Batheaston Church Hall, Northend Wednesday 27th June - Saturday 30th June 2012
ENCORE
NORTHENDERS
The award-winning ENCORE NORTHENDERS THEATRE COMPANY proudly presents
Book, Music and Lyrics by THE HEATHER BROTHERS An amateur production by arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LIMITED Producer GREG VERE Choreography LESLEY MOODIE
Artistic Director MARK SELLICK
Lighting and Sound Design ANDREW WHITING
Musical Director HARRY BURT
Costume and Wardrobe ANITA UNWIN
Publicity Material MARK SELLICK
Please be advised that due to copyright restrictions and for the safety of actors on stage, the use of flash photography and/or video and audio recording equipment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Flashing lights (including strobe lighting) and pyrotechnics will be used throughout this performance. Should you have any concerns, please notify a member of the front of house team.
A Slice of Saturday Night is entered for the 2012 Rose Bowl Awards for Amateur Drama and Music
Each year, Dorothy House Hospice Care supports around 1,500 families affected by cancer, motor neurone disease and other life threatening conditions. It is the major charity providing free specialist nursing care at home for people with life-threatening illness over a 700-square-mile area including Bath, north and west Wiltshire and north east Somerset. Most of our care is provided in people’s own homes, as that is where the majority of our patients prefer to be. Short-term care, out-patient and day patient services are provided at the hospice in Winsley, near Bath. To make sure patients have the best possible quality of life, pain and symptom relief, respite for carers, emotional and spiritual support, and day patients sessions are all provided free of charge. Patients are looked after from a wide geographical area – Bath, north/west Wiltshire and parts of Somerset. Providing such a comprehensive service is costly and Dorothy House Hospice Care receives only about 30 per cent of its funding from the NHS.
No funding is received from Macmillan Cancer Support or other national charities. Most specialist nursing care in patients’ homes is funded by Dorothy House. This year, after NHS funding, more than £3 million – or £7,000 a day – must be raised to continue to provide services at the current level. The vast majority of the hospice’s expenditure – 92 per cent – goes on patient care. Of that, 85 per cent is spent directly on patient services, with a further 7 per cent going on education, which indirectly benefits patients by training Dorothy House staff and other health care professionals. The hospice depends on the generosity of local people to make donations, hold events, take part in sponsored challenges, support the charity shops or leave a gift in their will. For more information about Dorothy House visit the website – www.dorothyhouse.co.uk
FOR ENCORE NORTHENDERS
PRODUCER’S WELCOME It seems very strange to me that I am welcoming you to the first main musical production by Encore that I myself haven’t directed. However, that doesn’t diminish the deep sense of pride I have for the cast, band and crew who have worked hard and long to make A Slice of Saturday Night one of the best shows I feel Encore have presented over the past seven years.
Chairman David Lavington Vice-Chairman/Producer Greg Vere Treasurer Brin Johnson Secretary Kelly Russell Artistic Director Mark Sellick Technical Manager James Sellick Committee Members Tim Bond Caroline Frances-King Amy Gulliford Julie Russell Brian Kallender Nathan Marshall Andrew Whiting Patrons Joan Davis Jeremy Guscott Peter King Andrew Lincoln Sarah Swords Clare Teal Will Thorp
When, under doctor’s orders, it was suggested to me that I cut down the amount of time I put into the group, along with the other members of Encore’s committee we decided to ask Mark if he would be interested in taking over as Artistic Director, allowing me to still maintain my presence within the company as Producer without overstretching my health. I have, over the last couple of years, had tremendous help from some other members of the group directing some of our cabaret works and pantomimes. Graham and Helen Avent, Petra Schofield and Carole Bond have been incredibly helpful at times when I was in difficulties, and for that I am deeply grateful, however I knew that with their home and work commitments it would have been unfair of me, and indeed the committee, to ask any of them to take such a major role going forward. So in December of last year, Mark presented his first production in his new role, our dinner cabaret A Taste of Music, which was highly acclaimed by many of our supporters as one of the most entertaining productions we have presented. Watching him through the rehearsal period for that show, and now for A Slice of Saturday Night, his first major musical, it has left us all in no doubt that Encore is in very safe hands. Having more time on my own hands has enabled me to write, again in collaboration with Graham, Encore’s next pantomime Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I look forward to welcoming you here again when we present the show in late January and early February 2013. So it is with great pleasure that I welcome you all here tonight. I hope you will enjoy A Slice of Saturday Night as much as I have, and as you will see for yourself, the whole production cast and crew have, throughout rehearsals and putting it all together. Many thanks for your continued support, and I hope you have a great time at the Club A Go-Go this evening!
GREG VERE Producer
Ticket information to be announced. Why not leave your contact details with a member of our front of house team tonight and qualify for special “early bird” discounts!
The award winning Encore Northenders’ next pantomime, Goldilocks and the Three Bears is kindly sponsored by
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Unless you were in a psychedelic rock band or ensconced in the hedonistic cultural vortex that was the hippy movement, the Swinging Sixties were memorable. Even for those poor drug-addled souls, whose recreational bingeing on free love and LSD rinsed their brains of the decade, the sixties meant something. They were the true post-War decade, where youth culture was liberated from wartime hardship and the prim attitudes, reminiscent of the Victorian Era, that imposed a generational superiority as the status quo. If fifties rock ‘n’ roll helped the nation’s youths jive away memories of air raids and staid social conventions, the sixties expanded on it, bringing counterculture to the fore as society took a deep breath and modernised once again. This was the decade that the death penalty was abolished. Harold Wilson became Labour prime minister. The Race Relations Act was introduced. Colour televisions transformed the living rooms of those fortunate enough to own one. The nation’s motorways were all given a national speed limit of 70 miles per hour, however Britain was speeding up not slowing down. The decade danced to The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. British rock claimed the world in what was like a high volume homage to the days of the British Empire. In football, the British enjoyed an influence towards the end of the decade. England won the world cup in July 1966. The years that followed saw Glasgow Celtic and Manchester United win the European Cup. Skirts got shorter. Boots got taller. Music got louder. A decade of awakening, of reinvention, but Britain was still Britain at heart, and that meant awkward moments in the company of our continental neighbours.
