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• Sep 6th 2010 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
• Sep 13th 2010 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Ahoy there shipmates!   Are you bored sitting at home doing the same old thing?  Want to get out and about a bit more and make some new friends?  Then why not join the Concorde Players, the friendly amateur dramatics group not far from Heathrow Airport.  The group are looking for talented actors, singers and dancers to join them onstage for their next pantomime “Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates” which will be staged in January 2011.

The show, with a great, freshly updated script by Alan P Frayn, is a swashbuckling, magical adventure featuring a host of colourful characters and vibrant musical numbers.  See below for details.

BACKSTAGE TOO:
It’s not just actors that we are looking for, we need a range of people with different skills to help us put on a show; these include anyone who is handy with a hammer, a paint brush or a saw; those who can read music or play instruments; anyone who can rustle up something fabulous from a few pieces of fabric and some Velcro and anyone with a talent for marketing our group, selling our tickets or welcoming our patrons.

WHERE & WHEN:

You can become part of the magic by coming along to the
Open Evening on Monday 6^th September 6pm
and/or
Auditions on Monday 6^th September at 7pm
and
Monday 12^th September at 6:30pm
in the Olympus Hall of The Concorde Club, Cranford, TW5 9PQ.

No experience necessary – just talent and enthusiasm.
See you there.
Arrrrrrrr!

CONTACT DETAILS:
See www.concordeplayers.co.uk for full details or contact the show’s director Craig Howard at chairman [at] concoreplayers [dot] co [dot] uk or on 07765-250842.

ABOUT THE SHOW:
No doubt you’ve all heard of Robinson Crusoe the daring explorer who gets cast away on a desert island.  But do you know how and why he ended up there?  And more importantly how he got off again?  Well, find out as the show follows Robinson’s voyage from the exotic shores of Brazil through encounters with bloodthirsty pirates, battling immortals and hungry cannibals helped, or possibly hindered, by a flamboyant dame Margarita Juicilita, her dozy son Nutty Nick, the beautiful Juanita and her protective father Captain Seasalt. Oh and did we mention Friday and Poll the parrot?

THE CHARACTERS:
Robinson Crusoe: Adventurous, plucky young man.  (Can either be played by male or female as principal boy).

Margarita Juicilita: Typical, outrageous Dame character – now lives as a poor plantation worker, so has acquired this nickname and become somewhat “South Americanised” with tones of Carmen Miranda. (Obviously, best played by a man).

Nutty Nick: Margarita’s son – the Simple Simon of the piece.  (Youngish-looking male).

Captain Seasalt: British merchant trader, Captain of his own ship.  (Middle-aged/mature male)

Juanita: The Captain’s daughter – intelligent, pretty and kind.  Her father having married locally, this part can be played as a Brazilian girl with South American accent, or as a typical English character, assuming the Captain to have brought her up as such (Principal girl).

Cut-Throat: Ruthless, blood-thirsty, double-crossing buccaneer – the “baddie” of the piece.  He has an eye patch and, on the opposite arm, a hook instead of a hand.  He talks with a stereotypical pirate-like voice and West country accent. (Male).

Skull-Duggery & Cross Bones: Typical panto comedy twosome – two scoundrels who aspire to be pirates, but are actually bungling fools.  Ideally, Skull-Duggery has a peg-leg. Cross-Bones has an eye patch and is the more idiotic. (Probably male but one could be female).

Friday: Enthusiastic youth or young man – not necessarily dark-skinned.  However cast, he speaks precise “Oxford English”.  (Male.  Appears in Act II only so can join the chorus for Act I)

Hocus Pocus: Witch Doctor – speaks only in native gobbledygook.  (Male.  Smaller part – appears in Act II only so can join the chorus for Act I)

Mumbo Jumbo: The Cannibal Queen – speaks in broken English.  (Female – ideally larger.  Smaller part – appears in Act II only so can join the chorus for Act I)

Coral, Spirit of the Seas: An Immortal – typical good fairy type character, but with a nautical theme.  Robinson’s guardian. (Female).

Davy Jones: An Immortal – underwater baddie.  Possibly played tongue-in-cheek, with a Welsh accent.  (Male.  Smaller part – appears in Act II and Finale only).

Poll: Robinson’s pet parrot on his desert islands -  a full costume character suit worn by a youth or small adult.  Poll’s voice can be pre-recorded or done live by the performer or someone offstage.  (Smaller part – appears in Act II only so the performer can join the chorus for Act I).

Chorus: Brazilians, Sailors, Pirates, Sea Sprites, cannibal Natives and Carnival performers.
Dancers appear in various musical numbers plus as “puppetters” in an ultra-violet underwater scene.