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Feb2007:Home Chat In the UK... Ashcroft Arts Centre Fareham Home Chat is the newsletter February 2007 01329 310600 of The Noël Coward Society FREE TO The Vortex - Will Young - The Royal Tue 5th June 2.30pm wholly owned by MEMBERS OF Exchange Theatre to March 10 2007. Norwich City College, Norwich Noël Coward Ltd. which is THE SOCIETY Tickets are available on 0161 615 6815 01603 773582 part of the charitable trust: Price £2 ($4) or 0161 833 9833 Wed 6th June 7.30pm The Noël Coward Foundation. CHAT Hay Fever Kings Theatre Southsea FEBRUARY 2007 - THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NOËL COWARD SOCIETY Unless otherwise stated all Bill Kenwright Ltd 023 9282 8282 images and text are copyright UK Tour 5 Feb to 18 Jun Thu 7th June TBC to NC Aventales AG Private Lives The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury All correspondence to: 19 to 27 Feb 2007 - The Bancroft Play- 01295 279002 The Noël Coward Society, ers, The Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin, Sat 9th June 8.00pm 29 Waldemar Avenue, Hertfordshire West End Centre, Aldershot Hellesdon, Norwich, The Seven Stages of Love 01252 330040 NR6 6TB, UK 14 Feb - At the Wigmore Hall, Gillian Blithe Spirit [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1603 486 188 Keith Iestyn Davies, Andrew Kennedy, 25 to 28 Apr 2007 - Knutsford Little The- Photo by Alma Robinson Photo by The King’s Consort and Robert King - a atre, Knutsford, Cheshire Editor: John Knowles concert for Valentine’s Day - includes Hands Across The Sea Assistant Editor: Honour The Master arrangements of Noël Coward songs 26 to 28 Apr - Portishead Players, The Ken Starrett ome things never change - thank goodness! The Blithe Spirit Somerset Hall, Portishead, Bristol Publication and Distribution: hustle and bustle of the Christmas crowds in New 13 to 16 Feb - St Edwards College DS, St Stephen Greenman (UK) July and August 2007 York and London as NCS members gather for the Edwards College, Liverpool Ken Starrett (US) Hay Fever annual flower-laying celebrations of Coward’s 21 to 24 Feb - Emley Drama Group, Music Correspondent: 18 to 21 Jul - Runnymede Drama Group, Sbirth mark a welcome part of the annual round of activity. Emley Methodist Church Hall, Emley, Dominic Vlasto The Riverside Barn, Walton-On-Thames, This year two gracious ladies of the stage performed our an- Huddersfield Surrey Contributions are invited from nual act of respect for the ultimate theatre Master at Gersh- March 2007 Private Lives members of the Society. win Theater’s Hall of Fame and the Theatre Royal, Drury The Vortex - Will Young - The Royal Jill Freud & Co The editor reserves the right Lane. In New York Kitty Carlisle Hart was the honoured Exchange Theatre to March 10 2007. 28 Aug to 1 Sep - Aldeburgh Summer The- to edit all copy, images and guest and in London, Anna Massey. Tickets are available on 0161 615 6815 atre decide on inclusion of items. In a speech that re- or 0161 833 9833 Details included in 6 to 15 Sep - Southwold Summer Theatre flected many of the rec- Hay Fever ‘What’s On?’ are as received, ollections of Noël in her 5 Feb to 18 Jun - Bill Kenwright Ltd with our thanks, from: In North America... recent book Anna re- UK Tour February and March 2007 Samuel French UK and Canada (Play Publishers and called asking him about Relative Values Waiting In The Wings Author’s Representatives), any superstitions he had 13 Mar to 1 Apr - Showdon’ttell, Green- 28 Feb to 17 Mar, 2007 - Victoria Theatre Ken Starrett (US), “Well I only have one,” wich Playhouse Guild, Langham Court Thtre, Victoria, BC Alan Brodie Representation he responded, “never Still Life 30 Mar to 8 Apr, 2007-Little Theatre of (Professional Productions), have 13 in a bed!”. She 2 Mar - After Dark Theatre Company, New Smyrna Beach, Florida NCS members and also recalled an invita- The Train Station, Carnforth, Lancashire theatre companies. Blithe Spirit tion to Les Avants and (Where the station scenes of the film Brief 16 Feb to 18 Mar - Central Alberta Thtr his kindness to her when Encounter were shot) For details of rights for Soc Red Deer, Alberta her first marriage to Je- Hay Fever Fallen Angels professional productions: - for a full list see www.noëlcoward.net Items in red are professional companies - for a full list see www.noëlcoward.net Alan Brodie Representation remy Brett came to an 21 to 24 Mar - Guilsborough Music & 20 Mar to 7 Apr - Ottowa Little Theatre, www.alanbrodie.com end. She said Noël took Drama Society. Village Hall, Guilsbor- Photo by Patti Dey Ottawa, Ontario For amateur productions her off quietly into an- ough, Northamptonshire Shadow Play Samuel French Ltd. other room and told her that she was not to regard herself as April to June 2007 Food For Thought at The Players Club, lo- www.samuelfrench.com or a failure as a