In the UK... Village Hall, Stonegate, East Sussex August 2006 Fallen Angels FREE TO Hay Fever - present to 5 Aug - Starring Judi Dench 1 Sep to 31 Dec - Bill Kenwright Ltd, UK Tour MEMBERS OF Blithe Spirit THE SOCIETY Present to 13 Aug - St Anns Well Gardens, Brighton 2007 Price £3 ($5) Private Lives The Vortex - Will Young - The Royal Exchange Theatre Present to 4 Nov - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick from the 17th January to March 10th 2007. Tickets are AUGUST 2006 - THE NEWSLETTERCHAT OF THE NOËL COWARD SOCIETY Tonight At 8.30 available on 0161 615 6815 or 0161 833 9833 home Present to 2nd Sep - Chichester Festival Theatre Private Lives Part 1 The Astonished Heart (Family Album, Red 19 to 27 Feb 2007 - The Bancroft Players, The Queen Peppers, The Astonished Heart) Mother Theatre, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Part 2 Shadow Play (Hands Across the Sea, Shadow Blithe Spirit n a balmy day in the church of St. Paul’s, Play, Fumed Oak) BO:01243 781312 or www.cft.org.uk. 25 to 28 Apr 2007 - Knutsford Little Theatre, Knutsford, Covent Garden, on Friday 30th June 2006, a Coward in the 2lst Century: A pre-show talk by Cheshire congregation drawn from those who perform playwright and Noel Coward Society member Marcy and those who watch, and those who loved, Kahan. Her talk will examine how the Tonight at 8.30 In North America... O knew and admired Graham Payn gathered to celebrate plays form a fascinating compendium of Coward's life, July 2006 his life. obsessions and philosophy.Chichester Festival - Design For Living In a remembrance service that recalled both his Saturday, 12th August at 11 a.m. Minerva Theatre. Jun 15 to Nov 18 - Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ont. - The professional and personal life, tributes were paid to his Carry On Coward Shaw Festival opens its 45th season. skill as a singer, actor, director and guardian of the Noël 16 Aug (7.30 pm) - The Granary, Wells, Norfolk Fallen Angels Coward legacy - but it was his personal warmth, 18th (8.00 pm) & 19th ( 2.30 & 8.00 pm) Aug - The July 21 and runs Fri/Sat until August 19 with a Sunday modesty and honesty that was recalled with greatest Auden Theatre, Holt, Norfolk Mat. on Aug.13 and a Thursday. show on Aug. 17. affection by those who spoke about him. www.rumpustheatrecompany.co.uk/ Orinda Village Starlight Players in an outdoor This edition of Home Chat joins in that celebration Fallen Angels amphitheater in the small town of Orinda, California with transcriptions of the tributes and contributions that 14 to 26 Aug - Theatre Royal, Windsor. made up the service plus another from Italia Conti. Star Quality August to December 2006 The music at the Memorial Service was played by Present to 4 Sep 2006 Ian Dickens Prod. Ltd: Present Laughter Mark Etherington and Michael Haslam. Michael gave a 1 to 5 Aug - The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 16 Nov to 17 Dec – Mad Cow Theatre, Orlando, Florida piano recital of songs by Noël Coward and Graham Private Lives Fumed Oak Payn before the service started. Present to 4 Nov - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Mon. Nov. 6 1.00 pm - Food For Thought at The 7 to 12 Aug - Dawlish Rep. Co., Shaftesbury Theatre Players, located at 16 Gramercy Park South, which is on ...he was just about the best Dawlish, Devon East 20th Street between Park Avenue and Irving Place Blithe Spirit directly across the street from historic Gramercy Park, friend I ever had in my life... 8 to 12 Aug - Connaught Productions, Frinton Summer New York. Graham Payn on Noël Coward Theatre Blithe Spirit 22 Nov to 9 Dec - Belleville Theatre Guild, Pinnacle The Reverend Simon Grigg began by quoting: September 2006 Street, Bellville, Ontario This would seem to be the moment, Star Quality Hay Fever The hour, the place, the height, Present to 4 Sep 2006 Ian Dickens Productions 19 to 23 3 Nov to 4 Dec - Center Stage, Baltimore College The setting is romantic, Sep - Buxton Opera House 19 to 28 Oct - Borelians Community theatre, Port Perry, The atmosphere is right, for a full list see www.noëlcoward.net Items in red are professional companies for a full list see www.noëlcoward.net BO:0845 127 2190. Ontario - The breeze provides a tune for us, Blithe Spirit Private Lives So let’s make the most of our chances 11 to 23 Sep - Ilkley Players, Wharfside Playhouse Oct. 6-Nov. 30 - Wayne State University Theater, Detroit And hold on tight. Theatre, Ilkley, Yorkshire Present Laughter So many stars are shining private life and relationships too. 19 to 23 Sep - Incisor Productions at the New Theatre 21 Sep to 7 Oct - Stage Centre