WAOS

Woking Amateur Operatic Society is a local musical theatre company based in Woking, Surrey. We have produced over 80 shows since its formation over 40 years ago. We

are a registered charity and stage two shows a year, here at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, as well as fundraising concerts and other social events. We welcome all newcomers to the society, both on and off-stage. If you are interested in volunteering to help in any aspect of our theatre productions, please do contact us via our website: http://waos.info

NODA The National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) was founded in 1899 and has a membership of around 2,500 amateur theatre groups and 3,000 individual enthusiasts throughout the UK who are engaged in staging musicals, opera, plays, concerts and pantomime in a wide variety of performing venues, ranging from the country’s leading professional theatres to tiny village halls. NODA's mission is to support the education and information needs of individuals and organisations with high quality services and products that contribute to the success of amateur theatre, as well as encouraging appreciation of the sector by participants and audiences alike. They aim to give a shared voice to the amateur theatre sector; to help amateur societies and individuals achieve the highest standards of best practice and performance; to provide leadership and advice to enable amateur theatre to tackle the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. If you would like to find out more about NODA and its range of services, please visit www.noda.org.uk

Message from the Chairman Welcome to Kiss Me, Kate, brought to you by Woking Amateur Operatic Society. I am sure you will have a very entertaining evening, humming along to those familiar Cole Porter melodies, laughing at the tussles between our hero and heroine, and marvelling at the dexterous dancing feet of the entire cast!

Kiss Me, Kate marks WAOS’s return to the better known, more established shows, following our world premiere of Pride & Prejudice The Musical, last October and The Drowsy Chaperone this time last year. As a society, we are keen to offer a wide range of shows to appeal to all tastes, mixing the old favourites with those that are less well-known. It also sees the return of Martine Young in the director’s chair. Martine is one of the mainstays of our society, having appeared in many shows over the years, directed many of our most successful productions, and also serving for many years on our committee. She is extremely talented, hardworking and has very high expectations of her cast, so I am sure you are in for a treat. Our next production, in early November, will be another tried and tested favourite, Carousel. We would be delighted to see you at our introduction evening on 14th May. We are particularly keen to recruit two teams of talented children for this show. For more information, I can be contacted by email at chairman@waos.info. WAOS have also been invited to sing in a selection of numbers with the Astor Big Band on Sunday 18th June in the New Victoria Theatre! This is an exciting venture for our society members to appear on the New Victoria Stage! We hope to see you there. Now sit back and enjoy another op’nin’ of another WAOS show!

Gillian Freeman

From the Director I have been privileged to direct quite a few productions for WAOS, as well as directing for other groups in the area. Kiss Me, Kate was a show on my “bucket list” and though it is physically demanding to direct shows back to back (in fact South Pacific for WWAOS overlapped with Kiss Me, Kate), it is such a clever show to direct that I had no hesitation in making time “stretch” accordingly. Kiss Me, Kate belongs to that category of shows which address specific issues, which is always a challenge I like to take on. In Kiss Me, Kate, the issue of gender and feminism is at the forefront. I have had the support of a tremendous team for this production. If I had to describe the rehearsal run, team work immediately springs to mind. My two Musical Directors, Laura Brown and Beth Reeves have been a joy and pleasure to work with. Hannah, our own home grown choreographer, had taken on such a challenge for her choreography debut. She also allowed Beth and myself to input in the choreography. Sue Gaastra and Emily Noel-Tod as Production Manager and Director’s Assistant took on the day to day management, thus allowing me to concentrate on the creative side. Cathy Chappell and I have been wardrobe mistresses by default at WAOS, and we are known for having definite opinions often backed by forceful arguments, but we are both very proud of our costumed cast! And as usual, Lorraine Landon, affectionately known as Lolly, paints the most incredible sets, sets designed by our resident set designer Mike Bartlett, aided by our team builders under the direction of Mike Griffiths. It would take me too long to name all the people who have helped but looking at the page of ‘Production Team’ in the programme, you will see how many people are involved to make a show happen. This leads me to my cast who has been very hardworking, dedicated and enthusiastic in every rehearsal, even when told by me to “do it again, you are not quite there…”

Martine Young

Director – Martine Young Martine has been interested in the theatre since her school days when she was already “staging” school plays, with varying degrees of success! She has been a member of WAOS since 1979, joining as a chorus member, having already been with Workington Operatic Society in Cumbria for 5 years before moving to Surrey. She also sings with St Dunstan’s Choir. She is an established director for WAOS and other societies.