Politics were taking on an increasingly European dimension. The European Common Market sired a great number of economic opportunities. But Britain has always guarded her sovereignty with a degree of suspicion. Britain become known as the awkward partner, a name that has stuck to this day. The nation’s effort to join the ECM, founded by the 1957 Treaty Of Rome, was vetoed by French President Charles De Gaulle on 14th January 1963, and once again in 1967. Britain, accused of lacking commitment, was forced to wait until 1st January 1973 before joining Italy and Denmark in a nine-state political community. While it wasn’t until the seventies that Britain became explicitly involved with the European Community, UK politics had taken on an increasingly European dimension in the sixties. At home, the agenda was dominated by social reform, with education overhauled under successive Conservative and Labour governments, before the abolition of the death penalty, the legalisation of abortion and the Race Relations Act changed the face of Britain’s political and legal landscape. In October 1963, under Conservative prime minister Alec-Douglas Home, Britain’s higher education system was modernised, creating more university places and a grant scheme that would help fund students through their studies for decades until New Labour took Power in 1997. Students would be means tested to receive state funded education. Douglas-Home’s reign as prime minister ended on 15th October 1964 after Labour won a closely contested general election. The higher education reforms recommended by the 1963 Robbins Report did not end with Douglas-Home’s departure from government.
The moves towards creating a more inclusive education model continued in the summer of 1965, when Labour education secretary Anthony Crosland issued Circular 10/65, seeking an end to the tripartite education system used in England and Wales. The new comprehensive schools system was to replace the secondary and grammar school model which selected pupils on the basis of a meritocracy. Britain’s education system was placed directly on the faultline between Conservative and Labour ideology. Circular 10/65 was only a recommendation, but issued by the Department of Education And Science, the document’s gravitas was enough to influence local authorities to endorse the comprehensive system. While education was in the process of a minor revolution, Britain’s attitudes to race relations were still woefully backwards. But at least there was a degree of legislative progress when the Race Relations Act came into force on 8th November 1965. The law made racial discrimination in public places illegal, but in employment and housing there was no legal censure for prejudice, doing little to discourage institutionalised prejudice in the workplace. Furthermore, those guilty of discrimination were charged only of a civil offence; discrimination was, crucially, not criminalised. The Race Relations Act’s jurisdiction was increased to include housing and employment in 1968 but Britain had to wait until the Commission For Racial Equality was established in 1976 for more robust legislation on discrimination.
Crime and punishment was a hot topic in the sixties. For starters, it had The Great Train Robbery, a spectacular crime that created a celebrity out of criminals. Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Reynolds joined a cultural tableau embroidered by the rising stars of an increasingly celebrity obsessed society. They targeted the Glasgow to London mail train on 8th of August 1963, stealing £2.6 million. Biggs wasn’t the only criminal to enjoy celebrity status; Ronnie and Reggie, the Kray twins notoriety in London’s East End caught the imagination of the public during their trial for the murder of Jack McVitie in March 1969.
Thankfully there was more than just murderers and robbers arresting the public’s attention. This was the era of the rock and pop star. This was the decade dominated by Lennon and McCartney, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The former were a lightning rod for the music and fashions of the decade. When the Liverpudlian quartet released their first single Love Me Do in 1962, they embarked on a most singular career. One which nigh on entered the term Beatlemania into medical dictionaries – the symptoms included screaming and congregating in arrivals lounges of airports, more screaming, and largely affected more woman than men. Men suffering from Beatlemania usually hid their symptoms, with their haircut the only tell-tale sign. Working with visionary producer and kingmaker, George Martin, The Beatles expanded on the rock ‘n’ roll template, siring modern pop music in the process. Before the decade was out they had left their three minute/three chord safety net in favour of string sections and psychedelia, experimentalism and, most shockingly of all to a British public who had grown to love them as the wholesome face of British pop; hedonism. With The Beatles and their tacit chart war with the rock strut of The Rolling Stones, pop culture was deflowered under the watchful eye of the public, played out through political statements, anti-war rhetoric and the rebellion of youth culture liberated by new social ideals. Broadcasting this zeitgeist of cultural awakening for the very first time was a then youthful Tony Blackburn, whose radio show staked BBC Radio One’s claim for hegemony of the airwaves. Although neither his salary nor his conduct were as newsworthy as that of Jonathan Ross, Blackburn and Radio One’s contribution to popular culture was a lot more profound at a time when record buying became a pastime. This was 1967, however and Radio One’s cutting edge was occasionally blunted as it sired a pop culture station that would see its contemporary reputation guarded by the likes of Fearne Cotton and Chris Moyles. Looking back, perhaps Jimmy Young, a somewhat anachronistic DJ for a youth audience, wasn’t so bad after all.
