2009
Into the Woods
One Act Festival – Viva Juarez! / Love or Nearest Offer
Prom Coast Singers – Promontory Dreaming
Dinner at Hugo’s
Bush Magic

2008
Prom Coast Singers – 10th Anniversary Concert
One Act Festival – The ‘Ole in the Road
Blue Remembered Hills
Twisted Tales from the Woods

2007
The Producers
One Act Festival – The Bus Jumper / Open Call
Stringlines
Prom Coast Singers – Fire Up!
Prom Coast Singers – From Pop to Op(era)
Love Letters

2006
Ebenezer’s Dream
One-Act Festival – Pavane
Oedipus Rex
Prom Coast Singers – Stars and Maps Cantata

2005
Old Time Music Hall
Prom Coast Singers – Voices for Hospices – Cantata
One-Act Festival – Dinner for One
The Cemetery Club
Prom Coast Singers – Requiem & Polovtsienne Dances
Shadowlands
Alice in Wonderland

2004
Shirley Valentine
One-Act Festival – Chamber Music / Duchess on Thursday
Winter Warmers -Variety Concert
Prom Coast Singers – Essence of Folk

2003
FAMDA’s 50th Birthday Celebration
Old Time Music Hall
Prom Coast Singers – Mid-Winter Concert
One Act Festival – Barney
A Month of Sundays

2002
One-Act Festival – McGarrity Morgan
Guys and Dolls
Hotel Sorrento

2001
PCS – A Ceremony of Carols
One-Act Festival – Altered Egos
The Woman in Black

2000
A Christmas Cracker
Prom Coast Singers – Benefit Concert
Oliver!

1999
Love Letters
Educating Rita

1998
Round and Round the Garden
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew

1997
Annie
Chinamen in Cabaret

1996
The Triple Treat – The Intruders / Mourning Tea / The Bespoke Overcoat
The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women

1995
The Music Man
Back to Famda

1994
Top Silk

1993
40th Birthday Celebrations
Fiddler on the Roof

1992
Barefoot in the Park

1991
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1990
Follow the Star
My Friend Miss Flint

1989
Love Marriage & Complications
Oklahoma!

1988
200 Not Out
The Removalists

1987
The Curse of an Aching Heart
Salad Days

1986
Foster Improlympics

1985
Felicity’s Fortune

1984
John Goodfella
High Infidelity
Kiss Me Kate

1983
FAMDA’s 30th Birthday Party
Broadway Memories
Arsenic and Old Lace

1982
The Piperman
Foster’s Larger Music Hall
Don’s Party

1981
Blush
Once Upon a Mattress
An Evening with Barbara Fleming

1980
A Threepenny Christmas
Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Jones?
Arms and the Man

1979
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room

1978
The Importance of Being Earnest

1977
Follow the Star
The Birthday Party

1976
Sleeping Beauty
The Gondoliers

1975
Caught in the Villain’s Web
The Book of the Month
The Pajama Game

1974
Revue 21
The Man who Came to Dinner
Calamity Jane
Boeing Boeing

1973
Pure as the Driven Snow
White Horse Inn
Toad of Toad Hall

1972
Pearls for the Poor / Grand Scandal / Trial by Jury
The Pirates of Penzance

1971
Love Rides the Rails
The Shifting Heart

1970
Aladdin
Goodnight Mrs. Puffin
The Great Uncertainty

1969
Jack in a Beanstalk
Trap for a Lonely Man

1968
But Once a Year
Salad Days
Sailor Beware

1967
The Winslow Boy

1966
Rapunzel
A Lady Mislaid

1962
Patience

1961
The Enchanted Waltz
Maid of the Mountains
Meet a Body

1960
Mother Goose
Our Miss Gibbs
Candied Peel

1959
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Feminine Touch

1957
FAMDA’s 1957 Presentation
One Act Plays – Home is the Haunted

1958
Foster FAMDA’s 1958 Presentation
One Act Plays – The Spider Ring / Without the Prince

1956
The Mikado
A Night of One-Act Plays – High Tea

1955
Presentation Night
Trial By Jury / Master Dudley

1954
FAMDA Frolics

1953
Foster Frolics

Photographs taken of the actors, set, band members, cast and crew during rehearsals.

