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Trust News February 1979 Volume 3 Number 1 ISSN 0314-0598 FEBRUARY 1979 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1 Two Tickets for the Price of One ... AND NOW COUNT BASIE We are delighted to be able to offer Members the opportunity to purchase as many tickets as they wish at half price for performances on Monday rch 26th and Tuesday March 27th. Following tile performance on Monday March 26th there will be a supper party in the theatre foyer for Members and their friends. Post theatre supper Following the highly successful tours parties are proving very popular with of Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald Members. It is a very pleasant way to the Trust is delighted to be able to round off a night at the theatre. announce the forthcoming national Those Members who are unable to tour by Count Basie and his Orchestra. attend on March 26th or 27th will Basie has been described as the most DEATHTRAP receive the normal $1.00 concession explosive force in jazz and certainly on two tickets at all other perform­ his distinctive big band sound has ances. Your Trust Member preferential been instantly recognizable for well Ira Levin who wrote ROSEMARY'S booking coupon is enclosed with a over a quarter of a century. BABY and THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL separ.ate application form for supper The Basie Band began in 1935 when is the author of DEATHTRAP, a comedy tickets. Bill Basie took over the Bennie Moten thriller which is currently one of the Orchestra in Kansas City following biggest hits on Broadway. It has re­ . Bennie's death. At that stage it was a cently opened in London to similar ten-piece band but encouraged by the acclaim. Seeing DEATHTRAP has noted music critic John Hammond the been compared to a ride on a roller­ band moved to New York in 1936 and coaster when screams and laughter expanded. The following year the band mingle to form an enjoyable hysteria. ,. made its first ·recordings and in 1938 DEATHTRAP is to be produced in Aus­ it became internationally famous. The E qualities that established it were c tralia by J. C. Williamson Productions c" co and presented ,at the Theatre Royal Basie's simple, swinging, elliptical Q; pianq. style and the driving impetus of a. from March 24th. It will star Dennis Olsen and be directed by the highly a great r.hythm section. acclaimed Australian director Michael Since then the band's success has CD become legendary with their globe "Ii Blakemore who directed the London o production. trotting tours·, their best selling records ii . and their association with artists like :;;" Dennis Olsen Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Ella ~i ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fitzgerald who discovered the joys of a Basie accompaniment. ..co NEW BALLET arrives before February 10. Members Count Basie will give two perform­ ='" SUBSCRIPTIONS who joined in the past two months will ances at the Concert Hall, Sydney ..o not automatically receive a Ballet bro­ Opera House, on March 5th at 6 p.m . a. Members who wish to take out new chure. They should contact The Aus­ and 8.30 p.m. As general public mail subscriptions to the Australian Ballet tralian Ballet, 153 Dowling Street, Potts bookings open in early February excel­ are reminded that bookings open on Point, tel 3571200. Please make sure lent seats have been set aside for February 10th. Members have prefer­ your application form clearly indicates Members which will be held until Mon­ ence in the allocation of new sub­ that yqu are a Trust Member and quote day February 12th. Your booking cou­ ,;; scriber seats provided their application your membership number. pon is enclosed. :;;.,II w If you would like any further information about the facilities available to Trust members please ring the =~:II~I=f..=I~--------------------------- membership office on 357 1200 . :;;.!! The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, P.O. Box 137, Kings Cross, N.S.W. 2011 ~ --~~~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to this forbidding area to search for MEMBERS ACTIVITIES NEW MUSIC HALL his sister. As the story unfolds an PRODUCTION assortment of roguish characters are THEATRE LOVERS' TOUR OF In mid February the doors of the Music introduced including the heroine EUROPE Hall, Neutral Bay, will open to the To start the year in fine style we can theatre's 24th production Lo.ST TO. now give Members further information THE DEVIL, written and directed by about our overseas tour. We have Stanley Walsh. After two distinctly dellayed doing this until details were Australian themes - CRUSHED BY available of the new airfares to Europe. DESIRE and LUST Fo.R Po.WER - We can now offer Members and their written by Michael