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Principle Cast Members for This Years
Production of
Anything Goes
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Bill Edwards (Producer) |
Carol Lucas (Musical Director) |
Bessie Lewin (Choreographer) |
Sarah Lewin (Reno Sweeney) |
Tony Lucas (Billy Crocker) |
Kathy Bishopp (Hope Harcourt) |
Rob Flower (Eli
Whitney)
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Maureen Thomas
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Phil Kiddell (Moonface Martin) |
Adriana Casali (Erma) |
Daryl Kane (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh)
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 Debbie and Suzie Bradford |
Sue Kite, Judith Lambert, Ruth Freeman and Cheryl Johnson
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Robin Yeates
and Steve Gilson
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Bill Edwards
BILL EDWARDS (Producer, sailor) has been involved
in well over fifty
productions over the last 20 years, either
as director or on stage,
including two productions of Anything Goes.
For BOS he produced Hello,
Dolly! in 1994. Among his favourite
performances for other companies are
Prince John in Blondel, Adam in Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers and Eric
"Rubber Legs" Devene in A Slice of Saturday
Night. He has directed many
musicals, including Bouncers and Shakers
which were runners-up in the Ron
Kench Shield awarded by NODA for Best Drama.
Carol Lucas
CAROL LUCAS (Musical Director) is a music
teacher in a number of Barking and
Dagenham schools. She has taught at the Barking
Music School and been the
accompanist for the Kingsley Choral Group
for the past thirty years. Carol
joined BOS at the beginning of this year as
its permanent temporary
Musical Director and already has a very successful
production of Patience to
her credit. Anything Goes is her first
large scale production at the
Broadway Theatre.
Bessie Lewin
BESSIE LEWIN, A.N.A.T.D. (Choreographer) is
an ex-professional teacher with
the National Association Teachers of Dance.
She has been dancing since she
was seven years old, and ran her own school
in the seventies. As a teenager,
she worked semi-professionally as a cabaret
artiste touring working men's
clubs in and around London, Wales and the
Midlands. At 13 she toured local
parks with a concert party, and also spent
three years with the Beaumont
Operatic Society. She now works as a part-time
secretary. She choreographed
Calamity Jane, Hello Dolly!, The King And
I, Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the
Roof for BOS as well as other performances
and has also sung in the chorus,
most recently in Patience, besides
giving dancing lessons.
Sarah Lewin
Sarah Lewin Has been singing and dancing since
she was three, having
started at her mother Bessie Lewin's dancing
school. She played Scrooge
at primary school, studied A-Level Drama,
Film and English Literature
and went on to study performing arts at Barking
College. She performed
with Beaumont Operatic Society and played
Rita Onions in Boomerang
before joining BOS. For BOS she has appeared
in Calamity Jane, followed
by Ermengarde in Hello Dolly!, Gertie
Cummings in Oklahoma! and Chava
in Fiddler on the roof.
Tony Lucas
Tony Lucas has played many leading roles for
BOS since 1990, including
Pawnee Bill in Annie Get Your Gun,
Mr Snow in Carousel, Second Gangster
in Kiss Me Kate, Naki-poo in The
Mikado, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance,
Francis Fryer in Calamity Jane, Cornelius
Hackl in Hello Dolly!, Captain Orton
in The King And I, Curly in Oklahoma!,
Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and the
Duke in Patience. Tony was a member
of the Kingsley Choral Group for over
twenty years and has won many singing awards.
He is an administrator of
Kingsley Hall Community Church and Centre
in Dagenham, and is his spare
time enjoys collecting, golf, gardening and
tap dancing.
Kathy Bishopp
Kathy Bishopp has played many roles with BOS.
She was Gertie Cummings
in Oklahoma!, Isabel in The Pirates
of Penzance, Mea in The Pajama Game,
Isabella in Dick Turpin, Helen Walsingham
in Half a Sixpence, Cousin Hebe
in HMS Pinafore, Carrie Pipperidge
in Carousel, Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady,
and Frumah-Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof.
She has also appeared in productions
for Cameo Player, and co-produces Murder
in the Company
Rob Flower
ROBERT FLOWER (Elisha Whitney) sang in musicals
at school and with the City
of London Light Opera Company, and after a
25 year break joined BOS,
appearing as Court Clerk in Hello Dolly!
He was The Kralahome in The King
And I, Jud Fry in Oklahoma!,
Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof and Major
Murgatroyd in Patience. He has also
organized and made props for several
recent productions. When not performing or
constructing, Rob works for the
probation service
Phil Kiddell
PHILIP KIDDELL (Moonface Martin) is a retail
manager for ski and outdoor
activities. His hobbies are music and theatre.
In 1988 he founded Cameo
Players, which will be active during 1999.
He has been a BOS member for 16
years, during which he has been at times both
Chairman and producer of many
shows, most recently Trial by Jury.
He has appeared for BOS as Ali Hakim in
Oklahoma!, Doolittle in My Fair
Lady and Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly!
Adriana Casali
ADRIANA CASALI (Erma) studied Performing Arts
for three years at Barking
College, appearing in Wilma and as a pinball
whizkid in The Time of Your
Life. Joining Cameo Players in 1988,
she took major parts in many
productions. She appeared in They Shall
Not Grow Old at the Edinburgh
Festival in 1992. She completed a masque/mime
course with Desmond Jones. She
joined BOS for their second production of
Calamity
Jane playing a can-can
dancer and returned for Oklahoma!.
She played as Granma Tzeitel in Fiddler
on the Roof, and appeared as a member
of the chorus in Patience.
Daryl Kane
Daryl has been a member of the society
since Feb. 1997. His first performance
was as the Russian Tennor in "Fiddle on
th e Roof". He then took part in the
Carol Cable Memorial concert.
His latest role, was that of "The Poet Bunthorne"
in "Patience".
Outside of the Society he works as a Telecommunications
Engineer.
He is also a member of a Royal British Legion
Marching Band "The Patriots".
He is also in the process of setting up his
own Internet Web page design company
with his partner Alan. Their company is called
"DazAL Web Creations"
Debbie Bradford
Suzie Bradford
Sue Kite
Judith Lambert
Ruth Freeman
Cheryl Johnson
Robin Yeates
Stephen Gilson
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