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LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE
HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO
RIGHTS/ROYALTY ISSUES
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MAY 2012
DIRECTORS JO RAINS AND LIBBY CROW
AUDITIONS
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
PREP-YEAR
12
We are holding an information session for our Junior Production of Alice in Wonderland on Sunday
8th of January, at 1pm at the Boilerhouse. Auditions will be held in the following weeks, but you will need to attend the info session to book, and for
more information. Performances will be in May 2012.
Any
enquiries, contact Jo at jo_rains@hotmail.com
PLOT
On the most perfect day of summer, children play in a park. Alice dreams of a world of her own while her sister Mathilda
lectures her on the books she is reading until Alice falls asleep. She wakes and finds a White Rabbit talking about how late
he is. Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole where strange creatures offer her advice. Finally, at the end of
her fall, Alice encounters a talking doorknob which tells her that a place called "Wonderland" is on the other side. It tells
her to have a drink which will make her small enough to fit into Wonderland. Unfortunately, the door is locked and the doorknob
tells her that she forgot the key and Alice takes a bite of a cookie labeled "Eat Me" to make her big enough to get it. Alice
starts crying when she becomes convinced she will never get into Wonderland, filling the room with an ocean of tears. She
escapes by grabbing another drink from the "Drink Me" potion and swimming through the keyhole.
On the outskirts of Wonderland, Alice meets sea creatures who tell her to run around in circles
to get dry from her swim in the river of tears. For participating in the “Caucus Race,” the Dodo Bird gives Small
Alice a cookie to restore her to her regular size. Still intent on pursuing the White Rabbit, Alice bumps into a pair of twins
who teach her some manners. She escapes the Tweedle twins when they tie themselves up in an elaborate handshake and finds
the White Rabbit near his house looking for some special white gloves. Alice offers to search the house for his gloves and
takes a bite of the cookie she finds. She grows to the size of the White Rabbit’s house until she wears it like a dress.
A carrot Alice eats makes her shrink to the size of three inches and she hides among a patch of rude flowers. A Caterpillar
tries to cheer Small Alice up with the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and then returns Alice to her regular size with a magic cookie. A mysterious Chesire Cat leads Alice to the Mad Hatter,
who is celebrating his Unbirthday with a game of musical chairs.
After the celebration, the Chesire Cat leads Alice to a group of Royal Cardsmen busy redecorating the roses to fit the
Queen of Heart's taste. The Queen discovers the Cardsmen's trick and sentences the leaders of the pack to have their heads
cut off. She challenges Alice to a game of Simon Says. Even though Alice wins the game, the Queen still wants to have her
head cut off, but the King of Hearts persuades her to hold a trial.. A series of witnesses from the creatures Alice met along
her journey do not help her case. The Caterpillar acts as Alice's Defense Attorney and asks her who she thinks she is. Alice
considers what she had learned throughout her journey and ultimately concludes that she is Alice. Suddenly, she finds herself
back in the park with Mathilda and finds the White Rabbit’s broken watch in her pocket.
AUGUST 2012
DIRECTOR TONY RAINS
Auditions
Mid April and rehearsals to start shortly after that.
Rehearsals Times
Sundays 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Wednesdays 7:00pm - 9.30pm (ish)
A Short Synopsis,
A dramatic Play that started as a research project after the reunion of people involved with the Ballarat Orphanage
in bygone days. Chris Dickins wrote the play over many years from stories he was told by care givers and inmates at the orphanage,
where young girls who got themselves into trouble found themselves, and the Baby House where the results of this trouble were
looked after and farmed out. Dickens has put together a story that is not too dark and he hopes it is presented and seen as
“good medicine?
About 18 performers, all female with varying age range.
I see this as a challenge to tell a story a little bit different in content and method and a privilege to share
someone’s experiences for the purpose of “good medicine”
Bump-in, Plot and tech Sat and Sun 28th and 29th July.
Tech Rehearsal Tues 31st July
Dress rehearsal Thurs 2nd Aug
SHOW DATES
Sat 4th
& Sun 5th
Fri 10th&
Sat 11th
(poss Sun 12th
Aug also)
Fri 17th&
Sat 18th August 2012.
A Slice of Saturday Night is a musical with book, lyrics and music by The Heather Brothers: Lea, Neil, Charles and John.
NOVEMBER 2012
DIRECTOR JULIE PAICE
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 The name is Eric ‘Rubber-Legs’ Devine.
Niceties over, let’s set the scene.
The time’s around 1964.
A year either side though, it could be more.
Where the hems were
high, and the fringes low.
Saturday Night meant the Club A-Go-Go!
 Though it all takes place in this club of mine.
It could have been any from around that time.
Though they may have
had a different name
Kids you find inside are all the same.
With the music loud, and the light down low
Any club could have been the Club A-Go-Go
The kids don’t come here just to dance
The club is where they find the first taste of romance.
Couples meet, and couples drift apart, But Eric’s always here to mend a broken heart. They treat
this place like a home from home
I treat them as if they were one of my own…
So I’d like to welcome you one and all
To one of life’s great finishing schools
A
breading ground of a teenage dream
A microcosm of the teenage scene
Where the kids learned all they had to know
On Saturday Night at the Club A-Go-Go.
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 It's Saturday night at the provincial "Club A-Go-Go" and the blokes and birds are on the pull.
The girls, chalk-faced and pale lipped are desperate to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or
Dusty Springfield, the lads, would-be Beatles.
However, beneath the girls' skimpy Mary Quant copied dresses beat virginal Barbara Cartland
hearts,..
 ... while inside the lads' hipster trousers lurk the impulses which have driven adolescents to distraction since the dawn
of time.
Watched over by ageing rocker Eric (Rubber-legs) De Vere, the club's seen-it-all,
done-it-all owner, we follow them as they wend their way through teenage sexual mores as rigid and predictable as any New
Guinea tribesman's initiation rights.
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The Music
| Act One |
Act Two |
| A Slice of Saturday Night |
Eric's Hokey Cokey |
| Club A-Go-Go |
I Fancy You |
| Waiting |
Sentimental Eyes |
| Saturday Chat |
Heartbreaker |
| Seventeen |
Eric's Gonna Keep Doing |
| Don't Touch Me |
Oh So Bad |
| Don't Touch Me (reprise) |
Please Don't Tell Me |
| Twiggy |
You're Oh So... |
| Cliff |
Lies |
| Love On Our Side |
Baby I Love You |
| What Do I Do Now? |
P.E. |
| What Do You Do? |
Who'd Be Seventeen |
| If You Wanna Have Fun |
Last Saturday Night |
| The Long Walk Back |
A Slice Of Saturday Night |
| Romance / Wham Bam |
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| The Boy Of My Dreams |
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| It Wouldn't Be A Saturday Night Without A Fight |
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