Christmas 2007

This years Christmas concert took us to the gambling dens of New York for the Damon Runyon classic Guys and Dolls.

Deep in the heart of New York City is the village of Broadway.  There they play a dice game rather charmingly called ‘craps’.  Money has been known to change hands.  As this game is illegal it moves from place to place or ‘floats’ especially when the police are unwilling to turn a blind eye or ‘the heat is on’.  This gives the ‘promoter’ of this crap game a hard time finding a ‘spot’ to carry on his business.

With a combination of the original stage musical and lots of jokes added by the director and cast we had a lot of fun putting it together.  The audience were greeted by the colourful and glittering set.  Rope lights were used to recreate the neon signs of Broadway.  Dancing girls and other signs completed the backdrop. 

We started with a number arranged by Ms Anderson and sang by Alex Spink, Josh Spink and Sean O Regan.  What a great start we never had such singing.  The first scene introduces the cast of characters.  The boys played by Sean O Sullivan (who was also the script editor) and another experienced performer Robert Markham who gave us the narrative with Brian O Rourke playing the now honest cop in his own sweet way.  Then we had Killian O Dwyer the first of the principles and a really outstanding performance.  He just looked so right in the part and his scenes with Megan his moll were really funny.

The main story is a love story between the big gambler played by an excellent Daragh Mathews and the very believable Alison Kavanagh as The Mission Doll.  They just lit up the stage.  They worked so hard it was faultless on the night.

Everybody was just great from the nasty Teirnan Brenans ‘Big Jule’ to the girls of the mission and The General who was Sabrina Laatz on the first night at very short notice but luckily Mollie Kennedy recovered to do the role the second night.

Too many people to mention them all but Jen Preston’s singing has to be praised.  The gangsters all did really well Seibhe Little, Cassie Twomey and Donnachadh Gethins all getting their first big parts and Luke Terret on great form.

CAST
Sarah Brown	Alison Kavanagh
Miss Adelaide	Megan Keena
Sky Masterson	Daragh Mathews
Nathan Detroit	Killian O Dwyer
Nicely Nicely Johnson	Sean O Sullivan
Benny Southstreet	Robert Markham
Faith	Hannah Hayes
Hope	Hannah Spink
Charity	Sabrina Laatz
Abernathy	Emily Kearns
Agatha	Amy Kingston
Lt. Branigan	Brian O Rourke
General Cartwright	Mollie Kennedy
Harry the Horse	Seibhe Little
Big Jule	Tiernan Brenan
Angie The Ox	Jack Lynch
Yosemite Sam	Luke Terrett
Hannah	Jessica Scandrett
Betty	Evangeline Mills
Anarchy Al	Donnachadh Gethins
English Bill	Cassie Twomey
Miss Lucy	Jen Preston
Annie	Laura McPadden
Hot Box Girls	Kaite Bourgeois, Misaki Seto
Hot Box Chorus	Jess Scandrett, Amy Myers, Evangeline Mills, Rosa Finn, Sophie Grantz
Rusty Charlie	Sean O Regan
Jimmy	Meg O Hanlon
Liver Lips Louie	Matthew Wilson
Broadway Singers	Alex Spink, Josh Spink
CREW
Director	Neil Bronks
Musical Director	Ms Ann Anderson
Producer	Stefanie Kingston
Assistant Director	Hannah Hayes
Script Editor	Sean O Sullivan
Choreography	Kaite Bourgeois
Lighting Scenery	Callie Waters, Killian Dwyer Tom Campbell-Dick
Scenery	Ms O Regan Laura Van Coppenhagen, Ellen Andrew Rebecca O Keeffe, Jane Rinn
ASM	Stefanie Kingston
Lights	Loughlin Gethins, Jesse Shanagher
Make Up	Kate Colbert, Rebecca O Keeffe
Curtains	Grainne Connolly, Paige Crosbie, Steph Malbasha
Sound	Kate Murray, Vicky Wilson
MOC	Jeff Byrne, Stefanie Kingston