Her directorial credits include The Merry Widow, Camelot, Orpheus In The Underworld, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Fiddler On The Roof (NODA Award), Oklahoma! The Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Iolanthe, Guys and Dolls and charity concerts. Her 2006 production of The Mikado earned KASJOG the Noda Accolade of Excellence. To widen her horizons, she staged Moll Flanders (NODA Award) for WAOS, a less well known musical with an interesting subject matter! And she ventured further with a new musical, Wuthering Heights, in 2015. She also recently staged The Magic Flute, taking on Opera. She has also been wardrobe mistress for a few of the WAOS productions. Having just finished directing South Pacific for WWAOS, she has enjoyed every minute of making Kiss Me, Kate come to life, backed by a brilliant creative team: not just one Musical Director, but two, Laura Brown and Beth Reeve, WAOS’s in house-choreographer, Hannah Dare, and a whole bevy of friends working quietly (most of the time) in the background to make this production happen. Enjoy the show!

Musical Director – Laura Brown Laura was educated at Wells Cathedral School, Sidney Sussex college Cambridge and the University of Illinois USA. She has been a freelance musician all her life, teaching piano, voice, accompanying, playing organ and conducting choirs including Octavian Singers in Woking. Over the years she has directed Fiddler On The Roof, La

Traviata, Tosca, Dido & Aeneas, Chicago, West Side Story, Joseph, and a revue on the life of Harry Warren. Last year she joined forces with Martine and WAOS to put on The Magic Flute, here at the Rhoda McGaw, which she says “was great fun”! Laura is very much enjoying catching up with old friends from then and meeting new members of WAOS, and is loving the music of Cole Porter!

Musical Director – Elizabeth Reeve Beth has been passionate about theatre for as long as she can remember. She performed in pantomimes and at national ballet competitions from the age of 6 and at 12 she realised a passion for singing. Beth joined the National Youth Choir of Great Britain which began her singing career. After touring the most prestigious performance spaces and becoming an established vocalist, Beth embarked on a drama degree and later went on to study classical vocals under the tutorship of the Royal College of Music. Since then she has enjoyed establishing a teaching career through which she has assisted and prepared students for drama school at Mountview, Arts Ed, Trinity Laban, Royal Scottish and GSA. Her speciality is also in West End audition preparation, student credits include; Nala in The Lion King, Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cosette in Les Misérables. Beth has directed at Youth Theatre level but this is her debut in Amateur Dramatics and she has thoroughly enjoyed working with Martine, Laura and the cast! She would like to wish you all the best for the show.

Choreographer – Hannah Dare Hannah has been a member of WAOS since 2013 and, whilst usually she waves around and dances in the background, she is delighted and thankful for being given the opportunity to work with Martine, Laura and Beth as choreographer for Kiss Me, Kate. It certainly makes a change from her day job as a Physics teacher!

Jumping between the Renaissance setting of the Shrew and the 1940s setting of back stage has produced a range of challenges and Hannah would first and foremost like to thank the amazing cast for all the effort they have put into mastering all the tough dance moves she's thrown at them over the past few months. She especially wants to thank them for their patience and commitment (and for interpreting random shouts of 'starfish', 'balancé' and 'gospel' for the moves they were actually intended to be!). They really have worked their (dance) socks off and she hopes you enjoy the show.

In past productions Hannah has been Dance Captain for The Drowsy Chaperone, Isabella in Wuthering Heights and, most recently, Jane in Pride & Prejudice The Musical.

Act 1 Synopsis It is 1948, and at the Ford Theatre in Baltimore, a theatre company is preparing for the opening night of a new musical based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. They are led by impresario Fred Graham who is not only directing and producing the show, but also starring as the romantic lead Petruchio. Controversially he has hired his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi to perform opposite him as the titular ‘shrew’, Katherine. Both have seemingly moved on, with Fred having an affair with the young actress Lois Lane, who is playing Katherine’s sister Bianca, and Lilli recently engaged to war veteran General Harrison Howell. The estranged couple fight constantly, but as they reminisce together in their dressing room, it becomes clear that they still have feelings for each other. Meanwhile Lois’s other love interest Bill Calhoun, who plays the role of Lucentio, has got into a spot of trouble while gambling with a gangland boss, and has signed an IOU for $10,000, using Fred’s name instead of his own. When two gangsters show up at the theatre to collect the debt from Fred he claims to have never signed the IOU and so they leave. When a bouquet of flowers from Fred is delivered to Lilli’s dressing room, she realises that she is still deeply in love with him. Little does she know that the flowers were in fact intended for Lois. The performance of The Taming of the Shrew begins and seems to be running smoothly. However, after reading the gift card that came with the flowers, Lilli realises her mistake and storms onstage to confront Fred. The rest of the cast try and keep the play going as they fight each other in character, ending with Fred violently spanking Lilli. Offstage Lilli threatens to leave the show, but when the gangsters return, Fred tells them that he’ll only be able to pay them if the show is a success, and that it certainly won’t be if Lilli leaves. The gangsters threaten Lilli at gunpoint and decide to chaperone her throughout the rest of the performance to ensure she doesn’t get away. To this end, they put on costumes and try to blend in with the members of the ensemble as Katherine and Petruchio are married onstage.

