King Hildebrand [centre] (Mark Bordell)
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Director: Derek Collins
Musical Director: Brian Brown
The group opened the First International Festrival in Buxton in 1994 setting a wonderful standard with 'Pirates' which took third prize overall. They achieved another two significant firsts in 1996 - the first British group to play in the American leg of the Festival and the first British group to win the coveted International Trophy.
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The Court of King Hidebrand King Hildebrand [centre] (Mark Bordell) |
| We are Warriors Three! Arac [centre] (Paul Lazell), Guron (Patrick Gallagher) and Scynthius (Patrick O'Brien) |
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Expressive glances shall be our lances Cyril (Peter Wilson), Hilarion (Mick Wilson) and Florian (Howard Brooks) with King Hildebrand's courtiers |
| Towards the Empyrean Heights Castle Adamant with lady students |
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Madam, I take three possibilities Lady Psyche (Alison Brewer), Lady Blanche (Eileen Barks-Marner) and Princess Ida (Christine Anson) |
| The World is but a broken toy Hilarion, Ida, Cyril and Florian |
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And grinning herds of hurdy-gurds King Gama (Pat )'Connell with a quartet of Ida's undergraduates |
| To yield at once! Finale Act II |
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In a departure from this year's cabarets which have mainly consisted of sung party pieces South Anglia treated us to an imaginative and hilarious spoof on Trial by Jury and The Merry Widow called 'Trial by Committee'. Complete with a string of jilted leading ladies, an over-amorous leading man, golf-playing chairman and NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association) representative it rounded off the evening in splendid style.
| I will marry her myself! |
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Page updated 23 August 1998
