Speaking of 'new blood' in the other sense of the term, you might just see a little in our murder mystery. Do come and find out!
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Belmont has many talented actors within its ranks but sometimes its great to get some 'new blood' and for our May production, 'The Hollow', we are delighted to have amongst the cast two excellent experienced players whom you won't have seen with Belmont before and also one of our favourite former players who has just re-joined the group.
Speaking of 'new blood' in the other sense of the term, you might just see a little in our murder mystery. Do come and find out! 07917 324179 for tickets Great read through last night. Well-attended but the more the merrier.
Casting takes place this Thursday at 8pm in Carpenders Park. Males under 40 in particular stand a great chance of landing a part. Come and prove you could be good enough. We've an experienced director and a wonderful play which will bring out the best of your talents and skills. Call 07917 324179 now for more info. This chilling murder mystery will be staged at The Pump House Theatre between 29th May and 1st June 2013. Thursday to Saturday shows start at 7.45pm and the Saturday matinee begins at 2.45pm. Tickets 07917 324179. Thanks to all who attended. Hope you enjoyed it. Weekend performances were packed. Turned people away.
Belmont Theatre Company has been awarded £400 by Hertfordshire County Council to help pay for advertising and upgrading props, costumes and effects. The money has come from the Council’s Locality Grant Scheme and we are very grateful to the Council for their help. New members and props are always needed for the range of productions we perform. http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/10247104.Theatre_group_awarded_council_cash/ Show week nearly over. Just 10 seats available for tonight's 7.45pm performance.
This message posted at 5pm. Tickets have been selling well today so call 07917 324179 to reserve yours now. First come first served. ' The best acting I have ever seen' said one regular theatregoer last night. ...and it was about our show, not some West End production. Just three performances to go. A small handful of tickets are left for tonight (Friday 7.45pm), Just one ticket for the Saturday Matinee (2.45pm). Your last chance to see the show is Saturday Evening at 7.45pm and this one certainly deserves a full house every time. Box office 07917 324179. Curtain up next Wednesday and some performances now have very few seats left. This isn't a show you should miss.
All seats at the Pump House have a great view. Wednesday and Thursday evenings currently have the most choice of available seats, especially for larger party sizes who wish to sit together. Please call now for current availability - 07917 324179. Interested in being on stage with us in May 2013? You don't have to be a member to audition for our next show, The Hollow, Agatha Christies well-known thriller. There will be a reading of the play, in the Carpenders Park / Watford area on Tuesday 12th March followed by auditions on Thursday 14th March at 8pm. We regularly rehearse in Carpenders Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays with some Sunday morning rehearsals nearer the time of the show. Characters for this show: There are six male and six female plus 3 smaller roles, with a variety of ages needed. Please call 07917 324179 for further details quoting the magic words 'Open Auditions'. Not only will you look more popular but you'll get our news as it happens too.
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From this picture, rehearsals have clearly been exhausting but they are now in their final stages; the cast know their lines and moves and will be ready for the show. Ticket sales are going well so it looks like we'll have packed audiences again so don't delay in booking yours whilst there are still some available for the performance of your choice. Call 07917 324179 (open 7 days a week). We are again delighted to be part of the Barnet & District Drama Festival for 2013 with our next show, Neil Simon's broadway comedy, 'California Suite'. This prestigious Festival features productions from approx. ten leading amateur theatre groups based around the Barnet area (happily for us, Watford is considered near enough and it does encourage more people to see the show from outside of the immediate locality). The Festival spans a period from February to May/June. 'California Suite' runs from February 27th to March 2nd 2013 at The Pump House Theatre, Watford. Please call 07917 324179 to reserve your tickets. JUST ADDED: special Tuesday preview performance announced
for 27th November due to exceptional demand! Preview admission just £8 donation - per ticket. Full production, with uninterrupted run through, costumes, sound, light and effects but with unreserved seating. Culmination of five long months of rehearsal prior to published performances. Limited seats available. Pre-booking required on 07917 324179. Interested in being on stage with us in February 2013? You don't have to be a member to audition for our next show, California Suite, Neil Simon's well-known comedy and his sequel to Plaza Suite. Like Plaza Suite, it is comprised of a number of separate playlets that are set in the same hotel suite. (See Future Productions page on this site).
There will be a reading of the play, in the Carpenders Park / Watford area on Tuesday 4th December followed by auditions on Thursday 6th December at 8pm. We regularly rehearse on Tuesdays and Thursdays with some Sunday morning rehearsals nearer the time of the show. Characters for this show: males and females in their 40's (or who can look around that age with or without help) plus one female 20s/30s. Please call 07917 324179 for further details quoting the magic words 'Open Auditions'. The Friday and Saturday performances have now sold out but there is a limited number of seats still available for the Wednesday and Thursday evening performances. At The Pump House, all seats afford a great view so book with confidence but book soon as they are going fast.
An enjoyable morning was spent today by members and prospective members of the group, in a social setting in North Harrow discussing how Jack the Ripper was taking shape and how the group could move forward with more new members. Belmont Theatre is not just about hard work and dedication. It's also a fun place to be.
Some more excellent atmospheric black & white photos at http://www.blueskyjunction.co.uk/?page_id=523 taken during rehearsals for Jack the Ripper by Blue Sky Junction Photography. In these pictures you can really see the concentration that rehearsals demand, captured in the faces of the cast. (NB: the show will be in Victorian costume and, of course, in colour!) The Jack the Ripper suspect Aaron Kosminski was admitted to
Leavesden Asylum on 19 April 1894. Case notes indicate that Kosminski had been ill since at least 1885. His insanity took the form of auditory hallucinations, a paranoid fear of being fed by other people that drove him to pick up and eat food dropped as litter, and a refusal to wash or bathe. He was named as a suspect by the Chief Constable investigating the case at the time. He stated that there were strong reasons for suspecting him, that he "had a great hatred of women, with strong homicidal tendencies", and that he strongly resembled a police eye-witness description of the Ripper. Kosminski, who worked as a barber after arriving in London in 1882, was never interviewed because he was insane. Strangely, once Kosminski knew he was a suspect, the murdurs ceased. Records showed Kosminski lived until 1919 after spending the last years of his life at the Metropolitan Asylum for Chronic Imbeciles, at Leavesden, just north of Watford and was buried in a nearby cemetery. In 1920, the asylum was renamed the Leavesden Mental Hospital. The hospital, which closed in 1997, had two cemeteries on East Lane, one remains accessible, the other has been left to become wooded and a condition of the transfer of the land to Three Rivers District Council required it remain in that way. Since closure in 1997, the hospital has been converted into a private housing estate, Leavesden Court. Ripper matinee sold out in record time. Seats still available for all evening performances1/10/2012
Seems to be our most popular show in ages so please book your tickets for the evening shows without delay.
The matinee waiting list has now started. We last performed 'Jack the Ripper' in 2007.
Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ElGyaOAlgCM to hear and see sample music and pictures. This time the cast will be larger and the stage bigger. Olympic fever subsiding? Congrats to Team GB, but unlike the Olympics there will not be empty seats in the VIP section as we treat all our audience as VIPs.
Thanks to all who came over to our stall at the Roxeth Show last weekend. It was great to meet you and the weather was not our fault - honest. Hopefully we will see you at Jack the Ripper later this year.
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