play readings, Bowling nights,
Progressive dinners, Trivia nights, etc.
All suggestions welcome..........
MEMO TO ALL FRIENDS
of SANDGATE THEATRE
Our tool chest needs donations of
all hand tools, drill bits, screws and
power drills, etc to replenish stocks.
WANTED……for our season in 2016.
SUBMIT YOUR PLAYS NOW…..thanks
‘FRONT OF HOUSE’
Many hands make light work’ Front of house is
always a big part of any production. We are looking for
people to help with the next production ’VICAR OF DIBLEY’
Contact....Front of House Co-Ordinator
CAITLIN JONES 0413 533 193
DID YOU KNOW?.....
SANDGATE THEATRE has a new facebook ‘page’(instead of a
group page, which will eventually be closed)
Please go to our new page & ‘like’ it.
AROUND THE TRAPS
*The Mousetrap Theatre Company Inc – Redcliffe
RUMOURS – Comedy by Neil Simon
Sept 25, 26 - 7.30pm Sun 27 - 2pm
Oct 2, 3, 9, 10 – 7.30pm Sun 4 & 11 - 2pm
Bookings - Ph 0439 954719
www.mousetraptheatre.asn.au
*KSP Theatre- Burpengary
ONE HIT WONDERS
18,19,25,26 Sept at 7.30pm
20 Sept at 2.30pm
Bookings – 3888 8580
www.ksptheatreinc.net
*Act 1 Theatre – Strathpine
“UP POMPEII”
Directed by (award winning) John Sayles.
October 23,24, 30.31 @ 8pm
st
Nov 1 @ 2pm 6, 7 @ 8pm
Bookings 0458 579 269
If you would like to have articles or information included in the
newsletter, please contact...Glenda on 34108779 or [email protected] or
email to [email protected]
www.act1theatreinc.com
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‘STEPPING OUT – the musical’
Directors report by Lilian Harrington
As the director of Stepping Out, I would to just like to say
a big thank you to all cast and crew involved in this
production. It has certainly brought a lot of new members
and faces to the club and much needed new talent to the
theatre group as well as new audience.
It was both a challenge and fun to direct; but it was a blessing to have the talents of tap choreographer Kara Fisher and
accomplished pianist Trish Kiesseler (a first time on stage for Trish ), as well as guidance from Maxine Chisholm in the vocals.
Many people didn’t realise that the cast, for the most part, did not have any tap skills when they started rehearsing, and that
they had to learn to tap in the short rehearsal period of approximately 12weeks, cast had to work on both the tap and the
singing .Some of the songs were written in a blues /funky style –and were quite difficult to learn to sing, so it was no mean feat
for the cast to sing them confidently I always said that you can overlook a bad step in the tap, but you can’t overlook a bad
note in a song! Colleen Clohesy, who played the bubbly Sylvia, always entertained us with her subsequent trips to the
chiropractor after intensive tap sessions! .
There were some last minute challenges in the final stages of rehearsal when half the cast came down with the winter flu
virus; it took time to recover from -and to make up valuable rehearsal time, coupled with the fact that a few cast had other
unforeseen commitments . I guess it would have facilitated matters if we could have accessed small microphones to help
those recovering their vocal capacity after the flu, but the cast managed nevertheless ,this is a credit to their talent
; along with no special effects used in the showcase, the cast displayed their special skills when dressed in tail coats and top
hats borrowed from Villanova Players, they pulled off a very polished showcase in the finale!
My special thanks goes to those very special club members who gave us so much support : Christopher Packman, Kerry Heath
and Peter Lovely,( who stepped into to assist with publicity), thank you . As well as special thanks to Wendy Thomas, who
assisted with tap, and to back stage dressers : Jenny Lynch, Christine Linning, and Glenda Lawrence, the Sandgate tech team Tim Yin, Gordon Heath, Peter Donato, and Ron Liekefett , for their help and support.
Sandgate Theatre can be pleased for Peter Lovely’s innovative front of house organisation, with the special historical society
displays in the hallway, which interested many in the audience, and along with the friendly café style theatre set up in the
auditorium, it all culminated in a positive friendly atmosphere and augers well for our next production.
Lilian Harrington
BREAK A LEG ! This article will be of interest to our legion of readers who
wonder where the phrase above comes from.
Why do people tell actors to “break a leg” before a performance? The term, of course, means “do well” or “have a great show” and is typically
used before a stage performance, a show, or an audition. (I have never.heard it used before filming a movie on any of the movies I’ve been
involved with, but I guess it can be used in that sense too). But I’m sure you’re more interested in the origin of “break a leg”.
Like many popular sayings and terms, the origin of “break a leg” is nebulous and disputed. The term “break a leg” was used originally, many
say, to discourage evil spirits from deliberately causing one’s performance to suffer.
According to this theory, wishing someone “good luck” would be invoking the “evil eye”. So “good luck” would actually cause bad luck for the
actor. Thus, “break a leg”, by this logic, would be a wish for good luck. This is in line with the first documented instance of someone saying
“break a leg” in terms of wishing them luck. In an October 1, 1921 edition of the New Statesman, Robert Wilson Lynd is talking about it being
unlucky in horse racing to wish someone luck so “you should say something insulting such as, ‘May you break your leg!” He also mentions
that theatre people are the second most superstitious group next to those involved in horse racing.
The term “break a leg” may be traced back to the Elizabethan language. To “break a leg”, in Shakespeare’s time, meant, literally, to bow- by
bending at the knee. Since a successful actor would “break a leg” onstage and receive applause, the phrase would, in effect, be a wish for
good luck. However, in the 16th century “break a leg” also meant to give birth to an illegitimate child, which is hard to connect to the
theatrical world.
Others trace “break a leg” to the tradition of audiences in Ancient Greece. Instead of applauding actors, audiences would stomp their feet.
Stomping to the point of actually breaking a leg is unlikely- but still, the phrase may be figurative and not literal.
An interesting historical theory attributes “break a leg” to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This theory traces the term to the great 19th
century actor, John Wilkes Booth, who, of course, shot President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in 1865. After Booth shot the President, he jumped
from Lincoln’s upper box seat onto the stage, where he literally “broke his leg”. (Some also present this as a possibly origin of the popular
phrase comedians and comics use for a successful show: “I killed them.” / “I killed the audience.”)
Landing a role in show business is called “getting a break” and being newly successful is called “breaking into the business”. These also may
be where the “break a leg” term evolves from.
Bonus Fact:Ballet dancers have their own version of “break a leg” which connects to the superstitious concept of not wishing other dancers
“good luck”. They will say “Merde!” This translates in English to a well-known four-letter word that describes human waste. This term seems
more expressive of not evoking ill or bad luck, but as well may imply feelings related to stage fright or anxiety before a performance.