About to launch!
Incredible as it seems to those who started work on HMS Pinafore back in August, Show Week is now next week, with our first performance at Carnegie Hall at 7.30pm next Thursday, 20 February.
Our gallant crew – ladies as well as men – tried on their costumes on Wednesday, and were well pleased. As will you be when you buy your tickets (head for this post for how to do that) and see the brilliant overall effect on the stage – 18 orchestral players in the pit (plus Eddie, of course!), 8 dancers and 32 crew members.
Would you trust these guys to run your state-of-the-art warship?
After you’ve made that bargain purchase, take a look at our Facebook page for more pictures of our crew in rehearsal action.
Family connections for Spring
14 March update: We have just received the information that “Due to the rapidly changing situation with the coronavirus outbreak and concerns for the health of our audience and orchestra members, Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society has taken the decision to postpone its concerts planned for Friday 20 March at St Columba’s School, Dunfermline and Sunday 22 March at the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. Once the current situation stabilises, it is hoped that it will be possible to announce dates later in the year when the concerts will be performed.”
What a bargain! Varied programme: a Mozart Horn Concerto; a specially commissioned Concerto for Orchestra by John Gourlay (oboist in our HMS Pinafore orchestra) plus other music to showcase the instrument families within the large orchestra. More details if you click the image.
Ellen Patrick says it’s sounding good! (You can pay £9 a ticket for the Old Kirk of Kirkcaldy concert on Sunday 22 March if you prefer)
A rare opportunity!
Bunthorne’s words come to mind: “Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity, overcome your diffidence and natural timidity, tickets … should be purchased with rapidity … – Such an opportunity may not occur again!”
George Hutchison
Some of our older members may remember George Hutchison, who sang with the Society in the mid-1980s and directed four of our shows at the turn of the Millennium. More details at this link.
George’s funeral service at Perth Crematorium (PH1 2PE) will take place at 10.30am on Wednesday 5 February, when all friends are invited to celebrate the life of this incredible man. Bright colours are encouraged. You are warmly invited to the reception after the service at the Civil Service Club, St Leonard’s Bank, PH2 8EB.
It’s ticket time!
There are five ways to do it:
- Talk to any Society member!
- Phone our ticket hot-line on 07703 483083
- Email ticketsales@dgass.org.uk
- Print off a flier (at this link), and send your order to HMS Pinafore Ticket Office, 57 The Bridges, Dalgety Bay, KY11 9XZ (cheques payable to “Dunfermline G&S Society”)
- At Carnegie Hall, in person, by phone on 01383 602302, or on-line at this link.
The seating plan for this show is at this link. Don’t forget when ordering tickets that you have to decide whether you want seats in the balcony or stalls! And that we won’t know if you have any special requirements unless you tell us …
Burns Sangfest
As part of the Dunfermline Carnegie Library’s “Tae a Bard” exhibition, Ivor Klayman and the Queen Anne Singers are putting on “A Burn’s Sangfest” on Wednesday 22 January at 7.00pm in the Canmore Room at the Library. It’s a revival of the show about Burns and his songs that John Cairney wrote and performed for many years with the vocal quartet The Quatrain for whom Nancy Crook was the accompanist, but performed this time by Ivor Klayman and the Queen Anne Singers under the direction of Nancy Crook. It includes a brief history of Burns in narration, readings using in his own words and, of course, many of his songs
More details about “Tae a Bard” in the linked leaflet (though there are some typos), and you can get the £10 tickets for the Sangfest from the Library or on-line at this link.
Act I beginners …
The call has come, so it’s time for the team to run the first act of HMS Pinafore. Thanks to Mike Pendlowski for taking his camera to our rehearsal on 27 November. You’ll see the company enjoying themselves, and the characters taking shape. No prize for working out who is playing Dick Deadeye!
To share their enjoyment, and see the cast in costume, you’ll need to make a date to see our show in February.
PS: The slide show runs automatically through the act, but pauses if you hover over the image. Forward/back arrows are hidden near the sides of the image and the filmstrip at the bottom.
Next appearance
Your next chance to see the Society on stage at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline will be on 19–21 February 2026 in a sparkling production of Strictly Patience.
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