Light Opera Society in rehearsals for ‘Hits from the Musicals’
WEXFORD Light Opera Society’s popular ‘Hits from the Musicals’ will be performed as a fringe event of Wexford Festival Opera from Monday October 29 to Thursday November 1 in Clayton Whites Hotel at 8pm each night.
The Society is delighted to have been one of only four societies in Ireland, north and south, to be granted the performing rights to the smash hit Musical ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ which will be staged in the National Opera House, Wexford in the spring of 2019.
An information night for the production, with details of auditions, will be held in the Friary Hall, Wexford on Thursday November 22 next.
In the meantime, this year’s Hits programme will feature music from Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Tell Me on a Sunday, Wicked, Beauty and the Best, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera and many more shows.
The all Wexford cast will include talented performers such as Des Whelan, Ciara Cullinane, Tony Carty, Catherine Walsh, James McDermott, Clare Kavanagh, George Lawlor, Caroline Daly Jones, Eric Hayes, Antonia Close, Nicola Roche, Michael O’Gorman, Tricia Roche, Ami Stahlut, Pat Lawlor along with the Wexford Light Opera Society Chorus. It promises to be an unmissable night of fun and musical entertainment.
Judith Rice, the President of Actors Equity Foundation USA who attended last year’s Hits production paid the following compliment to the annual Festival fringe show: ‘Having had the unique privilege of being a long time voter for the Tony Awards, which celebrates Broadway’s finest, I would place the extraordinary artists of the Wexford Light Opera Society alongside the very best of Broadway. I hope my New York colleagues will one day have the opportunity to experience this remarkable musical journey’.
Tickets cost €22.50 and early booking is advised. The box office will be open at Wexford Light Opera House, 38 High Street from 11am – 3pm Monday to Saturday from Monday October 15 , telephone 0539174808. The production is being presented in association with Bolands Mercedes Benz, Wexford.