Neither was the football. The sixties were a high water mark for Britain’s national game. In 1966, England, as hosts, won the FIFA World Cup defeating West Germany 4-2 at Wembley, with a hat-trick from Geoff Hurst and a goal from Martin Peters seeing off the Germans after extra time. It is a feat they have never managed since. Hurst was the only man to score three goals in a World Cup final. Captained by Bobby Moore, coached by Sir Alf Ramsey and roared on by over 93,000 fans, England were irresistible. The domestic game was in clover, both north and south of the border. The following year, in May 1967, Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup, defeating the mighty Inter Milan 2-1 with a team born and raised within a stone’s throw from Celtic Park. A year later, Manchester United defeated Benfica at Wembley, with shadows of ’66 as United triumphed 4-1 after extra time, complete with George Best running amok. The Fifth Beatle, as he became known, was arguably football’s first enduring superstar, typifying the dawn of celebrity. Such was the incoming tide of cultural change, many historical vignettes got buried under sea. Winston Churchill, arguably Britain’s greatest statesmen but certainly a redoubtable prime minister during her most urgent hour, died on 24th January 1965. He was granted a state funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral, watched
by millions, before being buried at St Martin’s Church in Oxfordshire. The Severn Bridge opened in 1966, replacing the Aust to Beachley ferry and bringing the M4 to Wales. Transport was getting so much faster. On 2nd March 1969, Concorde, the world’s first supersonic passenger jet made its maiden voyage from Toulouse, landing after just 27 minutes. It made its first supersonic trip in October that year but it wasn’t until the following decade that it would welcome its first passengers. As the decade drew to a close, with the Vietnam War dominating social consciousness on both sides of the Atlantic and creating a large and growing peace movement, Britain entered a new turbulent phase. British soldiers had put boots down on the streets of Northern Ireland in what would become the longest operation undertaken by the army. The innocence of the sixties was lost by the time it was over. The seventies awaited, a decade bookended by the rise of the great British rock bands of Led Zeppelin and Cream, and the snotty anti-establishment rhetoric of the punk movement, decimalisation and the winter of discontent. As far as history remembers the sixties, the decade will always be preserved in rose-tinted aspic and swathed in a flowerprint kaftan. If you were there, you will remember it. Original article source: www.information-britain.co.uk Adapted for inclusion within this programme
GREG VERE PRODUCER
Born and educated in Manchester, Greg then went on to study drama at the Northern School of Music, Speech and Drama, and on leaving he trawled the agents and castings finally landing up in London playing minor roles on TV and in film, but nothing to set the world alight. Following a specifically sticky patch, when it dawned on him he was never going to be Laurence Olivier 2, Greg moved to Bath with his partner in 1975, immediately becoming involved with the Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society, playing the dashing and handsome juvenile lead role of Jack Absolute in The Rivals (“oh how time and age catches up with you!”) It was during that production that he encountered The Bodlets (now Zenith) Theatre Company, the then junior section of BODS, when he was asked to appear as a guest in the role of Chitterlow, the highly eccentric actor/manager in Half a Sixpence. As luck would have it, the director of the musical was leaving following the show and The Bodlets needed someone to take his place. So with absolutely no experience of directing whatsoever, Greg applied for the position, and to his lasting amazement, was given it. Then followed 12 years of tremendous fun and many productions, enabling him to grow and learn the tricks of the trade, until, in 1986 Greg felt he needed to do more than just direct the young actors and actresses of Bath and so in 1987 he founded Musical Youth Theatre Company, to nurture the talent he was fortunate enough to attract to the ranks. The upshot being that Greg ended up steering
them to many awards and nominations over their 15 year existence, providing the springboard for some well known faces now enjoying major success on TV and film, and finally gaining his own personal award for Services to Drama and Theatre. However in 2002, Greg decided he needed to put his feet up after the many years of youth theatre, and so quite happily settled down at home in his beloved Batheaston for a well earned rest…or so he thought! In 2004 after some persuasion, he, along with a small band of like-minded souls, decided to resurrect a company that had been at the heart of the village for many years but folded in the early 90’s. Encore Northenders Theatre Company was born. With this production, a new era begins as Mark takes on the role of Artistic Director, leaving Greg to enjoy a sort of retirement. However he now has more time to concentrate on marketing productions and get together with his co-writer Graham Avent to prepare the script and storyline for our next pantomime, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
MARK SELLICK
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
A long-serving member of Encore, Mark joined the company in 2006 as a dancer (a term he uses very loosely) for Cinderella. He went on to play Tom in The Anniversary before returning to pantomime with Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots and most recently The Pied Piper. He has appeared in four dinner cabarets, twice visited Oudon in France to perform, but most enjoyed playing Seymour in Encore’s awardnominated musical production of
Little Shop of Horrors back in the Summer of 2009. Away from Encore, Mark has played roles including Roger in Grease, Fagin in Oliver, Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, Marius in Les Miserables, Harry in Lucky Stiff and the Eldest Magician in Just So. More recently he has appeared in productions of Oklahoma and Half a Sixpence with Keynsham Light Opera Group, Exit Stage Left’s I Love You Because and the award-winning A New Brain (Best Musical Production, 2011 Bristol Evening Post Rose Bowl Awards) at the Rondo Theatre in Bath and the QEH Theatre in Bristol. Mark also regularly plays with thirteen-piece tribute band the Bath Blues Brothers at weddings, parties, festivals and, once, Butlins Minehead. To quote Mr Graham Avent (Cinderella, 2006) “you play this venue twice in your career, once on the way up…” Mark is thrilled to have been given the opportunity to fulfill an ambition and stage a musical for the first time. It is hard to believe that almost three years have passed since the last time Encore tackled a full-scale musical production, of which he says “we’ve waited a long time for our follow-up and we know that A Slice of Saturday Night won’t disappoint!” Mark would like to thank the cast, the band, the production team and everyone behind the scenes who has helped put together the fantastic production you are watching tonight. He says; “Slice has been a real team effort and we can all be proud of what we have achieved. We couldn’t do it without an audience though, so thank you for supporting us and making it here tonight. We really hope you enjoy the show!” Mark is kindly sponsored by Hays Career Transition Services.
HARRY BURT
MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND KEYBOARD
A Slice of Saturday Night is Harry’s sixth show as Musical Director, having MD’d for Full Tilt Theatre Company (West Side Story at the Minack Theatre), Exit Stage Left (A New Brain at the QEH Theatre and Rondo Theatre, [title of show] at the QEH Theatre and Chapel Arts Centre), Nailsea Musicals (Curtains at the Scotch Horn) and most recently Encore’s dinner cabaret A Taste of Music here in Batheaston. No stranger to the stage (although, he says, it is fast becoming something of a distant memory!) Harry has played a number of ‘gormless saps’ including Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Jack in Into the Woods, Toby in Menotti’s The Medium (“the best part in any atonal opera is clearly the mute!”) and Anthony in Sweeney Todd. He has also played lotharios such as Bobby in Company, The Fox in Stravinsky’s Reynard and Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods as well as ‘all round nice guys’ Collins in Rent and Curly in Oklahoma. Argue amongst yourselves on the accuracy of those character descriptions. Harry is sure his friends will have their own opinion as to which one of them most closely resembles him! Harry says “a cast of eight has given us an opportunity to really refine everything we’ve done. The clarity of each harmony, the timing of all the rhythms, the length of every note is so much more controlled when you know exactly who makes each mistake in rehearsals!” Harry is very proud of the dedication the cast have made to this
production. The show lends itself to musical adaptation and arrangement and the performers have been game for every ludicrous suggestion he has given them! He is looking forward to working with as many of them as possible on the much loved Batheaston Pantomime, when that season comes around again. It’ll be his Panto debut, on or off stage (“oh no it isn’t, oh yes it is, etc.”) Harry hopes you love watching A Slice of Saturday Night as much as we have enjoyed putting it on. In the (slightly amended) words of Neil Gaiman, “this performance is dedicated to you”. Harry and the Slice band are kindly sponsored by Everything IT.
