Programme 2004 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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NAPIER OPERATIC SOCIETY

The Napier Operatic Society is delighted to welcome you all
to another Restaurant Theatre Production

Something for Everyone
A Comedy Tonight

‘Footing it to Forum’ – Original Artwork by Cain Redding

TABARD THEATRE
5-21 AUGUST 2004

Electrotech CONTROLS LTD

ESAM CUSHING

Riverside Wines

Napier Municipal Theatre
Hawke’s Bay Performing Arts

Langley Twigg LAWYERS

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (based on plays of Plautus)
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Directed by Valda Peacock
Musical Director Taanga Lawrence
Choreographer Derryn Toomey

TABLE SERVICE
CASH BAR OPERATING FOR
ADDITIONAL WINE
& SPIRITS.

TOWARD THE PLOT

The plot revolves around Pseudolus, a slave who will do almost anything to gain his freedom. When Pseudolus is left in charge of his owners young son who has fallen madly in love with a beautiful courtesan, the fun begins.

The young boy promises Pseudolus his freedom if he can arrange a marriage before his father returns. Pseudolus, of course, agrees. But not even the conniving slave can foresee the tangled web that he is about to weave.

We hope it is with delight that you will find this out for yourselves.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Jonathan Krebs   PROLOGUS, an actor
Bob Sheldrake   SENEX, an old man
Karen Green   DOMINA, his wife
Blair Fiveash   HERO, his son, in love with PHILIA
Mark Luscombe   HYSTERIUM, a slave to SENEX
Jonathan Krebs   PSEUDOLUS, slave to HERO
John Pryce   ERRONIOUS, an old man
Peter Austin   MILES GLORIOSUS, a warrior
Rob Harford   LYCUS, a buyer and seller of courtesan
Aimee Pollard   PHILIA, a virgin
Simon Crook   WALLIA, a protean
Nigel Mannering   BOTHERIC, a protean
Raymond Gempton   FLAVIUS, a protean
Sharron Pardoe   TINTINABULA, a courtesan
Janine Hill   PANACEA, a courtesan
Derryn Toomey
Vanessa Jackson   THE GEMINAE, courtesans
Sharon Pook   VIBRATA, a courtesan
Alison Beal   GYMNASIA, a courtesan
Judy McKinnon   SALLUST, a courtesan
Lesley Reid   PRUSA, a courtesan
Marie-Lou Anderson VISTULA, a courtesan

The time is two hundred years before the Christian era, a day in spring.
The place is a street in Rome in front of the houses of
ERRONIUS, SENEX and LYCUS.
The action is continuous, with a single intermission.

MUSICIANS

KEYBOARDS – Taanga Lawrence & Frances Burch

MUSICAL NUMBERS:

ACT ONE

Overture – Orchestra
“Comedy Tonight” – Prologus and the Proteans
“Love, I Hear” – Hero
“Free” – Hero and Pseudolus
“Lovely” – Hero and Philia
“Pretty Little Picture” – Pseudolus, Hero and Philia
“Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” – Senex, Pseudolus, Hysterium Lycus
“I’m Calm” – Hysterium
“Impossible” Senex and Hero
“Bring Me My Bride” – Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus and Company

ACT TWO

“That Dirty Old Man” – Domina
“That’ll Show Him” – Philia
“Lovely” (reprise) – Pseudolus and Hysterium
“Funeral Sequence – Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Company
Finale – Company