Our Savoynetters at the Buxton G&S Festival

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Our Savoynetters at the Buxton G&S Festival

Written by Margaret Walker

Several members of the Savoy Singers attended the 18th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival held during the first three weeks of August. Details of the festival are on http://www.gsfestivals.org/ and many of you may have seen the piece on BBC breakfast news. Chris and Sarah-Jane Hall, and Philip Barton were in the chrous of the SavoyNet Performing Group's production of The Mikado This was directed by Stuart Box (who you will recall was stage director for our recent productions of Iolanthe and The Zoo) and Kathryn Barton was costume co-ordinator.

Savoynet is the international G&S discussion group and members from all over the wor

ld meet in Buxton each year, rehearse a production over the course of one week. This year we rehearsed in The Dome (part of the University of Derby), and put on a production in the Buxton Opera House. With The Mikado, the group has now presented the complete G&S canon in Buxton.

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Besides performances of one of G&S operas each evening (both professional and amateur productions), there are a host of other G&S related activities, productions and talks over the three weeks; if you are interested in G&S, then Buxton is the place to be. The amateur productions are adjudicated and Savoynet was delighted to receive the award for the "Most (sic) traditional production". Congratulations to Stuart. A full review of the production can be found on http://rosuav.blogspot.com/2011/08/savoynet-performing-group-mikado.html.

Congratulations also to Ian Henderson whose production of HMS PINAFORE was the 2nd runner-up and also to Dick Stockton who stepped in to conduct the G&S Opera of Victoria, Australia's production of THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD.

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