Author: Matthew Capp

Grease auditions are this weekend the 22nd and 23rd June at the Mildura Eco Village. If you would like more info email musicalsocietymildura@gmail.com and/or join our facebook group to get all the info.

This year the Dame Award has been won by two excellent performers, Jarrod Searle and Tayla Farlie. Both Jarrod and Tayla exhibit excellent leadership qualities and amazing performance skill. They have shown throughout this years panto what hard work and dedication can achieve. They now join the prestigious Dame Award winners and can now vote for future award winners. Congratulations Jarrod and Tayla!

Our production of Rapunzel has come to a close. We would like to thank all of those people involved in the production, it has truly been a magical experience. Thank you to all of the family, friends and the community as a whole for coming along to support us with our pantomime adventure. Every pantomime production we choose a charity that will receive a donation from our profits of the show. This year C.H.A.I.L.I.S is the charity we are supporting. We were able to donate a huge $3000! Rick and Jan were able to accept the donation on behalf of C.H.A.I.L.I.S at the finale performance. Pictured: Steve Prescott (Director), Rick

What a fantastic day, let me congratulate everyone on such an awesome day of auditions. I know that for some it can be very daunting, but you held your ground and came through far better than most of you expected. With the day starting out with quite a few new faces singing in our chorus and many older society members also joining in, we then went through the challenge of the listening to many potential auditionees for the lead characters themselves. Once again thank you to all those involved in the character auditions, those that were not successful, do not fret as there are many smaller ensemble characters that still

Congratulations to BRENT SULLIVAN on being voted as the recipient of “The Gong Award” for his performance of Jean Val Jean in Les Miserables!  The Gong award criteria (loosely) as follows : A person who has shown high excellence in acting skills and growth personally and within the art of performing from the first rehearsal, behind the scenes and to the final performance. Must have attended all rehearsals as required, and to have shown leadership and mentor qualities to other performers through the season. Always been polite, respectful and courteous to all throughout and most importantly the award can only EVER be awarded to the recipient ONCE. They are a

Congratulations to Glen Barrow on achieving Life Member status! His contributions have been endless both on and off the stage. He has been a committee member, director/producer, and actor having just completed the Les Miserables production as Javert.

Another annual general meeting has come and gone and as such we would like to thank the outgoing committee for their valuable time and effort they have given to the society over the last 12 months. We would like to congratulate the new committee on their appointments for the 2018/19 season and look forward to seeing what is in store. The appointments are as follows. President – Matthew Capp Vice President – Brendan Alderton Secretary – Meg Smith Treasurer – Bill Lewis General Committee – Andrew Alderton, Beth Dunne, Tayla Farlie, Hope Follett, Janice Marshall, Julie Maynard, Donald Mayne, Clare Taylor and Phoebe Wilson If you are currently a financial