Programme 1999 – Canterbury Arms Music Hall

In the Year 1999

NAPIER OPERATIC SOCIETY Inc.

Proudly presents in the Tabard Theatre

Devised and Directed by the Noted Entrepreneur
MADAME SYLVIA RICHARDSON

Terpsichorial Interpretations by
MADAME LYNDA PIPE

Master of the Massed Pianoforte
MAESTRO ERIC THORPE

THE
SPLENDIFEROUS

SONG SHEET & BILLING FOR

THE CANTERBURY ARMS
MUSIC HALL

CHAIRMAN AND HOST – PAUL GROSVENOR WARING

MEMBERS OF THE RESIDENT CHORUS AND ENSEMBLE

Miss Marie-Lou Anderson   Mr Tony Blackett   Miss Mim Hollands
Miss Sonya Aifai   Mr Steven Clarke   Miss Anne Keech
Miss Clare Allington   Mr John Granger   Miss Tanya McKellow
Miss Toni Clark   Mr John Gregory   Miss Annabel Moore
Miss Kate Conaglen   Mr Tony Ironside   Miss Delma O’Connor
Miss Anita Davies   Mr Jarren Jackson   Miss Kim Roscoe
Miss Debbie Hart   Mr Dion Thorne   Miss Jayne Venyige

VISITING ARTISTES
Madame Lucy Hemara   Mr Sidney Price
Madame Sharon Barry   Mr Michael Kyle   Mr Stanley Simmonds

LE PETITES
Miss Anne Aifai   Miss Kristin Hart   Miss Tamara Roscoe

PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

STAGE MANAGER
Mr Marc Collier

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Mr Pierre van der Zwet

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Mr Merv Dallimore

PRODUCTION SECRETARY
Madame Chris Kenah

STAGE CREW & CONSTRUCTION
Patteson Aifai, Adrian Lynds, Jared Thorne, Peter Feasey, Christian Briggs, Adam McKay, Jamie Beale, Daniel Hurley, Denys Meeks, John Bloor, Eoin McKinnon, Steven Clarke, Toni Clark, Sonya Aifai (Painting Artist Supreme)

GASLIGHT DESIGN
Mr Peter Eade

GASLIGHT ASSISTANTS
Shane Byron, Brent Smith, Denys Meek, Mike McConnell, Lisa Berry, Rob Lockyer, Anthony Gouder

WARDROBE MISTRESS
Madame Lois Reefman assisted by: Chris Shields, Margery Gurney, Maria Peta, Beverly Carroll, Adrienne Parsons, Vivian Robertson, Jean Allen, Joy Shepherd and Friends of the Society

MASTER OF RINGLETS AND CURLS
Mr Raymond Gempton

PROPERTIES MISTRESS
Madame Nicky McGrath with the assistance of Lauren Pitts, Michelle Boyde, Jo Affleck, Gail Jones, Elsa Ironside, Sharyn Hill

MISTRESSES OF POWDER AND PAINT
Mesdames Yvonne Arrowsmith & Leanne Simpson assisted by Friends of the Society

MUSICAL ENSEMBLE
Messrs Eric Thorpe, Leon Speakman, Bryan Rae

HOUSE MANAGERS
Messrs Peter Shepherd, Tony Reid, Ian Collins, Madame Lesley Read [Reid]

CAMELOT LOUNGE BARMAN
Mr Colin Pritchard

BOOKING OFFICE
Madame Dale Reid

HOSTESSES DIVINE
Mesdames Gail Jones, Chris Kenah, Maria Peta with their team of shapely assistants

WINE WAITERS OF DISTINCTION
Mr Brian Nathan with his distributors of alcoholic and non-inebriating beverages

COOKS AND BOTTLE WASHERS SUPREME
Mesdames Helen Wakely, Dale East and Friends of the Society

