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Officers for 2002 November 2017 In this month’s Spotlight Greetings from MTNZ President Lesley Carthew .......................................................................................... 1 RIP Life Members Len Speir and Shona Spencer .......................................................................................... 4 Places to be, people to see with iTICKET ...................................................................................................... 6 Spotlight on Reece Preston, founder with Phil Jobbins of iTICKET ............................................................ 7 58th National Conference Nelson – all you need to know – early bird rego closes off 31 Dec ...........9 - 17 Newsflash – Junior Theatre Info Hour – new forum for Friday at conference ........................................... 18 Zone Reports and a Wrap Up of What’s Happening Around Our Community in New Zealand ........ 19 – 22 Fundraising Conference for Ruby Lyon with Gwen Lyon ........................................................................ 26 What’s happening in Zone Three ................................................................................................................. 29 Consortium Defying Gravity ......................................................................................................................... 32 Zone Four and Five News and Views ........................................................................................................ 35 Tips and Ideas from the Volunteering NZ Conference ............................................................................ 39 New Associate Members Web Tigers & the MTNZ 2018 Calendar – dates for your diaries ................... 40 Pop Up Systems from John Herber ........................................................................................................... 41 Zone Four and Five News and Views ........................................................................................................ 35 New releases from Origin Theatrical – Ghost; Atomic and Connected – a rock musical ...................... 43 NZ Musicals from Playmarket – including Peter Jackson’s Brain Dead the Musical ............................. 46 From the President’s View Point Sage advice from this wonderful woman! And so it’s November, where has the year gone? An extremely busy time for me since I last spoke to you in Spotlight, but extremely enjoyable and fulfilling. First up was my trip to Dannevirke, meeting up with Zone Three rep Sharron, staying in a gorgeous B and B on the outskirts of Dannevirke, and attending a very fine performance of “Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Jersey Lily”. The story tells of the hunt for love letters written by Lillie Langtry to Oscar Wilde, because Lillie was being blackmailed. The following was one comment I read on line about this comedy: "...a quick-paced, witty...confection that goes down like iced lemonade on a summer scorcher." Pioneer Press 1 The play was directed by Elijah Graham, a young man, with a huge talent, he not only directed the play, but he wrote a piano score, which he played superbly in the background of the production. Elijah attended our Boot Camp in August. The cast and crew are to be congratulated on a very entertaining production. Next day, and then again during the week, I attended Napier Operatic Society’s Children’s Theatre Production of “Beauty and the Beast”. Up stepped first time director – NextGen Representative- James Wright (who attended both MTNZ NextGen Boot Camps), and what a great job he did. With a cast of some 50 children (no easy feat to manage), the show was fantastic, and James and his team are to be congratulated on a superb production. The inaugural Junior Theatre Celebration was held at Labour Weekend in Auckland this year. Attended by 290 young musical theatre thespians, this is a chance for societies to showcase their talent in front of directors from USA, Music Theatre International. What a wonderful opportunity for young people to strut their stuff, and I do hope that more groups take up the opportunity next year. To learn from these industry experts is a wonderful opportunity. MTNZ was well represented with GM Kate and NextGen Rep James attending (James’ Beauty and the Beast cast were taking part) and of course, our Zone One Rep Emma Bishop who is the National Junior Theatre Rep organised and managed the event. So, to the last weekend of October, and off to Oamaru I went, to attend the annual Combined South Island Meeting. I always love going to these meetings, always well attended, and great to see some new faces. Sue Barker of Sue Barker Charities Law again presented on the New Incorporated Societies’ Legislation, this affects all societies, and is something we must be very aware of. Suffice to say that in time, all societies will be required to have a new constitution, this will be a costly exercise but with the help of Sue, MTNZ is endeavouring to help you all in this regard, and we will update you as we make progress on this. We all benefitted from Kate’s Theatre Marketing Forum and