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Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Book by JAMES LAPINE

Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine

By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd

Exclusive agent for Music Theatre International (NY)

Love, loss, theft, sorcery, seduction, betrayal, death.  It’s no walk in the park.

Into the Woods, Sondheim and Lapine’s classic blending of Little Red Ridinghood, Jack & the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Rapunzel, has been a stage favourite for over 20 years.

It brings some of the best-known fairytales together with an original tale about a baker and his wife who spend the first act attempting to reverse a curse so that they may have a child.

All the tales reach their happy conclusions at the end of act one, but then the characters must deal with the results of their desperate search to get what they want – the most dangerous of which is the angry wife of the slain Giant.

Ultimately we are left with a finale about being careful of the legacy we leave, the tales we teach, and an awareness that no matter what battles we fight or whose side we’re on, all actions have consequences.

CAST (in order of appearance)
Narrator – Charles Gruen
Milky White – Louise Dower
Cinderella – Tamika Ball
Jack – Josh Gardiner
Baker – Andrew Oldroyd
Baker’s Wife – Fiona Watts
Stepmother – Dianne Paragreen
Florinda – Lee-Anne Mitchell
Lucinda – Kerrie Giles
Jack’s Mother – Hilary Stuchbery
Little Red Ridinghood – Katelyn Ardley
Witch – Nicole Cooper
Cinderella’s Father – Ashley Stuchbery
Cinderella’s Mother – Barbara Colbran
Wolf / Cinderella’s Prince – Tim Gesell
Rapunzel – Bindi Dunstan
Rapunzel’s Prince – Antony Norden
Granny / Giant’s Wife – Barbara Colbran
Steward – James McIntyre
Sleeping Beauty – Rhiarna Ball
Snow White – Kim Sharpley

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director – John Laurie
Assistant Director – Paddy Broberg
Musical Director – Pamela Coad
Production Manager – Dianne Paragreen
Choreographer – Cassie Fennell
Set Design – Gavin Van Eede & Sindy Virtue
Set Construction Manager – Bruce Crowl
Costume Design – Anda Banikos
Lighting Design – Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Design – Brian Paragreen
Stage Manager – Phil Nightingall

ORCHESTRA
Musical Director – Pamela Coad
Piano – Barbara Fleming
Synthesizer – Paddy Broberg
Synthesizer Strings – Cheryl Connor
Trumpet – Colin Chandler
Flute / Piccolo – Joanne Drury
Flute – Kate Woodward
Clarinet – Alasdair Campbell
Cello – Michael Killian
Double Bass – Ron Murley, Tegan Murley
Percussion – Donald Campbell

Rehearsal Pianist – Barbara Fleming

CONSTRUCTION TEAM
Set – Ari Bos, Don Colbran, Peter Crawford, Bruce Crowl, Burt Fabel, Larry Giddy, Max Hastings, David Hunter, John Laurie, Phil Nightingall, Bill Park, Ross McKenzie, Dick Straw
Helpers – Vince Bucello, Ben Cooper, Raymond Dunstan, Christopher Freeman, Janet Lind, John Mackay, Robert Paragreen, Neil Roussac, Brendan Ryan
Set Painting – Geoff Davey, Fleur Wheeler,
Rhonda Bland, Edwin Coad, Barbara Colbran, Kate Crowl, Lee-Anne Mitchell, Nick Stefani, Barbara Partridge
Costumes – Serena Ball, Joan Harfield, Marilyn Ardley, Catherine McGlead, Dianne Paragreen, Hilary Stuchbery & Cast
Milky White Costume – Amanda & Chris Mahomed
Properties – Arie Bos, Barbara & Don Colbran, Amanda & Chris Mahomed, Ashleigh & Corindy Morris, Andrew Oldroyd, Trish O’Neill, Barbara Partridge
Prosthetics – Tania Pell
Sound Effects – Rob Ellis

