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Welcome to the April issue of the NODA Newsletter, packed with news and information which we hope you will find useful.
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NODA THEATRE CLUB
Great group offer on The Woman In White
Based on Wilkie Collins’ THE WOMAN IN WHITE, one of the most successful and influential novels of the Victorian era, this exciting new musical has been adapted for the stage by Charlotte Jones, whose award-winning plays include ‘Humble Boy’, with lyrics by David Zippel, whose credits include ‘City of Angels’ and the Disney classics ‘Mulan’ and ‘Hercules’. Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the captivating and romantic score. Internationally renowned director Trevor Nunn, responsible for, among others, ‘Cats’, ‘Starlight Express’, ‘Les Misèrables’ and, most recently, ‘Anything Goes’, will direct the production.
This sensational new show will star multi-award winning actress Maria Friedman and will also mark the return to the London stage of Michael Crawford. Friedman recently won her third Olivier Award for her performance in last year’s ‘Ragtime’ and is one of the UK’s most outstanding musical theatre performers, having appeared in a wide variety of hit shows including ‘Chicago’, ‘The Witches of Eastwick’, ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ and Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Passion’.
Crawford’s return to the London stage comes 18 years after he starred in the original title role of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. He later reprised this role on Broadway and in Los Angeles winning Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and Drama Critics’ Circle awards. He has also appeared in many other stage, film and TV roles as well as being an accomplished recording artist. In THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Crawford will play the charismatic Count Fosco, one of the wittiest and cleverest villains ever written.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE begins with a dashing young man, employed as the art tutor to two devoted sisters, who is stranded at a remote railway cutting. Out of the darkness looms a woman, a mysterious figure dressed in white, desperate to share a chilling secret. He and the sisters soon find themselves trapped in a web of betrayal and greed, the victims of a seemingly flawless crime. Together they will need all their resourcefulness and courage to outwit the ingenious villain. As the compelling plot twists and turns, low villainy vies with high romance in a world where nothing is as it first appears and where it is impossible to know who to trust.
Booking from 28 Aug to 5 Mar 2005. Groups of 12 or more can get best available seats at £27.50 (£25 during previews) and Balcony seats at £16.50 (£15 during previews). Valid Mon-Fri evenings and Wed matinees. Rates apply to tickets booked and paid for before 30 Jun. To book, call 020 7907 7002 quoting NODA.
Tickets for Saturday Night Fever just £19.77
The decade defining soundtrack, the thrilling story, the slick moves and 'that' suit. Now the legend that is SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER lights up the West End as the disco extravaganza bursts onto the stage at the Apollo Victoria. Over 30 of the UK's hottest performers are joined by EastEnders' Shaun Williamson as superstar DJ Monty. Packed with breathtaking choreography and all the disco hits from the biggest selling soundtrack in film history, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER includes the classics, 'How Deep is Your Love', 'Staying Alive', 'Jive Talking', 'You Should Be Dancing', 'Disco Inferno' and 'Night Fever'.
Tickets just £19.77 + £1.50 booking fee per ticket. Offer valid Monday-Friday evenings and Wednesday matinee performances from July 2nd – August 31st 2004.
Call now on 020 7907 7056 or book online at www.londontheatreclub.com/noda.
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New Landmark Television Series
A Snapshot of Britain
Endemol are working on a landmark television series for a major terrestrial broadcaster looking at how we live our domestic lives in Britain today. It will be the first comprehensive visual study to involve filming in the homes of several different families up and down the country, over a period of six months from Autumn 2004 until Spring 2005.
They are looking for a broad range of lifestyles in order to capture a true snapshot of Britain - from single mums to nuclear families and large extended families to friends sharing households etc. etc. The program involves installing cameras within the home for a period of six months. If you are interested in receiving a questionnaire, contact Nicola Colley on nicola.colley@endemoluk.com
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Wanted: Extras!
Sheffield Theatres Production of Far Away
Would you like to be in a Sheffield Theatres production? Ever dreamed of being on the stage?
We are looking for Extras.
You can be young or old, male or female.
You don't need any previous experience.
You will work with a professional director.
As part of this summer's production of Far Away by Caryl Churchill, 20 extras will form a parade of elaborate hats at the end of an exciting show.
PLACES ARE LIMITED so if you are interested in this unique opportunity please call David Newman on 0114 249 5999 or email info@sheffieldtheatres.co.uk for further information.
Far Away runs from Wednesday 26th May to Saturday 19th June 2004 in the Studio.
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Copycat Sisters Wanted for Feature in Best Magazine
Do you and your sister live parallel lives, which mirror each other’s? When something happens to one of you, does the other follow suit - by accident, coincidence, or even deliberate design?
Best are looking for two sisters who, like famous copycat siblings Kylie and Danni Minogue, mirror each other’s lives, for a feature for Best magazine.
Just look at Kylie and Danni Minogue and the parallels are amazing. Kylie made her name in Neighbours, followed by Danni landing a role in Home and Away. Kylie relocated to Britain to forge a pop career. Soon Danni was booking her ticket to Blighty. When Kylie was transformed from girl next door to international sex symbol, Danni’s stylist started working overtime. Now Kylie has declared her love for French boyfriend Oliver Martinez and Danni has been showing-off her new beau, businessman Jeremy Garamond, who is also French and has similar striking good looks to her sister’s man.
They want to find two photogenic, articulate sisters, aged between 25 and 45, who copy each other all the time and are full of stories, anecdotes and hopefully have photos, too, to show the ways in which they’ve mirrored each other.
