The Gondoliers

This year's show will be The Gondoliers, and will be performed in the Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge, from 26 to 30 October 2010 at 7:30 pm (with a matinee at 2:30 pm on Saturday the 26th) and at the Apex Theatre, Bury St Edmunds, on 5 November 2010 at 7:30 pm.

Booking tickets

Tickets for all performances can be ordered from our box office on 01473 858108 or by email, or online. Tickets are priced at £13.50 for all performances except Tuesday 26th October and Wednesday 27th. For these performances tickets are £11.00. In the seat plan below, the darker shaded seats are £5.00 for all performances. To order by post, please send details of the seats you would like and a cheque to cover the ticket price plus £1.00 for postage to:

The Theatres

SECKFORD THEATRE on Burkitt Road, Woodbridge, is a comfortable, professional, 350-seat theatre in the beautiful grounds of Woodbridge school, only five minutes from the A12 and with ample on-site parking. It hosts a spacious foyer bar, full disabled facilities and a hearing loop is available.

An approximate seating plan for the Seckford theatre is shown below. There's also a photo taken from the stage, showing the "Stage Stalls" seats at the front. These don't have arms but are raked and so have a very good view. We've priced the ones in row A at £5.00 because they are quite close to the stage. The stalls at the back have a front row of 13 seats and then 4 rows behind which have 4 seats slightly angled at either end. These angled seats in Row R are held back for wheelchair users. There's an excellent view from the balcony. The 8 seats on either side of the balcony are single seats, set high to see over the side handrail.

THE APEX in Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, is a brand new 400-seat state-of-the-art live music and arts venue for the East of England and we are delighted to be able to use these facilities in their opening season. Again, full audience facilities are available in the building, including a café and bar.

Currently we don't have a confirmed seating plan for the Apex theatre. We do know that there will be 13 rows of seats in the stalls, with each row holding about 18 seats. There are 2 upper levels. The lower balcony has 2 rows of seats and the upper balcony 3 rows of seats, with something like 26 seats in each row. We are currently taking bookings for this theatre and will reserve your places, but can't send tickets out until we've confirmed seat numbers with the theatre management. A photo of the interior of the theatre from the theatre's web site is below:

The Show

IN VENICE live two brothers, Marco and Giuseppe. They are happy being Gondoliers until one day an imposing stranger announces they are not, in fact, brothers but that one of them is the only son-and- heir of the late King of Barataria. Precisely which of the brothers is a King and which a Gondolier is unfortunately an inconvenient mystery. It is doubly inconvenient when they discover that the King, whichever he is, was married in infancy to the daughter of a Spanish Duke - as only half an hour earlier, the brothers were both married to two local Venetian girls.

Being forced to leave their new wives behind, the Gondoliers go off to Barataria, set up a republican kingdom, where all are equal, and they reign in a coalition government - but surely this can't go on forever?

Rehearsals

Principals please note: In addition to the rehearsals listed below, principals will be called as needed for rehearsals on Thursdays from 8th July to 19th August inclusive.

Venue:  

For the dates listed below the venue is Belstead Village Hall unless otherwise stated.

Absence, due to holidays etc, MUST be entered on the Holiday Lists. Any other absence should be reported to the Membership Secretary - otherwise we will be expecting you!

Email: gsipsmembersecretarysheila2010@hotmail.co.uk