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01/06/10

Hanging Baskets ~ Tubs ~ Containers and Plants galore

We have a good selection of hanging baskets tubs and containers, all planted and now ready for sale at 46 Poplar road. As and when you want any just give John & Rod a ring and you can come around any time you like to choose whatever you fancy.

All the profits will go to the Stagelights, so come on, come and see what we have to offer, you wont get cheaper anywhere else, nor as beautiful I shouldn't think.

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Miss Glossop and Hans Christian Andersen

Wow! what a stupendous end to a brilliant show. well done to all concerned and a very very big thank you to all those who came to support us in the Audiences.

I will be putting a full report on these pages in the very near future along with some pictures, so please pop back soon.

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Open Garden Day

The coffee morning went very well and we managed to raise over £50 for club funds. The next big event of course is the annual Open Garden Day at 46 poplar road, Hanham, so please make sure you get taht written into your diaries it will be on Sunday 25th July 10a.m. to 3p.m. An event you wont want to miss if you like Cornish Cream teas and homemade biscuits and cakes etc.

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Rehearsals have now begun for the 'Music Hall Extravaganza' which will be staged in mid October see Present Productions for more details.

The children will be rehearsing on Monday evenings 7p.m. and the Adults on Thursdays 7.15p.m.

15/05/10

Well! what a show. One night down and 3 to go. I have to say that I was so proud of everyone last night. I think this is the first show I have done in over 43 years of Amateur dramatics that I haven't felt that at least one actor was a bit weak, or hadn't learnt their lines so well, because every single one of you in both the adults and the juniors play were brilliant. I have been playing one off against the other a bit to see who was doing best in line learning etc, and it has been very difficult to judge it as you have all been doing so well, and even last night in the performance I still wouldn't like to say who did better than the other. There are only two people I am going to mention by name, the first is Annie, I was so sorry to hear she had injured herself in the aftenoonr and was not able to perform, and on behalf of everyone in the Stagelights I hope that arm gets better very quickly, and the other person is Poppy who very quickly, with only an hours notice took on Annie's roles as well as her own, and she did splendidly and saved the day. Well done Poppy!

'Break A Leg' for tonight's show, and also the same goes for the two shows next Friday & Saturday 21st & 22nd of May at 7p.m. Have a good time, and most importantly of all enjoy yourselves.

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The 'Thanksgiving Service' for the Stagelights will be held at 3.30p.m. on Sunday 6th June at the wesley memorial Church, and everyone is welcome to be there for that, infact I would ask that everyone is there for that. We are singing 4 songs and doing a very funny 5 minute sketch about the 'Old Ladies Sunday Service'during the Thanksgiving service so please try and come along.

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Coffee Morning

Rod & John will be holding a coffee morning at 46 Poplar Road on Wednesday the 19th March so please put this in your diaries. We will have a cake stall and a plant stall so donations of home made cakes, buns or biscuits and plants to sell would be wonderful, and help on the day would be good too. Don't forget to tell your friends and rellys all about it as the more that attend the more money we raise for the Stagelights. and depending on how successful this one is we may do another in September..

I have now put photos taken in the dressing room of Mother Goose on the web site and also some taken of the members receiving their Awards at the AGM on March 1st. Just click on the links.

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15/02/10

Mother Goose

Well, that's another one done and dusted, and all over bar the shouting. I am very pleased to report that Mother Goose went down very well with both Audiences and cast. I think I can safely say we all had a jolly good time, and roll on the next one.... For pictures and film of Mother Goose please go to

MOTHER GOOSE PICTURES

2010 Coffee Morning

A date for your diary. Wednesday 19th May John & Rod are holding a Coffee morning at Periglis, 46 Poplar Road, Hanham BS15 3BD at 10a.m. to 2p.m. in the garden, weather permitting, if not we'll have it inside. There will be a cake stall and a plant stall, so please remember this and if you can't make it for the Coffee morning then a home made cake for the stall or some plants to sell would be great. All proceeds to go to the Stagelights.

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11/12/09

The May 2010 Show

It has been decided by the committee to do another double bill. (2 one act plays) in May. it was also decided to try doing 4 performances over two weekends rather than our normal way of 3 performances over 1 weekend

See Future productions for more information.

