It’s ticket time!
February is here, and it’s time to get your tickets for what promises to be a very entertaining show, which is on at the Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, from Thursday to Saturday 21–23 February 2019, evenings at 7.30pm and a Saturday matinée at 2.30pm. Tickets for all performances are £15, with the usual concessions at £14, and £5 for under-16s.
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
- Send your order to The Sorcerer 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 …
Fine-tuning time!
Exciting run-up to ‘The Sorcerer’, but some fine-tuning and polishing needed!
- Sunday 3 February 2.00pm – informal rehearsal for the bridesmaids (and Geoff!), the maids, and anyone else who’d like to rehearse. (No rehearsal scheduled till now)
- Wednesday 6 February 7.00pm – men to practise marching, joined by women at 7.30pm. Rehearsal with Eddie and John.
- Sunday 10 February 2.00pm – rehearsal with Eddie and Fiona.
- Monday 11 February 7.30pm (or 7.00pm) – Rehearsal for full company with Eddie and Fiona. (Previously only principals were scheduled for rehearsal)
- Wednesday 13 February – as normal. Option of 7.00pm start.
- Sunday 17 February – band call with Eddie for principals in Rosyth. Rehearsal for rest of company with John, with Robert accompanying.
We appreciate that not everyone will be able to make extra last-minute rehearsals but please make every effort to attend, and pass this on to let as many people as possible know.
It’s going to be a magical show!
Fun(d)-raising quiz
Kerry and Lindsay Black are holding a fund-raising quiz for DGASS on Saturday 2 February, 7.00pm for 7.30pm in Cowdenbeath Bowling Club, Bowling Green Street, Cowdenbeath. They ran one two years ago and it was a great success. It is just £10 per team of 4 to 6 players, plus raffles, etc. Please let Kerry know if you wish to enter a team. Even if you can’t come, please consider donating a raffle prize. Thanks!
Our 2020 show
At our EGM on Wednesday 12 December it was unanimously agreed that our production in 2020 should be HMS Pinafore.
What will we be playing in 2021? Well, given The Sorcerer and HMS Pinafore as predecessors, any Savoyard could take a punt at what the 50th anniversary show might be!
Help choose our 2020 show
The committee don’t have 20/20 vision when it comes to working out what shows you’d like to perform, so do please come along to the Extraordinary General Meeting of Dunfermline Gilbert and Sullivan Society at 9.10pm on Wednesday 12 December at Whitefield Day Hospital. The purpose of the EGM is to approve the choice of show for the 2020 production. The Sorcerer rehearsal will end a little early to allow the meeting to take place. Current members who are not participants in the rehearsal are welcome to attend.
Music on Sundays
The programme will have a distinctly festive flavour, with newer music including Puttin’ on the Ritz and Errol Garner’s Misty featured alongside established favourites by Bach, Barber, Vivaldi and Mahler. Ask Jean Kennedy or Martin Tarr for a personal recommendation – you can’t beat live music, and it’s great value at £11 a concert. Details about the rest of the Carnegie season, through to March, are in the linked brochure.
Fact and Fiction 2
Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society, Fife’s Community Orchestra, is presently working towards its second concert of the 2018/19 Season. Under the themed title of ‘Fact and Fiction’, the season’s programmes of music are influenced by stage, screen, radio, theatre and general media. A highly successful first concert was given at the start of October in the Orchestra’s home, the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.
Fact and Fiction 2, Winter, will be presented on Sunday 16 December in the Old Kirk, with two performances at 2.00pm and 4.00pm. Inevitably, much of the music will focus on Christmas, and the Orchestra’s tradition of a narrated story will continue with the first performances of The Tale of the Red Etin by John Gourlay. Joining KOS will be The Langtoun Singers offering their own performance as well as leading the audience in sing-along carols.
Tickets now on sale from Ellen Patrick. Further details on the poster linked to the image.
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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