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Home Chat Feb 2004 A3 WHAT’S ON? Is your production or event shown here...? If you want an item to be included here or on our website then please send details to: What’s On, The Noël Coward Society, 29, Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB or email: whatson@noël coward.net Tel: +44 (0)1603 486188 Fax: +44 (0)1603 400683 Professional companies and individuals are shown in blue * denotes Premiere, TBC = To be confirmed In North America Hay Fever: WEST END HIGHLIGHT - BLITHE SPIRIT 31 Mar to 10 Apr -Seminole Community College Fine Arts Featuring Penelope Keith, Joanna Riding, Amanda Drew WHAT’S IN Theatre, Sanford, Florida and Aden Gillett - Director: Thea Sharrock THE PIPELINE? From the 16th November 2004 to 28th May 2005. I LIKE AMERICA... Fallen Angels Monday to Saturday 7.30 pm. Apr to Nov - (in repertory) Stratford Festival Theatre - Thursday and Sat Matinee 2.30 pm. COWARD Blithe Spirit and Broadway Bliss Stratford, Ontario - Canada Ticket price from £15 to £40 ONFILM Two exciting NCS events took place in New York just off Fifth Avenue so afterwards we strolled in December, 2004 arranged by Ken Starrett, the along, window gazing and, venturing into For more information or to make a booking at The Savoy With thanks to all those Society’s North American Director. On Saturday Bergdorf Private Lives Theatre please telephone the box office 0870 1648787 who have expressed 4th, NCS UK visitors were welcomed at the Goodman, 12 to 15 May Stage 43 Theatrical Soc. Port Coquitlam BC18 to interest in this event. Blithe Spirit Museum of Television and Radio by Richard bumped 17 Sep Vision Theatre, Nepean, Ontario A change of date and 9 to 12 Feb - Sefton theatre Company, The Little Theatre, Holbrook. Ken introduced a screening of the 1956 immediately news on the film to be Southport, Merseyside telecast recording of Blithe Spirit, with Noël as into Elaine Hay Fever shown on Page11. Feb 10,11,12,17.18, 19 at 8pm and Feb 20 at 2pm. Charles Condomine, Claudette Colbert as Ruth and Stritch in the Private Lives Lauren Bacall as Elvira. Originally broadcast live, handbag Shakespeare '70 Inc. at the College of New Jersey, Ewing, N.J., COWARD in For tickets and directions call 609 882 5979 Summer 2005 (TBC) - Dublin Gate then Irish Tour Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart had kept a department, Website: www.shakespeare70.org 13 to 18 Jun - The Pump House Theatre Company, The Pump teddington private copy, which Miss Bacall had donated to the looking in House Theatre, Watford, Herts Can you help with a museum. This was a wonderful treat and a first the pink and Blithe Spirit major exhibition at the bright as a 14 to 24 Apr Buckhorn Community Centre, Buckhorn, Ontario This Happy Breed Orleans House button. She 16 to 19 Feb - Marlborough Dramatic Club, Brentwood Twickenham? was In Europe Theatre, Brentwood See Page 11 interested to hear about the flower- Nothing known at present 7 to 12 Mar 2005 The Hamble Players, The Memorial Hall, laying at the Gershwin Theatre the Hamble, Southampton COWARD in following day, having performed In the United Kingdom the same ceremony for us at Drury Red Peppers paris Lane, in December 2002. The major Postponed - The Matrix Theatre, Newbury, Berks We are planning a two event was on Sunday 5th at the ATalent To Amuse day trip to Paris in early 11 Feb at 8pm. As part of their St Valentine's Day celebrations, Gershwin Theatre, just off Noel Coward Society’s ‘Laughter Lister and Love’ September to visit Broadway in the Hall of Fame, the Clarendon Hotel, Montpelier Vale, Blackheath, London, Coward’s wartime SE3 are presenting a tribute to Noël Coward. This one-man Saturday May 7th, 2005 at 2.30pm - A Noël Coward Cabaret where there is an identical statue of at the Noël Coward Studio Theatre at the Hampton Hill residence and much Noël to the one in the foyer at show is performed and devised by local Actor/Singer, James more... see page 11 Hay with Anne Clements at the Piano. Playhouse. email: [email protected] or Keir Dullea above laying flowers on ‘Noël’ & here with Ken Starrett Drury Lane. Keir Dullea, who A three course dinner compliments the show post to:3 Somerville Road, Poulner, RINGWOOD, Hants appeared with Noël in the film Details from the Clarendon Hotel on 020 8318 4321 BH24 1XJ COWARD opportunity for anyone from the UK to see the Bunny Lake is Missing performed the flower- birthday performances. Marvellous close-up shots of Noël laying ceremony and was accompanied by his Relative Values Noel Coward Society’s ‘Coward In Paris’ celebrations displaying his vast and quite intriguing range of wife, Mia Dillon. Keir told the story of being 27 Jan to 19 Feb - Salisbury Playhouse Details to follow. The review of last facial expressions. He edited this introduced to Noël, who had greeted him with Noel Coward Society’s ‘Coward On Film’ year’s Coward birthday version for TV and it worked superbly. Just One of Those Things Details to follow. celebrations is Apparently Noël and Miss Colbert’s relationship had been frosty during 1 to 5 Mar - A Celebration of the Words and Music of Noël Footnote underway with planning Coward and Cole Porter presented By Denmead Operatic for next year’s events in rehearsals, but being the professionals Noël Coward, January 3, 1968 they were, that certain frostiness was Society The weather has been entirely satisfactory - a lot of snow New York and London. 