The stage is being set and rehearsals are on by the Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) for their upcoming play The Vicar of Dibley.
Set in a fictional village called Dibley, the play has several funny incidents leading up to the marriage of characters Alica and Hugo.
The stage play has been written by Ian Gower and Paul Carpenter and is an adaption of British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer.
Robert Bill, president of CADS, said the play is being staged in Crookwell for the first time after permission has been sought from UK-based Tiger Aspect Production.
“The play is very entertaining with funny one line deliveries. There are nine local actors taking part in the play, including two who are from Goulburn. The rehearsals for the play are on and everyone is doing a great job,” Mr Bill said.
“We decided to stage the play in Crookwell as we are coming out of COVID-19. We want people to come together for a social gathering, enjoy the evening and have a laugh.”
He urges everyone to come and see the play. “We look forward to people coming and enjoying themselves,” he said.
The play is being staged as restrictions after COVID-19 are being eased. However, the organisers will ensure that necessary precautions are taken and appropriate social distancing measures are implemented.
The play will be staged at Crookwell Memorial Hall and bookings can be made through the Crookwell Visitor Information Centre on (02) 4832 1988. It will be held on November 6-8, 13-15 and 19-21.
SHOW: Back To Those Dance Hall Days DIRECTORS: Anne Cleary & Rhonda Cummins MUSICAL DIRECTORS: Helen Campbell & Helen Lowe STAGE MANAGER: Robert Bill SEASON: Friday 21 June – Saturday 29 June 2019.
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By CLAIRE McCABE
Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) is returning with six performances, including two matinees, this June.
Back To Those Music Hall Days is a nostalgic journey and resurrection of CADS’ old time music halls which were first staged at the Crookwell Memorial Hall in the 1990s.
Director Anne Cleary, and assistant director Rhonda Cummins, recall street-long queues and sell-out performances during those early performances.
CADS, which reformed in 1987, performed nine music halls, with the last of this style of performance held in 2004 and the earliest in 1990.
The directors had around 300 items and 60 chorus items to choose, and this seasons comeback will see a re-emergence of the best of those early acts.
Farmers, school teachers, community workers, professionals, retirees and a retired clergyman will take to the stage, many of them are returning to the stage from those early shows.
There will be a few new faces making their music hall debut. .
“We take ordinary people and at times get them to do extraordinary things – and that’s the magic of it,” Ms Cleary said.
Original cast will revisit 27-year-old melodramas, musical skits, comedy routines and chorus items.
Both of the musical directors Helen Campbell and Helen Lowe return.
Ms Campbell has been the musical director for all 14 music hall shows, and is a founding member of CADS.
“She was the impetus to get people back, and we decided to make it a nostalgic,” Ms Cleary said.
“It’s going to be fun to be reunited.”
CADS will present Back To Those Music Hall Days with performances at Memorial Hall. Opening night is on Friday June 21. Performances at 7.30pm on June 22, 28, 29; 2pm on June 23 and 1pm on June 29.
Tickets: adults $25, concession $20. For information and bookings contact the Crookwell Visitor Information Centre, 4832 1988.
There is just one week to go until the premiere of the anticipated Crookwell Amateur Dramatics Society (CADS) performance.
The opening night of Back to those Music Hall Days will be held on Friday, June 21.
The cast and crew will take the stage, but for now, let’s take a look behind the scenes with some of the people involved in the production.
CHRIS CROKER & ANNETTE PRELL
Chris Croker and Annette Prell reunite on stage for Helen Campbell.
Performers Chris Croker and Annette Prell rejoined CADS this year as a tribute to Helen Campbell.
“I heard that Helen Campbell is hanging up her boots, or gloves, and this is her last year as a pianist,” Mr Croker said.
He joined CADS 30 years ago has performed regularly ever since.
“Every musical production I have been in has been with Helen. This is my mark of respect, for a wonderful lady who has always put up graciously with mine and others antics,” he said.
Both he and Ms Prell have years of on-stage experience, she joined in 1994.
“Family commitments have kept me busy but I’m thrilled to be back,” she said.
“My big motivation for coming back this year is naturally Helen, she is CADS personified.
“Although, I have had to work around family, this year, I have pulled out all stops to be here.
“Already, I have fallen back into the fun, friendships and getting silly together but as well there is a level of professionalism expected.
“We are asked to do everything to the best of our ability which can be fun or funny,” she said.
Meantime Mr Croker returns to the stage for the challenge.