SUPPERS SUPREME
Mesdames Donna O’Shaughnessy, Bev O’Neill with the assistance of Michelle Winter, Densye [Denyse] Watkins, Julie Sellars, Jean Hollamby, Jean Gordon, Chris Cheyne

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Society gratefully acknowledges Kevin Watkins, Bruce Hill Transport, Premier Silk Plants, Raphael Furnishing Studios, Napier Antique Centre, Healthcare HB Dental Nurses, McMillin & Craig Ltd, Hawke’s Bay Opera, Clive Ralph, Napier Operatic Social Committee, British American Tobacco New Zealand Limited, Bob Sheldrake, Coronation St Neighbours

NAPIER OPERATIC SOCIETY’S ESTEEMED AND VENERABLE COMMITTEE
PATRON:   Peter Cox
PRESIDENT:   Neill L Page
VICE-PRESIDENT:   Lesley Reid
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:   John Briggs
CHAIRMAN:   Bill Dalton
SECRETARY:   Ian Reid
TREASURER:   Lynda Shirras
HONORARY SOLICITOR: John Matthews
HONORARY PHOTOGRAPHER: Clive Ralph

LIFE MEMBERS
Gwyn Ace, Cliff Allen, John Briggs, Barrie Browne, Lyndsay Browne, John Collier, Gillian Davies, Donald Hurley, Alan Jones, Brian Nathan, Colin Pritchard, Ian Reid, Les Robertson, Peter Shepherd, Fred Twyford, Dawn Unsworth, Ros Van de Ven

COMMITTEE
Sonya Aifai, Tessa-May Brown, Clive Buttery, Alan Jones, Darryl Mitchell, Colin Pritchard, Norah Griffen, Merv Dallimore, Chris Kenah, Ian Collins

MEMBERSHIP
Subscribing Members: If you are not already a member of our Society and would like to become one, 2000 subscriptions of $25.00 are now being received at Box 756, Napier. This will entitle you to preferential bookings and to receive our newsletter.
Active Members: We always need active members, both on stage and backstage. Phone Ian Reid, 835 5073 (Home), if you are interested in joining us in some capacity.

THE ENTIRE AND EXTENSIVE
PROGRAMME OF ENTERTAINMENT
FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND EDIFICATION

PRAY BID WELCOME TO:

1. YOUR CHAIRMAN AND HOST   Paul Grosvenor Waring

2. RESIDENT CHORUS AND ENSEMBLE   “Old Railway Scena”
With Sharon, Stan, Sid, Paul, Tamara and Tony

3. MR SIDNEY PRICE    “I Don’t Know”
(King of Comics)

4. MADAME SHARON BARRY   “In my Little Bottom Drawer”
(Spinster Personified)

5. MADAME MARIE-LOU ANDERSON   “Flanigan”
(Florrie Forde Incarnate)   “Hold Your Hand Out”
“Bull and Bush”

6. MADAME LUCY HEMARA   “Watching The Wheat”
(Delicate Delight)

7. MESSRS PRICE, GREGORY   “Down and Out in Old London Town”
SIMMONDS, CLARKE AND GRANGER
(Five Broken Blossoms)

8. MISSES ANITA, CLARE AND SONYA   “The Triplets”
(A Triple Treat)

9. MADAME JAYNE VENYIGE   “Row, Row, Row”
assisted by: Dion, Sid and Steven
(Naughty Nautical)

10. MR MICHAEL KYLE   “Moiya My Girl”
(Guest Artiste Supreme)

11. RESIDENT CHORUS AND ENSEMBLE   “Irish Picnic Scena”
with Lucy, Paul, Annabel, Dion, John and Sid.

INTERVAL

THE LOYAL TOAST

12. MESDAMES, Debbie, Delma, Kate,   “The Can Can”
Kim, Tanya and Toni.
(Terpsichorial Triumph)

13. MR PAUL GROSVENOR WARING   “The Gasman Commeth”
AND MR ERIC THORPE
(Songsters Sublime)

14. MR MICHAEL KYLE   “Say You Will Not Forget”
(Artistic Supremacy)

15. THE CANTERBURY CHORISTERS   “12 Days After Christmas”
(Strictly for the Birds)

16. MR SIDNEY PRICE   “Up Went My Little Umbrella”
AND MR STANLEY SIMMONDS
(Lackadaisical Lads!)

17. RESIDENT CHORUS AND ENSEMBLE   “Wedding Scena”
with John, Anita, Dion, Marie-Lou,
Michael, Anne, Jayne and John
(Disillusioned, disappointed, disconnected)