person just because this had happened. Kitty Carlisle Hart with Barry Day at the Gershwin, Theater Hay Fever cated at 16 Gramercy Park South, New www.samuelfrench- Earlier at the Society’s Annual General Meeting NCS Hall of Fame and Anna Massey at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 5 Feb to 18 Jun - Bill Kenwright Ltd York City Call 212/362-2560 Two per- london.co.uk member, Douglas Gordon, presented the Society with the spectacle involving hundreds of in-line skaters seasonally at- UK Tour formances on March 26 and April 12 For publishing rights: original sketch, by Edward Molyneux, of the fan-tail dress he tired creating good-natured havoc on London’s West End 29 Jun to 7 Jul - Hever Lakeside Theatre May and June 2007 Methuen designed for Gertrude Lawrence to wear in the original pro- streets. Private Lives Blithe Spirit www.methuen.co.uk For music rights: duction of Private Lives. The sketch is framed, with details Ken Starrett reports on celebrations in New York... Bruce James Productions 4 to 27 May, 2007 - Mount Dora Theatre Warner Chappell of its provenance and also has a plaque saying “Presented to December in New York means, the chill of winter, 17 to 2 Apr - Pomegranate Theatre, Company, Florida www.warnerchappell.co.uk the Noël Coward Society at the AGM on 16th December, bustling shoppers and the city dressed in all its spectacular Chesterfield 1 to 16 Jun - Theatre Aurora, Aurora, 2006, by Douglas Gordon.” holiday finery. It also means a time when members of the 25 to 27 Apr - Princess Theatre, Hunstan- Ontario Officers of the Society are: On the way home some of us caught the spectacular sight Noël Coward Society gather to celebrate The Master’s birth- ton 22 May to Jun 2 - Kanata Thtr, Kanata, Chairman: Barbara Longford of SantaSkate 2006 an annual fund-raising street-skating day. In honor of the occasion this past December, members 16 to 19 May - Octagon Theatre, Bolton Ontario Secretary: John Knowles Cowardy Custard Tour August 2007 Treasurer: Stephen Greenman Wed 30th May 7.30pm Bitter Sweet The Maltings, St Albans 01727 844222 18 to 26 Aug, 2007 Light Opera Works – Public Relations: Jan Penn North American Director: Thu 31st May 7.30pm Illinois Music Theatre Cahn Auditorium, Ken Starrett Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury Evanston, IllinoisCall 845/869-6300 or w ce Representative for France: n ith an ! 01635 244246 www.LightOperaWorks.com D Hélène Catsiapis t WHAT’S ON? WHAT’S O he Fri 1st June 8.00pm for the latest developments on this prestigious event see pages 6 and 7 Page 12 traveled from California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Con- notch musical direction by Dennis Buck. The star-studded necticut to join New Yorkers for three days of festivities. evening began with Ms. Sullivan, joined by Jeff Harnar and On Saturday, December 9th, more than 100 members and Craig Rubano, inviting us to ‘Sail Away’. Exciting musical NEWS AND EVENTS their guests attended a special screening at The Museum of highlights that followed included Mr. Harnar's haunting ren- BC Radio 4 will be devoting the last two Saturday theatre, Barbara and Graham Sawyer are planning a walking Television & Radio. They were treated to a showing for the dition of ‘Matelot’ and Craig Rubano's sparkling ‘Nina’. We afternoons in March 2007 to Marcy Kahan's biog- tour of the UK’s Great White Way ending with coffee - at first time of Noël Coward’s Home Movies taken from 1929 were moved by ‘London Pride’ in the hands of Steve Ross, raphical comedies about Noël Coward: about £1 a head could be our best value event to date! Details to 1932. The next item seen was The David Frost Show from while Sian Phillips made a deliciously comic visit to ‘A Bar On Saturday, 24th March 2007 at 2:30 p.m. and an invitation to express your interest will appear in the 1968 in which Coward and Frost engaged in an hour-long in- On the Piccola Marina’. KT Sullivan's bright, effervescent B there will be another chance to hear Ned Chaillet's production April edition of this, Noël’s favourite journal! terview. A clip from the famous1970 Dick Cavett Show was ‘World Weary’ was a true delight. Coward's dramatic works of Death At the Desert Inn: A Highly Probable Noël Coward shown to pay tribute to a special guest in the audience – a re- were by no means ignored. Marian Seldes gave us a sharply Murder Mystery. markable lady from the world of Noël Coward – Tammy sensitive ‘Epitaph for an Elderly Actress’. Matthew Cowles Starring Malcolm Sinclair as Coward, Eleanor Bron as Promotional Items Grimes. She and Brian Bedford were seen singing a medley nostalgically told us of ‘The Boy Actor’ and when joined by Lorn Loraine, Tam Williams as Cole Lesley, Belinda Lang as The Society is currently looking at a range of promotional of Noël Coward‘s songs.
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