“It is a discipline to work together as a team and achieve the best we can without letting anyone down. Performing is much the same as sports its just a different discipline.
“In theatre, you work with people of all different walks of life and of all ages. You make friends with older and younger people who share a common interest.”
Back to those Music Hall Days is a return to CADS’ old time music hall days first staged in the 1990s.
“For a small town, we produce shows of a very high standard on a shoestring budget.
“CADS has always produced entertaining shows and this will be no different,” Mr Croker said.
KEVEN BREEN & NIC BENSLEY
CADS newcomers Keven Breen and Nic Bensley.
It will be the first time that Kevin Breen and Nic Bensley take to the stage with CADS, and the choreography is proving to be the biggest challenge.
“Remembering the lines and choreography is challenging but lots of laughs,” Mr Breen said.
Mrs Bensley added, “At the moment, I am pretending to know the words and those choreography steps.”
The cast and crew have been rehearsing for weeks, and the curtain is about to be raised.
“Sure it will come together as it always does,” she said.
Both of the newcomers have seen past productions.
“I have been to about ten of the previous CADS shows as a spectator and wondered what it would be like to be a part of this group, so here I am and now I know,” Mr Breen said.
“They [the cast] are friendly and cooperative fellow performers and I am enjoying it.”
Mrs Bensley said she loved the stage.
“I thought it was time I did something for myself,” she said.
“It looked like fun and I wanted to work with Anne Cleary and the crew.”
“I have found great camaraderie and laughs and I can’t wait for the fame,” she joked.
DES ROWLEY & WAL SMART
Veterans of CADS Des Rowley and Wal Smart have a combined 43 years on stage.
“I’ve been with CADS for 23 years and I don’t think I have left ‘Them Music Hall Days’,” Mr Smart said.
“One of the best parts of CADS is when you go in a show you renew old friendships and make new ones and that’s great.”
His challenge is recalling whether he is supposed to be downstage, front of stage, backstage or on stage.
“My biggest issue is remembering where I am supposed to be on stage and being put in the front row so everyone can see you’re in the wrong place. But other cast members ‘push’ me into place.”
Meantime Mr Rowley was in the audience for two Music Halls before he joined CADS 20 years ago.
“I decided to see how a show was put together. I went to a muster – been here ever since – no one is excluded,” Mr Rowley said.
“I just love the involvement of all cast, directors, and crew.
“The best part, for me, has been the many new friends, feeling the audience excitement and watching their enjoyment. I guess travelling from Goulburn can be hard but it’s well worth it for the end result.”
The show will be held over the last two weekends in June. For information and bookings contact the Crookwell Visitor Information Centre, 4832 1988.
Production: BACK TO THOSE MUSIC HALL DAYS Director: ANNE CLEARY Musical Director: HELEN CAMPBELL Stage Manager: ROBERT BILL
The Potato Festival has been put to rest for another year and the Crookwell community prepares to hunker down for the winter recess, or does it? Not on your Nelly.
The Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society, known more commonly as CADS, is gearing up for an extravaganza of musical entertainment next month, as it presents its fifteenth Music Hall show since it reformed in 1987. This one will be a celebration of good times past.
Back to those Music Hall Days will see a return to the good old days of CADS in the 1990s with a selection of some of their popular ‘old time’ musical numbers and skits. Not only will the material be plucked from the archives, but so too will be a number of cast members who took part in those early shows.
Thirty of CADS’s leading characters have responded to director Anne Cleary’s call for a special show to honour musical director Helen Campbell who turned 90 in February. And it’s not just Mrs Campbell who admits to having the energy for another show.
Those cast members making a return to resurrect their roles on stage are 25 years older than when they originally played their parts or sang their songs. The high kicks originally required may now be more like gentle knee bends, but the cast is up for the challenge.
It will be the greatest of pleasures to welcome back to the stage old time favourites Annette Prell, Debb O’Brien, Chris Croker, Christine Bentley, Stephen Rigby, Margaret Wheelwright, Ken Wheelwright, Tory Simmons (Croker), Narelle Kennedy, Andrew ‘Boots’ Harborne, Sarah Lowe and Des Rowley.
CADS stalwart performers Heather Davies, Wal Smart, Michael Lowe and Rechell Naughton, all recently seen on stage, will be joined again this year by Rob Huskinson, Maggie Rikard-Bell, Lyn Green, Margaret Hudson and CADS’s latest newcomer to the stage from the 2018 Lady Godiva, Dallas Atkins.
