I'm sorry for the amount of paperwork just before Christmas but there are some issues I would like you to
take a look at in December:
1. 2012's subscriptions (£4 per person still!) are due on 1 January. If you have not already
paid or arranged a standing order, a form is enclosed to be returned with your cheque or
standing order instruction. Please send your subscription direct to Anne Rainbow.
2. The new programme enclosed contains some shows with deadlines early in the New Year.
Best to book now while you think of it!
3. We are organising another long-distance trip, this time to Stratford-upon-Avon to see Julius
Caesar. The trip costs £130 per person and this includes best stalls seat, coach travel and
bed & full English breakfast at a 4 star hotel 5 minutes. walk from the RSC theatre. The
attached sheet gives more information and a booking slip which should be sent to me (Nick
Alen) together with your deposit cheque. The deadline for this is 11 January.
4. Sister Act is now on sale – book in the normal way via Jo Farrell, Ticket Secretary.
5. Please note that we are now going to Phantom on Tuesday 20th March.
The AGM on the 16 November was very well attended and there was a lively, positive discussion.
The minutes of the meeting will be posted here on the club website in due course.
Unfortunately, the representatives of the Theatre Royal were unable to attend the AGM meeting due to illness. Thanks
were expressed to all the helpers of the club and a special thank you was given to past membership Secretary, Mick
Salter, in his absence. The Mill Club was also thanked for providing the excellent facilities. The next AGM will be on 14 November 2012 at the Mill Club.
Those members who ventured to London to see Billy Elliot were rewarded with a fantastic show and a swish hotel with
good proximity to the major sites of London. Tally Ho! also provided the club with a great service. 
Please note that, in addition to the Spring Programme enclosed, the club has booked for Cameron
Mackintosh's brand new Oliver and the Diamond Anniversary Tour of Mousetrap, both coming to
Plymouth later in 2012. Seats for these popular shows will be on sale later in the New Year.
If you like Shakespeare but don't want to go to Stratford, don't miss the Propeller's Henry V. You
won't regret it!
Please don't risk disappointment waiting for the Club Deadline (the date when we must confirm
numbers, pay the theatre, and bank your cheques). Tickets become your responsibility after the deadline when the club will not take further bookings
or make refunds.
Enclose a separate cheque and a separate stamped addressed envelope for
each and every show being booked. No staples or paper clips
please! Any non members must be recorded on the booking form and a £2 charge
per guest included in your payment. This guest fee also applies when
tickets are passed on to non members if you are unable to attend.
Please carefully check your tickets when you receive them, and the slip which gives the time the
coach leaves Kingsbridge bus station (or your designated pick up point) and the name and phone
number of the coach monitor for the event who you must contact if there is any last minute
change of plan.
Finally, a reminder to act on the first five points of this newsletter please!
Merry Christmas from Nick
Other News
Member and Past Chairman, Dick Lloyd, will
be giving a talk
at 7.30 pm in Sherford Village Hall on Friday, Feb 10th, based on his
recently-published autobiography. Entry is free, and complimentary tea
and coffee with biscuits will be served, plus a Cash Bar. He proposes to
talk for about half an hour and then answer questions. The first part of
the book - my life at Boarding School during the 1940s - will be
covered, as well as the spiritual side. I promise that it will be
interesting, and not without humour, with no attempt to proselytize,
only provoke interest and maybe discussion.
'An
Afternoon of English Music' at St Peter's Church, Shaldon by The Chamber
Ensemble of London will start at 2.30pm
on Sunday 15th April. The
Ensemble has given dozens of concerts in St Martin-in-the-Fields. Lately
it has worked in the Banqueting House in Whitehall
and at County Hall on the South Bank. Its next concert will be in the
Victoria & Albert Museum. Its CD “English
Music for Strings” has featured on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
The soprano soloist Suzanne Manuell is a member of English National Opera. She comes from Cornwall and is thus a familiar face on
the local classical music scene.
The programme includes three works connected with Dartmoor. My ‘White
Bird’ is based on the story of the ghostly bird that heralded a death
in the Oxenham family. It is also a love story. ‘Huckworthy Bridge’
is one of three concertos about Dartmoor composed by Andrew Wilson,
director of music at Kelly College. The variations on ‘Widecombe Fair’ by Peter Fisher
are great fun and amazingly virtuosic.
To see the poster for this concert with a listing of the
programme and the cost click Shaldon.
Retained news: to help gain new members and to simplify the
administration joining fees have been scrapped.
Annual subs
remain at £4 per person per year and the option of payment by standing
order has been introduced.
