One of the recent responsibilities I have taken on with great pride is that of Treasurer of Great Bealings Church. You’ll probably find this slightly incongruous with the Rocky Horror Show, please bear with me!
The Church’s outgoing treasurer of 17 years, Roger Roseboom, is a delightfully larger than life character who continues to pursue his gifted interest in youth theatre and amateur dramatics. Roger and I have become chums during the handover process. After he discovered that I had spent the majority of my school days either in the orchestra pit or on stage (rather than on the Rugby field) I immediately fell prey to Roger’s casting.When he heard we’d sent our two girls to Woodbridge School, he seized the opportunity to co-opt me onto the cast of The Woodbridge Fringe Uncut which he and his wife Margaret are producing under, describing their production company as EP Produtions “Embarassing Parent Productions” Say no more!
So what is this production all about? First it is in aid of the charity SCARC (Suffolk Communication Aids Resource Centre) which is based at the Thomas Wolsey School in Ipswich. The aim is to raise as much money as possible for electronic equipment to enable severely disabled young people to communicate, possibly for the first time!
The idea for the show grew out of another charity auction event in which generous Woodbridge School parents ‘won’ the Seckford Theatre for a day. I shall be one of nearly forty fellow parents in tow as a cast, there to entertain you, the audience, with gems from Sister Act 1 and 2 (rocking nuns to get the feet tapping); she also has Beautiful Girls from Sondheim’s Follies,The Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (audience participation and appropriate costumes most welcome…); with comedy sketches and solo songs
I’ve deliberately not given you much notice of the event. By no means do I have a major role. I’m performing in the 4 Yorkshiremen in the sketch below (yorkshire accents for a born and bred South African particularly challenging) and also am Riff in the Rocky Horror Picture show – Let’s do the Time Warp Again! which involves choreography something which takes me far out of my comfort zone. All I can say is that I do it for a bit of fun, and for charity! So please support this worthy event if you have nothing planned this Saturday night.
The performance is on Saturday 3rd December 2011 at 730pm at the Seckford Theatre. You can book tickets, which are £10 each, by following this link
