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• Sep 17th 2009 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm
• Sep 21st 2009 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
• Sep 24th 2009 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
• Sep 27th 2009 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm

It’s DDOS’s turn to put on the fantastic production!! Based in Dorking, Surrey, this production will be on next March at the Dorking Halls.

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by director Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet (which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest).

Return to the Forbidden Planet started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid 1980s[1]. It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London. After some rework a final version opened the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End in September 1989[2]. It won the Olivier Award for best musical for both 1989 and 1990.

The plot follows the crew of a routine survey flight under the command of Captain Tempest. Their spaceship is drawn mysteriously to the planet D’Illyria where mad scientist Doctor Prospero and his lovely daughter Miranda are marooned.

The high energy show features a bevy of 1950s and 1960s rock and roll classics, performed on stage by the cast. The campy sci-fi setting consisists of silvered space suit costumes and space ship sets concealing keyboards and drums. The show’s dialogue is largely adapted from well-known passages from Shakespeare. There is a part for narrator on pre-recorded video which was played in the original production by Magnus Pyke and in the London production by the popular astronomer Sir Patrick Moore.

The show was revived for touring productions in the United Kingdom in 1999, 2001 and 2002, featuring guest narration from noted astronomer and TV personality Patrick Moore. A new production toured the UK in 2006 with the pre-recorded narrator being the astrophysicist and virtuoso guitarist from Queen, Brian May.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show, songs include: Good Vibrations, Young Girl, Great Balls of Fire and Monster Mash.

Director/Choreographer: Gail Lowe
MD: James Hadden

Important dates as follows:

Thursday 17th Sept: Opening Meeting, 8pm at the Green Room, Dorking
Monday 21st/Thursday 24th Sept: Get to know the music, 8pm at The Hut, Westcott
Sunday 27th Sept: Auditions: 2-6pm Principals, 6pm chorus, all at The Hut, Westcott

Show week: 02/03/2010 – 06/03/2010

There is an event on Facebook, which will have all of the up-to-date information. Search for ‘DDOS present…Return to the Forbidden Planet!’ and request an invite.

Audition pieces announced!

Captain Tempest:
Young Girl
Good Vibrations (Verses only)
Also look at…’It’s a man’s world’

Prospero:
Don’t let me be misunderstood

Miranda:
Teenager in Love
Robot Man

Ariel:
Who’s sorry now?

Cookie:
She’s not there (including guitar solo)
I ain’t gonna wash for a week
Also look at…Yeh Yeh

Science Officer:
Go Now
Also look at…’It’s a man’s world’

Bosun:
Yeh Yeh

Dates as follows:

Thursday 17th Sept: Opening Meeting, 8pm at the Green Room, Dorking
Monday 21st/Thursday 24th Sept: Get to know the music, 8pm at The Hut, Westcott
Sunday 27th Sept: Auditions: 2-6pm Principals, 6pm chorus, all at The Hut, Westcott

Show week: 02/03/2010 – 06/03/2010