LAMP - Linlithgow Amateur Musical Productions

Rehearsals begin for "Hello Dolly"

The Admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Rehearsals for our 2009 production of "Hello Dolly" have begun!

Company rehearsals take place on Tuesday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm, at Linlithgow Bridge Primary School. New members are welcome to join us as we begin to learn the music for the show.

For more information, please contact our Secretary, Claire, on 07828 975 732.

Tickets on sale for "Return to the Forbidden Planet"

The Admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:20:00 GMT

Tickets are now on sale for our Children's Theatre production of "Return to the Forbidden Planet"...

The show runs from 14-18 April 2009 at Linlithgow Academy. You can order and pay for tickets online at our ticket booking page.

Alternatively, you can order by phone from Jennifer, our ticket manager, on 07791 354 057, or from any LAMP company member.

2009: Return to the Forbidden Planet (Children's Theatre)

The Admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:04:00 GMT

This cosmic, high energy rock'n'roll musical is loosely based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and the 1956 B-movie 'Forbidden Planet'.

The Intergalactic Starship Albatross takes off for a routine survey flight under the watchful command of Captain Tempest. Aboard this flight is the new female Science Officer with the crew who are led by the Bosuns and the Navigation Officers. The crew includes Cookie, the ships cook, a hopeless romantic.

As the spaceship blasts its way through space, it encounters a storm of asteroids, the Science Officer flees taking the only emergency shuttle craft. Meanwhile the Albatross is being pulled inexorably towards the Planet D'Illyria... which is not marked on their charts!

The adventure now begins.....

Featuring songs such as 'Good Vibrations', 'Shake, Rattle n Roll', 'Monster Mash' and 'Great Balls of Fire' it is sure to have audiences rocking in the aisles!

LAMP Children's Theatre cast 2009

Captain Tempest... Euan Mason
Miranda... Karine Stalker
Gloria (Science Officer)... Hannah Easton
Doctor Prospero... Stuart Wright
Ariel... Jane Henderson
Bosun... Michael Laird
Bosun's mate... Billy Stevenson
Cookie... Sandy Bain
Newsreaders... Christie Jamieson, Sally Bell, Christina McCall
Other characters... Eva Dickson, Alexander Douglas, Lucie Douglas, Aaron Walker

DIRECTOR... Amanda-Louise Clark
MUSICAL DIRECTOR... Eddie MacLennon

Children's Musical Theatre workshop

The Admin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Following last year's popular "Pirates workshop", LAMP are inviting young people aged 9-16 to come and join in a Musical Theatre workshop based on their latest production, "Me and My Girl"...

Following last year's popular "Pirates workshop", LAMP are inviting young people aged 9-16 to come and join in a Musical Theatre workshop based on their latest production, "Me and My Girl". Participants will work with the company's professional Director to learn extracts from the production and perform onstage as well as getting the opportunity to watch the show and meet the cast. It promises to be an all-singing-all-dancing-all-fun afternoon... so book your place now!

The workshop takes place on Saturday 18 October, 1.30-3pm, in Linlithgow Academy Theatre. Places cost only £5 and include a complimentary ticket to watch the Monday evening performance, and a backstage pass.

For more information, or to book a place, please contact the company on 01506 510 928 or e-mail info@linlithgow-musicals.co.uk

Auditions for our 2009 Childrens Theatre production

The Admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Auditions to join the cast for our 2009 Childrens Theatre production will be held at Linlithgow Academy on Monday...

Auditions to join the cast for our 2009 Childrens Theatre production will be held at Linlithgow Academy on Monday 22 September 2008 at 7pm.

The show, which will be performed in April 2009, has not yet been chosen but we will announce the selection here, once it has been made.

Those wishing to audition should prepare a song, and a piece of prose (e.g. a poem or a passage from a book). Participants will also be given a short dance audition.

To register, please contact Susan MacFarlane on 01506 510928 or email info@linlithgow-musicals.co.uk.

Tickets for "Me And My Girl" now available online

The Admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:12:00 GMT

Tickets for our forthcoming production of Me And My Girl are now available online...

Tickets for our 2008 production of Me And My Girl are now available to book online from our ticket bookings page.

Tickets can also be ordered by phone (call Susan MacFarlane on 01506 510928) or from any LAMP member.

2008: Me And My Girl

The Admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:12:00 GMT

Our 2008 production is Me And My Girl.

We will be performing the show in Linlithgow Academy from Monday 20 October 2008 until Saturday 25 October 2008. Tickets are now available online... Children receive a FREE ticket to the Monday evening performance if they attend our Kids Workshop.

Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay.The show stopper, "The Lambeth Walk", was the subject of a news story in The Times of October 1938: "While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances - to The Lambeth Walk."

