Our Last Show

The Sunningdale Savoy Chorus last show was  "Salad Days" by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds. This delightful coming of age musical was once the longest running show in the West End until "Oliver" came along. It tells the story of Jane and Timothy and their search for something to do after leaving University. All ends happily of course but not until they have had a series of adventures involving a tramp, a magic piano, a spooky uncle and a flying saucer. Its songs include "I Sit in the Sun", "Oh Look At Me", "We're Looking For A Piano", "The Time Of My Life" "The Saucer Song" and many more. The society  performed Salad Days from the 15th to the 17th of July in 2010 at the Rose Theatre at St Mary's Ascot.

Click here to read about  the "STUPENDOUS SUCESS" it was.


A Gala Year

In 2011 the Sunningdale Savoy Chorus will have existed for 20 years and its Committee are  planning a gala year that really celebrates the Savoy in the Society's name. To kick this off to a fantastic start  the main show in 2011 will be an all new riotous production of HMS Pinafore using a refreshed script and an updated presentation of much of Sullivan's music. Audiences can expect hornpiping dancers, bawdy sailors, love sick ladies and a ships captain, foremast hand and First Sea Lord who really ought to know better. All within a delightful tale of love across the Victorian class divide.
They have commissioned a reworking of Gilbert and Sullivans neglected opera "Princess Ida". This delightful work contains some of Sullivan's best music, unfortunately, not heard as much as it should be probably because Gilbert wrote the spoken words of the piece in blank verse. The plot involving wayward Princes, very independently minded young women, men in women's clothes, warring heads of State and a "will they won't they" love story is, therefore, ripe for an update. Peter Harris, who took a satirical swipe at UK national politics recently in the G&S inspired Demokracy, premiered by the Society in 2007, will write the words to a new book by John Woodward-Roberts.  The SSC will present the show in November 2011.

 

And in 2009 -

Victorian Fair, Sunninghill

On Sunday November 15th the SSC sang at the Victorian Fair in Sunninghill. For half an hour they entertained the crowds with songs from "Oliver" and other British musicals. Geoff Horton musically directed and added a lot of life to the programme by encouraging audience participation and involvement. Sam Quillish and Sophie Spencer sang "Where Is Love" as a delighful duet. Flyers were handed out for the Society's Christmas Music Hall and tickets were sold from the box office set up in the Ascot Day Centre. As one of the members said "Really enjoyed the sing song today - well done Geoff for creating a very credible show without any rehearsal". Geoff will be a guest singer at the Society's Christmas Music Hall at the Cordes Hall on December 11 and 12th.

THE BRITS: A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS

The Sunningdale Savoy Chorus's autumn concert, the Brits, played to packed houses on the 9 and 10 October. Audiences were treated to an eclectic mix of songs from British musicals in the first half and a programme of Andrew Lloyd Webber's music in the 2nd. The reception from the audience, who joined the Society to sing "The Lambeth Walk" and "Keep The Home Fires Burning" was tremendous. We hope to see all of them again at our Christmas Music Hall on the 11 and 12 December.

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THE GODFATHER'S GONDOLIERS: NODA REVIEW

Unbeknown to Society members a reviewer from the National Operatic and Dramatic Society attended the Saturday night performance of our latest show. His review gives the show a complete thumbs up. Read it by clicking HERE