Boddy, Lo.ST TO. friends a 38 day fully escorted Euro­ THE DEVIL returns to London at the pean tour for $3395. If sufficient Mem­ turn of the century. This is the seventh bers respond then the figure could be melodrama to be written 9Y Stanley reduced. This price includes travel, Walsh for the theatre. Some of his hotel and breakfast plus 3 opera better known productions include THE tickets, 1 ballet and 1 theatre ticket SPECTRE o.F WYCo.MBE MANo.R, Ron Haddrick plus ,a ticket to Royal Ascot. Addi­ THE SPRING HEELED TERRo.R, and tional theatre tickets can be obtained So.LD IN MARRIAGE. Maggie (KAREN Jo.HNSo.N), the long on request for an additional charge. The story takes place in Devil's Acre arm of the law becomes involved and The tour departs Sydney on 16th May where large sums of money are being our hero finds himself in a "house of flyiflg directly to London from where made by I,arge influential Trading ill-repute" face to face with Jardine we set off on our European bus tour. Companies. However not only are Leachman's cunning accomplice. Ex­ This takes us to all the major theatrical these Companies buying and selling citing episodes unfold but rest assured centres including Paris, Milan, Rome commodities such as tea and sugar - VIRTUE IS TRIUMPHANT! ,and Stuttgart as well as many others. slave trading and illicit opium run'i1ing Trust Members receive a $1.00 conces­ Tours of inspection of major theatrical are rife. o.ne such Trader is Jardine sion on each of two tickets on Monday centres will be arranged in addition to Leachman (Ro.N HADDRICK). to Thursday evenings. Members and attending performances. In Vienna the At this time girls have been vanishing their friends can save $4.00 a ticket by Spanish Riding School will be visited at an alarming rate and the play's hero joining the Trust Member group on as well as the o.pera House and the Jeremy Parsons (Alan Wilson) comes April 3 (see Member Activities). Vienna Woods. The tour includes travel by Rhine Steamer from Mainz to Col­ ogne. We return to London for a CHALWIN SERIES BEGINS final week which includes Trooping A further series of Chalwin Castle con­ friends and are given in the private of the Colour and Royal Ascot before certs is planned for 1979. The first will theatre of Chalwin Castle in Cremorne. returning to Sydney on June 23rd. be presented by the Associate Con­ It is ,a perfect setting and the Trust is The tour will be personally escorted fly certmaster of the Elizabethan Sydney always most grateful to Mr. Vivian Mrs. Shirley Hay, Trust Governor and o.rchestra, Mr. Gordon Bennett, on Chalwin for making his theatre avail­ President of the Committee. An Ameri­ Sunday March 11. able. The Elizabethan Sydney Cham­ can Express guide will also accompany Later highlights will include Schubert's ber Group is formed out of the ranks the tour throughout Europe. o.ctet and Janacek's 'Capriccio'. In of the Elizabethan Sydney o.rchestra Members wishing to receive a full the third programme some of the and the Chalwin series presents a rare itinerary and further details should younger developing musicians of the opportunity to hear these fine music­ contact Anne Harburn on 357 1200 as Eliz,abethan Sydney o.rchestra will ians in concert. soon as possible. perform and the final concert will be a Your booking coupon is enclosed with full Chamber Concert with works by details of dates .and prices both for a VICTORIAN SOIREE Haydn and Stravinsky in which the subscription ticket and for tickets for Elizabeth Bay House Orchestra will be conducted by its individual concerts. Please note that Friday March 9 at 6 p.m. & 8.30 p.m. Director of Music Mr. William Reid. all tickets must be purchased in What more delightful way could there The concerts are private functions advance. There will be no tickets avail­ be to spend a late summer evening purely for Trust Members and their able for sale on the night. than to visit historic Elizabeth Bay House for a Victorian soiree and cham­ CELEBRITY LUNCHEON juice. They can be reserved on the en­ pagne supper. Presented by the New Googie Withers & John McCallum closed booking coupon or by ringing England Actors Co. the evening of Sebel Town House, Elizabeth Bay Anne Harburn on 3571200. parlour songs and recitations will be Thursday February 15 at 12.30 p.m. of particular interest to music lovers For our first celebrity luncheon this LOST TO THE DEVIL and to those interested in our heritage. year we are delighted to welcome Music Hall Theatre Restaurant Two performances will be given (at 6 Googie Withers and John McCallum, Tuesday April 3 p.m. & 8.30 p.m.) exclusively for Trust who are in Sydney to play in THE A new melodrama is opening shortly Members and their friends. Proceeds KINGFISHER at the Seymour Centre.
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