Me and My Girl was revived in 1952, and again in 1984, with a revised script by Stephen Fry and contributions by Mike Ockrent at the Leicester Haymarket theatre, from where it transferred to London's West End for a successful eight year run at the Adelphi Theatre, later going on tour throughout Britain. It then transferred to Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in 1986 for a long run of 1,420 performances. The production was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Original Score, and it is this script on which our show will be based.

Who turns out to be the long-lost heir to the Baronetcy of Hareford, its 17th Baron and 8th Viscount? Lambeth's own Cockney sparrow, Bill Snibson, that's who. He has his own girlfriend, Sally, but that won't stop gold-digger Lady Jacqueline. She ditches her dumbfounded boyfriend, Gerald, when Mr Parchester, the family solicitor, presents Bill to the flabbergasted family as the new son and heir.

But Bill has still to win the family's approval to inherit the title - and the money. The formidable Duchess is determined Bill should stay at Hareford, insisting that, with a little grooming, Bill will be suitable to inherit. There will be an official reception to introduce him to the county set. But Sally is not to be invited. Bill faces up to the Duchess - no Sally, no Bill. But Sally doesn't want to come anyway - not to a posh party. The party goes ahead and Sally turns up in full Cockney get-up complete with a posse of pearly kings and queens who perform the 'Lambeth Walk' to prove Bill doesn't belong.

In an effort to make him stay and take up his inheritance, the Duchess persuades Sally to tell Bill she no longer loves him. Sally does this, and slips out to an unknown destination. Bill, helped by Sir John and Parchester, is determined to find Sally (whom he still loves). He is urged on by a Ruddigore-like gallery of ghostly portraits of his ancestors. Back at her landlady's Sally decides to move on. She's got a telegram from Bill and must escape. However, Sir John arrives and has a cunning plan...

LAMP cast 2008

Bill Snibson... Mark Eggling
Sally Smith... Alison Train
Gerald Bolingbroke... Les Fulton
Lady Jacqueline Carstair... Claire Porterfield
Duchess Maria... Pauline Adams
Sir John Tremayne... Paul Clark
Parchester the Solicitor... Tom Keeble
Sir Jasper Tring... Bob Clark
Charles the Butler... Cameron Leask
Lady Battersby... Sheila Rogers
Lord Battersby... Eric Brown
Mrs Brown... Carol Fraser
Constable... Malcolm McNulty

DIRECTOR... AMANDA-LOUISE CLARK
MUSICAL DIRECTOR... EDDIE MACLENNAN

2007: Pirates of Penzance

The Admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:11:00 GMT

On the coast of Cornwall, a gang of pirates play and party as Frederic (a pirate apprentice) reminds the pirate king that his obligation to the gang is soon over. He was apprenticed to the pirates only until his twenty-first birthday, which is that day, and he is leaving them. Ruth (Frederic’s nursery maid when he was younger) explains that Frederic should never have been a pirate except for her mistake: She was told to apprentice Frederic to a pilot, but she misunderstood and placed him with a pirate instead.

Frederic tells the pirates that, after he leaves the gang, he intends to destroy them, not because he doesn’t love them, but because he loathes what they do. He is a slave of duty and, when no longer a pirate, it will be his duty to destroy them. The pirates understand, and also complain that they cannot seem to make money. Because Frederic is a slave-of-duty to the pirates until noon, he tells them why: Because they are all orphans, the pirates will not rob another orphan; and since all their potential victims are aware of this, they all claim to be orphans! Frederic has spent his entire life with the pirates, he has never seen another woman; thus he thinks he may want to take Ruth with him as his wife.

At this point, however, Frederic hears a chorus of girls in the vicinity. He sees a group of beautiful young women, realizes he was betrayed by Ruth, and rejects her. Frederic informs the girls that he is a pirate, but not for long. He asks if any of the girls will marry him, and the youngest, Mabel, agrees. The pirates enter the scene, and each grabs a girl. Major-General Stanley enters and identifies himself as the girls’ father. Knowing about the pirates’ weakness, Major-General Stanley tells them he is an orphan and, thus, disarms the pirates and takes his daughters, along with Frederic, away to his family chapel and estate. The major-general, who actually is not an orphan, soon feels guilty about the lie he told the pirates.

Frederic has a plan to lead a squad of zany policemen against the his old gang. Before he can act, however, the Pirate King and Ruth arrive to tell him that he is still obligated to the pirates. It seems that Frederic was born on February 29 in a leap year, he has served only five birthdays, not the twenty-one required by his contract. A strong sense of duty forces Frederic to relent, and, because he is a member of the pirate band again, to reveal the truth that Major-General Stanley is not an orphan. The pirate king vows that he will have revenge on the major-general.

