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WHAT’S ON? ACROSS THE GLOBE (Professional companies in red amateur in black) America & Canada Blithe Spirit 3 to 5 Mar 2004 Crofton House School, Vancouver, BC JANUARY 20 to 30 Dec 2003 University Players, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario 2003 Mar to Apr 2004 Denver Center, Denver, CO 6 to 15 Nov Pine Tree Players, Canmore, Alberta 26 to 30 Apr 2004 Mississauga, Ontario Sep to Oct Utah Hay Fever 20 Nov to 13 Dec Grand Prairie Live Theatre, Grand Prairie, Alberta Sept to Oct Pacific Repertory Theatre., Carmel, CA IN THIS ISSUE 5 to 15 Nov St Luke’s Players, Victoria, BC ANNUAL LUNCHEON AND Page 1 Annual Lunch Come Into the Garden Maud Oct 9, Nov 3, & Dec 8. Food for Thought Productions, National Arts Club, NYC Steve Ross Tel: (212) 362-2560 Not Yet The Dodo Design For Living 5 to 13 Feb 2004 Amicus Productions Toronto, Ontario AUCTION ... at The Savoy Page 2 Comedy of Coward Fallen Angels 18 to 31 Jan 2004 Bramalea Live Theatre, Brampton, Ontario Page 3 Passing Stages Present Laughter 2 Mar to 1 Nov Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland OR. www.orshakes.org Our final Society event of the year takes place on Saturday 13th December in London. It has Page 4 Memories of 2 to 26 Jun 2004 Raymond Burr Performing Arts Theatre, New Westminister, BC been a year when we celebrated the life of Noël Coward. A time when we rejoiced in his Cavalcade Page 6 Come to the Cabaret Private Lives 4 to 21 Feb 2004 Tribal Productions Inc. Thornhill, Ontario continued presence in stage, screen and musical productions 30 years after his life came to an Page 7 News & Views 20 to 30 Dec University of Windsor, School of Drama and Arts, Windsor, ON end at Firefly in Jamaica. The man who thought he would not be remembered, has been, and Page 8 Gertrude Lawrence Sep to Nov Globe Theatre., Regina, Saskatchewan., Canada, ; will continue to be. We invite you to join us for this special day in the centre of London’s Page 9 Wings Over Jan to Feb, 2004 Lyric Stage, Boston, Mass. shopping and theatre district, as Christmas approaches, for a gala end to our year. The Broadway Apr to May, 2004 Irish Classical Theatre. Buffalo, NY programme for the day includes our Annual General Meeting (AGM) at The Theatre Museum Page 10 Coward on the Web Australasia at 10.30 am followed by a special laying of flowers on the statue of Noël Coward at the Theatre Page 11 Collector’s Lot!!!! Blithe Spirit 15 Nov to 20 Dec Melbourne Theatre Co Victoria then national tour 2003 (Press Night 19 Nov) Royal, Drury Lane at 12.00 noon. (During the anniversary week of his birth we also plan to Page 12 WHAT’S ON? 30 Oct to 1 Nov Tropic Line Theatre, Queensland (Small tour) lay flowers at the two other Coward statues created by the sculptor Angela Connor, at The Rest of the World Firefly, Jamaica and the Gershwin Theatre, New York.) In London, luncheon will be served Private Lives Current Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Jo’burg, South Africa from 12.30 pm at The Savoy in a room set aside for the afternoon for the Society followed at United Kingdom 2.30 pm by an auction of the books previously held at the London Office of Noël Coward, Present Laughter 16 to 18 Oct Union Theatre, The Village Hall, Dorridge, Solihull, West Midlands managed by the late Joan Hirst for so many years. The auction will be led by a professional 16 to 19 June 2004 The Hampton Hill Playhouse, Hamp[ton Hill, Mddx. auctioneer and is open to the public as well as members. Arrangements will be made to receive Fumed Oak 13 &14 Dec Phoenix Players, Village Hall, Abertin, Glamorgan telephone bids and a catalogue will be available from the end of October. A copy of this Hay Fever 30 Oct to 6 Nov R.S.A.M.D. The New Athenium Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland catalogue will be sent free of charge to each member and can be purchased by the public on 12 to 17 Jan 2004 Nottingham Arts Theatre, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire request. Copies will be sent to notable London booksellers. The auction is planned to finish The Savoy 27 to 28 May 2004 St. Mark’s Church Hall, Reigate, Surrey by 4.30 pm. Members will be able to attend any or all of the events on the day. There are no charges to members and their 27 to 29 Nov The Shelley theatre, Marlow, Bucks guests for attending the AGM, flower-laying or the Auction. The cost of the luncheon meal is £48.50 per person (inc. VAT) 2004 (TBC) West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Quarry whether a member or a guest - the menu is shown on the enclosed booking