Issue No. 44
March 2005
Roger Writes decided to see if our show was worthy of being awarded the honour of When you are on stage in this year’s Gang Show, you will wearing the GS emblem. I most certainly be wearing the famed Gang Show Red then wrote to the London Necker. gang Show Committee Every Gang Show wears this Red Necker when on stage, but and requested that a member of this very important there is something different about each Gang Show’s committee travel to DunNecker. Do you know what it is? Of course, it’s the gold dee to judge our next GS embossed Gang Show emblem worn on the back of the production. Thus, the necker! 1972 Gang Show had a The emblem is made up of a gold GS (for Gang Show) with VIP visitor-a Mr Geoff Birch-(a great friend of Ralph’s) to pass judgement on a the name of the city associated with the show, running performance of the Dundee Show and see if we came up to through the initials. Thus, our Gang’s emblem has a gold the high standard of the London show. GS with Dundee through it. Have a look at it the next time you are wearing your Red Necker. It was all a bit nerve racking, but at the end of the show, Geoff, who I became great friends with, tipped me a wink to What is the reason for this? Well, Gang Show is part of a signal all was well! very big Gang Show Family connected with Scouting throughout the world. If you visit a show and see someone And so it proved to be! Dundee Gang Show could join the wearing a red necker, then all you have to do is look at the back of it to see where that person comes from! And, if it’s elite Gang Show family and proudly wear the gold GS emblem! It was great news! To this day, we still have to a Gang Show you are acquainted with, you can then introduce yourself and have a friendly chat with that person! I’ve keep up the high standard of entertainment in the Dundee show, because if the quality of the show falls, then we risk done this on many an occasion! the GS emblem being “taken away”. (Hopefully, this will never happen!) But, not every Gang Show is allowed to wear this emblem. Ralph Reader, the man who started the shows, stipulated that Gang Shows performing outside London must come up to In my 39 years connected with Dundee Gang Show I have the high standard of entertainment and presentation style of visited many shows throughout the country. I have seen the London Gang Show. If a show fitted this category, they shows in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Stirling, Glasgow, were awarded the emblem and allowed to wear it on their Inverness, Newcastle, Northampton, Blackpool, London, neckers. Bangor (Northern Ireland), and Amsterdam (Holland). Yeah, I’ve travelled around quite a bit! So how did Dundee go about getting the GS emblem? In 1971, Dundee GS ...Continued on Page 2 Hello Gang!
Ticket Talk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Total:
Sold 562 326 288 239 355 468 2238(51%)
Unsold 170 406 444 493 377 264 2154(49%)
If you know anyone who hasn’t yet got their tickets, chase them up! Remember we’ve only got the tickets for another few weeks, after that you have to go to the box office to get your tickets.
If you’ve bought tickets on credit, then please pay for As you can see we’re over half way to having a full them within the next few weeks. We need money in house every night! But remember, we’ve only 28 days the bank to pay the bills– the show costs over £15,000 to sell 2154 tickets so the work isn’t over yet! to stage!