Yesterday evening we had the Oxford Operatic Society Dinner Dance – at the Cherwell Boat House in Oxford, a great venue for hosting an evening of eating and drinking (and some dancing!). Here are a few snaps I got – enjoy!
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This week the Musical Youth Company of Oxford are presenting Les Miserables in Headington, Oxford. The show is being directed by a good friend of mine, Edward Blagrove – and I’ve had the privileged over the past couple of months to take photos of the rehearsals leading up to show week – and I could see this was going to be a special one!
This week Oxford Operatic Society are presenting Grease at the New Theatre. The show is being directed by a good friend of ours, Dave Crewe and he’s done a fantastic job! The choreography, created by Sally Chase and Jo Wilkinson is superb – there’s so much happening on stage, I was struggling to take photos of it all! The music, as always, it’s what makes these shows for me – led my Musical Director Chris Payne, features all of the classics we’ve come to love over the years…
For the past five months, I feel like I’ve been married to Mrs Lovett (Clare), who was cast in the role of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”, performed by Oxford Operatic Society at the Oxford Playhouse all this week. Directed by our good friend, Edward Blagrove, the show tells a tale of a Demon Barber “Sweeney Todd” and his partner in crime, “Mrs Lovett” who runs the pie shop below the barbers. Todd slits his customers throats with a straight razor, before sending them to Mrs Lovett’s shop, where the bodies are chopped up and baked into her meat pies…
At the beginning of December, some friends of ours from the Oxford Operatic Society put on a concert, ‘Stages’, to raise funds for the Feldon Stroke Ward at the Royal Lemington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital. They sang many numbers, including songs from musicals such as Mary Poppins, The Lion King and Grease, raising over £3500!
The aim of the concert was to raise money for essential speech and language therapy equipment for the ward – and I’m sure this impressive total will help a great deal…
This May the Oxford Operatic Society staged The Mikado at the Oxford Playhouse. I had been asked to take some photos of the rehearsals earlier in the year, and wanted to accompany the show’s official photographer and friend of mine, Ian Bateman, to the dress rehearsal. It still amazes me how the show comes together on-stage having only rehearsed in various halls for the past four months…
For several years now, Clare has been a member of the Oxford Operatic Society, who put on musical productions in Oxford every six months. This year they showed The Producers and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar. I had been asked to photograph several of the rehearsals earlier in the year, which were great fun […]