Buttershaw St. Paul’s Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society (Founded 1932)
Present
Affiliated to the National Operatic & Dramatic Association Registered Charity No.517572
(Beaumont Version)
An amateur production supporting local charities
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter Original Book by PG Wodehouse & Guy Bolton New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse Originally produced by Lincoln Centre Theatre, New York by arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Ltd of New York
Directed by Steve Tetlow Musical Director Ian Sapiro Choreographer Janet Fletcher Orchestral Players from the University of Leeds
25th to 29th January 2011
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President
Colin Marchant
Safety Officer
Phil Jowett
Life Members
Mollie Alred Dick Gregson Tony Gregson Marian Hardy Rita Horner Alan Kilshaw Bessie Klenk Norman Klenk Marion Priestley Roger Stevenson
Honorary Rehersal Pianist
Roger Stevenson
Honorary Chorus Leader
Maureen Colbert
Assistant Pianists
Mark Bolland Joyce Gill Bob Lancaster Anne Tonks
Stage Manager
Simon Tonks
Property Masters
Renee Downie Janet Saunders
Electricians
Michael Bastow Roy Smith Josh Freeman
Sound
Mark Ellis
Make-up
Anne Holroyd Skaii Blue Dee Hughes
Wardrobe
Tony Gregson Cathryn Laban
Prompter
Rene Lodge
Vice Presidents
Julie Burrows Norman Butterfield Marian Eastwood Vincent Franklin Elizabeth McMahon Geoff McMahon David Shinn Colin Tordoff Marjorie Wood Vicar of St Paul’s Church
Chairman
Anne Tonks
Treasurer
Philip Robinson
Secretary
Gillian Bastow
Assistant Secretary Natalie Mason Business Manager
Paul Tarver
Ticket Secretary
Martha Tarver
Executive Committee
Mary Benn Linda Hensby Alan Hirst Shirley Hodgson Phil Jowett Cath Laban Sarah Rhodes Margaret Shaw
Casting Committee
Front of House TeamGillian Bastow Christa D’Apolito Shirley Hodgson Tony Gregson Rehearsal Refreshments
Shirley Hodgson Molly Mayes
Auditors
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Tony Gregson Rita Horner Bessie Klenk Colin Marchant Marjorie Wood
Colin Marchant President
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It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this year’s production of Anything Goes on board the SS American cruise ship. The show is pure nonsense and good fun with many memorable songs from Cole Porter which I’m sure you will enjoy.
Anne Tonks - C hairman
Each year it gets more and more difficult to make ends meet as costs rise and audiences seem to dwindle. The show last year cost over £25000, with the theatre alone costing almost a third of that figure. However, thanks to prudent management and loyal support from our audiences, we actually made a profit. This meant that, along with the profit from our Junior Production and fundraising, we were able to make donations to St Paul’s Church, the Air Ambulance, Candelighters, Bradford Cancer Support and Autistic Society totalling £2500. We really depend on our audiences and value your support this year to enable us to continue performing here at St George’s Hall.
Our thanks go to our Production team of Janet, Steve and Ian who put a lot of time and effort into our shows and attend so many rehearsals no matter what the weather! We also thank our stage crew, lighting, sound, props and costume teams who give us a lot of valuable time and energy but hopefully, you never see! We look forward to seeing you at our Junior production in April at Cleckheaton Town Hall when we present Half a Sixpence, the Tommy Steele classic, and we hope to see you, your family and friends next January as we give Oliver, the Dickensian musical. I’m sure this one will leave you wanting MORE…
Enjoy this performance, let’s hope it’s all plain sailing
Bon Voyage!!