For the very first time, Darren ‘Buckets’ O’Brien will be making it a full family affair as wife Rie and teenage children Ellis and Misha join him on the Memorial Hall stage.
CADS has always encouraged new members to its ranks. This year’s production welcomes making their CADS debut, local student Nic Bensley and Kevin Breen from Goulburn. Chris Hinton, recently known to CADS patrons for his direction of Cinderella in 2016, will fill the role of Music Hall Chairman, so capably controlled through the 1990s by the irrepressible Phil Meckiff, now retired to the South Coast.
Of course, no CADS music hall can happen without the magic fingers of Mrs Helen Lowe as she once again takes her rightful place alongside Mrs Campbell in ‘tickling the ivories’ for their fifteenth music hall. These two ladies form the keystone of CADS’s live musical performances. Many times they have enjoyed the accompaniment of Drummer Boy Dale Chalker who will once again be keeping the beat.
What is going to make this show something special is its salute to those music hall days that have been such a standout feature of CADS offerings over the last 32 years.
The effort required to stage the music halls is enormous. The search for material, the construction of sets and lighting design, the organisation of casting and scheduling of rehearsal times, make music hall productions a time-consuming and exhausting venture which takes many months of preparation by a small group of dedicated theatre-loving volunteers.
Some behind-the-scenes drivers who have remained loyal and committed to the success of CADS since 1987, seldom – if ever – missing a production, deserve highlighting.
The triumvirate of Robert Bill, Sandra Bill and Rhonda Cummins ensure CADS and KAOS (Kids Acting on Stage) get a theatre event happening at Crookwell Memorial Hall every year. Simon Bill, son of Robert and Sandra, is also now invaluable to the production team as CADS’s lighting designer.
While CADS will continue the tradition of providing quality entertainment for the good folk of Crookwell and surrounds for many more years to come, it will, sadly, be the Rowley Champagne Coach’s last hurrah.
CADS patron Desley Rowley has been responsible each show for gathering the troops from out of town, literally in the thousands over many years, organising the coach, the driver and tables for two of CADS’s BYO Supper Shows performances.
Departing from Goulburn, theatre-goers from Sydney, Wollongong and Canberra climb aboard the 56-seat coach which offers a bottomless glass of champagne, served with Desley’s famous Cote d’Or chocolates and fresh strawberries.
The cast has been known to hold up their performance, waiting for the merry revellers to arrive. “Sydney people are fascinated, they have never seen anything like it,” Desley says. “I love seeing their reaction. A man from Canberra turned to me one night and said, ‘Desley, this is amazing.’ He has been coming ever since.”
The call is going out now to all entertainment-loving citizens of the Upper Lachlan to acknowledge and celebrate Helen Campbell’s 32 years continuous commitment to CADS including musically directing 15 music halls.
It’s also timely to pay tribute to CADS patron Desley Rowley for her tireless organisation of those well-travelled champagne coaches as they make their final road trip to Crookwell in June.
“Back to those Music Hall Days” will see a return to the good old days of Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society in the 1990s with a selection of some of their popular ‘old time’ musical numbers and skits. Not only will the material be plucked from the archives, but so too will be a number of cast members who took part in those early shows.
It will be the greatest of pleasures to welcome back to the stage old time favourites Annette Prell, Debb O’Brien, Chris Croker, Christine Bentley, Stephen Rigby, Margaret Wheelwright, Ken Wheelwright, Tory Simmons (Croker), Narelle Kennedy, Andrew ‘Boots’ Harborne, Sarah Lowe and Des Rowley.
CADS’ stalwart performers Heather Davies, Wal Smart, Michael Lowe and Rechell Naughton, all recently seen on stage, will be joined again this year by Rob Huskinson, Maggie Rikard-Bell, Lyn Green, Margaret Hudson and CADS’ latest newcomer to the stage from the 2018 Lady Godiva – Dallas Atkins.
For the very first time, Darren ‘Buckets’ O’Brien will be making it a full family affair as wife Rie and teenage children Ellis and Misha join him on the Memorial Hall stage.
This year’s production welcomes some making their CADS debut, local schoolie Nic Bensley and Goulburnite Kevin Breen. Chris Hinton, recently known to CADS patrons for his direction of Cinderella in 2016, will fill the role of music hall chairman, so capably controlled through the 1990s by the irrepressible Phil Meckiff, now retired to the south coast.
