Guys and Dolls

EUSOG present the Tony award-winning musical 'Guys and Dolls'

Fresh from taking the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 by storm with 5 star, sell-out productions of Rent and Pirates of Penzance, EUSOG return with a classic musical fable of Broadway.

One of Broadway’s best-loved musicals, Guys & Dolls hit the stage in 1950 and ran for 1200 performances; in 1955 becoming a film starring Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. In the streets of New York, Damon Runyon’s wittily-drawn characters are set on a collision course: earnest Sarah Brown from the Save-a-Soul Mission is wooed by inveterate gambler Sky Masterson, as the irrepressible Nathan Detroit seeks a new location for his floating dice game while side-stepping both the law and Adelaide, his showgirl fiancée of 14 years.

Richly comic and unashamedly upbeat, the show features “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat”, “Bushel and a Peck”, “Take Back Your Mink” and “Adelaide’s Lament”.

Guys and Dolls will be performed in the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th November, 7.30pm.

Booking information will be available here shortly.

EUSOG in the Press 2009:

***** "The cast members shine...a superb performance"
Three Weeks

***** "An excellent, enjoyable production."
Broadway Baby

***** "...it was a pleasure to be part of the 'Rent' experience. Get a ticket if you can!"
One 4 Review

**** "EUSOG are exuberant in their delivery...a ballsy, complex and near professional-quality show. You may need to fight for a ticket."
Broadway Baby

**** "Outstanding... A professionally executed production."
All The Festivals

**** "Brings chills to the audience...stunningly beautiful"
Hairline

"...five-star company EUSOG will undoubtedly have cynics dancing in the aisles."
The Scotsman

Rent

The revolutionary Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning show.

Premièring on Broadway in 1996, Jonathan Larson’s revolutionary rock version of Puccini’s opera La Bohème was a stunning success, winning many prestigious accolades including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Larson’s moving score portrays a group of impoverished artists, addicts and lovers maintaining a precarious existence in New York’s East Village, under the ever-present shadow of AIDS. As relevant now as it was then, RENT creates a time capsule of a world in which these young Bohemians find hope and joy in the darkest depths of despair, and strive to find the salvation of love even in the face of tragedy.

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The Pirates of Penzance

Gilbert & Sullivan's classic comedy brought to joyous life by the company that brought you 'HMS Pinafore' (Fringe sell-out 2008) and 'Guilds' (***** [ThreeWeeks, 2007]). Biting wit, beautiful songs and silly policemen abound!
 

In aid of The Sick Kids Hospital.
 

Augustine’s Studio. George IV Bridge, Fringe Venue 152
9th – 15th August 2009
8:30pm 90 minutes
 

Buy Tickets from www.paradise-green.co.uk
 

CREW

DIRECTOR:                Naomi Lawrence
CO-MD:                     Sam Cable
CO-MD:                     Tom Paton
PRODUCER:               Will Searle
PIANIST:                    Richard Townsend
LIGHTING:                 Richard Robinson

CAST

MABEL:                                                 Sarah Kim
EDITH:                                                  Heather Chalmers
KATE:                                                    Julia Fuchs
ISABEL:                                                 Mary Clare
RUTH:                                                   Lucie Robathan
MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY:                Sam Cable
FREDERIC:                                            Alex Gunn
THE PIRATE KING:                               David Finlay
SAMUEL:                                               Jonathan Gunson
SEARGENT OF POLICE:                         Geoff Lee

PIRATES                                              DAUGHTERS
Will Bartlett                                           Iona Beange
Chris Trenholme                                   Emma Padfield       
POLICE                                                 Erica Holcomb
Chris Drew
Andy Edmonstone
 

The Sorcerer

The Church Hill Theatre, Morningside
3rd – 7th March 2009

Tickets available in the Online Tickets Section on the right or on 07940 968 312

Cast

John Wellington Wells - Hamish Colville
Alexis Pointdextre - Jerry Meldrum
Aline Sangazure - Sarah Kim
Constance Partlett - Heather Chalmers
Doctor Daly - Andrew Edmonstone
Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre - Sam Cable
Lady Sangazure - Jayne Phillips
Mrs Partlett - Debbie Hicks
Notary - Tom Paton

Chorus

Will Bartlett                          Emma Biwer
Chris Drew                           Mary Clare
Alex Gunn                             Johanna Crossley-Zels
Chris Trenholme                   Julia Fuchs
                                            Heather Knott
                                            Naomi Lawrence
                                            Lauren Matthew
                                            Debbie Miller
                                            Emma Padfield
                                            Sally Porter
                                            Lucie Robathan
                                            Annalisa Round
                                            Katie Tobin
                                            Sophie Stokes

Me And My Girl

Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group present their 2008 production of

11th-15th November, 7.30pm at the Adam House Theatre

Tickets Available Now!

£10 (£7.50 Concessions)

Contact tickets@eusog.org or

call Gesine on 07887521911 to order

Synopsis

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. If he doesn't, he'll be given an annuity and sent away. The formidable Duchess is determined Bill should stay, insisting that all will be well and, 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. But they are all invited to the reception and go into dinner.

Next day there's croquet on the lawn. In an effort to make him stay and take up his inheritance, the Duchess has persuaded 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 for her. When Bill arrives, her landlady says she's not there, but Bill waits. He expends all his energy on locating Sally and bringing her back. Sir John makes the Duchess soften her attitude towards Bill's beloved. Bill finally rejects Lady Jacqueline and she returns to Gerald. Bill is making to leave when Sir John enters with a new Eliza Doolittle - it's a posh Sally! The Duchess is delighted and Bill has his girl!

Featuring popular show tunes such as 'The Lambeth Walk', 'The Sun Has Got His Hat On', 'Leaning on a Lamppost' and 'Me and My Girl'.