Anne Tonks
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Steve Tetlow - Director
Roger Stevenso n - Accompanist
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Andy Redfern - Billy Crocker
Andy Redfern (Billy Crocker) After taking a break from the stage for the past couple of years, Andy made his return last year playing the lead role of Don in our production of ‘Summer Holiday’. Andy is a regular snowboarder and all-round adrenaline junkie, and he says that that buzz of performing on stage is what draws him to take part in amateur dramatic productions. Andy has enjoyed the challenge of playing Billy, and perfecting the number of different accents Billy uses throughout the show has really tested his dramatic ability. In between balancing rehearsals with his day job as the director of a growing Elland-based business, Andy is a member of a boxing club and enjoys socialising with friends. He is also a keen food-lover and considers himself to be a dab hand in the kitchen, where he can often be found trying out new recipes.
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Kathryn Tonks (Reno Sweeney) Kathryn is pleased to be back on board with the Society after last year’s bus adventure in Summer Holiday. Between the London Bus and SS American Kathryn took a step back in time earlier this year to play Catherine in “The Winslow Boy” at Keighley Playhouse. However refreshing the change to straight plays, Kathryn is always most at home in a musical. She has enjoyed finding her sea legs in learning the high energy routines this year and hopes you love watching them as much as she does performing them.
Amy Jagger (Erma)
Amy Jagger - Erma
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By day, Amy works in Marketing for an international manufacturing company. By night, she is Erma – gangster’s moll and side-kick to Public Enemy Number Thirteen! For months her alias has gone undiscovered but this week Amy fears all will be revealed as the cast board this ocean liner where, frankly, Anything Goes! Amy caught the acting bug from her parents and has enjoyed playing various parts over the years since she took on her first role as young Jane Eyre with Halifax Thespians when she was 12. She played Barbara in BSP’s production of Summer Holiday last year and has recently danced (for her life!) as Graziella in Halifax Light Opera Society’s updated version of West Side Story. Amy is really looking forward to performing a fun character role in this popular musical comedy.
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Anne Tonks - Evangelin e
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Hannah Smithies (Hope Harcourt)
Anne Tonks (Evangeline Harcourt)
‘Anything Goes’ will be Hannah’s fourth production with BSPAODS and she is really looking forward to playing the part of Hope; who is very different from characters she has played in the past. As well as performing with Buttershaw, Hannah is currently training to be a Midwife at Bradford University which she ‘absolutely loves’. However, her studies come first and after this production she is taking a back seat from ‘Am dram’ for a couple of years until she is qualified. She hopes to return to Buttershaw St. Paul’s in the future.
Anne joined Buttershaw in 1973 for Buttershaw’s World Amateur Premiere of Charlie Girl when they presented their shows in the schoolrooms at St Paul’s Church. She has since gone on to play many leading roles, co-ordinated the concert party, directed the Junior Productions, played piano for rehearsals, worked back stage and is now our Chairman. She is delighted to still be treading the boards especially with Kathryn, her daughter in the leading role of Reno this year.
Evelyn Oakleigh Jonny Hirst - Lord
Alan Hirst - El isha Whitney
Rick Whyte (Moonface Martin)
Jonny Hirst (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh)
Alan Hirst (Elisha Whitney)
"Rick's been away from BSP for two years, alternating between being very silly and very serious as Franz in The Producers, Mark Cohen in Rent, Le Fou in Beauty & the Beast and Peter in JC Superstar over in Halifax. He's delighted to be back home and being silly again with BSP. Tweet tweet."
After performing as a youngster with BSP Juniors for many years, Johnny’s first senior production was Kiss Me Kate. Following University and a spell working abroad, Johnny returned for the millennium production of Merry Widow and has now played many principal parts with the Society as well as taking a variety of leading roles with shows in Halifax and Huddersfield.
Alan’s first show with BSP was also the 1973 production of ‘Charlie Girl’ and he has appeared in every show except one since then. Besides playing many principal roles for the Society, Alan has been responsible for the publicity and for producing the show Programmes since the Society moved to the Library Theatre in 1978.