Of course, no music hall can happen without the magic fingers of Mrs Helen Lowe as she once again takes her rightful place alongside Mrs Campbell in ‘tickling the ivories’ for their 15th music hall. These two ladies form the keystone of CADS’ live musical performances. Many times they have enjoyed the accompaniment of “drummer boy” Dale Chalker, who will once again be keeping the beat.
What is going to make this show something special is its salute to those music hall days that have been such a standout feature of CADS offerings over the last 32 years. The effort required to stage the music halls is enormous. The search for material, the construction of sets and lighting design, the organisation of casting and scheduling of rehearsal times, make music hall productions a time-consuming and exhausting venture which takes many months of preparation by a small group of dedicated theatre-loving volunteers.
Some behind-the-scenes ‘drivers’ who have remained loyal and committed to the success of CADS since 1987, seldom if ever missing a production, deserve highlighting. The triumvirate of Robert Bill, Sandra Bill and Rhonda Cummins ensure CADS and KAOS (Kids Acting On Stage) get a theatre event happening on the stage of the Crookwell Memorial Hall every year. Simon Bill, son of Robert and Sandra, is also now invaluable to the production team as CADS’ lighting designer.
And while CADS will continue the tradition of providing quality entertainment for the good folk of Crookwell and surrounds for many more years to come, it will, sadly, be the Rowley Champagne Coach’s last hurrah.
We pay tribute to CADS patron Desley Rowley for her tireless organisation of those well-travelled Champagne Coaches, as they make their final road trip to Crookwell in June.
Desley has been responsible each show for gathering the troops from out of town, literally in the thousands over many years, organising the coach, the driver and tables for two of CADS’ BYO Supper Show performances.
Departing from Goulburn, theatre-goers from Sydney, Wollongong and Canberra climb aboard the 56-seater coach which offers a bottomless glass of champagne, served with Desley’s famous Cote d’Or chocolates and fresh strawberries.
For ticketing information and bookings, contact the Crookwell Visitor Information Centre ph 4832 1988. “Back to those Music Hall Days” will be held over the last two weekends in June. In response to demand, there will be two theatre seating matinees, an opening night half price special and three BYO supper table shows.
The countdown has begun for the Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society’s (CADS) production of Lady Godiva.
With a short season of five performances, including one matinee on Sunday, June 24, Lady Godiva will be a winter-warmer full of slapstick tongue-in-cheek humour – a recipe that has proven popular with Crookwell and district audiences for many years.
Judith Prior’s theatre restaurant scripts have seen a regular airing on the stage of the Crookwell Memorial Hall in between CADS’ hugely popular music hall variety shows.
Anne Cleary and her right-hand “Jill-of-all-trades” Rhonda Cummins, are directing this year’s production.
Chosen for its bawdy humour, distorted history and musical moments to warm the cockles as Crookwell plunges into winter. A simple set, minimal props, and costumes as creative as the imagination requires, made the choice a no-brainer.
Mrs Helen Campbell, also a stalwart of the CADS Music Halls, will be accompanying the cast members on piano.
An ensemble cast of nine as opposed to a music hall cast of thirty, has made rehearsal time more streamlined this year.
A six weeks rehearsal period consisting of three nights a week has meant a big commitment by the actors. CADS prides itself on plucking every day ordinary local people out of their daily routines and transforming them into polished entertainers.
This year’s cast is no exception as we welcome back to the stage CADS regulars Richard Ferris, Heather Davies, Michael Lowe, Colleen O’Reilly, Andrew “Boots” Harborne, Brenda Proudman and Rochell Naughton.
The youngest cast member Holly Couggan is making a return to the stage following her debut last year in “Outback Debutante Ball”. CADS welcomes to its ranks newcomer to Crookwell Dallas Atkins – another local willing to get up on stage in the name of entertainment.
Recent years has seen other events take over the busy month of November, so this year CADS decided to trial a change to June. So, on a chilly Crookwell winter night or afternoon, treat yourselves to an entertaining show of Lady Godiva in the well heated hall.
Shows will run from June 22 to June 30. Tickets can be purchased at the Visitors Information Centre.
K.A.O.S staged three performances of Funhouse Variety Concert at the weekend, with positive reviews from the audience.
The hot ticket of the weekend was Saturday night’s performance, which sold 71 tickets.
It was Rob Huskisson’s first time in the director’s chair, after starting with CADS and K.A.O.S 14 years ago.