Discussion, Helen and Kate reiterated the importance of having a Strategic Plan, and there was also something for the Techies – Health and Safety and a “chew the fat” session on all things technical including an update on Skills Active/ETNZ Qualifications. My thanks to Sue Barker, David Bosworth (The Light Site), Carl Sheehan (Nelson Musical Theatre, and Graeme Philip (John Herber Ltd) for their input to the weekend. Special thanks to Kate, Zone Four Administrator Dianne, Helen and Ross for organising a great weekend, and grateful thanks to Pat Gunn, Daniel Martin and the team from Musical Theatre Oamaru for hosting us for the day. My thanks too to our FOUR Life Members in attendance – Markham Lee who is also our Hon Solicitor; Diane and Graeme Philip and John MacGibbon – very special for us to have you all attend the meeting. Sadly, after a great weekend, I then was advised of the very sad passing of my dear friend and mentor Len Speir. Len was MTNZ’s auditor, a Life Member, and friend to all. I will miss him dearly, he was always available to help and guide me, and I will always be grateful to him. RIP dear Len xxx We also lost Shona Spencer in September. Shona was also a Life Member of MTNZ and Kate’s predecessor – a well respected lady who contributed so much to the national Executive and Bob Cater who drafted the original constitution for NZFOS and was a well known Wellington theatre identity – he too passed away in September. We are grateful to all these amazing people for their contribution to our community and thank them all. Kate and Emma have been busy with MTNZ activities attending the Volunteering NZ Conference and also visiting the Auckland 2019 conference venue – the Ellerslie Event Centre at the Ellerslie racecourse. From attending the Volunteering NZ conference we have got some great ideas to implement for our conference along with some good workshop topics and presenters Kate is keen to engage with for our meetings and training going forward – so watch this space 2 Last weekend the Executive travelled to Auckland for our last meeting for 2017. We had a very full agenda, and I thank my Executive for their input over two long sessions. Vice President Dan left us at lunchtime Saturday to fly back to Tauranga to represent the Executive at Len’s funeral. While we would all have liked to attend the funeral, fiscally it was not possible, and we knew Len would not have approved of any funds being “wasted”. Late afternoon, the Executive hosted Society members and Corporates from Zone One at the Pumphouse in Takapuna. We thought it was an ideal opportunity to meet with our Zone One friends, have a drink and a nibble, and discuss any issues they might have. Sadly, the soiree was not well attended, but I personally thank those who did attend, it was lovely to see you and have your input. We had New Zealand Playwright Roger Hall join us, and he gave us an insight of his plans for New Zealand Theatre Month to be held on September 2018. Special thanks to Angela Anthony for helping facilitate the occasion, and the staff at the Pumphouse for their assistance. The afternoon culminated with an Executive photo taken on “John Antony’s seat”, a very special moment. Saturday night we travelled to Orewa, to see Centrestage Theatre Company’s NZ Premiere of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. And what a fantastic production it was, I loved every minute of it, and the entire team are to be congratulated for their efforts. As I travel up and down the country I am made very aware of the efforts that our people make all for the love of musical theatre. I am extremely grateful for all of our Corporates, who give of their time and expertise so freely, without you all we would not survive. So as my term in office winds down, I can only thank you all for your commitment to this wonderful “disease” – long may it continue! Fond regards to you all - Lesley 3 RIP Len Speir – MTNZ Life Member and Hon Auditor (Dan’s citation read at Len’s farewell in Tauranga on 4 November 2017) My name is Daniel Pepperell and I am the Vice President of Musical Theatre New Zealand, and a member of Tauranga Musical Theatre. I would like to pass on apologies from President Lesley, General Manager Kate and the rest of the MTNZ Executive who I have come from today in Auckland where we have been having our meeting. As our honorary auditor, we could hear his sage advice in our ears saying “do not cancel the meeting and incur cost on my behalf” It was with heavy hearts and much sadness that the MTNZ Executive informed our community that MTNZ Life Member, our Hon Auditor and wonderful supporter of community theatre both at a national and local level, Len Speir, had passed away. Our thoughts, love and sympathy are with the Speir family, Roy and Tauranga Musical Theatre. An amazing man and a true gentleman and he will be very much missed by us all. Len was awarded Life Membership (our highest honour) of MTNZ in 2007 and Nola presented him with his award, which was a very special moment for them both. The words below are from that presentation, which were read out by John Antony who was President at the time.
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