Camus Productions stages two productions each year. The Spring production is in May and the Autumn/Winter production is in November. We perform at the Camberley Theatre.
Our May 2008 production is
Crazy For You is a toe tapping musical full of comedy and romance with plenty of catchy numbers to rouse the audience and is not to be missed.
Taking the music from Gershwin’s many other musical projects into one show, the story is set around a young show biz wannabe Bobby Child, a young man who is sent to close down a theatre however on the way he falls in love, loses his gal and impersonates the one person he tried to impress.
However it is the music that really makes this show! Well known songs such as I Got Rhythm, Someone to Watch over Me, They Cant Take That Away from Me, Nice Work if You Can Get It are all signature tunes from Gershwin and all wrapped up in this wonderful show.
We welcome Director Chris Pettitt to his first production for the society. He is an experienced actor and Director who has directed for the neighbouring EBOS and tutored in Drama at Farnborough 6th Form College. He has seen and enjoyed many CAMUS shows and is greatly looking forward to working with us. CAMUS also welcomes back Melissa Timms for her talents in Choreography and we welcome Julie Dance as Musical Director.
This is a show not to be missed……..so make sure you don’t!
Our November 2008 production is
Hello, Dolly!
Camberley Theatre
25th - 29th November 2008
HELLO, DOLLY! is the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire, and send his money circulating among the people like rainwater the way her late husband, Ephraim Levi, taught her. Along the way she also succeeds in matching up the young and beautiful Widow Molloy with Vandergelder's head clerk, Cornelius Hackl; Cornelius' assistant, Barnaby Tucker, with Mrs. Molloy's assistant, Minnie Fay; and the struggling artist, Ambrose Kemper, with Mr. Vandergelder's weeping niece, Ermengarde.
Mrs. Levi tracks Vandergelder to his hay and feed store in Yonkers, then by train back to Mrs. Molloy's hat shop in New York, out into the streets of the city where they are all caught up in the great Fourteenth Street Association Parade, and finally to the most elegant and expensive restaurant in town, the Harmonia Gardens. There, Dolly is greeted by the waiters, cooks, doormen and wine stewards in one of the most famous songs in the history of American musical comedy, Hello, Dolly!
What happens in the end? Dolly gets her man, of course. Even makes him glad she caught him. Dolly leaves the stage at the end of Act II with a wink to the audience as she takes a peep into Vandergelder's bulging cash register, and promises that his fortune will soon be put to good use. She quotes her late husband as she says, "Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
HELLO, DOLLY! is an ebullient and irresistible story of the joy of living, glittering with happy songs, shining with loving scenes, alive with the personality of one of the most fabulous characters on the musical stage...Dolly Gallagher Levi!
Synopsis courtesy of musicalheaven.com
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