“I wanted it to be an enjoyable time for all the kids,” Mr Huskisson said.
“It has been fun, challenging, and very rewarding through rehearsals.”
It comes down to hard work from the 23 kids, and the dedication of the parents to get them to rehearsals, he said.
He said the cast had met all his expectations. “I was quietly confident,” he added.
“There were a few nerves on Friday night, they were excited to get going, they put on a great show.”
By Sunday afternoon they had performed the show twice already, and except for an audio slight at the start of the performance, (the first and only of the weekend), K.A.O.S pulled it off without a hitch.
Members of the audience were dancing in the aisles to rock band Undressed to Impress, and comedy skits had the crowd in stitches.
The youngest performing member was 3-year-old Alec Gardiner, and the eldest Abby Woods, 14.
The show included solo and group performances of classic songs, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Give Us a Home Among the Gum Trees, and We Are Australian. Joke sequences, and comedy skits.
The 2017 Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) executive committee consists of President Robert Bill; Vice President Robert Huskinson; Secretary Anne Cleary; Treasurer Wal Smart; and publicity officer Colleen O’ Rielly. New members are always welcome.
Record of shows:
1987- Love Rides the Rails directed by Maureen Keough
1988- The Disappearance of Katie directed by David Gleeson
1988- A Dirty Weekend directed by Des Storrier
1989- The Drunkard directed by Sandra Bill
1989- Murder in Company directed by Bob Ross
1990- Panic Stations directed by Christine Bentley
1990- Old Time Music Hall directed by Anne Cleary & Maureen Keough
1991- The Farndale Murder Mystery directed by Phil Meckiff
1991- Old Time Music Hall directed by Anne Cleary & Christine Bentley
1992- Beyond a Joke directed by Anne Cleary
1992- Old Time Music Hall directed by Anne Cleary
1993- The Fourth Old Time Music Hall directed by Helen Campbell & Sandra Bill
1994- The Fifth Old Time Music Hall directed by Helen Campbell
1995- Dinkum Assorted directed by Des Storrier
1995- Music Hall ’95 directed by Anne Cleary
1996- The Seventh Music Hall directed by Anne Cleary
1997- Robin Hood Theatre Restaurant directed by Christine Bentley
1998- Ma Baker’s Tonic directed by Sandra Bill & Beth Pidoux
1999- Bail ‘Em Up Cobbers Theatre Restaurant directed by Rhonda Cummins & Debb O’Brien
2000- Music Hall 2000 directed by Anne Cleary
2001- Min Min Theatre Restaurant directed by Sandra Bill & Rhonda Cummins
2002- Murder at the Music Hall Theatre Restaurant directed by Beth Pidoux
2003- Steel Magnolias directed by Sandra Bill
2003- Mystery on the Orient Express directed by Rhonda Cummins & Debb O’Brien
2004- Are You Being Served? directed by Beth Pidoux & Sandra Bill
2004- CADS Rewound directed by Sandra Bill & Beth Pidoux
2005- ‘Allo ‘Allo directed by Glenn Bonomini & Phil Barr
2005- Back to the 80’s directed by Richard Ferris
2006- The Potion directed by Glenn Bonomini & Megan Cleland
2006- Sailing South directed by Peter Stephens
2007- CADS on the Double directed by Phil Barr & Colleen O’Reilly
2007- Jungle Juice directed by Kerry Barr
2008- Jest at the West directed by Phil Barr
2009- Music Hall is Here Again! directed by Rhonda Cummins & Anne Cleary
2010- Music Hall Mayhem directed by Rhonda Cummins & Anne Cleary
2011- Legs 11 ‘Off the Wall’- A Music Hall Revue directed by Rhonda Cummins & Anne Cleary
2012- Footrot Flats directed by Sandra Bill
2013- Act Your Age directed by Rhonda Cummins & Sandra Bill
2014- Legs Again Music Hall Revue directed by Anne Cleary & Rhonda Cummins
2016- Cinderella- A Pantomine directed by Chris Hinton & Rhonda Cummins
2016- A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue directed by Anne Cleary & Rhonda Cummins
2017- Outback Debutante Ball to be directed by Peter Stephens
WARTIME: The 1995 production Dinkum Assorted was a comedy play set in the Dinkum Biscuits Factory in 1942, directed by Des Storrier
The Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) reformed in 1987 when a group of enthusiastic high school teachers moved for its revival. It has been producing continuous local theatre in Crookwell ever since.
