A very Happy New Year to you all - though I confess I am writing this just before the New Year begins!
We had a very successful week with Calamity Jane - well done to Diane Haylor and Marc Pizer for directing and musical directing and we are pleased to announce that we hope they will join us for another show soon.
Our Carol Concert was very well attended as usual - John and Judith Timewell worked hard to enable the choir to reach the standard that John always insists on. I'm sure all in the concert and all who attended were pleased with the evening.
2008 brings more excitement to Bourne End! First AJ Gibson is putting on a show entitled "Beyond Broadway". This is for one night only and is on Friday 8 February. Tickets will be on sale very soon they are £10 each and can be ordered from 01628 524637 - make sure you get yours and watch our web site www.bournendoperatic.co.uk.
For our Spring Production we are putting on a concert version of Godspell. This will be held on Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th April and auditions will be on 31 January 2008 in the small hall at the Community Centre. There will be a sing through the previous week on 24 January 8pm. Do come and join us for this show.
Our AGM is to be held on 7th February 2008 at 7.30, followed by audition pieces sing through. Forms are attached for nominations for committee and nominations for the Sir Bernard Chacksfield Award. We would love to have some new faces on committee - the more people the less work each of us has to do!! Please consider being on our committee, we only meet about every 6-8 weeks for a couple of hours.
We hope to produce South Pacific in Autumn 2008 - always a very popular show and more details on this will follow in a subsequent Opsoc News.
Please contact any one of the committee should you require details on any of our news or wish to join us. If you would prefer to receive this by email please forward your email address to elaineba@btconnect.com. We look forward to hearing from you.