May 2012 Newsletter

NEWSLETTER May 2012

Fast on the heels of our last newsletter we write to tell you news about our main production this year. Also in this newsletter there are more details about our touring play and our upcoming Annual General Meeting.

MAIN PRODUCTION FOR 2012

We are delighted to advised that we have secured the rights to produce a comedy called Glorious by Peter Quilter. This play with music is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins who had a dream of singing in Carnegie Hall. We are sure you will be hugely entertained by this funny but inspiring story.

Further good news is that Gwyneth Glover has agreed to direct the play for us. You will remember Gwyneth's skills in bringing us hilarious shows such as Charley's Aunt and The Day they kidnapped the Pope.

Other planning is well under way with several appointments to the production team having been made. We will perform Glorious in the Theatre Pitt and the season will be 19 – 29 September.

AUDITIONS FOR GLORIOUS

Auditions will be held on Sunday 8 July 2012 at 2pm in the Theatre Pitt.

Characters are as follows:

Florence Foster Jenkins, an eccentric American lady, 60s – 70s

Cosme McMoon, a pianist, early 30s

St Clair, Florence's English boyfriend, 60s

Dorothy, Florence's friend, 60s

Maria, Florence and St Clair's Mexican cook and housemaid

Mrs Verrinder-Gedge, an American lady, late middle age

The part of Cosme requires a classical pianist who reads music and the only singing role is that of Florence. The part of Maria requires a Spanish accent. For further details please phone the director, Gwyneth Glover on 818 8984 after 25 June.

Pilgrim friends, please spread the word about these auditions so that we have a good choice of actors. The role of the pianist may be especially hard to cast.

NEW AUDITION DATE FOR 2012 TOURING PLAY

As mentioned in our last newsletter, Pilgrim will be touring a play called A Vagabond Peace around Auckland churches for the four Sundays in August this year. The director, Tara Solomon, has tightened up the script to ensure it fits comfortably within the traditional 'sermon slot' in services. As a result the cast has been reduced to four players:

• ELIZABETH (SOCK), a woman in her late forties, SOCK is Elizabeth's comical alto ego

• PREACHER, a woman in her fifties; has a kind but urgent manner

• DAMON, a man 27 years old and really angry with the world, but has a courageous spirit

• MICK, a 19 year old man, frightened and edgy, trying to prove himself to the world

Bookings to have the play visit your church may be communicated to Tara on 021 036 3422. Hurry! Only two Sundays in August left .

Auditions will be held on Sunday 13 May at 2pm in the Theatre Pitt, 78 Pitt Street, Auckland. Note the change of date since our last newsletter.

2012 SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW DUE

Subscriptions are now due for the 2012/2013 financial year. The cost is $15 for single members and $25 for a couple or a family. Payment of a subscription entitles you to receive five newsletters each year plus a ticket at a concession price for our main production.

If you are a new subscriber, please download a membership form from our website nd sent it completed to the email address or PO Box. This enables us to update our membership list for future distribution of newsletters and other information.

NOTE: The data collected from you as part of your membership will not be sold or made available to another organization.

Methods of Payment:

•  Direct Deposit. Pilgrim Productions Inc bank account details are: ASB K'Road, Auckland: 12-3060-0224018-00 Ref: Subs and add your surname. Then email a copy of the bank deposit slip to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or post the deposit slip to P O Box 41453, St Lukes, Auckland 1346 to enable our Treasurer to reconcile deposits against the depositors name.
• By Cheque: Complete a membership form (or send with a covering note) and make out your cheque to Pilgrim Productions Inc and post it to the address above.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Our Annual General Meeting will be held on

Monday 18 June at 7.30pm at the Pitt Street

Methodist Church. The meeting will include

receiving the Chairman's annual report. the

annual financial statements and electing

officers and committee for the coming 12 months.

All welcome.