1 Mar - War Memorial Hall, Hambledon Road, Denmead We hope to make more incorporated into the portrayals. The and sleds and jingle-bells. I feel a little curious about being Museum’s theatre was packed with 2 Mar - Merchistoun Hall, London Road, Horndean only two years off 70! My health is all right and my heart is of the celebrity flower- 4 Mar - Purbrook Methodist Church Hall, Stakes Road, laying at the Theatre members of NCS from New York and pure, which I put down to excessive smoking. However, a afterwards we chatted over tea and Purbrook reckoning will probably come. It usually does. I read in one Royal next year as well 5 Mar - Bedhampton Social Hall, Bedhampton Road, as enjoying another cakes; just the right British touch. It of my journals of a few years ago a triumphant account of was a pleasure to meet Elizabeth Bedhampton giving up smoking for ever; after a few weeks I decided I Annual Lunch. Details Full details at: www.hants.gov.uk/denmeadoperatic coming soon. Sharland, whose book A Theatrical could bear it no longer so back I went to the darling weed Feast in New York was featured in the Tickets - £6 (full) and £5 (concessions) and have felt splendid ever since. I may, of course, shorten Tickets Tel: (023) 9226 9260or (023) 9248 0654 (AM only) laughter. October Home Chat and the UK guests my life by a year or two, but I haven't got all that longer to were delighted to see Steve Ross again, go anyhow and I couldn't care less. It's been a nice and lister & love Ken Starrett, ‘Noël’ and Barbara Longford Hay Fever since his triumph in Cocktails and profitable buggy ride and I've enjoyed most of it very much. Look on Page11 for 25 Feb to 5 Mar - Heald Green theatre Co Ltd., Heald Green Laughter….. for NCS, at Pizza on-the-Park. (The “Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow….” which, The loss of a few years of gnarled old age does not oppress details. Theatre, Heald Green, Cheshire photographs of this event were taken by New York happily, had not been prophetic. There was an me. member Richard Barclay.) The Museum is situated impressive turn out of New York members. Page 12 Unless stated otherwise all text and images are copyright to the Noël Coward Estate. All correspondence to: Home Chat, The Noël Coward Society, 29, Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB UK email: homechat @noelcoward.net Ken spoke knowledgeably about Noël opening. This is Noël’s musical version his operettas Bitter Sweet (1929) and and about the Society and presented Keir of Lady Windermere’s Fan. On Monday Conversation Piece (1934) and he Dullea with a framed publicity poster of 6th we were allowed to watch the final thought that Wilde’s play would be LAUGHTER, LISTER and LOVE Bunny Lake... After the ceremony, we dress rehearsal of the show at the Irish perfect material. “It really is up my A Noël Coward Cabaret walked a short distance to Rosie Repertory Theatre in West 22nd Street. musical alley”, he confided to his diary in at the Noël Coward Studio Theatre at the Hampton Hill Playhouse O’Grady’s restaurant for July 1953 and later added, Saturday May 7th, 2005 at 2.30pm lunch in an elegant oak- “The music is pouring out Champagne Reception - The Songs of The Master - Tea and cakes panelled private room, and I can scarce get to the Dedication of Moira Lister’s Molyneux gown worn in the 1947 West End revival of Present Laughter with piano. Lots of time piano without a melody This jewel of a theatre has to be seen to A totally unique feature, generously the dress in which she says; to chat over cocktails creeping from my fingers, be believed! funded by our patron Graham Payn. “I donate it to this theatre in admiration prior to lunch – well, usually in keys that I am Teddington Theatre Club has a long Moira Lister, who starred in the first run for its great work in keeping our beloved drinks if you prefer, but not used to and can’t play history of award-winning productions of Present Laughter in 1949, attended the theatre alive” this is the Noël Coward in; it is most extraordinary and acquired its new premises at theatre’s June production in 2004.
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