Mincepies & Monologues

Mincepies and Monologues went very well again this year. With 21 members taking part it was a good show. unfortunately Steve Gill and Pete Davies had to drop out at the last minute but we managed to cope nonetheless, apart for me who managed to read Steve's poem and half way through realized there should have been 2 pieces of paper and I only had one, so could only read half the poem......... Whoops!!!! There were about 40 people in the audience who seemed to enjoy our selection of poems, carols and songs again which is good. We managed to make a profit of just over £50 for club funds which is very nice, add that to the fun and enjoyment we all had doing the show and we can certainly call it a roaring success.

17/11/09

I have put a load more pictures up on the Dracula: The Musical? page now along with the Critique if you'd like to go to either of them just click on the underlined words.

Mother Goose

The rehearsals are coming along very nicely and much singing and screaming can be heard coming from the hall every Monday and Thursday.

Remember it is imperative that everyone attends every rehearsal from now on. You are only as good as the rehearsals that you put in. i.e. the more rehearsals then the better you will be on performance night.

Miss the rehearsals and you will let all your colleagues down not just yourself

Tickets are now on sale, so if you want to get seats up close and personal with the actors, get your tickets now.

At the moment we are desperately looking for stage hands, so if you would enjoy coming along and joining in get in touch with John quick As backstage hands there is not such a requirement for your time until nearer the performance dates and I can assure we have a lot of fun.

Another person we would like to find is someone to act as props manager for us. It is a fun position to be in, and you will get to hear all the fun and nonsense as it goes ahead.

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Good news: We have had a few new members come and join us over the last few months, which is brilliant, please go to New members to see who

Glorious Garden Open day

July 26th at Poplar Road

I am very pleased to report that the open garden day went with great success again this year. We managed to raise the princely sum of £284 for the stagelights coffers.The only drawback was that the weather was a little poor, but due to the fact that we managed to get it advertised in the Observer we had people come in from far and wide, Bath, Yate, Frampton Cottrell to name but a few places. 89 people came through the gate in total which, considering the weather was a miracle. Sadly I didn't get any pictures this year of the event, but I think everyone was very impressed with the garden, and those that partook of tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits etc was impressed with them as well, or at least I hope so. A few Stagelights members came along to lend a hand, as well as Mark and Sam Veitch, Pauline was to be found in her usual spot on the gate cajoling the dosh from the customers as they entered, and her wonderful husband Richard was hard at work again telling every one about the plants that were on sale and he did a brilliant job and very nearly sold right out, just a few plants left. He managed to take £100.50p for his efforts, Well done Richard. In the kitchen, working like slaves were Gloria, (Pete's wife) and her friend Elaine with young Jamie making the teas and coffees and preparing the crockery for service, washing up and generally keeping the whole place fed and watered. They were helped by Peter and Margaret who came along to kindly lend a hand. Brenda, Ashleigh, Jordan, Grace & Kim did stirling work running up and down the garden taking the orders and delivering the food to the customers. Thanks must go to Ann Way for making a superb carrot cake for us again, which I think was the highlight of the tastebuds. To Carol Turley (Rods Mum) for a delicious chocolate cake and some wonderful sausage rolls, Alison for her famous Banana cake and Mandy for that wonderful upside down pineapple pud and fairy cakes that arrived half an hour after we' d closed the gates!!!!! Thanks also to go to Viv, Margaret, Carole, Jill & Melanie Balch for the raffle Prizes also to Rod especially, who has been working so hard for the last few months on the garden to get it ready for the open day that it must not go unmentioned here just how much we all appreciate his hard work and the money that it helps to raise for the club.

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27/02/09

Last week while we are at rehearsals I was having a chat with the 'Church Ladies' and it would appear that two of them, Bless their little hearts, decided that they would like to come along and take part in the Talent show. So after some quick rehearsing of their own they trundled along up to the church, and as they approached they wondered about the fact that it was all in darkness, and after buzzing around outside for about half an hour they decided that it was obviously not on as no one lese had appeared. They soon found out after a quick phone call that they were only 4 weeks too late. What a shame, it would have been lovely to listen to their poems, at least we know we can rope them in next time.

