2022 Round Up

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 13:06:44 GMT

2022 Round Up

Here we are again on the brink of another new year!

2022 has been an incredible year for PAOS, from finally getting to perform The Wedding Singer after 2 years of rehearsals to an incredible performance at Perthshire Pride, planting our very own tree to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and then celebrating our own 75th Anniversary all before our new season started for Legally Blonde!

Legally Blonde rehearsals kicked off with a bang; welcoming lots of incredibly talented new members to join our already amazing company and then jumping straight into our Christmas concerts - our first in a very long time! We loved performing across Perth and topped it off with a beautiful sing-a-long in Kincarrathie House - always a highlight of our year!

We can’t wait to show you what we have in store for 2023 and hope everyone has a lovely Hogmanay!

Happy New Year everyone; here’s to 2023!!

75th Anniversary

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:51:09 GMT

75th Anniversary Celebrations

Perth Amateur Operatic Society were so proud to celebrate our 75th Anniversary recently in The Royal George Hotel on Saturday 10th September 2022.

We celebrated with an evening of 'Hollywood Glamour' and everyone definitely dressed for the occasion, as you can see!

As well as a presentation celebrating our 75 year history, we also presented our long service awards from NODA which celebrated members who have been in the society for 10 years, 30 years and even 50 years! Then we moved onto the dancefloor and danced the night away!

It was a wonderful evening and we can't wait until the 80th Anniversary party!

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"THE WEDDING SINGER" POSTPONED

29/3/2020

It will not come as shock to anyone reading this that Coronavirus has shut down the UK for the next few months (at least), this of course means that theatres all over the country have been forced to close their doors, including Perth Theatre. This unfortunately means that our production of "The Wedding Singer" has been postponed for the moment.

We are all devastated at these unforeseen circumstances, we have put so much hard work into this show but we need to keep our cast, crew and audience safe - that is the most important thing in these worrying times. We do hope that everyone will be able to join us when we are able to reschedule! The show really is fantastic, and who knows - maybe after months of social distancing you will be desperate for some cheesy tunes, some high octane dance routines and some side splitting comedy...how good does that sound!?

Please keep an eye on our social media channels for any important updates and for some uplifting content to keep everyone's spirits up during lockdown :)

We hope to see you all very soon, stay safe everyone and keep smiling :)

NICE DAY FOR A WHITE WEDDING

12/3/2020

Well we made it! The wedding/80's themed 3k sponsored fun run/walk is completed! We all thoroughly enjoyed the day and the 'wedding reception' went down a storm, who doesn't love a bit of wedding cake!

We will be able to announce the total amount very soon but until then; we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported us - as a local charity we really appreciate the support from our friends, families and local fans of musical theatre - we couldn't perform without your help!

Hope to see you very soon :)

Bekki x

6 WEEKS TO GO!

26/2/2020

Can you believe it's only 6 weeks to go!? Rehearsals are going fantastically well and we are loving being transported back to the 80's every week!

We are so excited for our upcoming fundraiser the "Race Down the Aisle" fun run/walk on the South Inch in Perth but we are even more excited for our "wedding reception" at the end of the run at The Pavilion Cafe! So if you see any wedding guests/hen parties/brides/grooms running around on the 7th March at around 11am - don't be alarmed! Information on how to donate is on our homepage :)

We also have to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended our annual pub quiz in The Venue at the end of last month - we raised a massive £525 between the entry fee for the quiz teams and the ever popular bottle stall! A massive thanks to everyone at The Venue and to everyone who helped at the event - with 21 teams this year we hit a record! We can only hope that next year is even bigger!

But for now...it's back to rehearsals!

Hope you all have your tickets everyone! :)

Bekki x

CAST NEWS AND CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

14/11/2019

After a long day of auditions, we have a cast!

��Robbie - Mark Murphy

��Sammy - Dylan Sclater

��George - Scott Jewell

��Julia - Bekki Mackenzie

��Holly - Emma Blackburn

��Glen - Gavin Russell

��Rosie - Gillian Martin

��Linda - Nicola Hay

��Angie - Jane Taylor

��Sales Clark - Claire Iwaino

��Ricky the Barman - Stewart Forbes

��The Bum - Dougie Lawson

��Tina Turner Impersonator - Susan Kirkham

��Cyndi Lauper Impersonator - Anna Jellye

��Crystal - Lizzie Baxter

��Waiters - Kit Kendal and Jack McWilliam

��Donatella - Caitlin Todd

��Glen's Secretary - Holly Cammidge

��Junior Secretary - Jen Fotheringham

��Soloist - Catherine Robertson

Congratulations everyone! So far our principal rehearsals have been great fun and the songs are so upbeat it's hard not to leave rehearsals on a high :)

As well as starting our principal rehearsals, we are also rehearsing for lots of Christmas events this year which we are really looking forward to! Firstly we will be performing on the King Edward Street Stage (in front of the old City Hall) in Perth on Saturday 16 November at 3:30pm for the big Christmas Lights Switch on! It is always such a fantastic day and an excuse for our stars to mingle amongst some big stars visiting our area!

We also have performances in Dobbies Garden centre on Saturday 14th December (as well as one venue other tbc!), a performance in The Cherrybank Inn on 15th December and our annual visit to Kincarrathie House, Residential Home to spread some Christmas cheer on Monday 16th December. A really busy time for us but we just love this time of year and hope to see some of you at one of these performances!

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming fundraisers to be announced in the new year as well as tickets going on sale in January!! Exciting times ahead!

Hope to see you all soon :)

Bekki x

NEW SHOW, NEW MEMBERS, NEW PRODUCTION TEAM!

3/10/2019

This season so far has brought us lots of changes and we are really loving it!

