WOW YOUTH MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTS APRIL 2019 WEYMOUTH PAVILION PROGRAMME WOW YOUTH MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTS Cotton & Son The Star Inn Funeral Directors A FRIENDLY LOCAL PUB Jane Cotton Dip FD Offering Excellent Beer & Ales Margaret Sherratt Dip FD Tea & Coffee best wishes to the cast and crew for another fabulous show! SKY SPORTS Tel: (01305) 76 76 76 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SKITTLES, DARTS & CRIBBAGE Milton House ▪ 1 Milton Road 18 Gloucester Street, Weymouth Weymouth ▪ DT4 0AZ (Main entrance next door to WOW) www.cottonfunerals.co.uk Helping children Music and Lyrics by believe they can do anything Richard M. Sherman and Singing, dancing and acting classes Robert B. Sherman for 4 - 18 year-olds Music by Special Arrangement with DORCHESTER 07855 339965 Sony/ATV Publishing stagecoach.co.uk/dorchester Adapted for the Stage by Jeremy Sams WEYMOUTH AND WAREHAM 07855 339965 Based on the MGM Motion Picture stagecoach.co.uk/weymouthandwareham Licensed Script Adapted by Ray Roderick This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk Stagecoach Performing Arts is the trading name of Stagecoach Theatre Arts Limited. Stagecoach Theatre Arts schools are operated under franchise and are independently owned by their Principals. Stagecoach and Creative Courage For Life are registered trademarks of Stagecoach Theatre Arts Limited. Inspiring Young NODA Performers WOW is affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA), the leading representative body for amateur theatre in the UK. The Association has a membership of approximately 2000 amateur theatre What We Do groups and over 800 individual members. We use the magic of musical theatre to inspire young performers in the Weymouth area. Co-founded 37 years ago NODA aims to give a shared voice to amateur theatre. by Janet Stockley and Pauline Wootten, WOW is a charity It provides leadership and advice to help societies and that gives children, aged 10 to 18, unforgettable experiences individuals achieve the highest standards of best practice Welcome and invaluable life skills as they are led by highly skilled both for performers and those involved backstage, front professionals to stage award-winning productions. of house or in society administration. At these shows, we raise hundreds of pounds for charities through bucket collections. From our previous show, CATS, Membership of NODA provides theatre groups and for example, we were able to donate £470 to Feral Cat Care individuals with a wide range of benefits including access in Portesham. In addition, we regularly perform cabarets in to NODA’s advice service at national and regional level, President's Welcome the community to support other charities’ fund-raising. as well as conferences, workshops and seminars. Good evening and welcome to this exciting production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We were thrilled to receive notification from the rights holders, Music Theatre International, that we had been chosen We rely on ticket sales for the vast majority of our income. Headquarters: 15 The Metro Centre, Peterborough, PE2 7UH to produce this well-known musical. WOW depends on the support of a large number of Telephone: 01733 374790 Email: [email protected] volunteers and is managed by ten trustees who also look Website: www.noda.org.uk This will be the biggest budget for a show that we have ever undertaken and ticket sales have been after our charitable status. excellent so we are anticipating a successful outcome. We have decided to start the show earlier at 6.30pm in order to accommodate a younger audience to get them home earlier. WOW Youth Musical Theatre Registered Charity 1176474 Welcome to our Janet Stockley From auditions, we selected a small group of youngsters to join us for the children’s chorus and 25-27 Park Street, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 7DF President hopefully some of these will audition to become future members. We welcome them and hope they wowyouththeatre.org.uk Tel: 01305 457997 Guests during will enjoy their time with us. WOWyouththeatre show week As always, I must say a big thank you to all the volunteers who, together with a core of creative and @WOWyouththeatre theatre professionals, make WOW the successful group that it is. who include.. @WOWymt I do hope that you enjoy this production and continue to give these talented youngsters the support • NODA Past President – Nick Lawrence they deserve. • NODA Regional Councillor, South West – Do it for Graham Liverton and wife, Anne • NODA Area Representative – Sylvia Coates and guest Editor’s Notes Diane • NODA Youth Adviser, South West – Jo Wilson-Hunt Welcome to our production of Chitty. In Act II there’s a song that sums up