TECHNICAL
Lighting Operation – Jan Bull, Raymond Dunstan, Chris Freeman
Sound Operation – Brian Paragreen, Jennifer Paragreen

BACKSTAGE
Stage Manager – Phil Nightingall
Assistant Stage Managers – Sue Dower, Brendan Ryan
Crew – Serena Ball, Steve Ball, Rhonda Bland, Ray Dower
Wood Sprites – Elektra Banikos,  Zoi Banikos, Josie Harfield-Park, Shea McDonald-Eckersall
Properties – Amanda Mahomed
Assistant – Barbara Partridge
Hair & Make-Up – Tania Pell, Rhiarna Ball, Jeanette Bath, Denise Bravington, Roslyn Hanks, Durelle Lind, Sarah Lind, Chelsea Shellcott

ADMINISTRATION
Front of House Manager – Catherine McGlead
Ticket bookings – Deborah Harris – Main Street Revelations
Photography – Robert Paragreen
Publicity & Marketing – Linda Giddy, Jennifer Paragreen
Programme – Jennifer Paragreen

When
Friday 2 October 8:00pm 2009
Saturday 3 October 8:00pm
Sunday 4 October 2:00pm
Thursday 8 October 8:00pm
Friday 9 October 8:00pm
Saturday 10 October 8:00pm
Sunday 11 October 2:00pm
Thursday 15 October 8:00pm
Friday 16 October 8:00pm
Saturday 17 October 8:00pm

Where
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
Main Street, Foster
Melway 530 H5

AWARDS

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Judge’s Award
Intelligent and sensitive animation of Milky White, the cow – Louise Dower

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Nomination
Technical Achievement – FAMDA

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – Commendation
Director – John Laurie

Gippsland Associated Theatre Awards
Most Outstanding Lead Performer ~ Female  – Fiona Watts, the Baker’s Wife
Most Outstanding Lighting  – Andrew Oldroyd
Most Outstanding Junior Male – Josh Gardiner, Jack
Most Outstanding Junior Female – Louise Dower,  Milky White

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A Gourmet Thriller by Edwin Coad

Music by Rob Ellis

Directed by Raymond Dunstan

Set in Hugo’s home on a hilltop overlooking the sea in contemporary country Victoria.

Served as the entree to the Prom Coast Seachange Festival
(24 April – 3 May 2009)

PERFORMANCE DATES: 17 – 24 April

PERFORMANCE VENUE: Foster War Memorial Arts Centre

CAST (in order of appearance):

Hugo – Lloyd Morcom

Therese – Sue Dower

Natalie – Jean Moore

Grant – Norman Willoughby

Jack – James McIntyre

Samantha – Jo Street

Gretta – Sacha Lamont

PRODUCTION TEAM

Design
Director – Raymond Dunstan
Production Manager – Chris Freeman
Original Music – Rob Ellis, with John Laurie & Jules Schmidt
Set – Raymond Dunstan
Lighting – Andrew Oldroyd
Sound – Rob Ellis
Costumes – Pamela Coad

Construction
Set – Raymond Dunstan
Scenic Painting – Fleur Wheeler
Featured Art Painting – Ann Parry
Costumes – Pamela Coad & Cast Members
Cuisine – Catherine McGlead

Technical
Lighting Operation – Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Operation – Rob Ellis

Backstage
Stage Manager – Arie Bos
Properties – Barbara Partridge
Assistant – Chris Freeman
Phone Voice – Barbara Partridge
Hair Consultant – Antony Norden
Make-up – Trish O’Neill, Tania Pell

Administration
Front of House Managers – Marcella Brennan, Edwin Coad

AWARDS

Victorian Drama League Judge’s Award – David Small
Original music in FAMDA’s production of  Dinner at Hugo’s -
Rob Ellis with help from John Laurie and Jules Schmidt

Gippsland Associated Theatre Judge’s Award – David Tattersall
Creativity in composing and recording the dinner music CD for Dinner at Hugo’s -
Rob Ellis,  John Laurie and Jules Schmidt

Production Photographs
Photographer – Elizabeth Richardson.
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