Following in the great tradition of British theater companies, the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society (GAOS) will this year present its own special take on a popular winter pantomime, called Once Upon a Time.
Written by Paul Barron and Sarah Dyson, and performed by a host of talented local performers, the show will open at the Théâtre de Marens in Nyon on Saturday 29 November, 2014.
Pantomime Directors, Karen Ball and Gen Steele, told knowitall.ch. ”Once Upon a Time is a traditional British pantomime containing all the usual ingredients ― except that Cinderella and Snow White are now all grown up and have children of their own!”
EDITOR'S NOTE 2/9/14: REGRETTABLY, CAVEMAN WILL NOW ONLY PERFORM IN FRENCH ON 9 OCTOBER IN LAUSANNE
Caveman holds the record as the one of the longest running solo plays in Broadway history. The show is also a worldwide rock-solid tour de force that has won the hearts of millions in over 30 countries.
The first English performances of this season’s show in Switzerland will be held in Geneva on 4 and 5 September and Lausanne on 8 and 9 October. Sponsored by the local English-speaking newspaper, Le News, and the global theatre production company, Theater Mogul, Caveman will appeal to all adults, no matter what their marital status: single, dating, married or divorced!
You may have seen in at the cinema, or been lucky enough to catch the show on Broadway or in London’s West End, but the chances are that you have not yet seen it performed in Geneva! The popular musical, Hairspray, will be performed for the first time this year by the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society Youth Group in Nyon, and knowitall.ch has been lucky enough to obtain a double ticket for the opening night performance on 29 August, 2014! There will be 4 performances of the show, running over 3 days until Sunday, 31 August.
Based upon the New Line Cinema film, written and directed by John Waters, Hairspray provides a social commentary on the injustices of American society in the 1960s. When plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad’s dream of dancing on a local TV dance show turns into reality, she becomes a celebrity overnight and meets a colourful array of characters, all wonderfully portrayed by GAOS’ talented array of amateur performers. Click here to view the cast list.
Once on the show, Tracy soon launches a campaign against the segregation rules prevailing throughout American society at that time. At the heart of the struggle for civil rights is a black family who play a central role in the story and sing one of the musical’s most famous songs, "I know where I've been".
The Broadway production won 8 Tony Awards in 2003, and ran for over 2,500 performances. In 2007 it was adapted as a musical film, starring Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeifer, Queen Latifah, John Travolta (as Tracy's mother!) and Christopher Walken, and in 2010 it commenced a successful run on London’s West End.
Enter our competition to win a double ticket for the opening night performance on 16 May, 2014!
Opening on London’s West End stage in 1981 with a plot based on T.S Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats", the award-winning musical CATS, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has become one of the world’s best-known and best-loved musicals. CATS is currently the second-longest running show in Broadway history, and the fourth-longest running West End musical.
Since it opened in 1981, the show has been translated into 20 languages and presented all over the world, keeping its original English title. To keep the show on the road in this region, the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society will present its own version this Spring, which will be performed at the Aula de Nyon-Marens between the 16th and 24th May, 2014.
The Geneva English Dramatic Society invites you to their first stage performance of the new year: Baby with the Bathwater, written by Christopher Durang, one of America’s most provocative and inventive writers.
Described as a comedy about surviving those who love you very badly, Baby with the Bathwater provides an amusing insight into the lives of new parents, Helen and John, who are not quite sure what to do with their newborn. What should they name it? What should they do when it cries? How should they deal with a deranged Nanny, a baby-snatching houseguest, and a slavering German shepherd with a penchant for eating babies? All the usual parenting dilemmas!