From Love Rides the Rails – a humble melodrama directed by the late Maureen Keough, to last year’s offering of Razzle Dazzle – a Music Hall Revue, co-directed by Anne Cleary and Rhonda Cummins, with musical direction by Helen Campbell and Helen Lowe, CADS has grown exponentially in both professionalism and facilities.
Countless hours of voluntary labour, often by a small band of committed members, has seen much improvement to the Crookwell Memorial Hall staging and lighting.
Over the 30 years, CADS has produced 40 productions including comedy, drama, music halls and theatre restaurant shows.
With a cast and crew averaging around 40 people each production, a lot of voluntary time and commitment goes into ensuring the survival of the community venture.
President Robert Bill is one of the driving forces behind CADS and has been involved in every single production since 1987.
“I love the people and the challenge of doing a show, from the inception of the idea to the final production,” Robert said.
INAUGURAL SHOW: The production of Love Rides the Rails was the first performance by the newly reformed Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society in 1987.
Rhonda Cummins has been involved in more than 80 per cent of performances: “Help me Rhonda! Help, help me Rhonda! No wonder they made a song out of this famous call,” she joked.
For Helen Campbell, CADS keeps her young while Ken Wheelwright and Heather Davies both joined to meet people. Simon Emery is still not sure how he ended up there.
“”I have no idea what I’m doing here. I came down to get a book from the library and I walked in the wrong door,” he laughed.
CADS also supports and mentors young actors through its administration of KAOS (Kids Acting On Stage). Each year, an energetic pool of children take part in a musical style play usually staged mid-year and coordinated and stage-managed by CADS.
As a community organisation, CADS gives generously. Since 1987, the amateur theatre group has made numerous contributions to the local community through charity nights and monetary donations, made each year to the schools in the Upper Lachlan Shire Council area for awards in the performing arts.
Some of the contributions CADS has made to the community over recent times include an electric piano to Viewhaven; $4000 to Crookwell High School Music Department and $1700 to the Crookwell Community Trust.
In addition, an average of 80 per cent of the costs of putting on a production is spent locally, supporting our Crookwell businesses.
These are just some of the ways that CADS has played an important role in the community over the past 30 years, not only as a forum for providing quality entertainment but also as an effective voluntary organisation.
“As long as the local community continues to support CADS through patronage of its productions, CADS can continue to give back to the community,” Robert said.
This Friday night the Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) will kick off its two-week season in a blaze of colour, comedy and song for ‘A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue!’.
This year’s music hall revue is fast-paced and a clever combination of comical sketches, musical items, a renowned line up of male dancers and an illusionist.
The chorus line will feature music from The Beach Boys to Broadway numbers and promises to be a show not to be missed.
The two act show is divided into 14 items that run for three to five minutes in duration.
The pace and velocity of the performance is a unique and alluring characteristic of the overall show, director Anne Cleary said.
“It’s a mish-mash of everything and it really keeps people’s attention. People can’t afford to take a toilet break,” she laughed.
“The script is not set and structured like conventional shows but is a conglomeration of scripts that we have matched to the people who attend the show.”
The unique structure and non-linear narrative of ‘A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue!’ signifies a growing shift of style at the company.
Ms Cleary said ‘A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue!’ is not only a time to celebrate the power of local performance but the enthusiasm of the community participants.
“Some of the people on the show are trained and seasoned actors, but others put their hand up and said, I’m interested, I can do this,” Ms Cleary said.
Ranging from 19 to 70 in age, she said the introduction of Hannah Cotton and Melissa Shoard in the show brought a great addition to the singing and dancing in the show.
The two hour performance will be held over the first two weekends in November at the Crookwell Memorial Hall and tickets will be sold for $20 each.
A proportion of the ‘A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue!’ ticket sales will go towards local Brad Hayes, who suffered a spinal injury earlier this year.
Over the years, CADS musical shows and skits have moved away from the conventional and traditional performances to a more contemporary, upbeat and innovative production company.
Bookings for either theatre seating or table seating performances can also be made online at www.trybooking.com/NILN or www.trybooking.com/NILR for table seats.
Limited tickets may also be available at the door.
For more information on ‘A Razzle Dazzle Music Hall Revue!’ call Anne Cleary on 4832 1457 or to get involved head to cads.org.au.
CADS is a voluntary organisation which aims at propelling the future of theatre in Crookwell and supporting local arts initiatives and school programs.