perfectly what was needed From our charity bucket • WOS Chairman - Stella Brading and guest to stage this show -’Teamwork’. There is not space in the programme to name everyone who has collections we will be donating • WOW Fundraising Chairman - contributed, or supported us, but we are very grateful to each and every one, as we could not do it to Weldmar Hospice Care. Kevin Butcher and Jane McKell without them. • WOW President - Janet Stockley and John Stockley WOW members, Alex Rogan Two people I cannot thank enough are the creative duo of Martine Burt and Heather Reed. As and Luke Southorn, have fundraising events lined up for • WOW Chairman - Alan McKechan and director/choreographer and musical director they have been the driving force behind many of our both Weldmar and the Fortuneswell Chemotherapy Unit. Anne McKechan award-winning shows, so it’s great to be able to report under ‘WOW News’ of further success at last You can find out more or donate on the ‘Do it for Diane’ • WOW Former trustee - Mick Burt and Theresa Burt month’s NODA awards. Martine and Heather inspire our cast who, once again, have responded with JustGiving page at • Jo Steen and Stephanie Leach tremendous energy and enthusiasm. • Pat and Julian Oddy Alan McKechan www.justgiving.com/fundraising/diane-s Chairman It is equally inspiring to see our members taking the lead and on the facing page you can read about • Judith Wheeldon and guest the charity fundraising initiative that we are supporting. Alex explains what they are doing and why, “Both of these • Dorset Echo - Marion Cox and guest dedicated and hard-working organisations are supporting Over the page we feature some of the cars that have played a leading role on stage and screen, a very dear friend of ours and his family through their including our prop car and the technical challenges it has presented. However, in the words of the battle with cancer. Along with 10 of our friends we are song, ‘Great teams make impossibilities come true’, so sit back and enjoy another fantastic fun- doing a sponsored head shave on 23 April followed by an filled production! 18 mile walk along Chesil Beach on 27 April.” The Car’s the Star The Real Chitty Bang Bang Blue Chilli Chitty The original Chitty Bang Bang was built and raced by Count Louis The car used in this production is the most expensive stage prop that WOW have ever used. Weighing in at 1,000kg, our Zborowski in 1921. She was powered by a 23 litre six cylinder aero technical manager, Chris Sheppard, devised a proof of load test to ensure that the Pavilion stage could take the point engine and achieved fame at Brooklands Race Track. At the 1922 Whitsun loading on the three wheels that Chitty sits and moves on. meeting she achieved her fastest lap of 113.45 mph. Later that year she crashed and, although the Count rebuilt Chitty, he never raced her again. Other On-Screen Cars Bond films feature cars modified with extraordinary equipment such as the Lotus Esprit in “The Spy Who Loved Me”(1977) The Film Chitty which transforms into a submarine, equipped with anti-aircraft missiles. The car for the film was a real car built to be strong enough to withstand driving on the beach or descending a staircase. It was powered by a Ford In the three “Back to the Future” films released between 1985 and 1990, the car is a mobile time machine which enables 3000 V6 engine with automatic transmission and was actually registered Doc Brown and Marty McFly to travel in time from 1885 to 2015. It is based on the DMC DeLorean sports car with its with Ian Fleming’s invented number plate GEN 11 (meaning genie or polished aluminium body and gull wing doors. magical being) so that it could be used in the road driving sequences. In the 2002 film, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Ron and Harry use a flying Ford Anglia to get to Hogwarts after missing the Hogwarts Express. The Stage Chitty The prop car used in the stage production at the London Palladium holds the Guinness World Record as the most expensive stage prop ever at £750,000! Over the production run of 1,414 performances, this works out at £530 per performance which is actually less than the cost per show of the prop car WOW are using! Chitty’s Journey 1964 2005 Ian Fleming’s only children’s book, Chitty in April, the Broadway production opens and runs for 285 Chitty Bang Bang is published. Fleming performances. wrote it for his son Caspar but the author is best known for his 12 novels featuring 2006-2010 secret agent 007 - James Bond. Chitty productions tour UK 2015-2017 1968 A new Chitty productions tours the UK and Ireland. Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli brings Chitty to cinemas with a screenplay by Roald Dahl and director, Ken Hughes, together with musical numbers by the Sherman Brothers.