Everything Goes

Everything Goes

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Category: Community Events Theatre & Films

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Date: Wed, 12th April 2023 - Sat, 15th April 2023

Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Location: Milborne Port Village Hall, Milborne Port

Phone: 07871877074

Email: sfeath60@gmail.com

Booking Required: Yes

Price: £15.00 (Concessions £10 on Wednesday only)

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Everything Goes

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EVERYTHING GOES

Celebrating 100 years of musical theatre

“Everything Goes” is the exciting new 2023 show by the award-winning Milborne Port Opera. It’s a highly entertaining, foot-tapping backstage musical about performing in backstage musicals.

A group of actors are rehearsing their next show on stage. The theatre cleaner (who knows nothing) wanders in and demands to know what is going on. The director and the cast explain by performing their show, and at the same time provide a potted history of Musical Theatre, from Showboat to Chicago, and back again via Hamilton and Les Miserables.
The cleaner ends up wiser and vastly entertained -by their performances, as well as the backstage banter and antics of the cast. Converted!

The show features well known and lesser set pieces from many favourite hit musicals and films. Many of these are ensemble pieces, but with solos from MPO’s favourite performers. All the usual gang are in the show, plus a few new members, who have thrown themselves into the production with great enthusiasm.

The challenge for MPO is to perform the show’s numbers out of context and not in full costume, in order to respect copyright and licensing laws. So don’t be surprised if “Matchmaker” from “Fidler on the Roof” is about Tinder dating. Or “Putting on my White Tie” is about a group of men getting ready to go out on the town for the night. Or “Oklahoma”, set in the departure lounge of a holiday airport.

The show had been devised and written by drama teacher Karen Pankhurst, who also co-directs. Karen is an accomplished comedy performer, singer and dancer who joined Milborne Port Opera in 2019 for their smash hit “Anything Goes”, where she played Bonnie, the gangster’s moll.

Her co-directors are two accomplished MPO performers and musicians. Rachel Milestone (Trial by Jury, Anything Goes and Merry Widow) and Allison Gosney (co-director of “Anything Goes”).
Caroline D’Cruz, who joined the company in 2006, continues as musical director.
Solists include Andrew Armstrong, Chris Bailward, Sukie Read, Alison Ruddy, Jessie Stones, Karen Pankhurst, Rachel Milestone, Rachel Revell, and Anthony White. Matt Baker plays the show’s director and performs some of the numbers. Richard Gaunt plays Stan, the hall cleaner, and Linda Mumford, Edith, the tea lady, who comment on the action and propel the show forwards.

“Everything Goes” marks another step in the evolution of Milborne Port Opera. The company has a well-deserved reputation for beautiful choral singing in light opera such as Gilbert and Sullivan and Franz Lehar, but often with a modern slant in the production. Over the last decade the company has also staged several Broadway or West End Musicals, culminating in the sell-out “Anything Goes” which was performed in the round on an arena stage in the village hall in 2019. It has also staged acclaimed musicals by its own members – particularly Neil Edward’s successful trilogy of Edwardian musical capers involving crimes, plots, spying, romance and circuses.


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Milborne Port Village Hall (View more Events at this Location)
Springfield Road , Milborne Port, Dorset, DT9 5RE United Kingdom
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