18. MADAME SHARON BARRY   “I Took My Harp To A Party”
(Nobody asked her to Play?)

19. THE CANTERBURY PLAYERS   “The Ballad of Dr Crippen”
present – Tony, Paul, Sharon,   or “Belle’s Ding Dong”
Steven, Toni, Stan and Sid
(Musical, Medical, Mayhem)

20. MR PAUL GROSVENOR WARING   “O Holy Night”
(Internationally Acclaimed Star of Opera)

21. RESIDENT CHORUS AND ENSEMBLE   “Old London Pub Scena”
with Stan, Jarren, John, Sid, Michael, Mim and Anita
(Lyrical, Luscious and Lusty)

THE END

The Management reserves the right to dismiss any Artiste for Misdemeanors

OLD RAILWAY SCENA

OH! MR. PORTER
O Mr Porter what shall I do,
I want to go to Birmingham
And they’re taking me on to Crewe
Send me back to London
As quickly as you can,
Oh Mr Porter what a silly girl I am.

BLESS EM ALL
Bless ‘em all, bless ’em all,
The long and the short and the tall.
Bless all the Sergeants and W.O. ones,
Bless all the Corp’rals and their blinkin sons.
‘Cos we’re saying goodbye to them all,
As back to their billets they crawl,
You’ll get no promotion, this side of the ocean,
So cheer up my lads, Bless ’em all. ’

IT’S ALONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
It’s a long way to Tipperary
It’s a long way to go,
It’s a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know,
Good-bye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It’s a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart’s right there.

WISH ME LUCK
Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye,
Cheerio here I go on my way,
Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
Not a tear but a cheer make it gay.
Give me a smile I can keep all the while
Till we meet once again you and I
Wish me luck, as you wave me goodbye.

FLANIGAN
Flanigan, Flanigan, take me to the Isle of Man agin
Take me where the folks all cry
K E L L Y
Flanigan, Flanigan if you love your Mary Ann
Oh! Oh! Oh! Flanigan
Take me to the Isle of Man

HOLD YOUR HAND OUT
Hold your hand out ya naughty boy
Hold your hand out ya naughty boy
Last night in the pale moonlight, I saw yer, I saw yer.
With a nice girl in the park
You was strolling full of joy
And you told her you’d never kissed a girl before
Hold your hand out yer naughty boy

OLD BULL AND BUSH
Come, come, come and make eyes at me
Down at the Old Bull and Bush
Ta ra ra ra ra
Come, come, drink some port wine with me
Down at the Old Bull and Bush
There’s a little German band
Just let me hold your hand dear
Do do come and have a drink or two
Down at the Old Bull and Bush

IRISH PICNIC SCENA

ON MOTHER KELLY’S DOORSTEP
On Mother Kelly’s doorstep
I’m wondering now
If little girl Nelly
Remembers Joe, her beau.
And does she love me like she used to.
On Mother Kelly’s doorstep,
Down Paradise Road.

IRISH AND PROUD OF IT TOO
Sure we’re Irish and proud of it too
Irish and proud of it too
We don’t care if it rains,
And we don’t care if it snows,
We don’t mind a shower you know.
Sure we’re Irish and proud of it too
And we all like a hullaballoo
We want to have a good deal of fun,
Everyone a son of a gun,
Irish and proud of it too.