LESLEY MOODIE CHOREOGRAPHY
Lesley started her dance career in Scotland at an early age with Irene Langlands School of Dance, achieving accredited grades in Ballet, Jazz, Modern and Tap with The Royal Academy of Dance and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Lesley also participated with the Junior Associates programme of the Scottish Ballet. As well as dance, Lesley also enjoyed Theatre and was a member of the Falkirk Children’s Theatre for six Years, performing in cabarets and pantomimes. Her highlight was playing Dame in Aladdin (“oh yes it was!”) Lesley then went on to study dance and drama at Bath Spa University, choreographing and performing in many productions. It was whilst at University Lesley got involved with both BODS and BLOGS performing at the Theatre Royal in Bath on multiple occasions.
After graduating with honours Lesley started teaching for Curtis School of Dance and has been there for almost five years now (“shameless plug!”) Lesley is happy to be back as our choreographer after A Taste of Music in December and is really excited about choreographing her first full-scale production with A Slice of Saturday Night. She would like to thank all involved for this unique opportunity, but especially would like to thank her fiance Steve for supporting her throughout this “creative” process.
ANITA UNWIN
COSTUMES, HAIR AND MAKEUP
Anita first started working in theatre as a hairdresser before moving on to wardrobe and costume. She became resident Wardrobe Mistress for Greg’s Musical Youth Theatre Company, working on many of their shows over the years, a role which led to the opportunity of working for the Theatre Royal Bath on one of their own productions, The Blue Room at the Ustinov Theatre. Since then Anita has gone on to work on many more Ustinov and Theatre Royal productions and has had the pleasure of dressing some very well known actors and actresses, all of whom, like us, love her infectious sense of humour. Along with other members of Encore’s cast and production team, Anita regularly appears throughout the South West at parties, weddings and events with the Bath Blues Brothers. Anita has very much enjoyed working with such a great cast and production team for A Slice of Saturday Night. She is looking forward to show week and hopes you all enjoy the show!
BRIN JOHNSON LEAD GUITAR
Brin began his music career in Singapore in the early 60s at the age of 14, playing guitar in what one observer described as “the worst band I have ever heard”. Undeterred, he continued to play on return to UK, in local bands and in the early 70s took on a Beatle-esque period in Germany playing US military bases. He went solo in the mid-70s specialising in country and comedy and became a full-time professional entertainer, touring the West Country clubs and other music venues. No stranger to the stage, Brin has been involved in theatre since the early 80s, beginning with the original Northenders here in Batheaston, co-writing and arranging music for original pantomimes. He then spent several years with the Rondo Theatre Company, where he was awarded a Rose Bowl award for his performance in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Now a member of the Encore panel he is, for this performance, leaving the acting to others whilst he relishes the (for him) new role of rhythm/lead guitar in a stage musical. Brin and the Slice band are kindly sponsored by Everything IT.
CHRIS CHANDLER BASS GUITAR
We are delighted to have the very talented Chris Chandler playing bass guitar for Encore’s A Slice of Saturday Night. Over time Chris has built up a collection of bass guitars - in this production look out
for his authentic, original Fender Precision that he has played for 50 years!
Lighting, who have expertly provided lighting and sound design for A Slice of Saturday Night.
As you can imagine, in that period of time, Chris has played with many groups. He has also appeared on the same bill and has supported such acts as The Hollies, Roy Orbison, Roger Whittaker, Screaming Lord Sutch, Les Dawson and many other stars. After all these years playing in groups, A Slice of Saturday Night is his first venture into playing for a musical.
Locally, Andrew has been an instrumental part of the award winning Exit Stage Left Theatre Company, helping out wherever he can by designing and running the sound and lighting for their productions. We were delighted when Andrew also joined Encore on the technical side a few years ago and, he says, “I have enjoyed working with such a great and successful company ever since.”
Chris is a ‘Bathonian’ and currently, along with other cast members plays with the Bath Blues Brothers. He is also a founder member of Shadow Sounds, paying tribute to The Shadows and other music from the 1960s and 1970s. Now retired, Chris qualified firstly as a surveyor, but changed direction in the 1970s to work with and for people who were vulnerable. A family man, his grandchildren and musical hobbies continue to keep him young. Chris and the Slice band are kindly sponsored by Everything IT.
ANDREW WHITING
DRUMS, LIGHTING AND SOUND DESIGN
Andrew studied technical theatre at the Guildford School of Acting and has spent more than a decade in the sound and lighting industry. Over that time he has gathered a wealth of knowledge and experience travelling across the country and working with some big name companies, theatres and performers (including Jimmy Carr and Dame Judi Dench) all of which has helped him in setting up his company, Starlight Sound and
For A Slice Of Saturday Night, Andrew’s usual style of “doing a bit of everything” has been tested to the extreme. Not only has he designed the lighting and sound for the production, but he has also lended his hand to carpentry for set construction and, to top it all, is playing the drums up on stage. Mark is always wondering which hat Andrew is going to be wearing when he turns up to rehearsals! Andrew has been a massive support to Mark throughout the planning and rehearsal period for this production. Mark would like to take this opportunity to thank Andrew for everything he has done, sorted, come up with and generally thrown his enthusiasm and energy into, ensuring A Slice of Saturday Night is a massive success for all involved. Although he may say he regrets taking so much on, we’re certainly glad he did and we know he’ll have a blast drumming up on stage! (“Shaaa-ting!!”) Andrew has thoroughly enjoyed putting the show together, however he would like to say sorry to Sue and Neil Sellick for making a mess in their garden. Andrew and the Slice band are kindly sponsored by Everything IT.
1960
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Sprite is introduced by The Coca-Cola Company. Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Beatles begin a 48-night engagement at the Indra Club in Hamburg. The Flintstones and Coronation Street first air on British television. The halogen lamp is invented. Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is released.
