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Silver Linings: Songs from the Silver Screen

24/10/2020

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The Wellington Footlights Society presents
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Silver Linings: Songs From the Silver Screen

A musical revue celebrating the medium of cinema through the medium of theatre, Silver Linings draws on a wide variety of music from both movies & movie musicals, and aims to provide an opportunity for people to come together to celebrate performing arts and community in a time when many people are longing to connect.

Silver Linings presents timeless classics such as “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl, “As Long As He Needs Me” from Oliver, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from Meet Me in St Louis, as well as contemporary numbers from modern favourites including The Greatest Showman, Mean Girls and Frozen II. There’s something for everyone to love in this celebration of cinema through the ages.

A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to a local charity, Mary Potter Hospice.

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Cast

Emily K. Brown, Abigail Helsby, Michael Stebbings, Marley Richards, India Loveday, Will Collin, Ed Blunden, Laura Gardner, Vishan Appanna, Helena Savage, Nadia Newman, Cassandra Tse, Karen Anslow, Margaret Hill, Stacey O'Brien, Kirsty Huszka, Clara van Wel, Letitia Garrett, Patrick Jennings, Fynn Bodley-Davies

Crew

​Maya Handa Naff - Director
Michael Stebbings - MD
Jo Hodgson - MD
Shereen Capper - Choreographer
Katty Lau - Choreographer
Nick Lerew - Production Manager & Rehearsal Stage Manager
Sam Burnard - Stage Manager
Tessa Alderton - ASM & Props
Patrick Barnes - Sound Designer
Nadia Newman - Costume Coordinator
Siobhan Raisbeck - Production Assistant
Abigail Helsby - Publicity Manager
Aimee Sullivan - Poster Design
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Firebringer: Coming to Wellington in July 2020

31/12/2019

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Have you got your New Year's resolutions ready? Ours is to keep making great musical theatre! On that note, we're excited to announce our July 2020 season of Firebringer at Te Auaha. Ours will be the New Zealand premier performance of this Team StarKid musical, and we are so excited! Join the hype- check out the full tracklist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6cx0RX6ZbqvQwPtlguVQtv
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My Fair Lady is coming to Wellington this July!

20/5/2019

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The Wellington Footlights Society presents
My Fair Lady

By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture
Pygmalion

Directed by Michael Stebbings
Musical direction by Sue Windsor
Choreography by Shereen Capper and India Loveday


The Wellington Footlights Society is delighted to present its first production for 2019, Lerner and Loewe’s beloved classic, My Fair Lady, the award-winning story of a cockney flower girl transformed into an elegant lady.

Eliza Doolittle is a young flower seller with an unmistakable cockney accent that keeps her in the lower rungs of Edwardian society. As phonetician Henry Higgins attempts to teach her how to speak like a proper lady, an unlikely friendship begins to flourish.

Recipient of six Tony Awards for an original season that went on to run for over six years, My Fair Lady includes such universally memorable songs as “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?,” “With a Little Bit of Luck,” “The Rain in Spain,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live,” and “Get Me to the Church on Time”.

Since co-founding The Wellington Footlights Society in 2014, director Michael Stebbings has always hoped to bring his favourite musical to the Wellington stage. “A theatrical masterpiece, My Fair Lady is one of the greatest shows of all time. With its unforgettable score, strong characters and iconic scenes, it is a joy to finally work with the Society on a piece that is such a big part of why of I came to love musical theatre.”

My Fair Lady
By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture
Pygmalion.
Te Auaha, 65 Dixon St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
25 July - 4 August 2019
TICKETS: $25 - $30
BOOKINGS:
ticketbooth.co.nz - on sale 3 June

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​Catherine Gavigan-Binnie - Eliza Doolittle 
Ed Blunden - Henry Higgins 
Mike Bryant - Colonel Pickering 
Patrick Jennings - Alfred Doolittle
Ellie Stewart - Mrs. Higgins
Vishan Appanna - Freddy Eynsford-Hill 
Margaret Hill - Mrs. Pearce
Stacey O'Brien - Jamie
Will Collin - Harry
Helena Savage - Ensemble
Laura Gardner - Ensemble
Chris McMillan - Ensemble
Marley Richards - Ensemble
India Loveday – Ensemble
Letitia Garrett - Ensemble
Kirsty Huszka - Ensemble
Fynn Bodley-Davies - Ensemble
Abi Helsby - Ensemble 
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We're excited to announce the cast of the New Zealand premiere of If/Then!