Rick Whyte - M oonface Martin
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18th to 20th May 2011
22ND TO 26TH
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illy Crocker, a young love-sick Wall Street broker, stows away on the transatlantic liner S.S. American, in hope of winning the heart of his beloved Hope Harcourt. His boss, Yale graduate Elisha J. Whitney who is planning to attend an important ' business venture' in England is also on board. Hope is on her way to England to be married to her fiancÊ Lord Evelyn Oakleigh a stuffy, hapless British nobleman. Also on the boat are "Moonface" Martin, a second-rate gangster labelled "Public Enemy Number 13," disguised as a minister, and his friend Erma. They have also, mistakenly, left behind their leader, "Snake Eyes" Johnson, Public Enemy 1. On board, Crocker runs into his friend, Reno Sweeney, an evangelizing nightclub singer, who resolves to help Billy win over Hope, to the dismay of Hope's mother, the recently widowed Evangeline Harcourt, who insists she marry Evelyn. Billy simultaneously learns the true identities of Moonface and Erma, and in exchange for his silence, they join the plot to break up Hope and Evelyn. However, as Billy doesn't have a ticket or passport, Moonface lets him have Snake Eyes Johnson's, without telling him to whom they belong. But the ship’s crew figure out that Public Enemy Number 1 is on board, and Billy has to take on a number of hilarious disguises to hide from them, which at first makes Hope angry with him. As the show progresses, Hope, Evelyn, Billy, Reno, Elisha, Evangeline, Erma, and Moonface all end up in a variety of compromising positions with members of the opposite sex, with Reno seducing Evelyn Oakleigh, originally just to get seen by Hope or Mrs. Harcourt so they would reject him, but eventually she wins him over for real and they even get married. In a frantic finale, Hope and Billy also get married, Mrs. Harcourt and Mr Whitney get married, and Moonface Martin receives a notice on board that the government considers him "harmless." How’s that for a happy ending!
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Reno Sweeney Hope Harcourt Erma Evangeline Harcourt Moonface Martin Sir Evelyn Oakleigh Billy Crocker Elisha Whitney Rev. Henry T. Dobson Purser Hedda Hopper Luke John Captain Cheeky
Kathryn Tonks Hannah Smithies Amy Jagger Anne Tonks Rick Whyte Jonny Hirst Andy Redfern Alan Hirst Phil Jowett Sam Higgins Brenda Hirst Richard Bartlett Mason Gurney Paul Tarver Silvie
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ACT ONE Overture I Get a Kick out of You There’s No Cure Like Travel Bon Voyage You’re the Top Easy to Love The Crew Song There’ll Always be a Lady Fair Friendship It’s De-Lovely Anything Goes
Reno Captain and Company Sailors and Passengers Reno and Billy Billy Whitney Sailors Quartet Reno and Moon Hope and Billy Reno and Company
INTERVAL ACT TWO Entr’acte Public Enemy Number One Captain, Purser and Company Blow Gabriel Blow Reno and Company Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye Hope Be Like the Bluebird Moon All Through the Night Hope, Billy and Company The Gypsy in Me Evelyn Buddie, Beware Erma and Sailors Bon Voyage, Reprise Anything Goes Reprise I Get a Kick out of You Reprise Anything Goes Finale Reprise
Richard Bartlett Steve Blamires Phil Jowett Paul Tarver
Lucy Blamires Sarah Ludbrooke Dara Taylor Vicky West
Helen Habergham Laura Hopkinson Emma Wainwright
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Moonface Rick Whyte
Erma Amy Jagger
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Evelyn Hope
Jonny Hirst
Hannah Smithies
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Mr & Mrs D. Alred Mr & Mrs M. Bastow Mr & Mrs M. Bolland Mr & Mrs H. Branthwaite Mr & Mrs T. Burrows Mr & Mrs N. Butterfield Mr & Mrs J. Eastwood Mr V. A. Gregson Mrs R. Haley Mr & Mrs P. Hensby Miss S. Hodgson Mr & Mrs M. Horner Mr & Mrs R. Jackson Mr & Mrs Norman Klenk Mr & Mrs Neil Klenk Mr & Mrs B. Lymbery Mr & Mrs A. G. Mcmahon Mrs M. Moody Mr & Mrs R. W. Morgan Mr J. Nelson Mrs M. Priestley Mr & Mrs T. Priestley Mr & Mrs M. Shaw Mr & Mrs D. Shinn Mr John S. H. Smith Mr & Mrs Raymond Smith Mr & Mrs S. Tonks Mr C. Tordoff Mrs M. Wood
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Senior Wayfarers St Johns Church Great Horton Horton Bank Top Methodist Wednesday Group Sue Jackson's Party Grange Technology College Staff Vera McLelland's Party Wibsey Methodist Wednesday Group St Margaret's - Frizinghall Farfield Primary School Education Bradford The Jowett Family Margaret Shaw’s Party Qualsafe Ruth & Anna’s Party Hannah Smithies Party St Martin’s, Heaton We apologise to anyone who has been inadvertently omitted from this listing or whose names were not available at time of going to press.
