Hi everyone
Happy New Year!
This is just a note say the Forum Players AGM will be held on Monday 28th January at 8pm in the small hall.
During this meeting we will electing the committee members, if you would like to stand or make a nomination please contact Leigh Robinson (Secretary) for a form.
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In this season’s panto will the dastardly Abanazzar secure all the riches and power that he craves or will Aladdin win the day (and the heart of the Princess Jasmine)? All the usual slapstick, laughs and musical numbers in this … Continue reading
Hello to all members
As well as cast rehearsals, we are also busy with building the sets, creating the artwork and the band (The Bourne End Shadows) are also very busy rehearsing the new song numbers. AJ Gibson and her musical theatre students are also hard at work learning songs and dance numbers as they make preparations to join us again this year.
The next focus for us will be making costumes…
With the festive season just around the corner, Forum Players will be supporting the festive events being held at Claytons School in Flackwell Heath, and the Bourne End Christmas evening (7th December). Committee member Fiona Russell will be manning the stalls, and she has a ‘guess the Panda’ game for people to have some fun with, the prize being a cute Panda soft toy. The Panda features in our panto, therefore If you are attending either of these events, please go and find Fiona to take part.
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In the Target Room from 10:00 till 15:00 Calling all members… we would appreciate help from anyone who would like to join us and help make some of the costumes that we need for panto. Our annual sewing day is … Continue reading
Great music rehearsal this week. Lots of new & exciting song choices for panto. We are still looking for more peeps in our chorus for anyone thinking they might like to come & join us. ??
Using the dragon from our 2006 Panto
The wardrobe team at work …
Stage crew and set designer being their usual cheeky selves
… and, of course, tea on the go all the way. Thank you Kerry! 🙂
Hello Everyone
It has been a busy summer for the Forum Players Committee. We would like to share the details of the upcoming events and performances in the planning..
It’s getting close to Panto time…oh yes it is ?
We are very pleased to be able to confirm that our January 2019 Pantomime will be ‘Aladdin’, which has now been cast and rehearsals will begin on Monday 8th October. This will be the 50th Pantomime for Forum Players and we are very excited to celebrate our 50 year anniversary during the show run. Wendy Keeble will direct, with me as co-director.
We are really excited to be joined by new members who bring an incredible mix of experience from other groups, as well as some of our current members stepping into Principal roles, making this a very strong cast.
We still have room for people to join in the Chorus and also, we would appreciate help from anyone with time to spare in terms of costume making, stage set building, painting etc. When we get closer to the show dates, we will also be reaching out for support in the Stage Crew team, front of house etc. Please contact myself or Wendy to discuss.
Wardrobe Clear – 14th October:
Ahead of planning the costumes required for Pantomime, we would like to have our annual Costume Wardrobe clear out on Sunday 14th October. We will start at 10am and hopefully this will just take a couple of hours. Tracey Huxley, our Wardrobe mistress, would appreciate help with this task. Many hands make light work as the saying goes. Please come and join us, I will have the kettle on, with cakes and biscuits at the ready to help us along.
Bourne End community Christmas Festive Evening:
As many of you will know, Bourne End has its annual Christmas festival evening in early December, where all local business and community groups get involved to help spread the Festive cheer. Forum Players will get involved on the evening to share our Panto excitement with all. Watch this space for more details.
50th Anniversary Celebrations:
In my last newsletter I mentioned plans for a celebration evening in September, unfortunately due to circumstance beyond our control, this was not able to go ahead. However we do plan to celebrate this golden anniversary as part of the 50th Pantomime celebrations, and we hope that many of you will be able to join us at one of the panto performances.
If you have any suggestions for future performances, would like to Direct or get involved with stage sets, etc, please drop a line of either myself or any member of the committee.
Kind regards
Kerry
Chairman, Forum Players
Hi everyone
We had a great evening last week, reading the script for Aladdin. We have lots of enthusiasm for this panto and lots of feedback in terms of people wishing to read for certain parts on the August casting evenings (Wednesday 22nd & Wednesday 29th).
I wanted to share with you all the character list, so that you have a chance to consider any parts that you might be interested in. Most of the characters are not gender specific, although we will be restricted within certain age ranges (however we have a wide scope!).
*Abanazar
*Aladdin
*Sergeant Ping
*PC Pong
*Nobby (a panda)
*Wishee Washee
*Widow Twankey
*The Emperor (or Empress)
*Princess Jasmine
*Genie f the Lamp
*Genie of the Ring
*Chorus as Chinese citizens, Cave Sprites, Palace Attendants, Guards etc.
We are particularly keen to hear from those of you who might be interest in reading for the Villain, Abanazar! Lots of energy, volume and snarls required!!
Quite a few of you have reached out to Wendy and myself to let us know which characters you are interested in for the casting evenings. For those of you who haven’t already spoken to us, please do let us know and we can plan the casting evenings accordingly, or just come and join us when you can. If you would like to see a copy of the script ahead of the August dates, please let us know and we can either email the PDF or send you a hard copy.
See you soon …”oh yes we will!”
Kerry and Wendy
Hello everyone
Unfortunately we don’t have enough members available to take part in the Anniversary Show and therefore the show director, Jill Hyde, has reluctantly made the decision not to proceed. We hope to have some sort of small get together, perhaps during the original planned show week in September, to mark our 50 years just for members past and present… watch this space.
As you know, in deference to the football, Panto reading is now on 18th July. There will also be 2 casting meetings/auditions on 22nd and 29th August, all held in the Bourne End Community Centre, main hall at 8pm. If you can’t make either of these but are interested in auditioning could you let us know on or before the 18th, and we will give you the opportunity for reading that evening (18th July).
Rehearsals will commence on Monday 8th October for principles and chorus will join early November.
Last rehearsal before Christmas will be Dec 19th and will restart Jan 2nd.
‘Must Do’ dates for panto are as follows:
13th Jan Dress and Tech
14th Jan Dress
16th Jan Senior Citizens performance
19th Jan 2.30 performance
20th Jan 2.30 performance
26th Jan 2.30 and 6.30 performance
If you cannot make all these dates then I am afraid you will not be able to be part of the cast.
We look forward very much to seeing you all on 18th.
Wendy and Kerry