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23/02/09

The Quiz Night was a great success and there is a report and pictures Here

16/02/09

The Eisteddfod

Pauline

Bethany ~ Findlay ~ Archie

Very good news indeed this week, Pauline, as Chairman, decided to spend her 'Chairman's allowance' of £30 this year on getting a few youngsters through an Eisteddfod to give them the experience of public performance in a solo situation in contest. So last September Grace, Findlay and Lorelie were entered and did very well with Lorelie being commended for a modern dance which she choreographed herself. and Findlay and Grace receiving Merits for the poems they read. This week however Pauline coached 4 youngsters for the Eisteddfod that was held in Hanham Folk Center on Saturday 14th Feb. Sadly Grace, who was due to read a wonderful poem that her Grandfather had written called 'The Trouble With Faries', was sick and so therefore unable to attend. Three other youngsters however did mange to get there, Archie, Findlay and Bethany with all three reading poetry, in various categories, and I am thrilled to report that all three received 'Merits' with Findlay also winning the cup for 1st prize in his category. So The Stagelights can all be justly proud of these members. Well done to all three and we look forward to Grace hopefully winning at the next one with her poem. Congratulations must also go to Pauline for helping the youngsters to prepare and rehearse for the Contest.

7/02/09

The New Stagelights News sheet

I am putting together a 'News sheet' all about the stagelights with past, present & future 'doings' and I would like some input from the rest of the members, so if you can come up with a short story, a poem, an anecdote or some other bit of news about what has happened to you or someone you know to do with theatre 'goings on' I would love to have it. you can either e mail it to me or give it to me on a rehearsal night. The idea for the news sheet is so we can send them out to patrons and friends of the Stagelights to let them know what is going on.

Also if you'd like to advertise in it or even on this web site please contact John.

Send an e mail to John

Talent Contest.

Saturday 31st Jan 2009

On Saturday we held our first talent contest at Wesley Memorial combined with our after show party which was a success but not quite as great a success as it could have been if everyone had turned up that said were going to. Even so, we had 7 entries for the contest. All of whom had put in plenty of time and effort in rehearsing their pieces. Archie Flook gave a very entertaining rendition on his guitar, as did Mark Veitch with his daughter Kim singing as accompaniment. Jordan and Ashleigh Weise enthralled us all with their pop dance. George Simpson sang a pop song and Sam Veitch read a piece of poetry. Simon Clark, a young man who very kindly stepped into the breach and saved the day when we found right at the last minute we were without a drummer for Red Riding Hood brought along his Xylophone and proved he is a master on that instrument as well as the drums, a great percussionist in the making. Poppy Clayton and Bethany Tiley had prepared a wonderful dance to an old favourite Abba tune, which went down very well with the audience.

Pauline, Peter, Sam V. & Brenda. sat on the panel to give commence and advice but the judging over all was done by the audience with everyone casting a vote for their favourite act. The winners were Mark and Kim Veitch who won 1st prize of £10 and the runners up were Ashleigh and Jordan who won £5. After the contest we all settled in to an American supper and enjoyed every morsel. Everyone supplied a plateful of food so there was a good selection to taste.

Alec Simpson came in and operated the lights for us and Brian Holder made us sound ok with the sound equipment. Gloria and Elaine kept us supplied with teas and coffees so all in all I think I can safely;y say that the 20 of us that turned up had a really good evening. Keep your eye out for the dates of our next talent contest.

l'd like to become a member of The stagelights please click on the link below to see the rules and membership fees etc.

MINCE PIES & MONOLOGUES

Well, Mincepies & Monologues has come and gone, and what a success it was once again. I am delighted to report that about 65 people came to enjoy our deliberations and by the exiting comments I think it was very well received. I personally enjoyed every second and I am sure that the members of the Stagelights who took part and few who came to watch it did also. Considering we only had 3 rehearsals (well, some of us) I think it well very well. I was very impressed with the juniors contributions, they all did a marvelous job, both with their set pieces to read and the jokes they had to tell. The 3 Soloists did a remarkable job, Georgina, Sam B & Kim, with their individual Carols, well done!

The whole evening was made even better by the serving of Hot mincepies and cups of tea & Coffee during the interval, so well prepared by Gloria and Elaine for which we are very grateful

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