ROSE OF TRALEE
She was lovely, and fair,
like the rose of the summer.
Yet was not her beauty, alone, that won me.
Oh no, ‘twas the truth in her eyes ever dawning,
That made me love Mary,
The rose of Tralee.

SWEET ROSIE O’GRADY
Sweet Rosie O’Grady, My beautiful Rose,
She’s my little lady, That ev’ryone knows,
And when we are married,
How happy we’ll be.
I love sweet Rosie O’Grady,
And Rosie O’Grady, loves me.

IF YOU’RE IRISH
If you’re Irish, come into the parlour,
There’s a welcome there for you,
If your name is Timothy or Pat,
So long as you come from Ireland
There’s a welcome on the mat.
If you come from the mountains of Mourne,
or Killarney’s lakes so blue,
We’ll sing you a song, and we’ll make a fuss,
Whoever you are, you’ll be one of us,
If you’re Irish, this is the place for you.

PHIL THE FLUTERS BALL
With a toot on the flute and
a twiddle of the fiddle’o
Hopping in the middle,
like a herring on the griddle’o
Up down hands around,
corsets to the wall,
Hadn’t we the Gaiety at Phil the Fluters Ball.

WEDDING SCENA

WAITING AT THE CHURCH
There was I, waiting at the church,
Waiting at the church, waiting at the church,
When he went and left me in the lurch
Oh how it did upset me,
All at once, he sent me round a note,
Here’s the very note, and this is what he wrote,
Can’t get away to marry you today,
My wife won’t let me!

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT?
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that tile?
Isn’t it a nobby one, and just the proper style?
I should like to have one, just the same as that
Where’ere I go they shout, “Hello!
Where did you get that hat?”

WHY AM I ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID
Why am I always the bridesmaid,
Never the blushing bride,
Ding dong! wedding bells,
Only ring for other gels.
But some fine day,
Oh, let it be soon!
I shall wake up in the morning,
On my own honeymoon.

OLD LONDON PUB SCENA

FALL IN AND FOLLOW ME
Fall in and follow me! Fall in and follow me!
Come-a-long and never mind the weather,
All together, stand by me boys,
I know the way to go, I’ll take you for a spree,
You do as I do and you’ll be right,
Fall in and follow me.

TWO LOVELY BLACK EYES
Two lovely black eyes, Oh what a surprise,
Only for telling a man he was wrong,
Two lovely black eyes.

WOT CHER
“Wot Cher!”, all the neighbours cried,
Who’re yer goin to meet Bill?
Have yer bought the street, Bill?
Laugh I thought I should’ave died,
Knock’d em in the Old Kent Road!

I’M HENERY THE EIGHTH I AM
I’m Henery the Eighth I am!
Henery the Eighth I am! I am!
I got married to the widow next door,
She’s been married seven times before
Ev’ry one was a Henery,
She wouldn’t have a Willie or a Sam.
I’m her eighth old man named Henery,
I’m Henery the eighth I am.

LET THE GREAT BIG WORLD KEEP TURNING
Let the great big world keep turning,
Never mind if I’ve got you,
For I only know, that I love you so,
And there’s no one else will do.
You have simply set me yearning,
And for ever I’ll be true.
Let the great big world keep on turning round,
Now I’ve found someone like you.

MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE I’M A LONDONER
May-be it’s be-cause I’m a Lon-don-er,
That I love Lon-don so,
May-be it’s because I’m a Lon-don-er,
That I think of her – Wher-ev-er I go.
I get a fun-ny feel-ing in-side of me
Just walk-ing up and down,
May-be it’s because I’m a Londoner.
That I love Lon-don Town.

KNEES UP MOTHER BROWN
Knees up Mother Brown,
Knees up Mother Brown.
Come along dearie, let it go,
Ee Aye, Ee Aye, Ee Aye, Oh.
It’s your bloomin’ birthday,
Lets wake up all the town.
So, knees up, knees up,
Don’t get the breeze up,
Knees up Mother Brown.

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