Music Hall

February 27th 1999
Compiled and directed by Alan Watson
Production and artwork by Judith Watson
Accompanist, Janice Webb
Stage Manager, David Jones
Wardrobe, Gina Hall
Lighting, Terry Bullworthy

A Victorian Music Hall entertainment comprising comic monologues and music hall songs with the audience joining in the choruses.

The Cast

Mr Michael Jackson
Miss Jenny Hyatt
Mrs Deborah Flanagan
Mrs Christine Limb
Mr Don Hussey
Mr Michael Walker
Miss Emily Blanshard
Miss Sue Jones
Mr Matthew Tasker
Mr Peter Unsworth

The image of Queen Victoria displayed above the proscenium to provide a focus for the loyal toast

For Your Entertainment

Part the First

Which commences with Mrs Webb and your Chairman setting the scene and offers an opportunity for you to participate in joyful overture Then follows the programme proper, in which Mr Michael Jackson is dolorous concerning a gymnast; Mesdames Hyatt and Flanagan lose themselves within sight of their goal; and we study ornithology separately and distinctly with Mrs Christine Limb and Mr Don Hussey.

Audience and cast:

Don't dilly dally on the road
Henery the Eighth
If I should plant a tiny seed of love
Joshua
Two little girls in blue

Our Chairman, Alan Watson, encourages the audience to participate
The first part continues with a miscellany of items played in front of the white curtains

Interval for refreshment

Part the Second

In which the Chairman interrogates and congratulates. Mrs Flanagan seeks an island refuge. Mr Walker is lugubriously adamant concerning the purchase of ornamental timber, Miss Blanshard reports on the; domestic equilibrium of a menage a quelques; Miss Sue Jones offers advice for parental obstructions to matrimony, Mr Tasker gives military support to the political status quo and Mr Unsworth, again in military guise, recounts his autobiography.

Two items from the second part.
Matthew Tasker with the "Sentry's Song" from Iolanthe
and Peter Unsworth as the Galloping Major, going Bumpity Bump.

Interval for refreshment

Part the Third

In which Miss Sue Jones returns with tintinnabulous accoutrements; Miss Hyatt offers an extraterrestrial explanation for northern culinary delights; Mr Walker' mourns the loss of single quarters; your Chairman joins Mrs Janice Webb for entertainment in the Tower-; and the whole cast offer a' littoral extravaganza of melodious miscellany.

Seaside Scena

The whole company, before a backdrop of the sea, the beach and a bathing machine, with a collection of salty songs of the sea.


Above: "All the nice girls love a sailor", sung by Sue Jones, Jenny Hyatt, Deborah Flanagan, Christine Limb and Emily Blanshard		Above: "Tripping over rocky mountain", sung by Sue Jones, Christine Limb and Emily Blanshard

Left: Mr Unsworth and Mr Hussey
"Teaching the girls to swim"

Right: Mr Walker (in anachronistic mode) and Mr Jackson with
"The Seaweed Song"

Chairman's farewell

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