The Likes of Us


NODA celebrated the launch of The Likes of Us to amateur theatre with a well attended launch at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.  We were delighted to welcome Sir Tim Rice to the event which saw a performance of extracts from the musical, the first that Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborated on, performed by The Ilford Operatic and Dramatic Society.

Performance licences will be issued exclusively to NODA members from 1st September 2008 for performances taking place from 1st January 2009 onwards. A percentage of the share of the box office receipts received by Really Useful Group will be donated to Barnado’s.

For further details email beverly@noda.org.uk


                                       Celebrate!08

Youth Music Week Event funding & skills development package
area: London
deadline: 12pm Monday 21 July 2008

Specific Criteria
• Hold a special event or performance working with a minimum of 20 young people (under 18 years old) during Youth Music Week
• One delegate to attend Seen & Heard campaign course (led by Media Trust) 29/07/08
• Development of campaign action plan to encourage a wide audience (including local decision makers and press) to share in the achievements made by young people.
• Additional support from expert to implement campaign action plan
• Cash match of £500
• To meet all standard criteria

Available Funds:

Sound Connections has £1000 available for four organisations this must be matched with £500 from the organisation. This funding will cover all costs, including;

• Rehearsals
• Music leader fees
• Local marketing
• Venue hire
• Monitoring

Completed applications, downloadable from www.sound-connections.org.uk/content.php?page=211 must be posted to:

Nicky Pleming
Sound Connections
Rich Mix 3rd Floor
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

Or emailed to: nicky@sound-connections.org.uk


                                    GUYS & DOLLS

Josef Weinberger are pleased to announce a partial re-release of the amateur performing rights for GUYS & DOLLS for the next 12 months.  They must stress that there are still restrictions in place therefore your organisation may not be eligible for a performing licence.  The restrictions are as follows:

  * All productions must take place between 23 May 2008 and 23 May 2009.

  * There will be a general release for all school productions taking place on school premises, however, with the condition that tickets can only be sold to pupils, their families and to teachers and there must be no advertising or publicity outside of school premises.

  * Societies and youth theatre groups may apply, however, all venues must seat less than 500 and may not be within 25 miles of major cities as determined by JW Ltd. plus there must be no national media advertising and no national reviewers.

  If your organisation wishes to be considered for a performing licence, please contact Josef Weinberger with your production details, which should include the following:

  Name of organisation
  Your name and full postal address
  Performance dates
  Venue name and address
  Seating capacity

  Please send this by email to:

  amateur@jwmail.co.uk

                                          NEW PLAY


A new play has been published by Hanbury Plays and written by Raymond Hopkins entitled ‘Make time for love’
All of Raymond’s royalties from this 2 act play will be donated to Multiple Sclerosis research. For further information contact Hanbury Plays on 01527 821564 or e mail: hanburyplays@tiscali.co.uk

                                    BOOGIE NIGHTS
                                       The 70s Musical

 
Written By Jon Conway
Script Associates Shane Richie and Terry Morrison
 
This wonderful new show has just been released for amateur production.
 
Based around British culture in the 1970s, the decade that taste forgot, Boogie Nights - The 70s Musical, tells the heart-warming story of Roddy O'Neil, his friends, their lives, loves and experience of growing up in the DISCO decade. The backdrop to their story is over 30 classic hits from the 70s.
 
This show has enjoyed five national sell-out tours, a run in London's West End and people across the world dusting down their flares and hotpants from Europe and Scandinavia to the USA and New Zealand!
Boogie Nights - The 70s Musical is not only an outstanding piece of musical theatre, it also gives the audience the perfect excuse to party to the greatest hits of the 70s!
Perusal material and performing licence application forms are now available on request.  
   
JOSEF WEINBERGER 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

                        GRIMEBORN – An Opera Season

4 – 23 August 2008
After its successful launch last year, GRIMEBORN – An Opera Season is back at Arcola for three weeks of theatrical innovation from the frontline of contemporary music and performance.

Grimeborn was conceived to give young companies and old masters the opportunity to show their work in a venue that appreciates the diversity of theatrical forms and highlight the performance as much as the music.
This years’ festival, curated by Daniele Guerra, is set to break new ground on all fronts. Every night Arcola’s huge Studio 1 will be transformed to accommodate everything from the rarely staged Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti to The Man with a Movie Camera by the renowned Michael Nyman, composer of The Piano.

Arcola Theatre’s artistic director Mehmet Ergen will direct Goodbye Barcelona, a new musical by Judith Johnson and Karl Lewkowicz set during the Spanish Civil War. Cult pop orchestra The Irrepressibles and the Conversations in Sound choir present Opera of Surveillance - expanding on their practice of "theatricalising the mundane", they will create an audio fantasia from audience experience. Mahler’s Kindertoten Lieder will be brought to life by cabaret artiste Dickie Beau and Britain’s foremost black female composer Erollyn Wallen’s Songbook: My Feet Will Take A Little While will be fully performed for the first time.

All performances at 8pm, Tickets £10
Box Office: 020 7503 1646
Email: boxoffice@arcolatheatre.com
Web: www.arcolatheatre.com

                              THEATRE TICKET OFFERS


Theatre Royal Brighton -  0870 060 6650

Eurobeat - 2 tickets for the price of 1 on price band A seats from Monday 28 - Thursday 31 July

All You Need Is Love - 2 tickets for the price of 1 on price band A seats from Tuesday 12 - Thursday 14 August 08


The Churchill, Bromley - 0870 060 6620

All You Need Is Love - £5 off top price tickets from Tue 22 - Thu 24 July (max. 2 tickets per person)