Welcome to the February issue of the e-mail newsletter

                              Update from NODA House

We are now open from 8am until 6pm!!

As part of NODA’s new Customer Service Policy, we are extending the opening hours at Peterborough. You can read all about NODA’s new Customer Service Policy in NODA National News or click here.

With immediate effect, we are piloting extended opening between 8.00am – 6.00pm, Monday to Friday, to make ourselves more accessible to members. We hope that members will find these arrangements provide greater flexibility and convenience.

                           News from Josef Weinberger
 
Charles Strouse - 80th Birthday
 
Charles Strouse, the composer of ANNIE, ANNIE JUNIOR, ANNIE WARBUCKS AND RAGS will be celebrating his 80th Birthday in June 2008. If your organisation is performing one of his shows this year, we can supply in electronic form a personal letter from Charles himself that can be printed in your programme.
 
RehearScore now available for Hot Mikado and Copacabana
 
The RehearScore(tm) is a computerised rehearsal pianist/musical director's aide for PC/Windows computers.  Each RehearScore(tm) is a complete rendition of the piano-conductor score on a computer disk recorded and programmed by a top Broadway Pianist and whenever possible, edited by the composer.  The RehearScore(tm) includes the entire piano-conductor score with the piano part, any orchestral cues and each vocal line on its own track.  Every musical number, from "Overture" to "Exit Music", including scene changes, dance music and underscoring, is recorded in its entirety. 
 
A copy of the JW Theatrical Resources leaflet that includes all the RehearScore titles can be emailed to you on request.

New Release: ALL 4 ONE

Book and lyrics by
KEVIN HEUSTON
Music by
JOHN TRENT WALLACE
 
The title tells us that this is a musical on the well-visited Musketeers theme, but this rousing new show follows D'Artagnan's story from the beginning of
The Three Musketeers through to the conclusion of The Man in the Iron Mask.
 
Cast: 18 Cast comprising 5M, 3F principals, 10 Supporting Parts / Ensemble. Can accommodate unlimited ensemble for larger companies.

Instrumentation: Keyboard 1 (Strings and Woodwind), Keyboard 2 (Strings, Woodwind and Piano), Keyboard 3 (Piano and general orchestral sounds), Drums inc. Percussion, Bass guitar, 1st Trumpet in Bb (doubling Piccolo Trumpet), 2nd Trumpet in Bb (doubling Flugel Horn), Trombone, French Horn in F

Resources: Highlights CD (for perusal), Logo
 
Free perusal materials and further details are available on request.
  
Josef Weinberger
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
 
                The Stage Management Association

The Stage Management Association has a special membership offer to launch the New Year - available until Friday 15 February 2007.

If you apply to join as an Associate Member there will be a reduction of 10% making the cost just £36 for a whole twelve months.

If you apply to join as a Professional Member, the SMA will waive the £15 joining fee.

If you apply to rejoin the SMA, the SMA will waive the £15 rejoining fee.
Has there ever been a better way to start off a New Year?
Please visit the SMA Website for full details:
www.stagemanagementassociation.co.uk

           A Wider Embrace: ICT & The Arts - national
         conference and FREE regional training events

ICT (information and communication technology) is for creativity and efficiency – from turning your radio programme into a podcast, to processing online bookings for events, editing photos for an exhibition, or putting an automatic feed on your website to update supporters of news and events.

With well planned ICT you can:
• Save time, money and resources
• Reach new audiences and keep in touch more easily
• Raise your profile and deliver services in more innovative ways
• Manage information more efficiently including donors’ contacts, health and safety, event planning etc

Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute
Margaret Street
Birmingham B3 3BS

Wednesday 13 February 2008 10.00 – 16.00

To find out more or to book your place download an ICT and the Arts national conference flyer and booking form.

Complimenting this event is a series of FREE regional training sessions:
- 12 February 2008 - London
- 25 February 2008 - Cambridge
- 26 February 2008 - Newcastle
- 29 February 2008 - Wakefield
- 3 March 2008 (workshop one only) - Sunderland
- 4 March 2008 (workshop two only) - Sunderland
- 6 March 2008 – Exeter
(further events to be announced in Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham)
 
To find out more or to book your place download an ICT and the Arts regional events flyer and booking form
Paul Devlin
Information & Research Officer
Voluntary Arts England, PO Box 1056, Newcastle Upon Tyne. NE99 1UE
T: 0191 230 4464 E: paul@vaengland.org.uk     www.vaengland.org.uk

                                   The B&Q Awards

Deadline: Friday 28 March 2008
On 28 January 2008 the 'You Can Do It' Awards will be re-launched with a new name, new criteria and a new prize fund for groups to win B&Q materials for community projects across the UK and Ireland.

The B&Q Awards will offer between £1,000 and £10,000 of B&Q products to community and charitable organisations across the UK and Ireland. The Awards aim to play a key part in helping local communities create inclusive and sustainable projects of which they can be proud.

The 2008 Awards will be open to applications between Monday 28 January and Friday 28 March 2008.

Application forms will be available to download from 9.30am on Monday 28 January or by telephoning the 24 hour application line on 0845 300 1001. (Please note that this number is not available to take calls outside of this period)

                   The West End Musical, 1880-1930

An international conference on the study of early musicals.

Topics include:
Musical Comedy
Revue
Musicals and modernity
Musicals and national identities
Gender debates
Performance
Gilbert and Sullivan
Theatre economies
Transatlantic traffic

Key note speaker: Peter Bailey

Registration forms available from:
Barbara Allen
Professional and Community Education
b.allen@gold.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7919 7221

        DCMS conducts national study of voluntary arts
                                   activity in England

dates: 1-29 February

On 1 February, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport launched a national survey of amateur arts groups in England.