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Evangeline
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Anne Tonks
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Purser Sam Higgins
Elisha Alan Hirst
The Society wishes to thank the following who have assisted with this production... The Governors of St Paul’s C of E Primary School, Buttershaw for rehearsal facilities. Scenery and props hire from Brighouse Theatre Group. Costumes designed and supplied by Applause Theatre Costumes Limited. Leslie Peebles for the loan of Sylvie. BBC Radio Leeds, The Pulse, Telegraph and Argus, Halifax Courier and Spenborough Guardian for their assistance with publicity. Programme compilation and photography by Alan Hirst Photography location courtesy of The Circle Lounge, Halifax Programme artwork and design by Simon Frater. Email: simon@themacroom.co.uk Printed by Hart and Clough Ltd. Web: www.hartandclough.co.uk Our Patrons, Sponsors and Advertisers for their support.
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1932
Society formed as the ‘Black and White Concert Party’
At the Schoolrooms 1934 HMS PINAFORE 1935 MIKADO 1936 YEOMEN OF THE GUARD 1937 GONDOLIERS 1938 ARCADIANS 1939 WILD FLOWER 1947 CINDERELLA 1948 COUNTRY GIRL 1949 FLORA DORA 1950 GOODNIGHT VIENNA 1951 RIO RITA 1952 MAGYAR MELODY 1953 OUR MISS GIBBS 1954 CARISSIMA 1955 BLESS THE BRIDE 1956 DESERT SONG 1957 GYPSY PRINCESS 1958 QUAKER GIRL 1959 BRIGADOON 1960 OKLAHOMA 1961 NO NO NANNETTE 1962 LOVE FROM JUDY 1963 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN 1964 FINIANS RAINBOW 1965 MERRY WIDOW 1966 ARCADIANS 1967 WHITE HORSE INN 1968 WILD VIOLETS 1969 WALTZES FROM VIENNA 1970 ME AND MY GIRL 1971 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 1972 MY FAIR LADY 1973 CHARLIE GIRL 1974 HELLO DOLLY 1975 WALTZ WITHOUT END 1976 CALAMITY JANE 1977 VAGABOND KING
At the Library Theatre, Bradford 1978 DESERT SONG 1979 OKLAHOMA 1980 CAROUSEL 1981 MERRY WIDOW 1982 BRIGADOON 1983 STUDENT PRINCE 1984 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN 1985 ROCK NATIVITY 1986 HALF A SIXPENCE 1987 GUYS AND DOLLS 1988 PIRATES OF PENZANCE 1989 LOVE FROM JUDY 1990 GODSPELL At St George’s Hall, Bradford 1991 DIE FLEDERMAUS 1992 MY FAIR LADY 1993 THE KING AND I 1994 KISS ME KATE 1995 CHESS 1996 THE MUSIC MAN 1997 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 1998 SHOWBOAT 1999 BARNUM 2000 MERRY WIDOW 2001 42nd STREET BELLAS* 2002 ME AND MY GIRL JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR* 2003 MACK AND MABEL 2004 BRIGADOON 2005 CRAZY FOR YOU 2006 CAROUSEL 2007 SWEET CHARITY 2008 THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE 2009 PIRATES OF PENZANCE 2010 SUMMER HOLIDAY * At Buttershaw St Paul’s Church
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