Kiss Me Kate
7th - 14th November 1987
Photographs by John Tustin
| Production Officials | |
|---|---|
| Director | Audrey H. McL. Raistrick |
| Musical Director | Jessie Whittaker |
| Choreographer | Glenys E. Collinson |
| Cast | |
| Fred/Petruchio | David Kellie |
| Lilli/Katherine | Margaret Steel |
| Lois/Bianca | Gillian Pollitt |
| Bill/Lucentio | Adrian Pollitt |
| Harry/Baptista | Alec Greaves |
| Hattie | Sylvia Fishwick |
| Gremio | David Witt |
| Hortensio | Colin Crompton |
| 1st Gangster | Bill Steel |
| 2nd Gangster | Ron Finney |
| Harrison Howell | Ernest E. Dawson |
| Ralph | Wilf Lea |
| Paul | Graham Cohen |
| Stage doorman | Andrew Turton |
Company |
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| Irene Bowers, Aileen Bramwell, Rebecca Broadhead, Claire Clarkson, Lucy Finney, Hazel Gray, Barbara Haslam, Zoe Hodgkinson, Mary Lea, Jean Maden, Barbara Martin, Gay O'Donnell, Dorothy Pitfield, Helen Popplewell, Mary Pycroft, Tracey Rollinson, Emma Steel, Fiona Steel, Christine Taylor, Jane Thornton, Betty Towler, Jean Unsworth, Val Walmsley, Christina Welch, Nicola Wesley, Norma Wilcock, Ruth Wilcock, Elizabeth Williams, Janet Witt, Adrienne Wormald, Dorothy Yardley, Norman Bowers, Stanley Collinson, Alex Topp, Maurice Windsor | |
Bolton Evening News Review
Walmsley Church Amateurs have a long and distinguished reputation - well earned if their current offering is anything to go by.
The society opened on Saturday for a seven night run of Kiss Me Kate at the community hall in Blackburn Road, Egerton. The wonderful music and lyrics of Cole Porter provide a tremendous vehicle upon which this play within a play is carried. It is the story of an American theatre group rehearsing for Taming of the Shrew with all its love tangles on and off the stage.
David Kellie playing Fred Graham and Margaret Steel as the untamable Lilli Vanessi gave superb performances. Both of their strong and appealing voices packed a punch in songs like Wunderbar, I Hate Men and Where Is The Life That Late I led.
There were as able performances from Gillian Pollitt as Lois Lane and Adrian Pollitt as Bill Calhoun with an appealing rendition of Another Opening Another Show by Sylvia Fishwick as Hattie.
The costumes for the society's 96th production were excellent, many of them having been hired from the Royal Shakespeare Company. They looked really good and well worth the hire charges.
Christine Roberts.
The society opened on Saturday for a seven night run of Kiss Me Kate at the community hall in Blackburn Road, Egerton. The wonderful music and lyrics of Cole Porter provide a tremendous vehicle upon which this play within a play is carried. It is the story of an American theatre group rehearsing for Taming of the Shrew with all its love tangles on and off the stage.
David Kellie playing Fred Graham and Margaret Steel as the untamable Lilli Vanessi gave superb performances. Both of their strong and appealing voices packed a punch in songs like Wunderbar, I Hate Men and Where Is The Life That Late I led.
There were as able performances from Gillian Pollitt as Lois Lane and Adrian Pollitt as Bill Calhoun with an appealing rendition of Another Opening Another Show by Sylvia Fishwick as Hattie.
The costumes for the society's 96th production were excellent, many of them having been hired from the Royal Shakespeare Company. They looked really good and well worth the hire charges.
Christine Roberts.