1961
1962
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Barbie gets a boyfriend when the Ken doll is introduced. The DNA genetic code is broken. Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. The Vietnam War begins as American helicopters arrive in Saigon. Russians send the first man into space. John F. Kennedy becomes President of the United States of America.
Dr. No, the first James Bond film premieres. The Beatles’ first record, My Bonnie with Tony Sheridan is released. The term “personal computer” is first mentioned by the media. Pull tabs on cans are introduced. The Rolling Stones make their debut at London’s Marquee Club. The audio cassette is invented.
1963
1964
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Martin Luther King Jr. makes his “I have a dream” speech. Touch-tone telephones are introduced for the first time. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. The first episode of Doctor Who is broadcast. Marilyn Monroe is found dead of an apparent overdose. The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire.
Ford Motors introduces the “Mustang”. Plans to build the World Trade Centre in New York are announced. Harold Wilson’s Labour Party end 13 years of Conservative Party rule. All top 5 positions are held by The Beatles in the American singles chart. BBC2 television channel and The Sun newspaper are launched. Pirate radio station Radio Caroline began offshore broadcasting.
1965
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Bob Dylan elicits controversy by “going electric” at the Newport Folk Festival. The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock. Cigarette advertising is banned on British television. The compact disk is invented. Sony markets the first home video tape recorder. The death penalty is abolished in Great Britain.
1966
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The Star Trek television series debuts with its first episode. John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery in London. The Beatles play their last full-scale concert together in San Francisco. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is shown for the first time. Electronic Fuel Injection for cars is invented. England win the Football World Cup at Wembley Stadium in London.
1967
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Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book. Pink Floyd releases their debut album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” The first automatic cash machine is installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield. LSD is declared illegal by the United States Government. The first handheld calculator is invented. The first heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolutionary Council. Led Zeppelin make their first live performance, at Surrey University. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. The film Oliver!, based on the hit musical, opens in the UK. The computer mouse is invented. Manchester United wins the European Cup, the first English team to do so.
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The world watches Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the Moon. The Woodstock Music Festival is performed in front of 500,000 concert-goers. Charles, Prince of Wales, is invested with his title at Caernarfon. The educational television program Sesame Street premieres in America. Arpanet, the research-oriented prototype of the Internet was introduced. The first supersonic Concorde test flight is conducted.
1968
1969
INTRODUCTION The Club A Go-Go, run by Eric “Rubber legs” De Vene, a fortysomething faded rocker, is where “the action is” on Saturday night. The time is around 1964 and down in this back street cellar club you can expect chatting-up, boasting, heartaches in fact, all the highs and lows of teenage emotions. Get set for a knowing and affectionate look back at the swinging decade, featuring a fast-moving score of recogniseable doo-wop and soft rock riffs, plenty of laughs and, no doubt, a few reminiscent sighs thrown in along the way! Three blokes and four birds are out on the pull. The girls, chalkfaced, pale lipped and lacquered to perfection are desperate to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or Dusty Springfield. The lads in their button-down collars and leather caps are all would-be Beatles or embryo Donovans. However, beneath the girls’ skimpy Mary Quant and St Laurent copied dresses beat virginal Barbara Cartland hearts, while inside the lads’ cool, hipster trousers lurk the impulses which have driven adolescents to distraction since the dawn of time. Sue is going out with Gary, who chats up Penny and any other bit of stuff that looks his way. Sharon fancies Rick who fancies Sharon, but he can’t pluck up enough courage to tell her because she hasn’t told him. Eddie fancies Bridget who doesn’t fancy anyone. Follow that? Not to worry, Eric is here to make things clear as we follow these teenagers as they wend their way through teenage sexual morals as rigid and predictable as any New Guinea tribesman’s initiation rights.
THE CAST Mark Unwin ERIC “RUBBER LEGS” DE VENE ...................................................................................... James Sellick GARY/TERRY ...................................................................................... Andrew Knowles RICK ...................................................................................... Pip Knowles EDDIE ...................................................................................... Maisie Hillier BRIDGET ...................................................................................... Hannah Long SUE ...................................................................................... Sarah Mellowes SHARON ...................................................................................... PENNY/SHIRL
Jessica Withers
THE BAND Musical Director/Keyboard HARRY BURT ...................................................................................... Lead Guitar BRIN JOHNSON ...................................................................................... CHRIS CHANDLER Bass Guitar ...................................................................................... Drums/Percussion ANDREW WHITING
ACT I - MUSICAL NUMBERS A SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT Boys, Girls ...................................................................................... CLUB A GO-GO Eric ...................................................................................... WAITING Girls ...................................................................................... SATURDAY NIGHT CHAT
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SEVENTEEN Sharon, Rick, Eric ...................................................................................... DON’T TOUCH ME Boys, Eric, Bridget ...................................................................................... TWIGGY Sue ...................................................................................... CLIFF Company ...................................................................................... LOVE ON OUR SIDE Terry, Shirl ...................................................................................... WHAT DO I DO NOW? Rick, Sharon ...................................................................................... WHAT DO YOU DO?
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IF YOU WANNA HAVE FUN Company ...................................................................................... THE LONG WALK BACK Rick ...................................................................................... ROMANCE/WHAM BAM Boys, Girls ...................................................................................... THE BOY OF MY DREAMS Bridget ...................................................................................... IT WOULDN’T BE SATURDAY NIGHT
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ACT II - MUSICAL NUMBERS ERIC’S HOKEY-COKEY SHUFFLE Company ...................................................................................... I. . .FANCY YOU Rick, Sharon ................................................................................... SENTIMENTAL EYES Rick, Sharon ...................................................................................... HEARTBREAKER Sue, Girls, Gary ...................................................................................... ERIC’S GONNA KEEP DOING Eric, Boys ...................................................................................... OH SO BAD Eddie, Gary ...................................................................................... PLEASE DON’T TELL ME Boys, Girls ...................................................................................... YOU’RE OH, SO... Sue, Girls, Gary ...................................................................................... LIES Eric, Boys ...................................................................................... BABY I LOVE YOU Boys, Girls ...................................................................................... P.E.