Act 2 Synopsis

As the play restarts, General Harrison Howell arrives looking for Lilli. He and Lois recognise each other as former lovers, which upsets Bill when he overhears them talking. Lois promises Bill that she’s always faithful to him, in her own way. Howell refuses to believe Lilli’s protestations about the gangsters, and tells her that he has moved their wedding forward to tomorrow afternoon. The gangsters in turn, discover that their boss has been killed and that the IOU is therefore void. With no reason to stay, Lilli leaves the theatre. The gangsters, who by now are quite enjoying themselves, perform an impromptu tribute to Shakespeare as Fred tries to work out how to continue the show without Lilli. As the curtain goes up on the final scene, with everybody expecting an understudy to be playing the part of Katherine, Lilli returns and delivers her final monologue declaring her love for and submission to Petruchio. With the lines between their onstage and offstage personas blurring, Lilli/Katherine and Fred/Petruchio kiss.

Rehearsals

Cast

Fred Graham / Petruchio Tim Beasley Lilli Vanessi / Katherine Melanie Morrisey Bill Calhoun / Lucentio Matt Gardner Lois Lane / Bianca Sam Bottle Flynt / Gremio John Moody Riley / Hortensio Patrick Coad Hattie Nicki Farrar Paulie Samantha Moylan-Heydt General Harrison Howell Mike Bartlett Harry Trevor / Baptista Minola Brian Beamish Gangster 1 Brian Higgs Gangster 2 Peter Howitt Bobby Elizabeth Loveder Pops Roger Thomas Driver to General Howell Sue Gaastra Aide to General Howell Beth Flitton Aide to General Howell Sonia Huntley-Robertson Dance Captain Sharon Forsyth Dancer Hannah Dare Dancer Cathy Chappell Dancer Sylvie Petersen Wardrobe Mistress Shona Wildman Nathaniel Graham Kirby-Smith Gregory Franek Mrozek Philip Keith White Haberdasher / Taxi Driver Andy Hall

Production Team Director Martine Young Musical Directors Laura Brown and Elizabeth Reeve Choreographer Hannah Dare Production Manager Sue Gaastra Director’s Assistant Emily Noel-Tod Stage Manager Lisa Young Deputy Stage Manager Victoria Percival Assistant Stage Manager Mike Griffiths Crew Maria Cockell, Tracey Gillard, Adam

Graystone, Mike Griffiths, Chris Ireland, Clive Moon, Victoria Percival, Sam Sharpe, Jane Ward and Lisa Young

Sound Oscar Thompson [Show Works] Lighting Mark Cox Set Design Mike Bartlett Set Build Mike Bartlett, Mike Griffiths and Cast Set Painting Lorraine Landon and Cast Properties Gillian Freeman and Tracey Gillard Wardrobe [from WAOS] Tasha Bennett, Cathy Chappell and Martine Young Make-Up Lynda Lawrence Front of House Manager Gillian Freeman Front of House Chris Alderton, Jackie Alderton, Tasha

Bennett, Caroline Croucher, Gillian Freeman, Alex Haben, Julie Kimnell, Geoff Morris, Anya Mrozek, Ricky Powell, June Saich, Peter Saich, John Tanner, Vale Tanner, Karen Woodland and Alan Wyle

Box Office Keith White and Lisa Young Front of House Display Martine Young Art, Photography & Programme Lisa Young Rehearsal Pianists Julie Kimnell and Jonathan Rhodes-Smith Webmaster Lisa Young

Musicians Keyboard Jonathan Rhodes-Smith Percussion Derek Vickers Double Bass Jonathan Williams Flute Alison Hoyland

Sax and Clarinet Michael Grant Trumpet Paul Harris Trombone Nick Kershaw French Horn Lisa Ridgway

Act One

Scene 1 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore Another Op’nin’, Another Show

Scene 2 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore

Why Can’t You Behave?