Firstly, we have a all new production team with every post being filled by people we have not worked with before which is really exciting! We interviewed a lot of brilliant candidates and the lucky three were chosen, we are so thrilled to welcome Angus Reid as our Musical Director, Kat Grieve as our Director and Brooke Robertson as our choreographer - what a fabulous trio!

As well as a new production team, we have recently held our new members auditions and we welcomed lots of new talent which we are so thrilled about! We even managed to get some more new men - which is definitely something to celebrate. We can't wait to get to know our new members better during this season :) (and if anyone happens to find a spare man lying around, throw him our way! We always need more men-folk!)

Our rehearsals for the Wedding Singer are well under way and all I can say is if you love the 80's you are in for a treat! Our principal auditions will be held at the end of October so watch this space for an update on our cast - break a leg to our auditionees :)

See you all soon!

Bekki x

A HUGE THANK YOU...

14/6/2019

Well, 9 to 5: The Musical already seems like a distant memory to the cast and crew of PAOS! However, we would like to thank every single audience member who attended this year's show and made it the roaring success it turned out to be! Every year we are so grateful to our audience members, Front of House helpers, friends, family and everyone else who helps get us to the Perth Theatre stage! Without your support we wouldn't be able to perform every year so we are eternally grateful to you all :)

Following the show this year we decided to produce a survey to get our audience members involved and have a say in what they would like to see in the coming season and to get any feedback on the show. This was very well received and we got some fantastic feedback, so thank you to everyone who took the time to give us your thoughts - it really helped us to understand what the people of Perth would like and what we can improve on in years to come.

The feedback from the survey has been so useful it has even helped us to pick next year's show!! So keep your eyes peeled as the announcement will be made at our AGM on 20th June and then announced to the public on Friday 21st June via Facebook/Twitter/Carrier Pigeon! We hope you all like our choice and hope to see everyone in the audience next April!

Also keep your eyes peeled for the professional show photos of 9 to 5: The Musical which I am hoping to upload to this website soon! :) No rest for the wicked...

Bekki x

WORKING 9 TO 5...

18/11/2018

After the amazing response to Sister Act in April this year (sold out crowds and standing ovations every night!) we knew we had a tough job on our hands picking our next show and after much deliberation we chose 9 to 5; The Musical!

Having seen the show myself a few years ago - I knew that the people of Perth would love to see this! It's fantastic, funny, touching and of course, still very relevant in today's world! Dolly Parton has written the score for this show - which is fantastic news for Dolly fans, but for those of you who aren't so sure - don't worry - some of these songs are not your typical "country" songs and are very well written to fit the musical, not the musical fitting around Dolly! The script is laugh-out-loud funny and there are beautiful moments of real girl-power set in a time when girl-power was something few and far between.

We have already had a few rehearsals and so far we are having a ball - we can't wait to get our teeth in a bit deeper!

Below is our (very strong!) cast list for you to have a peek!

Violet - Jane Taylor

Doralee - Bekki Mackenzie

Judy - Nicola Hay

Franklin Hart - Jonathan Cammidge

Roz - Anne Kemp

Joe - Christie Young

Dwayne - Simon Laidlaw

Josh - Mark Murphy

Missy - Anna Jellye

Maria - Morag Thomson

Dick - Stuart Forbes

Kathy - Jennifer McOmish

Margaret - Liesa Wallace

Detective - Dougie Lawson

Doctor - Susan Kirkham

Candy striper - Kirsty McDonald

Keep an eye out on our Facebook and Twitter pages for any upcoming fundraising events and more 9 to 5 related news!!

See you all soon,

Bekki x

SISTER ACT - CAST LIST!

25/11/2017

We have had a great start to Sister Act and so far it's been great fun lesrning these amazing songs!!

Auditions were held during the week and we have such a strong cast who can't wait to get started! Congratulations everyone who took part, we are always overwhelmed with how much talent we have to choose from!

So without further ado; here they are folks;

Deloris - Kirsty Watson

Mother Superior - Anne Kemp

Sister Mary Robert - Sarah Cowmeadow

Sister Mary Patrick - Bekki Mackenzie

Sister Mary Lazarus - Jane Taylor

Monsignor O’Hara - Niall Robertson

Curtis - Gavin Russell

Eddie - Owen Thomson

Pablo - Christie Young

Sister Mary Martin - Susan Kirkham

Sister Mary Theresa - Anna Jellye

Tina - Gemma Stewart

Michelle - Nicola Hay

TJ - Dougie Lawson

Let's get going!!

Bekki x

EXCITING TIMES AHEAD

17/7/2017

After the success of Made in Dagenham we are thrilled to announce another new show for Perth; and what's more - we are finally returning to our home stage in the newly refurbished Perth Theatre! We will be the first musical in their new programme and we are thrilled, it is such an exciting opportunity for us and we can't wait to bring Sister Act to the crowds of Perth for the first time!

We have a lot of changes, new challenges and fundraising opportunities ahead so keep an eye out on our social media channels for more information, updates and photos of what is sure to be a brilliant season!

See you all soon.

Bekki x

TWO WEEKS TO GO!

29/3/2017

Where have the months gone?! One minute we were gearing up for Christmas and the next it's two weeks tonight until we open Made in Dagenham for the first time in Perth's history! How exciting :-)

The cast have been working so hard for the last 3 months and are thrilled to be bringing this new production to the people of Perth, after all - Perth is the Place! hours of dance rehearsals, acting rehearsals, singing rehearsals, fundraising and of course having a great time are all about to hit the stage so make sure you have your placards at the ready Perth!

A wee promotional video can be found on our homepage - have a wee look and don't forget to buy your tickets! You don't want to upset the ladies and gents of Dagenham!

See you all soon!

Bekki xx

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