Wincanton Rehearsal No.3

Wincanton Rehearsal No.2

Wincanton Rehearsal

Here's last weeks efforts!

Hi folks - excellent session in Wincanton last week - I hope you are all raring to go on Thursday.
As we said - ladies go to the school as usual - men to Church House please.

Please make sure you all come to rehearsals - we are learning the moves now - very very important to be there. I find it hard enough to learn the moves and I haven't missed a rehearsal yet !! No excuses (unless they are interesting).

Please arrive ready to START rehearsing at 8:00 pm too - we're getting a bit slack !!!!!

You will find a new rehearsal schedule to get us to the end of January here please download and look at it.

See you on Thursday (chaps)

Cheers

Geoff

Wednesday 26th Nov Martial Arts Studio, Wincanton

Remember folks to meet for 8:00pm on WEDNESDAY 26th Nov at Wincanton Karate Centre (Honbu) . Paul Hacker will give us a session on Karate - it should be great fun and interesting too.
Look at the video a few posts down - you'll spot quite a few of our moves (Naomi you're marvellous !!)

The location is :

The Tythings Commercial Centre
Wincanton
Somerset BA9 9RZ


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See you there.

Cast and Rehearsal Information

Well now we have got the casting we can carry on with rehearsing.
Remember
16th - men at 8:00pm Ladies at 8:30pm
23rd - All at 8:00pm and EGM
30th - Soloists at Carolines (ask if you have never been before)
6th Nov - in the school hall - walk through
pdf file of rehearsals is Here

I will print librettos over the next couple of weeks - if you can't wait
pdf file is Here

I have created a cast list - please check and let me know if you are missing - I do apologise if you have been missed !!
(Ellie and Allison not on it at the moment - I presume this is correct)
In Excel
In pdf
In OpenOffice

See you on Thursday(s)

Auditions for Mikado

Thank you all very much for auditioning. Caroline and I (assisted by Naomi an Allison) had to make some very hard choices for the parts. You were all excellent. We could probably put forward 4 casts for the show.

I am sorry that you could not all have parts - but there are only 9 principals in the Mikado. Blame Mr Gilbert!!

- so the official line-up is :-

Yum-Yum - Jessie
Pitti-Sing - Ruth
Peep-Bo - Katharine
Katisha - Sarah

Nanki-Pooh - Tony
Ko-Ko - Lloyd Davies
Pish-Tush - John
Pooh-Bah - Andrew
Mikado - Bernard

We may appoint understudies later on. We have so much talent that we could do this this year.

Thank you all again - it's going to be a great show.

Geoff

Wincanton Martial Arts Studio Opening

Photo of David Heath MP cutting the ribbon.

Naomi, Jan and I went to the opening of the new Wincanton Martial Arts centre on Saturday. They are going to help us with purchasing Gi s (costumes) and of course with some of the "moves".
The video is a short (very energetic demonstration Kata (martial arts routine)
We hope to base a lot of the movements in the Mikado on this type of thing (with a bit less
crashing to the ground for most of us I guess)

Links to rehearsal files and Audition Details

Links to mp3 files of the music

Act1

Act 2

Auditions
Date : 2 October 2008, 20:00, Methodist Upper Room
Who should attend : Everyone !!! the auditions will be part of the rehearsal

The Audition Pieces

Rehearsal Schedule (vsn 1 - until half term)

The Mikado - 2009

2009 opera - The Mikado - with a Karate / Martial Arts flavour.
I will post things in here for rehearsals, links to rehearsal files (mp3 files here and so on.

Geoff