BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Beauty and the Beast was staged at Bohunt from Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th February 2005.BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
For the first time it was not written by Vanessa, we used a script written by John Morley, supplied by NODA. Thanks to NODA for supplying the script - and many thanks to NODA Southern Area for awarding the Programme the 'Best Programme' Award.
The programme was designed by Murzi Design.
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Greetings friends, and welcome to this year's Pantomime, Liphook Methodist Amateur Dramatic Company's 2005 production of "Beauty and the Beast".
If you have been to one (or many) of our Pantomimes before, please throw yourself into the proceedings, as I am told you always do, and please laugh out loud, even if you've heard some of the jokes before. If you are new to our productions, as indeed I am, then I am sure you are in for a real treat.
2005 began with a season of deep sadness throughout the world. It seems to me that this year's Pantomime is therefore all the more important because it speaks of the unquenchable nature of the human spirit. A spirit which can turn mourning into dancing, sadness into song, and grief into laughter. A spirit which always looks for the beauty, even in the beast.
So come and laugh, come and sing, come and hope, with us, that 2005 will indeed be a year of beauty throughout the world.
God bless you all,
Simon Coleman, Minister - Liphook Methodist Church
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| ACT I | ACT II | |||
| Prologue | The Countess and the Rose Fairy | Scene 1 | Tumbledown Farm | |
| Scene 1 | Jarrod's Stores, Paris | Scene 2 | The Chateau Gates | |
| Scene 2 | The Street Outside | Scene 3 | Beauty's Library in the Chateau | |
| Scene 3 | Tumbledown Farm | Scene 4 | The Beast's Chateau Corridor | |
| Scene 4 | The Street Outside | Scene 5 | Tumbledown Farm | |
| Scene 5 | The Beast's Chateau Garden | Scene 6 | A Country Lane House Song |
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| Scene 7 | The Finale |
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| CAST |
| Countess Cruella |
Jan Treacher-Evans |
Gruesome & Grunge, the Countess' henchmen | Alison Ellis and Dave Bradley |
| Rose Fairy | Many Godridge | ||
| Joe Jarrod | Mick Selley | Beauty, Joe's daughter | Claire Carrig |
| Tutti, Beauty's sister | Jackie Courtnage | Frutti, Beauty's other sister | Will Rawlings |
| Lucy Lastic, shop assistant | Derek Leybourne | Gregory Gumdrop, shop assistant | Richard Merriman |
| Prince Valentine | Terri Darnbrook | The Beast | Tony Robinson |
| Granny Gumdrop | Mary West | ||
| PC Plod | Alan Jordan* | Flash Lightning | Jim & Ruth Savage |
| Chorus | Jo Banbury, Sue Bradley, Sue Calvert, Vera Franz-Shulz, Lesley McCarthy, Glenys Muscato*, Sarah Newman*, Maggie Tarpey, Pauline Ure* |
| Junior Chorus | Blair Anderson, Amy Bowers, Holly Coleman*, Robyn Coleman*, Amy Darnbrook, Christine Frank-Schultz, Emily Hancock, Jamie Hancock, Alice Jenner, Mikala Leybourne, Daniel Robertson, Rebecca Savage, Emily Theakston, Joseph Tikaram |
| Dancers | Hannah Ross, Katherine Savage, Charlotte Selley, Hannah Tarpey, Megan Treacher-Evans |
| MUSICIANS |
| Piano | Chris Booth* | |
| Guitar | Grahame Polley (Bass) James McCarthy (Rhythm) | |
| Drums | John Courtnage | |
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Despite slightly lower audience numbers than usual, the show was great
success.
This year, Vanessa decided she needed a year away from script writing - and who
can blame her after 13 years - so instead we performed a script by John Morely,
supplied by NODA.
Mr Morely has been described by the Observer as the 'king of pantomime'. The
cast have other ideas. It was a dated, unfunny script which was at times
embarassing to perform. We cut large chunks and removed the most cringe making
parts but it was still a very poor script.
Since the show I have heard similar comments from other groups.
If you saw the show I'm sure you have your own opinion - was it a better script
than Vanessa's? Let us know.
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