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Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation Newsletter Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation Newsletter Suite 10, 20 Young Street Neutral Bay NSW 2089 Phone-9955 5444 Email –[email protected] For bookings please call Carol Martin -on 9955 5444 Monday to Thursday – 10.15am – 4.15pm Volume Number 26 Issue Number 2 2 May 2018 President’s Letter DILOMACY at the ENSEMBLE THEATRE Dear Friends, We secured 90 tickets to Diplomacy, the extremely I am writing to share some exciting developments at popular ‘sold out’ play with brilliant performances from the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford’s new home at John Bell and John Gaden, and many Friends enjoyed Neutral Bay. I would also like to take this dinner before the show and post-show drinks with the opportunity, to express my profound thanks, on your cast This was our most successful party on record. behalf, to our staff and volunteers. They have been working with great skill, devotion and enthusiasm to VALE PETER STANNARD ensure that our important Performing Arts Collection It is with great sadness that we note the passing of our is being cared for professionally, and that our dear friend Peter Stannard. An important Australian Foundation Friends’ events will continue to be so composer, and also a good friend of the Foundation. He varied and successful. was an enthusiastic supporter of the Foundation’s We were gratified that our collective efforts have Independent Theatre restoration project and generously been valued and recognised in the recent 2018 North played the piano for many of our fundraising events. We Shore Achievement Awards. include a tribute to Peter Stannard in this Newsletter. CONVERSATIONS at the FOUNDATION’S FORTHCOMING THEATRE PARTIES SEABORN LIBRARY Please read the Newsletter carefully and note the events On Monday April 9th, as our contribution to 2018 you would like to attend. It is always advisable to book Seniors Festival, we held another very successful early. Carol Martin is able to find very good seats for us theatrical Conversations event in partnership with the but there is often a limited supply. local Council. I was delighted to see a capacity crowd of Friends and other theatre lovers chatting and Of particular interest is a production of Lola Montez nd listening to professionals regaling their experiences (June 2 ) at Riverside Theatre Parramatta - a timely on the merry theme of ‘Life Upon the Wicked Stage’. tribute to composer Peter Stannard, And if you are Attendees enjoyed entertainment, beautiful music and wondering how to spend Mother’s Day after, perhaps, a delicious light lunch at this free event in the enjoying brunch with the family, help us celebrate the th Seaborn Library downstairs. 20 anniversary of the reopening of the Independent Unfortunately, our special guest Carmen Duncan was Theatre. Bring your friends and family to a delightful unable to attend due to serious ill-health. However, ‘champagne’ afternoon tea at 2.30pm and then relax to she kindly arranged for Craig Bennett, popular glorious music honouring motherhood presented by the entertainment reporter from Channel 10, to take her young stars of Pacific Opera at the Independent Theatre, th place. Craig spoke with tremendous warmth and May 13 at 3.30pm. humour about Carmen’s remarkable life on stage, AT THE FOUNDATION film and television. Distinguished actor directors We have been delighted to welcome many new Friends Wendy Blacklock and David Goddard, who also recently and most gratified to receive welcome acted at the Independent Theatre in the days of Doris donations to assist us in our task of supporting the Fitton, entertained us on the theme, adding their performing arts and maintaining our unique Performing memories of Carmen’s achievements. Beloved actor Arts Collection. Henri Szeps amused us with some hilarious stories, as Carol and our Grants Committee are preparing for the only he could can tell them, and music theatre star, mid-year round of Grant applications, our happy band of Meredith O’Reilly gave a lively account, in words office and archives volunteers is increasing, a grand and song, of the highs and lows of life upon the stage. piano has been donated, and holiday programmes for Grateful thanks to them all and also to brilliant pianist children are being planned. John Martin who perfectly captured the spirit of the afternoon in music. Special thanks to our volunteers, Thank you, once again, for your valuable, much especially the multi-skilled Caroline Mackie, for their appreciated and ongoing support. generous assistance. A bouquet of flowers was sent to Carmen and attendees wrote heartfelt, loving get-well Peter Lowry OAM messages of support on the accompanying card. President Consult the next Newsletter for future Conversations. Pacific Opera Company presents MOTHERS DAY CONCERT Independent Theatre 269 Miller Street North Sydney A celebration in music and song of motherhood in particular and Mothers. Featuring sublime music from the past 300 years. The concert