Scene 3 – Fred and Lilli’ dressing rooms Wunderbar So In Love

Scene 4 – On the way to Padua

We Open In Venice

Scene 5 – A Square in Padua Tom, Dick or Harry

I’ve Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua I Hate Men

Were Thine That Special Face

Scene 6 – Fred and Lilli’ Dressing Rooms

Scene 7 – Fred and Lilli’ Dressing Rooms

Scene 8 – A Square in Padua I Sing Of Love

Scene 9 – A Square in Padua

Kiss Me, Kate

Act Two

Scene 1 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore Too Darn Hot

Scene 2 – On the stage at the Ford Theatre in Baltimore

Scene 3 – Inside Petruchio’s House Where Is The Life That Late I Led?

Scene 4 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore

Always True To You In My Fashion

Scene 5 – Fred and Lilli’ Dressing Rooms From This Moment On

Scene 6 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore

Bianca So in Love’ (Reprise)

Scene 7 – Backstage of the Ford Theatre in Baltimore

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Scene 8 – A Square in Padua I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple

Kiss Me, Kate (Reprise)

Fred Graham / Petruchio – Tim Beasley Tim is delighted to join WAOS again for their latest production and would like to thank Martine, Laura and Beth for the chance to play a great role in Fred. Kiss Me, Kate is Tim's third show with WAOS, after last year's premiere of Pride & Prejudice The Musical and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Tim has really enjoyed Cole Porter's fantastic music and Fred's twist on Shakespeare, which has been a very different challenge to Mr Darcy. Particular thanks are due to his long-suffering wife, who has had to put up with listening to Shakespearean monologues and the occasional Ed Balls-like waltz around the living room.

Lilli Vanessi / Katherine – Melanie Morrisey Melanie has been acting for over 20 years and trained at The Poor School. In between tutoring and looking after young children, Mel regularly performs in local theatre groups. She has played the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone, Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Adelaide in Guys And Dolls (with WWAOS), the title role in Edwin Drood and Little Red Riding Hood in Into

The Woods, 4th Wall, Madison May in Bugsy Malone, Mistress Ford in Merry Wives Of Windsor at the Minack Theatre, as well as many other professional theatre credits. Professionally, Mel has been cast member in the acclaimed News Revue at the Canal Café Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe, on a huge number of pantomime and TIE tours and in films such as Fate and Fortune premiered at the Curzon Theatre. Whilst Mel’s first love is acting, she loves to sing and is really pleased to be able to combine Shakespeare with musical theatre in this production. Melanie loves working with the WAOS family and is looking forward to directing the fundraiser in September.

Bill Calhoun / Lucentio – Matt Gardner Matt returns to WAOS having made his regional debut with the society in November 2016 as Mr Wickham in Pride & Prejudice The Musical. Matt has always had a passion for the stage, and from an early age was involved in school productions and concerts, with his first principal role as Joseph in Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the age of 13. Having studied Dance at Northumbria University Matt briefly worked as a professional dancer and toured with Northern Youth Dance Company. In recent years, while working as an accountant Matt has appeared in numerous productions in various roles most memorably Ren in Footloose (for Guiseley Amateurs, February 2016), Leo Bloom in The Producers (for Keighley Amateurs, October 2015) and Bobby Child in Crazy For You (for Guiseley Amateurs, February 2015). Matt is delighted to be working with WAOS again and looks forward to future outings with the society.

Lois Lane / Bianca – Sam Bottle After a ten year absence from WAOS Sam re-joined the company for Pride & Prejudice The Musical. In her fifteen years of amateur dramatics Sam has played many roles. Some of her favourites include Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes plus Hodel and Chava in two separate performances of Fiddler On The Roof, the latter being her first ever show and role. When not performing, Sam works as a Learning Activities Assistant for Historic Royal Palaces, a Teaching Assistant specialising in Special Educational Needs and can also be found teaching Performing Arts and working as a Supporting Artist for film and television. Sam would like to thank her family and friends for their never ending love and support over the years and hopes you enjoy this performance of Kiss Me, Kate as much as she has enjoyed rehearsing for it.