Productions, We couldn’t ask more And let’s face it if you can’t talk about your boyfriends in this Royal Portsmouth, 023 9264 9000. Scarborough, Ontario This seems to be the moment in time church then where can you (laughter) - just don’t tell the Church of We waited for. England! (laughter) There is also an element of love and October 2006 2007 The lyric from the song that you just heard, the only celebration here but also a recognition of the sadness of the parting ON? Blithe Spirit Private Lives published song that Graham Payn ever wrote, and of death as well as in Christian tradition, hope of resurrection. I 5 to 7 Oct & 10 to 14 Oct - Tabs Productions, Chatham 13 Jan to 2 Feb, 2007 - Bloor West Village Players, indeed this does seem to be the moment. invite you, in your tradition to pray - (after a pause): Theatre, Kent Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario For we have gathered here together to celebrate, Father in heaven we thank you because you made us in your 17 to 21 Oct - Cotswold players, The Cotswold Waiting In The Wings commemorate and give thanks for the life and career of own image and gave us gifts in body, mind and spirit. We thank you Playhouse, Stroud, Gloucestershire 28 Feb to 17 Mar, 2007 - Victoria Theatre Guild, Graham Payn. So it is my pleasure to welcome you to St. now for Graham and what he meant to each one gathered here. As Private Lives Langham Court Theatre, Victoria, BC Paul’s Church this morning for this memorial service. we honour his memory make us more aware that you are the one Present to 4 Nov - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick This famous church known throughout the world as the from whom every perfect gift comes including the gift of eternal life In the Rest of the World... Fallen Angels actors’ church is the proper place to remember Graham through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 1 Sep to 31 Dec - Bill Kenwright Ltd, UK Tour Australia who made a significant contribution to 20th century Dany Dasto, Graham’s friend welcomed everyone: October and November theatre. Partly of course this was as an interpreter of I am Dany Dasto, Graham’s friend and Graham and I would November and December 2006 Private Lives Noël Coward’s work and of course there is a plaque to like to welcome you here today. He told me this morning, ‘Dany Private Lives 19 Oct 2006 - 14 Nov 2006 - Queensland Theatre Co & WHAT’S Noël in this theatre - I mean this church (laughter) - well don’t be too long, otherwise, you know, they will leave at the Present to 4 Nov - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick State Theatre Co of South Australia, Brisbane there are similarities! But the memorial service should interval’ (laughter). We are here to celebrate a long life and the joy Blithe Spirit 10 Nov 2006 - 2 Dec 2006 - Queensland Theatre Co & be balanced so we will be looking back at not only he brought to anyone who knew him. Thank you for coming - I will 16 to 25 Nov - Stonegate Amateur dranatic Society, State Theatre Co of South Australia, Adelaide Graham’s professional life but also at his personal and be short! Page 12 Coming in our next issue: ‘Private Lives in Public’ by Ken Starrett and a review of the UK Ian Dicken’s tour of Star Quality OBITUARIES A favourite hymn of Graham’s The Day they were written. In later years, when Graham Home Chat is the newsletter he obituaries for Julian Slade, who died in the London this.’ I once asked him who the most important person in his Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended was sung by the so happily found in Dany the kind of life of The Noël Coward Society Clinic in the early hours of 17 June 2006, said all the life had been. He replied ‘Dorothy Reynolds’ – with whom he congregation. companion he had been wholly owned by things that one would have expected, principally that had written those early musicals. It had been she, after all, Sheridan Morley’s to Noël, we used to Noël Coward Ltd. which is The wrote nothing of real note beyond Salad Days. The who had been there throughout his own salad days, days for tribute to Graham: meet either at the Swiss part of the charitable trust: understanding of British which he will be forever When Graham died a chalet or here in The Noël Coward Foundation. musical theatre in its home remembered. few months ago, the London and compare country is limited, and To date I have seen only Unless otherwise stated all Julian Slade and papers all noted not notes on the people images and text are copyright most of the writing one obituary of Peter surprisingly what a we’d met and the plays to NC Aventales AG lamentable.