6th July 1972
LIVELY BROCHURE REVIEW
The
St. Gile’s Amateur Pantomime Society provided a carefree summer show
for all the family with its production, ‘Holiday 72’
Directed
by Keith Fieldhouse, the show entertained large audiences including
visitors from Goole, at Pontefract Assembly Rooms on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
‘Holiday
72’ is a sequence of sketches, songs, dance routines, jokes and
impressive displays of costume, linked by the ‘average’ family - Dad
[Eddie Smith], Mum [Maureen Webley] and teenage daughter [Ida Williams]
- all trying to decide where they will go for their summer holidays and
always present on an apron stage. For instance, should they go to Paris?
Can-can girls Eileen Walters, Carol Connel, Judith Barrett and Carol
Bailey provided an example of the holiday they could expect there.
Other
sketches were more tenuously linked. For instance, Joe Stafford, as a
comic coloured doctor, was a great success as a comedian, but an equally
great failure as a medical practitioner when consulted by hapless
patients. The scene ends with a suitably light-hearted Peter Sellers
song.
A
great deal of conscientious rehearsals obviously went into the
performance, which concluded with an airport scene, the family having
decided to chance the first flight going-wherever it takes them. To
round off the show, the excellent use made of the Assembly Room’s new
organ by Les Chambers, showed that Pontefract Corporation has made a
good buy.
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