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WHO’D BE SEVENTEEN Eric ...................................................................................... LAST SATURDAY NIGHT Rick, Sharon ...................................................................................... FINALE AND BOWS
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MARK UNWIN
ERIC “RUBBER LEGS” DE VENE With this week’s run, Mark will be making quite a unique achievement. This will be the fifth production of A Slice of Saturday Night he has appeared in as Eric “Rubber Legs” De Vene. With a bit of luck he should know the part (and his lines) by now! Mark has had a long and very productive amateur career, first appearing in Bath at the tender age of 18, playing Bill Sykes in the Bodlets (now Zenith) production of Oliver. The director of that production was Greg, who subsequently went on to be the founder of Musical Youth Theatre Company, taking Mark with him as an original member. During the fifteen years of Musical Youth, Mark had many varied roles which saw him playing Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (with buck teeth and a very strange hat) and appearing at the Stourhead Fete Champetre where he sang ‘Calypso’, clutching a pineapple with all the words scrawled on it. Another highlight was wearing a purple wig and dress as the Wicked Witch in The Wiz. There have been many other memorable parts that only Mark could have played. Mark once appeared in a Charity Gala at the Theatre Royal Bath as one half of the Blues Brothers, in a tribute to their music and the film. That appearance was to present a very special opportunity to him, as after Musical Youth finally rang the curtain on the company, Mark formed the Bath Blues Brothers, a 13-piece band that have since become one of the most popular and frequently hired tribute acts in the South West. Included amongst the band are several members of Encore’s production team and cast you will watch on stage tonight. Even though Bath Blues Brothers have had great success, Mark still enjoys appearing on stage in a variety of roles and so was very happy to come and join Encore when Greg started the company seven years ago. During the Musical Youth years, Mark met and married Anita, who quickly became the Wardrobe Mistress for the company. She can now be found dressing wellknown stars at the Theatre Royal in Bath, but we were extremely grateful when she agreed to pick up the sewing thread and get the machine treadle going to recreate her role for A Slice of Saturday Night. Mark is kindly sponsored by Reboot Computer Services.
JAMES SELLICK GARY/TERRY
James joined Encore in 2007 for our production of Billy Liar, playing the role of Arthur, Billy’s best friend and in the process immediately becoming a favourite with our audiences. Since then he has regularly appeared with the group, and can often be found slapping his thigh as Principal Boy, a role he suits perfectly. We have always known he had a powerful and very melodic voice, but he proved it beyond any shadow of a doubt when he performed in the role of Audrey II, the plant voice, in our award-nominated production of Little Shop of Horrors almost three years ago. This role was a highlight for James, despite being stuck in the back room with a microphone and a television screen to see what was happening on the stage. As with many of the other cast members, James is also a regular performer with Exit Stage Left in Norton Radstock. He has won many fans over the years, playing roles such as Bill Sykes in Oliver, the title role in Honk, Geoff in I Love You Because, and perhaps one of his most fun roles to date, Eddy in A Slice of Saturday Night. A few years ago James realised that he wanted to be involved in theatre professionally, but rather than finishing education and going off to drama school, he decided the technical side was more for him, graduating last year from Bath Spa University as a Sound and Lighting Technician. With that in mind he was the perfect candidate to take over from his brother as Encore’s Technical Manager when Mark became the new Artistic Director. It is a great thrill for us to have two such talented brothers in our midst, and certainly having them with us has made things much easier for Greg when he had to make the decision to take a lighter role in the running of the company. However let us not forget that James certainly has ‘The Voice’. During our December production of A Taste of Music, many of our patrons were stunned by his rendition of ‘Cry Me A River’ to open the show, as well as thoroughly enjoying his other vocal performances throughout the evening. We are hoping (very selfishly) that James might stay with us for some time to come before he gets snatched up into the profession. James is kindly sponsored by Hays Career Transition Services.
ANDREW KNOWLES
PIP KNOWLES
Andrew has appeared in many of Encore’s productions over the years, originally joining us as a dancer for our pantomime Cinderella aged 17. In 2011, he created his own little part of Encore history by becoming the first member to play the title roles in three of our pantomimes. His performances have certainly been varied; five years ago at the tender age of 18, he became one of the youngest Dames in the country when he led the cast in our pantomime Mother Goose, for his second title role he played the enigmatic hero Puss in Boots, and then in 2011 he gave full vent to his comic potential as Peter in The Pied Piper.
There must be something very strong in the water in the Norton Radstock area. Whatever it is, it certainly produces some excellent sibling talent. We thought we were lucky when Mark was joined in Encore by his brother James, closely followed by Adam and Jess Withers, both of whom have made their mark playing principal roles in several of our productions. In 2008 we were blessed with the arrival of the Long sisters, Becca and Hannah, again winning praise for every appearance, and then in 2010 Pip finally arrived in our midst to join his older brother Andrew for our last pantomime The Pied Piper. From his very first appearance as the wonderfully zany PC Blood opposite Ben Curd as PC Clot, he amazed the audience and other cast members alike with his terrific comic timing, something that he will definitely be reprising on stage tonight as Eddy, a role Pip has been looking forward to playing for some time.
RICK
Away from Encore, Andrew is part of the highly successful vocal harmony group Upfront and Casual, alongside his two brothers, Pip and Matt. The group, also featuring James, have recently added our Musical Director Harry to their ranks. Although they are now starting to make their mark on the Wedding and Party scene, their most notable performance to date was supporting Mike Pender’s Searchers at Springfest South West in Ilminster last year. Andrew is also a long-standing member of the Norton Radstock based theatre company Exit Stage Left, a group Encore have a very special relationship with. The majority of the cast you are watching tonight are members of both groups, often appearing in productions both sides of Bath with only a matter of a few days rest in between. Exit Stage Left have had a very successful year, winning the coveted Rose Bowl Award for Best Musical Production for their stunning production of A New Brain, in which Andrew played the challenging role of Mr Bungee, a children’s television presenter in a frog costume. Andrew has appeared in A Slice of Saturday Night before too, jumping at the chance to be a part of Encore’s cast this week. Andrew is very proud to be employed as a teacher at Writhlington School, a position he thoroughly enjoys and gives much of his time to, ensuring that the children in his charge have a great time in his company, as we are sure you will tonight. Andrew is kindly sponsored by Upfront and Casual.
