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IT's 'SARNIES' Time Again! Get Your Vote IN! (See Page 9) December 2014 | No. 48 | Quarterly www.bromleylittletheatre.org THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MICHAEL YORK OBE PRESIDENT: MR. KIPLING: EXCEEDINGLY GOOD … ! IT’S ‘SArnies’ TImE AgAIN! Get YOUR voTE IN! (see page 9) • Reviews: All The Great Books (Abridged) | My Boy Jack | RolePlay | Collaborators | VPL#2 • Auditions: The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice | Daisy Pulls It Off | The Pitmen Painters • Previews: Great Expectations | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Crooked Wood | The Elephant Man + Events Diary • Noticeboard Andrew Newbon, BLT Chair Key Contacts James Dammers, Kyle Cluett and B Giles Tebbits in y the edgier or less well-known. When you Key Contact Areas: BLT’s September - production of time renew your membership you may like to My Boy Jack. you all make use of our online membership appli [email protected] [email protected] read this, cation system via our website. You can still we will be renew by cheque in the usual way. Chairman: about to One of the clear recommendations in the present Key:[email protected] Jane Buckland Photo: Tim Hinchliffe (www.timhinchliffe.com) Tim Hinchliffe Photo: our final report we commissioned on the future of Tel: 07900 580841 - production the theatre, was that we must, as a matter of the sea of urgency, make it easier for non-members Finance: son. Since to book and pay for tickets. We are in the Key: Howard Binysh taking over process of changing our premises licence in [email protected] as Chair of the BLT Board a year ago, order to facilitate this. I will be able to give - Spotlights I have continued to admire the way so you more information about our plans in Artistic: many volunteers work hard to run our lit the next issue of (March 2015). tle theatre and put on productions of such [email protected] We have been working hard this year on Keys: Pauline Armour / Jane Buckland high quality. In the last twelve months, Tel: 07984 722308 long term plans for the theatre and ways I have had the opportunity to see the place of securing and developing the building so through the eyes of a number of first time - Youth Group: that BLT can thrive for many years to come. visitors, as we look to refurbish the theatre - These things take time but we hope to be and raise our profile in Bromley: architects, [email protected] - gin to see some improvements in the build solicitors, the Mayor of Bromley, Derek ing and its facilities over the next twelve Membership: Jacobi, Michael York (although not techni months. I suspect our current membership cally his ‘first time’ here) and on each is actually a treasure trove of expertise and Key:[email protected] Christina Jeremiah occasion, I find myself immensely proud experience. If you have any background Tel: 07871 155216 of our achievements and gratified by these - in marketing, building, law, fund-raising visitors’ enthusiasm for the place and its Box Office: etc. and would be prepared to offer your work, yet I’m also conscious of the scruffi - services to us, either as a one-off informal ness of our premises. Sometimes BLT feels conversation or something requiring a lit Key:[email protected] Paul Ackroyd like a dowager in a track suit. Tel: 079178 53621 tle more commitment, please get in touch We have a proud record of ending the with me. Spotlights magazine: season year on a year with our accounts in Can I also repeat a request for members to the black by a few thousand pounds and Key: Stevie Hughes become involved in backstage and front of [email protected] attendance and membership figures have - house work? If you can spare one evening a held up well. We have, however, found that month? – or year! – to make coffee or serve Website: David Scott-Lucas and while the last few performances of a run of Sue Williams in BLT’s behind the bar or want to learn how to build ten sell out, numbers attending the shows Key: Stevie Hughes October production of a set, operate lights or sound, or become one of the first weekend are lower. Please be [email protected] RolePlay of our front of house team, selling tickets assured that our cast and crew do not need or ensuring the comfort and safety of our a couple of performances to get into the Publicity: audiences, then please email me and I will swing of things. Our productions are well pass your message on to the relevant person. Key: Pat Jones rehearsed, will have had three full dress [email protected] rehearsals on the Monday Tuesday and Finally our members’ Christmas party is Bar: Wednesday, a preview performance to a on Friday 19th December and I hope to see charity audience on the Thursday and by a number of you there. Do come up and the opening night are absolutely ready to introduce yourselves to me if we haven’t Key:[email protected] Pauline Pead Tel: 01689 870326 go. I would like to start a tradition at BLT already met. of selling out opening nights and booking early to get your favourite seats. Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy Bromley LITTLE Theatre New- Jane Year! Buckland • Next year’s season looks very exciting with ([email protected]) www.BromleyLittleTheatre.org our usual mixture of popular, well-known Registered Charity No. 1132561 President: Michael York OBE plays and authors, and some which are Spotlights is published by Bromley Little ‘Spotlights’ is designed and typeset by: Theatre Ltd., NorthSpotlights Street, Bromley, Kent COVER: BR1 1SB. Any views or opinions expressed 07789 123719 Steve Williams in BLT’s September’s by individuals in are done so production of My Boy Jack independently and are not necessarily graphic design • web design • sound design Call: [email protected] www.triocreative.com Photo: Phil Cairns (philcairns.zenfolio.com) the opinions of Bromley Little Theatre Ltd. or its directors. 2 Latest News & Diary NoticeboardLatest News Dates Important changes to ticketing arrangements 2014/2015 Nigel was born in Crofton, went to Bromley Grammar School, in the same year as Fri 5 – Sat 13 Dec 2014 at 7.45pm from January 2015 Michael York, and began acting and singing Great Expectations in many local theatre groups including BLT ABOLITION OF PRE-PRINTED TICKETS from the age of 10. - Directed by Pauline Armour W by Charles Dickens / adapted by Neil Bartlett TicketSource,ith so many members now using the Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 7.30pm Their first play together as Juniors had Ni online ticket booking service through gel as Demetrius and Michael as Helena in BLT Xmas Party! we have decided that it now ‘The Dream’. After many other productions makes sense to move away from using pre- Contact the box office to reserve your place! together, Michael took revenge and played In The Bar In The printed, paper tickets at the theatre. Bassanio to Nigel’s Portia! During the dress As from January 2015, entry to our 2015: Happy New Year! TicketSource rehearsal the cotton wool stuffing in Nigel’s shows will either be by e-tickets sent by mock bra dispersed itself around the stage Fri 12 - Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 7.45pm or by ‘thermal’ tickets printed while Michael was held up entering as he at the BLT box office. had a major issue with his tights. Brighton Beach TicketSource Memoirs If you book online, please print off the e- Directed by Arthur Rochester ticket sent to you by and show by Neil Simon this for entry to the theatre. If you are Sun 18 Jan 2015 unable to print it off or forget to do so, just Auditions call in at the box office and we will print at 1.00pm: you your ‘thermal’ tickets.TicketSource at 3.00pm: The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice If you book via the telephone at 5.00pm: Daisy Pulls It Off booking service on 0333 666 3366, or Thu 29 TheJan -Pitmen Sun 1 FebPainters 2015 at 7.45pm from the box office in person, there will be Crooked Wood no change to your ticketing arrangements except that the physical tickets will look a little different - In The Bar In The Directed by Jessica-Ann Jenner by Gillian Plowman Fri 13 - Sat 21 Feb 2015 at 7.45pm Members who reserve tickets to pay on ar- rival for themselves or their guests should The Elephant Man remember that such bookings are not con Directed by Tony Jenner firmed until such TicketSourcetime as they are paid for. Sir Derek Jacobi cbe and BLT’s Pat Jones byFri Bernard 13 – Sat Pomerance 21 Mar 2015 • at 7.45pm No e-mail confirmation of reserved tickets A Chorus Of Disapproval will be sent from in future. Directed by Kay O’Dea Reserved tickets must be collected at least 15 minutes before the performance starts bySat Alan 28 Feb Ayckbourn 2015 at • 7.00pm or they may be resold. Nigel Rideout’s latest book launch in Australia The ‘Sarnies’ Awards! These arrangements will save BLT about with Sally Burton, widow of Richard Burton. BLT’s very own Oscars ceremony! £1,500- Paul Ackroyd, per year. • Sir Derek Jacobi cbe gives a gala performance at BLT! Thu 26 - Sun 29 Mar 2015 at 7.45pm Box Office Manager Harper Regan The private family theatre collection of As Luck Would Have Sir George Alexander – Nigel’s ancestor, n Sunday 12th October, BLT members- ItHis autobiography (which was also on sale on The evening was held in aid of the Motor NEWSNigel OF Rideout EX-BLT MEMBERS In The Bar In The Directed by David Griffiths donned posh frocks, dinner jackets the evening) is entitled Neurone Disease Association, which was by Simon Stephens the actor-manager of London’s St.
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