Christchurch G&S Society presents

An Echoing Voice

Christchurch Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s are now in the final stages of rehearsals for their next production, An Echoing Voice. This staged concert celebrates the successful, if sometimes tumultuous, writing partnership of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, which produced a total of 13 comic operas.

The concert is narrated by Gilbert (played by Steve Shipton) as he reflects on his collaborations with Sullivan and includes songs from all of their operettas including The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, HMS Pinafore and The Gondoliers. Songs include ‘When I was a lad’ (HMS Pinafore), ‘When the foeman’ (The Pirates of Penzance), ‘Peers Chorus’ (Iolanthe), ‘3 Little Maids’ (The Mikado) and ‘Dance a Cachucha’ (The Gondoliers).

The concert has proved popular with the Society itself and will feature their largest ever cast with over 40 members taking part. This has proved a challenge to the concert’s directors, Nicole Jordan and Richard Perkins, who have the task of fitting everyone on stage at once for the chorus numbers!

The group are using this concert to establish November as the new time of year for their future productions and their next full-scale production will be The Gondoliers in November 2011.

An Echoing Voice is at Hind Leys College, Shepshed from Friday 12^th to Saturday 13^th November at 7.30pm. Tickets are £7 (£5 children) and are available from Margaret on 01509 504376.