Flynt / Gremio – John Moody John Moody is excited to be back with WAOS, having most recently been part of the chorus for the last show Pride & Prejudice The Musical. He was also a part of WAOS shows back in 2002, in Guys And Dolls and 2004 in Jack The Ripper. He is enjoying the challenge and fun of being part of a musical also expanding his range in singing and dance. John has trained in method acting and enjoys taking classes in

London. Outside of performance, John has a strong passion for self-development and learning and is looking to do new things in the future such public speaking and supporting others that coach people. He has really enjoyed working with the cast to create this production of Kiss Me, Kate and hopes the audience will enjoy the musical.

Riley / Hortensio – Patrick Coad Patrick's first steps in the world of musical theatre were nearly 20 years ago, when he was pleased to take on the role of Jesus in Godspell, at home in Cornwall. Most recently he was pleased to take on the role of Herod in JCS, back in Cornwall. With WAOS Patrick has enjoyed roles including John Tallentire in The Hired Man, Vernon Hines in The Pajama Game, Noah in The Children Of Eden, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and

Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone, amongst others. Patrick hopes you enjoy the show as much as the cast have enjoyed rehearsals.

Hattie – Nicki Farrar Singing and dancing have been part of Nicki’s life since she was 3 years old when she started ballroom dancing and taking part in junior talent shows. A fan of musical theatre for many years, Nicki reignited her passion for being on stage by joining WAOS in 2014 for their production of Oliver! This was followed by performances in the

chorus of Wuthering Heights and Sweeney Todd and she played the role of Trix in The Drowsy Chaperone. Nicki is delighted to be opening the show as Hattie in this production.

Paulie – Sam Moylan-Heydt Sam has been with WAOS a while now and shows no sign of going anywhere. She brings masses of passion to everything she does. Offstage and on. By day a Corporate Social Responsibility Manager she manages to find a strangely large number of occasions on which she can dress up. By night Sam is a committed couch potato and thespian. Most recently, she strutted the boards as Mrs Bennett in WAOS’s Pride & Prejudice The Musical, a part that played to her huge energy. Lucky enough to be cast as Paulie, a part written for a man, she will, as Meghan Trainor said, be “all about that bass”. Recently back from volunteering in Malawi she hopes she avoided catching anything that will adversely affect her performance.

General Harrison Howell – Mike Bartlett Mike is pleased to return to the stage with WAOS for the first time in several years, having previously played the lead in Guys And Dolls, The Slipper And The Rose as well as other principal roles. Mike has also had some great roles with other local societies over the years. In between learning his lines, he somehow manages to fit in the set construction!

Harry Trevor/Baptista Minola – Brian Beamish Brian is looking forward to his role as Baptista, Father of Katherine and Bianca and to the wonderful Cole Porter music score. He has enjoyed the buzz and atmosphere at rehearsals. His previous appearances with Woking Operatic have been in Jack The Ripper, Annie Get Your Gun, The Magic Flute and Oliver!

Gangster 1 – Brian Higgs Brian has been involved in the world of amateur theatre for some 16 years and wishes he had started earlier. However since then he has played a variety of roles with Surrey theatre groups and has also been involved in film work and professional stage productions over the years. He loves musicals and has been in productions such as Fiddler On The Roof, The Wizard Of Oz, Guys And Dolls, Oklahoma! and Oliver! 2016 was a very busy year for Brian, with parts in WAOS’s musical comedy The

Drowsy Chaperone as well as the play The Darling Buds Of May and a more dramatic role as HG Wells in War Of The Worlds. He is also very proud of being in WAOS’s premiere of Pride & Prejudice The Musical which was quickly followed by South Pacific (for WWAOS), replacing a sick cast member. He is hoping for a less frantic year in 2017 but is very pleased to have been chosen to play a role he has been hoping to play for some years, that of gangster one in Kiss Me, Kate. Brian hopes that you will enjoy the show as much has he will.

Gangster 2 – Peter Howitt Peter is now in his seventh year of being a member of WAOS and has enjoyed being part of many productions, the first being in The Hired Man in 2011. He went on to play Luther Billis in South Pacific, Moonface Martin in Anything Goes, Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!, Mr Sowerberry in Oliver! and the butler Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone. Peter has also performed four 24-hour musicals with the

company Fasten Your Seatbelts, playing lead roles as Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly! He is also a member of SADS, performing and directing plays and pantomimes with the group and is now looking forward to teaming up as a gangster in this fun and exciting production of Kiss Me, Kate.