If you’re interested and want to find out more, please call or email me, Fran Bowden on 020 7924 6446 or 07973 938 478 or email me at fran.bowden@ntlworld.com
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Exciting New Arts and Education Venue Opens in Edinburgh
An exciting new venture is opening in Edinburgh, Cowgate Central. The new arts and education venue is right in the old town. There are four spaces (1x 100 seater and 3x 60 seaters) in their building Wilkie House. They are open year round for productions and are keen to get some interesting amateur dramatic and musical work into the premises. For this year's Fringe, there's still slots available.For more details about the venue and/or the Fringe, don't hesitate to contact:
Angela Pfenninger
Director of Programming
Cowgate Central
c/o Inter.Net
60 Clerk St
Edinburgh
EH8 9JB
Theatre address:
Wilkie House
37 Guthrie St
Edinburgh
EH1 1JG
tel: 0131 478 5333
fax: 0131 466 5332
email: angela@cowgate.com
or cowgatecentral@hotmail.com
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COUNTESS MARITZA by Emmerich Kálmán
Presented by the Budapest Operetta Theatre at SADLERS WELLS 8 - 12 June 2004
As part of the Hungary in Focus festival this year, which celebrates Hungarian cultural achievements, the above company will be visiting the UK and presenting Countess Maritza at Sadlers Wells in June.
This is a unique opportunity for an English audience to witness an authentic production of the Hungarian variant of Viennese operetta. There is still a strong tradition in Hungary for the works of Kálmán to be performed with fizz and vitality and this company demonstrates why operetta was such a success in the early decades of the 20th Century.
For ticket information please contact the Sadlers Wells box office:
T: 020 7863 8000
W: www.sadlerswells.com
W: www.magyarmagic.com
Countess Maritza is available for performance by amateur theatre companies and details can be obtained from:
Josef Weinberger
On behalf of Octava Music Australia PTY Ltd
12 - 14 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JJ
T: 020 7580 2827 F: 020 7436 9616
E: amateur@jwmail.co.uk
W: www.josef-weinberger.com
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Bright Sparks Drama Academy
Bright Sparks Drama Academy are about to open their new Drama Academy for children/young people 6 -16yrs. They will cultivate skills in drama, dance and vocally culminating in performance. Our term starts on 20 April, 6 -9pm at the Masonic Hall, Half Edge Lane Eccles.
We are also looking at opening an adult department with adults being taught in twelve week blocks leading to performance.
If you are interested in the above please call the following telephone number: 0161 793 0786.
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New Office of Voluntary Arts England
The new office of Voluntary Arts England (VAE) is slowly taking shape. Housed in a National Trust owned 700 year – old, grade II listed building they are physically located within the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management an initiative of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle who have made VAE most welcome.
VAE have a responsibility to offer continued open and accessible dialogue between policy writers and decision makers, support organisations – financial or otherwise, arts providers, creative practitioners/participants and consumers. It is the remit of VAE to work with community, voluntary and cultural sectors to draw together, sift and translate into useable information the many poignant issues, which may affect the voluntary cultural sector as whole. VAE are committed to sharing information to increase the knowledge base for all involved. Therefore it is vitally important to maintain our connection with you.
It is not enough to say that VAE produces written publications, statistical information or are good at doing research. They need to link arms with you – the people who make up the voluntary cultural sector, so that you feel you have an organisation working for you locally and nationally, representing you locally and nationally, on issues that impact upon your ability to reap the rich rewards gained from participation in the arts and crafts.
Finally, you or someone you know may be interested to learn that VAE are in the early stages of developing our England Committee. They are looking for people to nominate them selves to be “Regional Contacts” to support the work at strategic level, provide a sounding board for planned developments and bring a regional context to the work. The VA England committee will comprise a regional contact from each English region, a Chair appointed by the VAN Board and additional members co-opted to ensure a wide range of expertise and experience. VAN is keen, as far as practicable, to reflect the population of England as a whole in the membership of the committee. VAN is inviting people to put themselves forward in confidence for consideration as regional contacts for VA England. People will be appointed for a year in the first instance and may be re-appointed. The committee will need a sound balance of expertise and experience. You may also like to note that the regional contacts may be asked to act as Chairs of regional committees when and if these are set up in the future. Self - nominations are invited until noon on Friday 23rd April. All nominees will be informed of the outcome within a week of the VAN Board on 6th May. Full details of requirements and selection procedure is available at www.vaengland.org.uk click on “Home” then “Regional Contacts”.
For more information about VAE please visit the website www.vaengland.org.uk
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West Bromwich Operatic Society
Amateur Premier of Ragtime the Musical!
WBOS are delighted and proud to be presenting the UK Amateur premier of "Ragtime the Musical"
Ragtime proved itself a smash hit on Broadway 6 years ago, establishing itself as one of the most fresh & exhilarating new musicals of the last few decades. This is your opportunity to see the first amateur production in this country, don't miss it.
A very powerful story about the interweaving journeys of three families - one white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, one African American and one Eastern European. As they face the challenges of life, love and social change, we follow each through the differences which divide and the difficulties which unite them all, both as members of a growing community, and as human individuals. With a stylish and powerful score throughout creating a vivid picture of twentieth century life, Ragtime is a compelling and superbly entertaining piece.
Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
25 - 29 May 2004
Matinees Wednesday & Saturday
Evenings 7.30 pm
Matinees 2.30 pm
Great deals for parties, school parties and families
Tickets can be booked through Edward Matty on 0121 550 3667, the Grand Theatre Box Office 01902 429212 and sales@wbos.co.uk
Make sure you don't miss this show - it will be an evening you won't forget in a hurry!
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National Operatic and Dramatic Association
NODA House
58-60 Lincoln Road
Peterborough PE1 2RZ
tel: 0870 770 2480
fax: 0870 770 2490
e-mail:everyone@noda.org.uk
http://www.noda.org.uk
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