includes many well known and beloved arias and ensembles as well as a few surprises. Highlights include the climaxes Diadem Productions presents of well-known operas as well as Italian, French and English art songs and arias. LOLA MONTEZ Pacific Opera is a young artists’ opera The Musical th company. They produce fresh, vibrant opera 60 Anniversary Celebration with a twist, providing a platform for the stars Concert of tomorrow. Music by Peter Stannard Sunday – 13 May 2018 Lyrics by Peter Benjamin, Book by Alan Burke Cast includes- Debora Krizak, Red Symons, Afternoon tea from 2.30pm – Peter Cousens, Genevieve Lemon, Scott Irwin Concert – 3.30pm and Stephanie Jones. Tickets - $35.00 Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Parramatta Riverside Theatre Cnr Market & Church Sts Parramatta MOVIE LUNCH- Written in 1957, Lola Montez is the most Hayden Orpheum 380 Military Rd commercially successful Australian musical Cremorne with an original score of all time. Now 60 years THE GUERNSEY LITERARY & since its final performance, Lola is back! POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY With a fresh new script based on the original, Cast – Lily James, Michael Huisman, sparkling new orchestration and a brand new Jessica Brown Findlay song Lola, written by the original and recently US author Shaffer planned to write a biography departed composer, Peter Stannard. of Kathleen Scott, wife of the English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott. While Lola unhappy as a lower middle class young researching the subject, she travelled to Irish woman married to a military man, she Cambridge, England, but was discouraged to declared her independence, reinvented herself find that the subject’s personal papers were as a Spanish Dancer extraordinaire, and as Lola nearly unusable. While dealing with Montez took on the world. A great beauty of frustration, she decided to spend some of her her time Lola’s famous lovers included writer planned stay in England by visiting Guernsey Alexandre Dumas, pianist/composer Franz in the Channel Islands. However, as soon as Liszt and King Ludwig 1 of Bavaria with she arrived the airport was shut down due to whom she lived at court, was made a Countess heavy fog. She spent her visit in the airport’s and practically ran Bavaria for two years! book store, reading several histories of the Her Spider Dance performance caused a German occupation in World War 11. sensation throughout Europe, the USA and, It was twenty years before Shaffer began a yes, Australia, during her visit to the goldfields novel dealing with Guernsey. That eventually of Ballarat in 1854. stayed in the Best Sellers List for 11 weeks in 2009. Saturday 2 June 2018 – 8pm Wednesday – 16 May 2018 – 11 am -$16.00 Tickets - $72.00 Includes a light lunch, tea or coffee and a raffle ticket. Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Bookings – Carol Martin- 9955 5444 OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts New Theatre 520 King Street Newtown In the scorching heat of an Oklahoma summer, Movie Luncheon the Weston family has come together due to the Hayden Orpheum disappearance of their patriarch, a world-class 380 Military Road Cremorne poet and alcoholic. THE LEISURE SEEKER This insightful and compassionate study of a Cast- Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland family in meltdown is both dense and deeply funny, a brilliant example of the best of A runaway couple go on an unforgettable contemporary American drama and a theatrical journey in the faithful old RV they call the juggernaut of epic proportions. Leisure Seeker. Winner in 2008 – Tony Award Best Play The Leisure isn’t the sort of picture to start Pulitzer Prize for Drama, New York Drama meddling with that formula, but it sets about its Critics’ Award for Best Play. business with a satisfying efficiency and its played by Helen Mirren and Donald Playing from 7 June to 7 July 2018 Sutherland- both of whom give rousing Thurs to Sat – 7.30pm Sun – 5pm substantial performances. Sat 7 July 2pm only Wednesday – 20 June 2018 - 11am Tickets - $16.00 Tickets- $33.00 Includes raffle ticket Bookings- Carol Martin 9955 5444 Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde Sydney Opera House Ladies Committee Genesian Theatre 420 Kent Street Invites you to HIGH TEA Algernon and Jack are two young members of at the English gentry who pursue their romantic Parliament House desires dishonestly. Both men want to adopt In the presence of the Committee’s Patron, the name ‘Earnest’ who is Jack’s imaginary Mrs Linda Hurley, wife of the Governor younger brother. of NSW. To commemorate the centenary of the 1918 The idea of name changing comes about when Women’s Legal Status Act, the Guest Speaker Algernon wants to marry Cecily and Jack - Dr Wendy Michaels will present a lively wants to marry Gwendolen. However, it just so account of the challenges faced and overcome happens that the girls are only interested in made by Millicent Preston Stanley the first marrying men names Earnest! NSW woman MP.
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