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Memories: Old Style Music Hall
Produced & Directed by Caroline Nobbs
Assisted by Melva Coe as Choreographer.

 

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Production date.
21st - 22nd September 2007

This is the third time the "Players" have produced a Music Hall and the revival of this very popular form of entertainment continues unabated. Both evenings the production was presented saw a full audience enjoying a representation of late-Victorian variety theatre in an informal setting.

Programme for the evening.
Chairman - Mr Brian Parkinson
Musical Accompanist - Madam Margo Snell

First session:
"In the Good Old Summertime" - Company of Singers
"Gone with the Wind" - Jo South & Gren Elphinestone-Davis
"Old Bazaar in Cario" - Melva Coe, Sidney Coe & Bill Preston
"Mrs Binns's Twins" - Maggie Redmill
(by Long Haines & Harper)
"Get Out and Get Under" - Peter Casemore & company
"Nicholas Knox of Nottingham" - Margaret Evans
(by Charles J Winter)
"Bicycle Built for Two" - Bill Preston & Maureen Lock
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - Caroline Nobbs & Roy Sach

Second session:
"Alice Blue Gown" - Maureen Lock
"A Fisherman's Friend" - The company of Players
(A Melodrama by Jim Sperinck)

Third session:
"Row, Row, Row" - Sid Coe & Company
"Just in Case" - Margaret Evans
(by Charlotte Mitchell)
"I Was a Good Little Girl" - Caroline Nobbs
"My Mother Doesn't Know I'm On the Stage" - Roy Sach
(by Billy Bennet)
Trio of melodies - Company of Singers
"Matlida" - Maggie Redmill
(by Hilaire Belloc)
Memories ensamble - Company of Singers
Finale "Old Bull and Bush" - Full Company.

The Company of Players
Margaret Evans, Maggie Redmill, Marion Reagan, Maureen Lock, Jo South, Melva Coe, Caroline Nobbs, Dorothy Karley, Bill Preston, Sid Coe, Peter Casemore, Gren Elphinestone-Davis, Roy Sach and Ron Karley.

The Players Crew:
Lights & Sound - Ian & Ron Karley
Front of House - Peter Foster and team
Stage - Andy Coetzee
Set & Props - Andy Coetzee & Jo South

Our grateful thanks go to the Londis Store, Milborne St Andrew for their assistance with ticket sales.