EDDIE
Like all the other brother and sister acts, Pip hails originally from Exit Stage Left. I think it is fair to say that Encore owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Alison, for suggesting to so many of her talented members that it would be good for them if they came along to appear with us here in Batheaston as well. Following in the footsteps of both Andrew and his other brother Matt, Pip has appeared in many Exit Stage Left productions to date, giving him regular opportunities to showcase his strong vocal talents. He has played varied characters such as Horton the Elephant in the musical Just So, the title role in Oliver (before his voice broke!) and most recently impressing audiences with his hilarious performance as the Dame in their pantomime Hansel and Gretel. As well as appearing with the two theatre companies, he now regularly plays to packed audiences as part of the vocal harmony group Upfront and Casual. The group sing songs made famous by the renowned Rat Pack, a selection of comedy numbers, as well as songs from the shows including numbers from the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys. If you haven’t seen them perform as yet, make sure you do! We are sure that following A Slice of Saturday Night, Pip will certainly have made his mark at Encore. Pip is kindly sponsored by The White Lion.
MAISIE HILLIER BRIDGET
Maisie is our newest addition to the group, having joined Encore to audition for the role of Bridget in A Slice of Saturday Night. We are delighted that she has chosen to become a member and hope that she’ll stay and appear in many more of our shows. This very talented young lady is at present studying in her first year of A levels at Writhlington School, again a place that many of our members have in common, with her chosen subjects being Music, English Literature, Politics and History. She hopes to go on to University, and even though she isn’t 100% sure what she plans to study as yet, we are sure whatever she decides she will do very well. As well as the many hours she obviously spends revising and studying, Maisie comes to us with a very impressive back catalogue of productions, even though she is still only 17. Her previous roles have included Anita in West Side Story, Madame Thernadier in Les Miserables, Dead Mum in Billy Elliot, Anna in Spring Awakening, Gabriella in High School Musical, Goody in Fame, Peep-Bo in The Mikado and Jamie in My Fair Lady. We are sure you will understand why we are absolutely delighted that Maisie decided to come along to those auditions! Maisie somehow finds the time to be regular member of BANES County Youth Choir as well, touring Europe with them last year. If all that wasn’t enough then immediately after she finishes the role of Bridget in A Slice of Saturday Night, she will continue rehearsals for a production of Summer Holiday to be staged in August at The Playhouse in Weston Super Mare, where she will be playing the role of Mimsie. All we hope is that Maisie will have time to join us in September when Encore audition and begin rehearsing for our brand new pantomime Goldilocks and the Three Bears to be presented in late January and early February 2013. Maisie is kindly sponsored by Starlight Sound and Lighting.
HANNAH LONG SUE
Hannah has become another firm favourite with our audiences, having followed in the footsteps of her older sister Becca and joined the company to play the role of Ronette in our awardnominated production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors back in 2009. Since then we have been lucky enough to have Hannah grace all our productions to date, playing a variety of roles including Principal Girl Sandy in our last pantomime The Pied Piper. As well as a talented singer, Hannah has also choreographed some excellent routines in our Pizzazz cabarets. Late last year she wowed audiences at our dinner cabaret A Taste of Music with a stunning vocal performance of Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ as a duet alongside Jess. Hannah then performed a wonderful adaptation of ‘Landslide’, again with Jess and also Sarah with stunning three part harmonies, which was certainly one of the highlights of the night. Hannah has also recently joined the Bath Blues Brothers as a ‘Soul Sister’. She is thoroughly enjoying the band so far and already has several high profile gigs under her belt. It is amazing that Hannah has achieved all this while at the same time studying first for her GCSE’s and then her A levels. In May last year she joined the Exit Stage Left cast for their Rose Bowl award winning production of A New Brain at The Rondo Theatre in Bath, reprising her role in April of this year at the QEH Theatre in Bristol. Most recently Hannah has appeared as Principal Girl in Exit Stage left’s pantomime Hansel and Gretel. Not content with that, Hannah has also managed to choreograph another award nominated musical production of Seussical, gain a distinction in her Grade 6 Tap and Ballet exam at the Royal Academy of Dance, appear in Teachers and as the lead female character Eliza Doolittle in the fantastic production of My Fair Lady, both at Writhlington School. It will come as no surprise that Hannah’s dream is to do well in her exams so that she can attend drama school, eventually progressing into a career in musical theatre. We know that she’ll make it one day, however in the meantime we will look forward to welcoming Hannah back for as many Encore productions as possible before she goes on to tread grander boards! Hannah is kindly sponsored by Hillside Carpentry.
SARAH MELLOWES SHARON
JESSICA WITHERS PENNY/SHIRL
Originating from Bath, Sarah has always enjoyed being involved in theatre productions both on stage and behind the scenes. Whilst at school, she played a leading role in a Brecht play and also performed songs from the much-loved musical Les Miserables.
Jessica is one of Encore’s most versatile actresses, being equally at home with comedy or drama and including some stunning vocal ability. She first joined us back in 2008 to play the role of Rita in our production of Billy Liar, quickly becoming a very firm favourite with our audiences.
Her university years were mainly based in Swansea at the University of Wales, however Sarah was lucky enough to be awarded a ‘study abroad year’ where she attended the University of Illinois, south of Chicago. During her time there, to her great delight, she watched the original Broadway cast of Rent perform the production at her campus theatre, a memory she still treasures today. Following her year in Illinois studying, Sarah took a couple of years out to travel around the USA, and had the great honour of singing at Nashville, Tennessee.
Since joining Jessica has appeared in almost every production, along the way managing to play everything from a sex starved kitten to the title role in our award winning pantomime Sleeping Beauty. Many of our male patrons will never forget her singing to the Principal Boy in Hansel and Gretel in an amazingly sensual leather one-piece outfit.