Bobby Elizabeth Loveder

Pops Roger Thomas

Driver to Gen. Howell Sue Gaastra

Dance Captain Sharon Forsyth

Dancer Hannah Dare

Dancer Cathy Chappell

Dancer Sylvie Petersen

Wardrobe Mistress Shona Wildman

Aide to Gen. Howell Beth Flitton

Aide to Gen. Howell Sonia Huntley-Robertson

Nathaniel Graham Kirby-Smith

Gregory Franek Mrozek

Philip Keith White

Haberdasher Andy Hall

Join us onstage for our next show Carousel

Find out more at our Introduction Evening You are openly invited to attend our introduction evening for our next show Carousel. Here you will meet our director Lorraine Landon. She will give you her vision and character breakdown of the next show as well as audition pieces and key dates. It is a relaxed informal evening open to all, no matter what your stage experience is. We look forwarding to seeing you! When: Monday 15th May 2017 at 7:45pm Where: Old Woking Community Centre

Sundridge Road Woking, Surrey GU22 9AT

WAOS Productions 1974 – 2016

1974 The Boy Friend 1975 Bless The Bride 1976 White Horse Inn / The Gondoliers 1977 Orpheus In The Underworld / Oklahoma! 1978 The Merry Widow / The Geisha 1979 The Gypsy Baron / Ruddigore 1980 Lilac Time / The Desert Song 1981 Free As Air / Bitter Sweet 1982 Merrie England / Carousel 1983 Summer Song / My Fair Lady 1984 The Gipsy Princess / Brigadoon 1985 The Pajama Game / Show Boat 1986 Princess Ida / The Rebel Maid 1987 Viva Mexico / No, No, Nanette 1988 Die Fledermaus / Calamity Jane 1989 Kismet / The Yeomen Of The Guard 1990 Fiddler On The Roof / Half A Sixpence 1991 Oklahoma! / The Merry Widow 1992 Hello Dolly! / The Pirates Of Penzance 1993 Blitz! * / Camelot 1994 Carousel / Lilac Time 1995 Charlie Girl / The Mikado * 1996 Orpheus In The Underworld / The Music Man 1997 Kiss Me, Kate / Gigi * 1998 Brigadoon / Peg O’ My Heart 1999 Anything Goes / Annie Get Your Gun 2000 In The Spotlight / South Pacific † 2001 Robert And Elizabeth / My Fair Lady 2002 Guys And Dolls / Fiddler On The Roof † 2003 A Music Hall Extravaganza / How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying 2004 Oklahoma! / Jack The Ripper *† 2005 Calamity Jane †‡ / Little Shop Of Horrors 2006 Bye Bye Birdie / The Slipper and The Rose 2007 The Boy Friend / Carousel 2008 Moll Flanders † / Salad Days 2009 Into The Woods * / Songs That Won The War/Blitz! 2010 The Hired Man * / South Pacific 2011 The Pajama Game / The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas 2012 Bugsy Malone / The Pirates of Penzance 2013 Children of Eden † / Anything Goes 2014 Oklahoma! / Oliver! 2015 Wuthering Heights / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street *† 2016 The Magic Flute / The Drowsy Chaperone / Pride & Prejudice The Musical

* NODA Award Winning Production † NODA Award Other Than Production

‡ NODA Programme Competition National Winner

Life Member In recognition of her long association with Woking Amateur Operatic Society and her work performed on the Society’s behalf, we are pleased to acknowledge our life member:

Mrs Peggy Prosser

Patrons of the Society

The support of the following patrons of the Society is gratefully acknowledged:

Mrs T Amor

Mr & Mrs Brown

Mrs J Grayson

Mrs P Knight

Mrs L Lawrence

Mr & Mrs Norris

Mr R Sling

Mr & Mrs Wellstead

Being a patron means that financial support can be given by those who wish to be involved with the society, but who might be unable to spare the time to help in a more active manner. For an annual subscription of £20, patrons receive:

advance booking facilities recognition in each show programme a complimentary copy of the Society newsletter Top Notes a complimentary programme when buying tickets for a show

If you would like to become a patron, please send your name, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number, along with your remittance, to: Sue Gaastra, 18 Hill Close, Horsell, Woking, Surrey, GU21 4TE or by e-mail to membership@waos.info

During the interval, you will have a chance to enter our free draw to win 2 free tickets to our next show Carousel!

The winner of the Kiss Me, Kate ticket draw is:

J. Pearce