form. Blithe Spirit 8 to 15 Nov Questors Theatre, The Playhouse Theatre, Ealing, London 6 Aug to 4 Oct Derby Playhouse 6 Jun to 31 Oct Cumbria Theatre Trust, Theatre By The Lake, Keswick, Cumbria 18 to 25 Oct Bolton Little Theatre (With member Andrew Close as Charles Condomine) STEVE ROSS at Pizza On The Park NOT YET THE 13 to 15 Oct The Mill Hall, Rayleigh, Essex Yes the ‘heat is on’ as we celebrate the start of the year in 5 to 8 Nov The Mill Theatre, Banbury, Oxfordshire style with Steve Ross at the Pizza On The Park. Some 70 DODO 6 to 11 Oct The Little Theatre, Colne, Lancs. members have already signed up for this event and we have 13 to 14 Nov Hoddesdon Players, Broxbourne Civic Hall, Hoddesdon, Herts invited several celebrities to join us - news of these in our SPRING 2004 4 to 6 Dec Middele Barton DG, The Alice Marshall Hall, Middle Barton, Oxfordshire December edition. If anyone else wishes to join us please We plan to provide another opportunity 30 Oct to 1 Nov Rattlesden ATS, Village Hall, Rattlesden, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk contact: to see this wonderful and highly 1 to 4 Oct Codsall DS, Community High School, Codsall, Staffs Barbara Longford 7 Argyll Mansions, London, W14 8QG enjoyable theatre production that 17 Oct to 8 Nov Theatre Royal, York Tel: 020 7603 7399: home brings together the verse and music of 8 Jun to 4 Aug 2004Ian Dickens Productions - Balckpool/Darlington/Swansea (TBC) Tel: 020 7937 8692: office Noël Coward. The venue will be the Private Lives 19 Sep to 11 Oct Theatre Royal, York e-mail: [email protected] Hampton Theatre in Teddington. The 18 to 22 May 2004 Quince Players, The Cordes Hall, Sunninghill, Ascot, Berkshire programme for the day will include a 5 to 8 Nov Belmont Theatre Company, The Arts Centre, Harrow, Pinner, Middlesex visit to the local church where Coward’s 22 Nov Sudbury Upper School, Sudbury, Suffolk The Theatre Museum with The Noël Coward Foundation parents first met in the choir and the 15 & 16 Oct St Paul’s Girls’ School, Hammersmith, London Presents birthplace of The Master himself. We 17 Oct to 8 Nov Theatre Royal, York are planning to hold this event on a 23 Oct to 15 Nov Citizens Theatre, Glasgow THE COMEDY OF COWARD FESTIVAL Sunday in the Spring of 2004. The cost 24 Jan to 7 Feb 2004 Eye Theatre, Suffolk November 2 - 18 2003 will be kept to a minimum and the timing 6 Mar to 3 Apr 2004 Derby Playhouse With the generous support of The Noël Coward Foundation the Theatre will allow members and their guests to Waiting In The Wings 30 Sep to 4 Oct The Old Market, Brighton Museum is delighted to be able to present this short season celebrating the leave in time to enjoy some of their Relative Values 16 to 18 Oct Wesley Players, High St. Methodist Ch. Witney, Yorks comic genius of Noël Coward in words and music. Details of the entire evening at home! More on this in the Fallen Angels 10 to 15 Nov Arundel players, The Priory Place, Arundel, W. Sussex programme are given on page 2 column 1 of this edition of Home Chat. December issue of Home Chat. The Noël Coward Society, 29, Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB Email: homechat@Noëlcoward.net Tel: +44 (0)1603 486 188 Fax: +44 (0)1603 400 683 Page 12 THE COMEDY OF COWARD Dick Vosburgh is a lyricist, performer, Webber West End musical Jeeves the Editor reveals how a mild obsession FESTIVAL comedy writer and broadcaster. He (which was broadcast on Radio 2) and THE COLLECTOR’S LOT!!!!!! can turn into an incurable disease! was recently Col. Pickering to Alex November 2 - 18 2003 wrote lyrics for musicals such as A Day There cannot be many Noël Coward Believe me when I say you will not ever garner favour with similarly infected Jennings’s Professor Higgins in My Theatre Museum, in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine, fans who do not collect something of - never - no how - no way- ever get souls and look for common glints of Fair Lady at Drury Lane. Covent Garden, London Windy City and A Saint She Ain’t. He their hero - however passing and round to cataloguing your collection. recognition in fellow collector’s eyes - Eleanor Bron, distinguished as a top also co-wrote (with Robin Ray) the whimsical it may be. We buy books, Once you have catalogued your “Hey Doris he’s writing about me! performer since leaving university, and Sunday 2nd November book for Noël and Cole, Let’s Do It CDs and collect the odd programme programmes you will need a catalogue That’s me I tell you!” As if Doris appearing with comic insistence across THE PLAYS which began at Chichester Festival perhaps - may have a vinyl or two or for the catalogues.