Programme for the 2016–17 (85th) Season

Tuesday 4th October 2016 at 2.30 pm

“They sing choruses in public.”

Concert by members of Manchester University Gilbert & Sullivan Society (MUGSS).

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Tuesday 1st November 2016 at 7.15 pm

“Rend with songs the air above”

Concert by students of the Royal Northern College of Music from Offenbach‘s La Vie Parisienne – a taster of their December production – and a selection of Gilbert & Sullivan items.

The Sheila Taylor meeting.

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Sunday 4th December 2016 at 2.30 pm

“In his own melodious way!”

Concert by Joseph Shovelton (tenor). [Professional engagements permitting.]

The Harold Sumner meeting.

Admission: members £5, visitors £7.

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Sunday 15th January 2017 at 2.30 pm

“Is all this true?”

“D‘Oyly Carte: the inside story” – Roberta Morrell will entertain us with background stories from interviews for her book of the same name.

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Tuesday 7th February 2017 at 7.15 pm

“It is a pretty picture”

A talk by Raymond Walker on D‘Oyly Carte backcloths and scenery through the decades, illustrated by some beautiful photos. He and David Skelly are working on a book on this subject.

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Tuesday 7th March 2017 at 7.15 pm

“Told in ‘song and story’”

Paul Taylor will instruct us again with one of his opera studies – The Yeoman of the Guard – this time.

The Norman Beckett meeting.

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Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd April 2017

“And all day long our lives would be a song”

Convention for members of all Affiliated G&S Societies at the Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport.

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Tuesday 9th May 2017 at 7.15 pm

“And now, my Lords, to the business of the day”

Annual General Meeting plus entertainment.