The survey will help focus attention on the wealth of amateur and voluntary arts opportunities enjoyed by millions of people across the country every day - often with little publicity. The research has the potential to be very useful for arts groups, who will be able to refer to the findings when applying for funding, and for policy-makers, who can use it to look at how amateur arts groups could be better supported. The results will be published in the summer.

Groups of voluntary and amateur participants from all artistic walks of life – from music, dance and crafts, to theatre, visual arts and literature - are being encouraged to participate by going to www.artsurvey.org.uk and completing a short online questionnaire before 29 February 2008..
As a thank-you for completing the survey you will be entered into a free prize draw. Three respondents will be selected at random and receive £150 for their group.

                        The Company Music Theatre

The team who worked with The National Youth Music Theatre in London in 2007 to take "Fiddler on the Roof" to 3 stars in The Times and Neil Simon's "Little Me" 4 stars are working together again .

Are you aged between 14  and 23?
Could you be part of the company ???   It's a great music theatre experience www.thecompanymusictheatre.org.uk the company is staging The Rose and The Ring - a fanciful and fabulous comic fairytale by William Thackeray, in Manchester this August!  

Venue, the Dance House Theatre http://www.thedancehouse.co.uk/hiring/the_auditorium.asp

Could you be part of that experience! Find out by going to www.thecompanymusictheatre.org.uk

Auditions on 16 and 17 February in MANCHESTER; 23 and 24 February in LONDON 1 and 2 March in LIVERPOOL; 8 and 9 March in BIRMINGHAM

                                     The Producers
 
THE ENTIRE STOCK OF COSTUMES FROM TOP WESTEND MUSICAL THE PRODUCERS ON SALE
                                                       
The Producers UK tour has now come to an end and we are now in possession of the entire collection of costumes from the London and touring productions.
 
Academy Costumes Ltd are currently selling these costumes and are now booking appointments from potential buyers to come in and view the collection. Academy Costumes Ltd are selling everything from 60's Day dresses to Ballgowns, Tailcoats & Top Hats to Cloche hats & 60's heels....
 
Please contact Jessica Curtis (details below) if you are interested.
 
You can view the costumes in action with this link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhaH9zBOk4
 
Academy Costumes Ltd
50 Rushworth Street
London
SE1 0RB
 
T: 020 7620 0771
F: 020 7928 6287

                      Musical Celebrations at The Shaw

Special Offer for NODA Members – tickets just £12!

Broadway's Triple Threats: The great Actor/Singer/Dancers with Chita Rivera Tuesday 5th February 3-4.30pm

A look at the prolific careers of dancing sensations Gwen Verdon, Anne Reinking, Donna McKechnie, Chita Rivera, Liza Minelli, Lilianne Montevecchi, Bebe Neuwirth and Debbie Allen with a focus on the influence of legendary director/choreographers Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion and Tommy Tune followed by a Question and Answer session with Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (Chicago/Bye Bye Birdie/The Rink/Kiss Of The Spiderwoman)
 
The Great Muses with Elkie Brooks Friday 29th February at 2.30-4pm

Writers and performers often inspire each other - some of the greatest entertainers in the world have had material specifically tailored to their persona and when the relationships really work, the alchemy creates copper-bottomed, gold-plated, 24 Carat hits

The Great Muses looks at the songs made famous by Liza Minnelli with John Kander and Fred Ebb (Maybe This Time/Cabaret/Stepping Out/And The World Goes Round), Burt Bacharach and Hal David with Dionne Warwick ( I'll Never Fall In Love Again/Do You Know The Way To San Jose/Thats What Friends Are For) plus Sammy Davis Junior with Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (Candy Man/What Kind Of Fool Am I/Talk To The Animals)

This will be followed by a question and answer session with the incomparable Elkie Brooks about her experiences working with and performing the songs of the great tunesmiths.

One of Elkie's biggest hits - Pearl's A Singer was penned by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller who tailored material specially for Elvis and her albums include Screen Gems which contains many classics from the American Songbook including songs penned by Fats Waller, Sammy Fain and Rodgers & Hart and her album Round Midnight includes Jimmy Van Heusen's Here's That Rainy Day (tailored for Sinatra as was the classic Oscar winning song All The Way ).
 
Box Office is 0870 033 2600 - please quote Drama Offer.

                                    THE MAGIC FLUTE

FOLLOWING A SELL-OUT SEASON AT THE YOUNG VIC THE MAGIC FLUTE TRANSFERS TO THE DUKE OF YORK’S FOR 8 WEEKS ONLY – TOP-PRICE TICKETS JUST £30

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‘Exuberant and youthful… a smash hit’
Sunday Telegraph

The greatest piece of music theatre performed as you’ve never heard it before: the South African way - 35 singers, marimbas, drums and township percussion.  It’s a story about the trials of life: growing up, finding the love of your life, learning to be wise.  It’s adventure, fairy story, comedy and drama, all set to glorious music.  A delight for young and old alike.

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‘Leaves you with a rare sense of life-enhancing joy’
Sunday Times

Top-price tickets just £30 for 14 performances ONLY.
Call the box office on 0870 060 6623 and quote ‘NODA offer’

Valid for Mon-Weds performances from 18 Feb-15 March. Usual price £48.50. Tickets subject to availability, booking fees apply.