Vol. 23 #11 29 Mar. 2022
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Student Independent News Nuachtán saor in aisce · Vol. 23 Issue 11 · 29 Mar. 2022
L-R: Clara Totman as the Reporter, Abbie Lane as Roxie and Neal McHugh as Billy Flynn.
GUMS Win Big at Musical Theatre Intervarsities Awards By Saoirse Higgins The NUI Galway Musical Society (GUMS) Intervarsities team have walked away with three awards after the Musical Theatre Intervarsities Awards over the bank holiday weekend.
L-R: Aoibh Tully, Éadaoin Collins, Brian Cahill, Jodie Finn, Eloise de Sousa.
The GUMS Intervarsities Team won Best Overall Show, Best Choreography and Best Visuals in Thurles with their rendition of Chicago. Director Kate O’Dowd, a first year Arts student, said of the win; “We’re all so
happy. Everyone put in so much work so to get the reward for winning was great.” Intervarsities are slightly different to a normal theatre piece as each production is only 20 minutes long, but Kate explained that this does not mean less work goes into process. “I really want people to know so much work was put it into it. It’s the same as a normal production, there’s so much behind the scenes that you don’t see. The cast gave up so much of their time, they were rehearsing 4 to 5 days a week at times.” The cast had 4 to 6 weeks to prepare for the competition and faced a set of challenges in that time. Like nearly everything in the last two years, Covid-19 reared its ugly head and unfortunately many of the cast got infected during rehearsal weeks. “There were times only 6 out of 20 of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2