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Sausages sizzle!

Aug 14, 2016 | Old News

 

A great big THANK YOU to Kim and Meg for organising and running this very successful event on Sunday 28th August.

From buying and carting the produce, to cutting up an enormous amount of onions, cooking and selling all day from an early start at 7am, these ladies deserve our praise.

Fortunately they were not alone in their endeavours and a band of helpers joined them   during the day — Thank you to Jane Anderson, Brad Beckett, Dave Nelson, Helen Smolders, Grace Elford, Genevieve Newman, Kerry & Peter Woods and Wally Fry.

And thank you to those members who came along and supported by buying a sausage or 2!

 

Last Call For Prospective Directors!

Aug 14, 2016 | Old News

SweatBookIt’s time again to be thinking about our seasons for next year—2017, and we encourage all new, experienced and enthusiastic directors to submit plays and musicals they would like to have produced on the Limelight Stage.

If you are interested in submitting, please supply 2 scripts, plus CD’s if submitting a musi- cal, so that the selection process can get started as soon as possible. Your scripts will be read by our 5 reading committee members who will then meet to discuss a balanced program of plays and musicals for the coming year.

When submitting your scripts, please also include an outline of how you envisage the staging of your production—type of set, special requirements, etc. But most particularly your ‘vision’ for the production. This will give our reading committee a better understanding of your play or musical. If you are submitting for the first time, it would be helpful for you to include a theatre CV of your experience.

Andrew Brown will be coordinating the reading committee and will be happy to accept your submissions ASAP. Submissions should have been received by the end of July, so if you haven’t acted yet, DO IT NOW!!

You can contact Andrew to arrange drop off of scripts at the theatre by email using the form below.

Contact Andrew

From the Editor – August 2016

Aug 14, 2016 | Old News

As I begin composing this month’s newsletter—a little late this month (apologies for that) – I wonder what the future of newsletters will be. Not just the Limelight letter but newsletters in general in our technological age.
Those of you who have requested a paper copy probably wonder what all the fuss is about! But our email and website based patrons now go to the internet to satisfy just about all of their enquiries and interests. A quick visit to “Google” will tell you almost anything and everything you need or want to know.
Whilst I’m happy to move with the times, and wouldn’t want to be without my computer, email and the internet, I still enjoy reading a book rather than the electronic substitute, I still read a ‘real’ newspaper and often print the infor- mation I glean from the internet to read it.

 

No comments needed—just the musings of your editor!

 

Shelley

From the President – August 2016

Aug 6, 2016 | Presidents Message

MikeGibbsHi Everyone,

 

As I’ve mentioned on a couple of occasions previously, the committee have been developing a strategic plan which will enable us to demonstrate to the city that we have a sound plan for where the theatre is headed over the next five years and some of the things we have to do to get there. We’ve also included a financial plan which is one of the City’s requirements of our lease.

We have now endorsed this document and we’ll shortly publish it on the website. We have allocated a committee member to be responsible for each of the accountabilities in the document and we’ll be tracking progress at committee meetings. Please have a read and let one of your committee know of any comments/improvements you may have. This will be a living document, and hopefully committees in the future will revisit it at least annually to revise it to meet the current environment.

You may have noticed that the new online booking system is now up and running. A huge thank you must go to Nigel Rarp for all his work with both PatronBase (the developers of the booking system) and the Commonwealth Bank (who manage our credit card processing) to finally get the system working. I think it’s fair to say that the lack of an online system has had an impact on attendances at the last couple of shows so hopefully Skylight should benefit from the new system’s availability.
All for now

Mike Gibbs

Blitz – The Musical – Cast Announced

Jul 11, 2016 | Past Shows

After extensive meetings, readings and auditions the following people were cast in our end of year musical:

THE LADIES

Mrs Blitzstein – Sue Vincent

Carol Blitzstein – Joanna Elliot

Rachael Blitzstein – Colleen Bradford

Cissy Blitzstein – Colleen Hopkins

Joyce Matthews – Libby Cooper

Elise – Tania Morrow

Mrs Murphy – Jane Anderson

Mrs Joseph – Kerry Goode

Peg Murphy – Catherine Dunn

School Teacher – Elinor King

Mrs Sen – Karen Thompson

Mrs Smith – Meg Consendine

Francis Locke – Lucie Lockyer

THE GENTS

Harry Blitzstein – Adrian Price

Alfred Lock- Alan Markham

Georgie Lock- Oliver Bourne

Ernie Nearmiss – Tim Riessen

Mr Joseph – David Nelson

Mr Murphy – Glen Raven

Mr Sen – RJ Smolders

Buddy Boy – Andrew Brown

Sidney Blitzstein – Brandon Orgill

Tommy Blackwell – Zackery Gosatti

Ladies: as Nurses, Nuns, Young mothers, and Housewives – Carly Tornatora, Carol Keppler, Lauren Hulatt, Kimberley Hill, Hayley Green, Bonnie Bonnick.

Gents as Policemen, Soldiers, Firemen, road sweepers, et al – Dave Browning and Brad Beckett.

Children: Grace Elford, Arion Marama, Katie Maloney, Faye Whitwell, Indiana Rawan, Isabel Reen, Jenna McGouhan-Shaw, Lilly Varley, Georgie Locker, Asha MacDonald Razvi and Natalie Zappa.