Want to be an extra in a major new Feature Film?

Received by email from Uni-versal Extras

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Can you help? We holding an open casting on the Thursday 17th December for the biggest comedy feature film of 2010 Burke and Hare. Filming will be taking place over February. Casting address and time is below.

Burke & Hare is staring the very funny Simon Peg, John Cleese, Dan Aykroyd and the beautiful Minnie Drive.

Burke and Hare is a black comedy about two men in 19th Century Edinburgh. Who find a body in their house and decide how to dispose of the body over a drink, they discover that a corpse can fetch a hefty price! From failed grave robbery to a series of ‘deadly’ accidents for the locals, Burke and Hare dig themselves in deeper and deeper. With the authorities closing in, Hare promises Burke he’s got a new plan; they just need a bit more money and then they can go legit and open a funeral parlour.

Parts available in this truly full of laughter feature film will include you playing role(s) such as; Thugs, Students, Pub goers, Footmen, Dignitaries, Doctors, Market sellers, Ladies of the Night and many more!

The Location for Casting:-

Thursday 17th December
Tolbooth
Jail Wynd
Stirling
FK8 1DE

The casting will run from 9am to 17:00

Kind Regards
Wayne Berko

0845 0090344

Want to be Santa?

Would you like to be Santa at "The Buzz" in Falkirk?

The company is looking for someone or several people to play the part of Santa in his Winter Wonderland Grotto at The Buzz in Falkirk. We are a family entertainment centre with soft play area and Laser gaming.

We require a Santa from 11am-4pm on

• 28, 29 Nov
• 5, 6 Dec
• 12, 13 Dec
• 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 Dec

If interested please contact Lynda Turball on 01324 613002

Meet Me In St Louis cast list posted

The cast list for Meet Me In St Louis has now been posted on the web site at http://www.sabos.co.uk/currentShow

The Great Irn Bru Can-Can

You are now part of the IRN-BRU CAN-CLAN and, as such, are invited to take part in the spectacular ‘Clan Gathering’ at Glasgow Green on 13 September, where everyone will don their kilts, kick up their heels and perform a record-breaking version of the world–famous Cancan dance!

We want to work with you to leading this CAN-CAN record attempt from the front!!!

We need 100 dancers on stage doing dancing the cancan for five minute in order for us to break the world record.

WHERE?

GLASGOW GREEN, Sunday 13 Sept 2009

WHAT TIME?!

10 am sharp!!

The attempt will be at 1.30pm. We will be having a practice at 10 am and IRN-BRU is organizing free refreshments and sandwiches for our dancers backstage!! We will have a short practice in the morning to prepare for the attempt which is at 1.30pm!!

You will be finished by 2pm and can enjoy the all the free entertainment put on by IRN-BRU for the CAN CLAN Gathering!!-such as The Zutons and Pearl and the Puppets….

WHAT TO WEAR

To break the World Cancan Record everyone will need to wear skirts. If you have a CAN-CAN skirt or kilt please bring that- otherwise you will be given an IRN-BRU plastic can-can skirt which will fit all.

As you are part of our Clan you will also receive a free IRN-BRU t-shirt to wear!!

WHAT ELSE?!

As well as being part of a World Breaking-ly HUGE CANCAN team!! A scout will be looking for the most stylish CAN-CAN member !! If you are spotted you can win a grand tour of the IRN-BRU factory- a prize money definitely cannot buy!!

See you at the IRN-BRU Can Clan, 10 am, Glasgow Green Sunday 13 September as we go for a Guinness World Record Cancan !!

CHESS IN CONCERT at the macrobert

The macrobert cinema will be showing CHESS IN CONCERT on the 5th and 6th of September - would anyone like to come along with me to see it?

Okay, some background. This was a concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall to mark Chess' 25th Anniversary. With stars like Josh Groban, Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal, the concert was a sell-out for each of the two nights that it ran.

The concert will be released on DVD, but will be shown at a select few cinemas nationwide before its UK release. The macrobert will be the first.

I am hoping to go to the concert on 5th September at 2015. Ticket prices are just £4.95. Anyone interested in coming along with me?

If you're interested, please let me know at http://www.sabos.co.uk/contact/index.php

If you don't know the show, it is one of the most exciting and powerful musicals of the 1980s. Written by Time Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaues (the two men from Abba) it combines a wide range of musical styles, to tell a love story that is set against the background of international politics.

Please let me know if you want to come along. (If you mail me during the week of 8-16 Aug I won't immediately reply; I'm at the ROSS summer school - I'll be in touch when I get back from it)

/alan

Provisional date for start of rehearsals

Just a short note to say that we are expecting rehearsals for the show to statr on Wednesday 2nd September. Principal rehearsals will be on Sunday afternoons, though the starting date for them has not yet been finalised.

These details should be treated as provisional until they are confirmed.

To those whom I've promised to write to once the dates are confirmed - I shall not be writing at this point - I shall wait until the dates, times and location are confirmed. Don't worry, I've not forgotten you!