14/10/2018

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​Cassandra Tse is Elizabeth Vaughan, a city planner returning to New York for a fresh start — a role originally played by Idina Menzel on Broadway. She's joined by:

Caitlin Penrose as Kate
Michael Stebbings as Lucas
Ed Blunden as Josh
Chris McMillan as Stephen
Catherine Gavigan-Binnie as Anne
Eugene Wolfin as David
Renée Iosefa Neil as Elena

If/Then opens on November 29 at the Gryphon Theatre. Rehearsals are well under way and we can't wait to show you more!​
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Meet the new Committee

24/7/2018

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On Sunday 22nd July, we held our society AGM, which consisted of heartfelt speeches, spreadsheets, elections, and a long-held tradition of piano karaoke. While we don't have any of that top-secret karaoke footage to share, we are delighted to introduce our new committee members!
Kirsty Moir
Chairperson
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Kirsty loves Footlights, this is her community her family. Kirsty wants us to be a positive influence in the Wellington Community and she wants us to grow and nurture our performers on and off stage.
 
When Kirsty heard Footlights sing in The Rising Sun show after she had been away for 2 years, she was blown away and felt so proud of what our society had achieved!

​Kirsty studied in Japan for a year on an exchange.
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Mike Bryant
Members' Representative

Mike is an award-winning homosexual, having won Mr. Gay Wellington 2017. He also came second in Mr. Gay New Zealand 2018. Mike likes to remind people of this obnoxiously often.

​Mike's favourite Footlights show was A New Brain because it's always been his favourite musical and he's a curmudgeonly old man who is set in his ways.
Mike wanted to join the Footlights committee because he adores how Footlights has been involved in the community and really wants to focus on things like our charity concerts and giving back to the community whenever possible. Also to pick up dudes.
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Stacey O'Brien
Secretary

Stacey wanted to join the committee (again) because she wants to give more back to a community that she loves, and that has given her a sense of family and belonging. She hopes to be of help in continuing to shape the future of the Footlights. Also, Stacey really loves emails and spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are sexy.

Stacey's favourite show, so far, has been "Rent". The show had some dark themes and issues to address, which made rehearsals very difficult at times, but through this the cast came together and created such a supportive, fun, and unbelievably kind atmosphere. "Pippin" and "Taking the Minnelli" gave her a taste, but ultimately "Rent" was the show that solidified Stacey's Footlights addiction.

An interesting fact about Stacey is that she is much better at Crash Bandicoot than Mike Bryant. And most other games for that matter.
Patrick Barnes
Members' Representative

Patrick's favourite moment with Footlights was getting to mix sound for Chess for every show, both due to the massive challenge it presented but also the payoff of such a huge project coming together so well.

​Patrick wanted to join the committee as a way to give back to the Society after the professional development opportunities it's provided him in the two years since he joined.

​Patrick once sewed together a 120m² version of the Laser Kiwi flag for a football game. It was as silly as it sounds.

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 Eugene Wolfin
Members' Representative

Working on Chess with the Footlights family has been the highlight of Eugene’s Footlights experience so far. The complexity and beauty of the music was fabulous, the choreography was fantastic, but most of all the other members and their community spirit put this show above the others for Eugene.

​Aside from Musical Theatre Eugene also has a passion for circus arts and has performed as a Balloon Artist, Juggler, Stilt Walker, and Fire Spinner.

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Eugene wanted to join the committee to help build upon and energise the community/family spirit that Footlights have. To give back to the group that have given so much to him.
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