Mabel enters and begs Frederic not to go back to the pirates, but bound by duty, he leaves. The police ready their attack on the pirates, while the pirates creep in to take revenge on the major-general. The pirates defeat the police. However, when Ruth divulges that the pirates are really noblemen and they swear their allegiance to the queen, the tables are turned--and the police take the pirates prisoner. However, because the pirates have never really hurt anyone, they are soon forgiven. The ex-pirates win the girls, Frederic wins Mabel, and everyone lives happily ever after!

LAMP cast 2007

Pirate King... Tom Keeble
Samuel... Paul Clark
Frederic... Keith Gibson
Ruth... Carol Fraser
Edith... Jennifer MacLennan
Kate... Keri Zaczek
Isabel... Sue Spencer
Mabel... Claire Porterfield
Major General Stanley... Alex Kemp
Sergeant of Police... Cameron Leask

DIRECTORS... ALAN CURRIE and AMANDA-LOUISE CLARK
MUSICAL DIRECTOR... EDDIE MACLENNON
CHOREOGRAPHY... AMANDA-LOUISE CLARK

2006: Anything Goes

The Admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:00 GMT

The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster (Moonface Martin), a wealthy debutante and her mother (Hope and Evangeline Harcourt), a nightclub singer (Reno SweenEy), and a wealthy New York businessman and his stowaway assistant (Elisha Witney and Billy Crocker).

It turns out that Hope is Billy's long-lost love. Unfortunately, she is now engaged to a wealthy Englishman, Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. After a series of comedic happenings, Billy manages to win back Hope. Meanwhile, Billy's friend, Reno, manages to seduce and win Lord Evelyn. All this happens while Moonface Martin attempts to escape the law and Hope's mother strives to maintain her social status...

LAMP cast 2006

Billy Crocker... Craig Gourlay
Reno Sweeney... Alison Thomson
Hope Harcourt... Pamela Scott
Sir Evelyn Oakleigh... Paul Clark
Moonface Martin... Bob Clark
Bonnie... Carol Fraser
Elisha J Whitney... Garry Withnell
The Angels... Ashley Brown, Claire Fraser, Shona Fraser, Fiona Rankine
Mrs Harcourt... Fiona Deighton
Captain... Eric Brown

DIRECTOR... ALAN CURRIE
PRODUCER/CHOREOGRAPHER... AMANDA-LOUISE CLARK
MUSICAL DIRECTOR... EDDIE MACLENNAN

2004: Kiss Me, Kate

The Admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.

Egotistical Fred Graham is the director of a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. He and his diva movie-star ex-wife Lilli Vanessi star opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katharine. The pair argue backstage as only people in love can argue. Meanwhile, Fred's girl, Lois Lane, who plays Bianca, is romantically interested in Bill Calhoun, the actor playing Lucentio. Bill loves to gamble, and it turns out that he has signed Fred's name to a big IOU. Also, flowers sent by Fred to Lois mistakenly get delivered to Lilli, and Lilli realizes that she still loves Fred.

Everyone is in the middle of performing The Taming of the Shrew on stage when Lilli discovers that Fred's flowers were really intended for Lois, and she starts an all-out war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. At the same time, a pair of gangsters have come after Fred to collect the gambling debt, since his name is on the IOU. Only a successful show will provide the money that Fred needs to avoid getting his fingers broken. Fred slyly uses the gangsters to prevent the furious Lilli from walking out on the show. The gangsters join the cast to keep an eye on Lilli. Lilli channels her anger into a fierce performance as Katharine, and Fred is forced to spank her as Petruchio.

Later, the gangsters learn that their boss has been killed, and so the IOU is worthless, and they leave, noting that guys who know Shakespeare can impress the ladies. Lilli quits the show, walking out with her dependable fiance Harrison. On stage, Bianca and Lucentio are finally married. As "The Shrew" comes to a close, Lilli unexpectedly returns to the stage, and speaking as Katharine, she admits her love for Fred. Lilli and Fred are reunited, Lois and Bill come together, and all ends happily.

LAMP cast 2004

Fred Graham (Petruchio)... Keith Gibson
Lilli Vanessi (Katharine)... Lorna Robertson
Bill Calhoun (Lucentio)... Craig Gourlay
Lois Lane (Bianca)... Roseanne Mylles
Harrison Howell... Bob Clark
1st Gangster... Paul Rice
2nd Gangster... Eric Brown
Harry Trevor (Baptista)... Gordon Smith
Paul (Hortensio)... David Wylie
Hattie... Susan McFarlane

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER... NICOLA HUGHES
MUSICAL DIRECTOR... EDDIE MACLENNAN
ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY... LESLEY SCOTT