After her time in America, Sarah returned to Bath and luckily for us joined Encore in 2008, whilst at the same time singing with the wonderful Vocal Works Gospel Choir. Her first appearance with us was as a dancer/ villager in our award-winning pantomime Sleeping Beauty followed by an appearance in one of Encore’s Yule Love It Christmas shows. Unfortunately, just as Sarah was establishing herself as a real talent in Encore she was offered a position at an English Language Teaching Publishers in Reading, making it very difficult for her to commute and at the same time appear in our productions. However, much to our delight she moved back to Bath in 2011 to take up a position of Editor/ Writer of Children’s books, thus enabling her to come back and appear with us again. Sarah was very much a part of our dinner cabaret A Taste of Music last December, amongst other appearances her rendition of ‘On My Own’ was one of the highlights of the show. Now, with A Slice of Saturday Night Sarah will be fulfilling another long-held wish, as she appears for the first time as a named character in a musical. So with Sarah now firmly back in our clutches, we hope you will be seeing a lot more of her in our future productions! Sarah is kindly sponsored by NFU Mutual in Bath.
As with many of our other younger members Jessica also performs with Exit Stage Left, recently appearing as part of a quartet in their excellent offering [title of show] in Bristol and Bath. Musically directed by our MD Harry, another member of the quartet was Andrew Knowles. Other roles Jessica has played over the years include Adderperle in The Wiz, the title role in Cinderella, Diana in I Love You Because and proving that she is very at home playing feline characters, Queenie the posh cat in Honk. Most recently Jessica has played the part of Nancy the Nurse in the Rose Bowl Award winning production A New Brain, the perfect role for her as she is no stranger to the medical uniform. Away from all these productions Jessica is currently studying Midwifery at the University of the West of England and has to date already delivered 26 babies. We hope that nobody in the audience is imminently due to give birth, but should you require assistance throughout the show, you know who to call for! The icing on the cake for Jessica in this production is that she gets the opportunity to perform a duet with her long-term boyfriend James, albeit as a character who is heavily pregnant. Jessica is kindly sponsored by Focus Interiors.
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She Loves You (1963) The Beatles
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I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963) The Beatles
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Tears (1965) Kenn Dodd
Can’t Buy Me Love (1964) The Beatles
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I Feel Fine (1964) The Beatles Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Parlophone
Release Me (1967) Engelbert Humperdinck Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Decca
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We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper (1964) The Beatles Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Parlophone
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The Carnival Is Over (1965) The Seekers
It’s Now or Never (1960) Elvis Presley Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: RCA
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Green, Green Grass of Home (1966) Tom Jones Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Decca
On 31st May 2011, a retrospective record chart was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 that listed the sixty biggestselling singles in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. Hosted by Tony Blackburn, the chart was compiled by the OCC, and was based on sales of singles from 1st January 1960 to 31st December 1969. Of the sixty songs in the chart, more than half are by British acts. The most represented act in the chart are The Beatles, who feature on the list with eighteen releases, seven of which are in the top twenty. The most-represented act after The Beatles are The Rolling Stones, who have five singles in the list. The highest-placed female artist is Cilla Black at number 27, with her 1964 single Anyone Who Had a Heart. During the 1960s, sales of singles in the UK were monitored by several magazines, including New Music Express (NME), Record Retailer, Melody Maker and Disc. Before 1969, no officially recognised singles chart was published in the UK. On 15th February 1969, Record Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to record sales of
singles in what officially became the UK Singles Chart. The BMRB compiled the chart by using hand-written and post-submitted data from approximately 250 record stores. Between 1960 and 1969, fourteen singles sold more than one million copies in the UK, of which the biggest-selling was She Loves You by The Beatles. Released in August 1963, the single spent four weeks at number one and sold more than 1.89 million copies, approximately 140,000 more than its nearest rival, I Want to Hold Your Hand, also by The Beatles. The biggest-selling record not to top the UK Singles Chart was Acker Bilk’s 1961 song Stranger on the Shore - it sold more than 1.13 million copies and peaked at number two, being kept off the top by The Young Ones by Cliff Richard & The Shadows. Engelbert Humperdinck, who features at number 7 and 11 in the top 20 list below, represented the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. However he didn’t enjoy the same success, scoring just 12 points and finishing in second from last place. Original article source: Wikipedia Main image: The Beatles - www.kued.org
The Last Waltz (1967) Engelbert Humperdinck
The Next Time / Bachelor Boy (1962) Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Decca
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Columbia
Stranger on the Shore (1961) Acker Bilk
Telstar (1962) The Tornados
Highest Chart Position #2 Record Label: Columbia
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Decca
I’ll Remember You (1962) Frank Ifield
From Me to You (1963) The Beatles
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Columbia
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Parlophone
The Young Ones (1962) Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Two Little Boys (1969) Rolf Harris
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Columbia
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Columbia
Sugar, Sugar (1969) The Archies
Hey Jude (1968) The Beatles
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: RCA
Highest Chart Position #1 Record Label: Apple
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SPECIAL THANKS On behalf of Encore, Mark would like to thank the following people for their time, dedication and help in staging A Slice of Saturday Night: Our friends, advertisers and sponsors for their kind financial support; Pam and Rob from Batheaston Church Hall for their hospitality; Brian from BREDAC, James and Jodie from Local Look Magazine, Luke for the 3B’s Jubilee Programme, Dan from The Somerset Guardian, Chris from The Bath Chronicle and Gerry from Musical Theatre Connections South West for their support in publicising the production; Alison from Exit Stage Left for her valued ongoing help and support; The Encore Panel for all the behind the scenes work they do; Harry, Lesley, Anita, Andrew and Ian for absolutely everything; Greg for being there from start to finish; Natalie, James, Dad and Mum.
Encore Northenders are an award winning theatre company based in Batheaston, for both adults and young people of all ages and abilities. The group stages a variety of productions throughout the year including musicals, plays, and cabarets. New members to the group are always welcome! If you are interested in joining as an acting or singing member, helping out behind the scenes (including the back stage team, wardrobe department and front of house team), we would be glad to hear from you. Please feel free to speak to any member of our front of house team, or cast, who will be more than happy to take your details.
ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP If your business, theatre company or organisation could benefit from advertising in a future Encore programme, we would love to hear from you. There are a selection of advertising opportunities available, including individual cast sponsorship and prominent full page advertising. For further information, please email Mark Sellick on ‘marksellick@me.com’
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