Programme – We’ll Meet Again

HASTINGS MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY Playhouse

THE HASTINGS MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY
presents
THE PERFORMING ARTS: DRAMA STUDENTS
with
Peter Hill
in

“WE’LL MEET AGAIN”

Devised by
Dick Johnstone

Musical Director
Eric Thorpe

WE’LL MEET AGAIN

Devised by DICK JOHNSTONE

Musical Director: ERIC THORPE   Director: DICK JOHNSTONE

Scenic Artist: CHRISTOPHER GREEN   Choreographer: BRIAR HORROCKS

Rehearsal Coaches: AUDREY LONDON, GILLIAN DAVIES, WENDY DOOLE, PARAIRE HUATA, ROB HICKEY and KEN KEYS.

ON STAGE CAST
ALEX CAMPBELL   ALLEN O’HALLORAN
CAROLYN MARKHAM   CUSHLA FINN
DONALD TWEEDIE   EMMA GREENWOOD
HOLLY EWANS   JAMES COLEMAN
MARDI POTTER   PENNY FREEMAN
RACHELLE TOMLIN   RAEWYN MOUNGAKIHELOTO
ROBERT PUSSELL   WIREMU TEKANI
and comedian PETER HILL (God help us all!)

CHOIR
ANN FULFORD   JEANETTE MacKENZIE   JUDY PRIEST
MAUREEN SNEE   IAN ETHERIDGE   A.N. OTHER
PHIL WILSON   JOHN NEWLANDS   VAL IVES
NINA HEGGLUN-ROBIN

BAND
ERIC THORPE – Piano   Saxaphone[Saxophone]-Clarinet – RAY ISAACS
DAVE KITT – Bass   Drums – BRIAN RAE

BACKSTAGE
Stage Manager – DAVE SAYNER   JEANNE HALL – Production Secretary & Props
Lighting – BRYAN RODGERS, PHILLIP DEAN, GEORGE ASTRIDGE, KERRY THORNTON. Sound – ROBIN BARKER, BRIAN COCHRANE.   CHRISTOPHER GREEN – Murals
Wardrobe – FRANCIS MURRAY, KATH SAYNER, SUE PASSFIELD, DAWN WRIGHT, DOREEN CROOK, ZELDA HOUSTON, ALLISON BULLOCH, ESTHER ANDERSON, DOREEN MORRIS.
Set Construction & Backstage Crew – CARL WRIGHT, LEN EVANS, LIONEL PRIEST, DAVE SAYNER, KIERAN MOLONEY, NEIL MOUAT, TREVOR WYATT.
Front of House MAUREEN SNEE and helpers.   LIONEL PRIEST – Programme/Publicity

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Hastings Musical Comedy Company have enjoyed the experience working with the Drama Students and in the short time we have been together we are impressed by their attitudes. It has been our pleasure to be associated with such a team of enthusiastic developing actors. We wish them well for the future and look forward to our continued association. To Dick Johnstone for his dedication and involvement, our thanks.

Lionel Priest, President.

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ACT ONE   –  1914 – 1918

WORLD WAR ONE

The 9th (Hawkes Bay) Regiment
Declaration of War
The Local Enlistment Response
Egypt and Gallipoli
The Western Front
Christmas and New Year
Trench Warfare
Requiem – the Losses
Armistice – Victory

INTERVAL – 1995 – ENTRACTE

If you prefer to stay in your seats during the second half of the 25 minute Interval you are invited to Sing-a-Long with the choir, cast and band under the guidance of MC Peter Hill (God help us all!). Song Words are on your Table Mat

ACT TWO   –   1939 – 1945

WORLD WAR TWO

The Hawkes Bay Regiment
Declaration of War
The Local Enlistment Response
The Army, the Airforce and the Navy
Greece and Crete
The Western Desert – Africa
Europe – Italy
The Women Back Home
The Pacific
New Zealand
Requiem – the Losses
Double Victory – V.E. Day and V.J. Day

A Tribute to
The Hawke’s Bay Regiment