Company

For the Fringe Festival 2008, EUSOG presents the Tony Award winning

A musical comedy by Stephen Sondeim

Performing 4th - 10th & 12th - 17th August (Weeks 1 & 2 of the Edinburgh fringe festival) at Augustine's Church

About Company

Set in New York, 'Company' follows Robert, a 35 year old bachelor and his dysfunctional married friends. The relationships are presented in a series of vignettes, mainly through Bobby's eyes, to portray the less than ideal aspects of commitment. Eventually Robert learns that whilst no relationship is perfect, it is a necessary part of 'Being Alive'. 'Company' discusses the themes of age, love and loneliness with the comic undercutting, wit and pathos audiences have learnt to expect from Sondheim's work.

Production Team

Cast

Crew

COMPANY
Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of NEW YORK.

HMS Pinafore

EUSOG would like to invite one and all to watch our Fringe production of

Performance

We will be performing in Venue 115, Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House at 10pm from the 18th to the 23rd of August (Monday to Saturday of week3). The profits will be donated to the Sick Kids Friends Foundation who raise money for the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children.

The Show

HMS Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's first real smash hit. The story (in time honoured fashion) goes roughly thus:

Ralph, a handsome sailor, confesses to his shipmates his love for Josephine (daughter of the honourable Captain Corcoran), only to be reminded that the chances of getting it on with her are... minimal. Josephine meanwhile (despite harbouring a secret passion for Ralph), is being pursued by Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Perhaps unsurprisingly however she finds him rather stuffy and unattractive. After much general discussion of equality and the fact that any sailor is as good as his captain (and probably after no small amount of rum), Ralph (despite the admonitions of his shipmates) declares his love to Josephine who dutifully snubs him because (being a good and loyal daughter) she has decided to marry Sir Joseph. Ralph, in a depressed frenzy threatens suicide which snaps Josephine out of her bizzarro old-man fantasy world long enough to declare her true love for Ralph. Much rejoicing ensues and they decide to elope that night. Dick Deadeye (resident doom-sayer) warns that this is probably unwise, but then he's always bringing down the party, so no-one pays much attention.

The action continues in Act II where we see the mysterious "Little Buttercup" telling Captain Corcoran that things are not as they seem and that a change is coming. This is probably the best he can hope for at the moment as he is under threat of court-martial and has been deserted by all his friends. Sir Joseph moans to the Captain that his daughter has not yet accepted his proposal, to which the captain suggests a little more of the "love makes us all equal" banter which went down so well in Act I. This has rather the opposite of the intended effect on Josephine, who is now more determined than ever to marry Ralph. Dick Deadeye puts in his oar again and informs the captain of the elopers' plan, causing him to swear loudly on the deck, which is the final straw for Sir Joseph who relieves the Captain of duty. All is looking grim when Little Buttercup dons her Deus Ex Machina hat and announces that when she was a nursemaid and caring for both Ralph and the Captain, she inadvertently swapped them, meaning that Ralph is actually of moderately noble standing and the Captain is merely a common sailor. Now Josephine can marry Ralph, the Captain can marry Buttercup and sir Joseph gets it on with his cousin! Hooray!

 Press

Please contact kelly@eusog.org for our press release.

Guilds

Ambition, intrigue, foolish love and custard pies - EUSOG welcomes you to the high drama of the Jester Election. The hero Cedrick, the Village Idiot of Haselmere, faces his greatest fear - the voters.

Plot

In the 16^th century village of Haslemere, Cedrick, the village jester and member of the Slapstick Guild, treats the villagers' illnesses by entertaining and amusing them. But now it is election time and Cedrick risks losing his seat to Amy, of the Worldplay Guild. The Slapstick Guild's aged leader Graham is fighting off a leadership coup from Theresa, his single-minded deputy. The Worldplay Guild's highly competent leader Benjamin fears Theresa and is trying to ensure that Graham stays in place. Cedrick finds himself caught in the middle of their dispute, as well as attracted to his opponent, and must make a difficult choice as the crucial vote which will decide his future approaches.

About Guilds

Guilds is a 50-minute musical comedy which was written for EUSOG to perform at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It requires a cast of 4 men, 2 women, and chorus. If you would be interested in performing Guilds, please contact the EUSOG committee at committee@eusog.org.

Reviews

A joy to watch; `Guilds` is a wonderfully topical comic musical. The play centres on an election campaign between two jesters both vying for the title of village idiot. Cunningly it`s contemporary politics that is being poked fun at; negative campaigning, photo ops, sound bites and voter apathy are all mocked, and brilliantly. On top of this, the play is a showcase of talent, with technically difficult pieces sung to perfection. Laughter also graces the stage - Ed Curry`s performance is one of particular comic brilliance. Not often do whole audiences giggle throughout a musical, but the comedy, both slapstick and subtle, that adorns this musical is extremely amusing. So we have wit and intelligence, talent, and laughter: this show is hard to fault. - 3 Weeks

Guilds is a fantastic, clever and funny show with an excellent cast and great storyline that will keep you hooked. This group of University students are more than a match for some of the more seasoned performers out there. Once again, great show. - Ed Tweddle

Hey, went to see Guilds last night and i would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a good laugh and to enjoy some brilliant singing and acting! This show is in a great venue on George IV Bridge and as mentioned below was sold out last night. On the performance last night it should be sold out every night! The lyrics are clever and topical, and the actors are very talented- go buy your ticket! - Vicky Miller

This was the first show I have seen in 2007`s fringe and it means all the rest of the shows have something to live up to. The music was fab and the political satirical element was excellent. It has something for everyone - both commedy and music. A MUST SEE!!! Enjoy the show xx - Scott Mathe

Sound Clips

You can download sound clips of the music in Guilds at the bottom of this page.

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