STV looking for talent

STV’s The Hour show launches ‘Talent on Tour’

STV’s live daily show, The Hour, is launching a Scotland-wide talent hunt. The team are looking for the most talented people, young or old, across the country as part of their exciting new Talent on Tour feature.

Over the next few weeks, presenter Vicky Lee will be touring Scotland to uncover some of the best, brightest and quirkiest unknown talents that Scotland has to offer.

Whether you have the voice of an angel, you’re a budding child star, a contortionist, a magician or have better moves than Fred Astaire – The Hour team wants to see your act.

The Talent on Tour team will be visiting Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh, Ayr and Dundee and the following venues and times have been confirmed so far:

• 12pm, Tuesday 21 July at Silverburn, Glasgow
• 12pm, 23rd July at Bon Accord St Nicholas, Aberdeen
• 12pm, 3rd August at Arran Mall, Ayr
• 12pm, 6th August at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh

Further details will be announced shortly on The Hour website.

Highlights from the tour will be shown weekly on The Hour throughout summer.

Vicky Lee, chief talent scout for The Hour, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the talented people of Scotland to show off on the telly! We’re hoping to meet a whole range of people with weird and wonderful talents – there are no restrictions, the only requirement is talent. Who knows, we might find the next Susan Boyle. So come along and strut your stuff – you never know, you might go down a storm.”

Press Contacts:

Kirstin Stevenson, STV 0141 300 3670
Anna Bondesson, STV 0141 300 3830

Web site updates

Ken sent me some information about Meet Me In St Louis, which I have now added to the web site. Please click the logo on the right-hand side of the web page, or go to http://www.sabos.co.uk/currentShow to see it.

Anyway, we now have a booking registration form on that page, so you can start selling tickets :-)

What happened to the web site?

I don't know how closely you've been looking at the web site, but some strange stuff has happened since I last looked here.

Firstly, some updates that I'm sure I put on line have just gone away. That was the "what our next show will be" stuff. No idea where that went...

The other was that our "Latest Blog Updates" went away. Now this is actually quite clever stuff.

Our blog is hosted by Google. Our web site is hosted by 1and1. When you come to the home page, a little program running on the web server asks Google for the latest blog updates, picks out the interesting bits, and then shows them on screen.

Unfortunately, Google has changed the way it gives us back the latest blog updates. It's changed from RSS to Atom. Which means that the code that used to look "here" for certain information has to look "there" - where "there" is somewhere different from before.

So i think I've now got it working, though I am aware that I'm missing a date for blog posts. That will come soon, I hope!

Social and Brain Storming Evening - 05-Jun

This came from Mandy - I think it's a great idea and hope to be there. Please come along and join us!

A few of us got together after the AGM and decided it was time for positive action. Therefore, we'd like to see as many SABOS members as possible in the TAPPIT HEN DUNBLANE, from 9pm on Friday 5 Jun, to chat, see each other, and brainstorm some ideas for FundRaising activities and Social Gathering plans for the coming year.

All ideas welcome, and even if you haven't thought of any yourself, please please come along and help us flesh out the ones I'm sure everyone will be having! If you need to contact us for more information, I can be reached on 07910 524333, or mandy.milly.molly@gmail.com, and can pass along any ideas or opinions!

Wizard Of Oz in Dunfermline - September 15-19

Anyone fancying a night out in September could do much worse than going to visit our friends in Dunfermline, The Limelight Productions. Not only are they putting on The Wizard Of Oz, but they are the first amateur company to be performing in The Alhambra Theatre.

The Alhambra used to be a theatre, then it became a cinema in the 1920s, then it became a bingo hall. Now it's been reclaimed as a theatre, beautifully refurbished, and is now one of Scotland's largest theatres. So it's well worth a visit!

Limelight is a new company, who are putting on some great shows and establishing themselves as an innovative and exciting company on the Scottish amateur musical scene.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Childrens Singing & Musical Theatre Workshops with Suzie Falconer

Got this from Suzie today and thought it might be of interest:

KRACKIN’ KIDS at MONUMENT DANCE CENTRE
Krackin’ Kids are back with a series of exciting new Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops.
We hope to run several workshops throughout the year introducing junior groups to the magical world of performing and developing these skills in the senior groups.
The first block of workshops will take place at Monument Dance Centre

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
Workshops will normally cost £10.00 per session, but we have lots of special offers.
The cost of the summer09 workshops will be £20 for 4 weekly sessions.
The workshops are open to everyone but pupils attending Monument Dance and Drama classes will be invited to claim a free trial.
We want to encourage as many boys along and are offering a Bring a Boy for free offer – pay only one set of fees when girls bring a boy along.

WHO IS IT FOR?
Juniors - Boys and Girls from age 8 to 13 years Seniors Boys and Girls from age 14 – 18 years who have an interest in singing, acting and performing.

WHO ARE THE TEACHERS
RSAMD trained singer and local performer Suzie Falconer will lead the first Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops, with other members of MDC becoming involved - Callan McCormack will lead workshops on acting and improvisation skills and Craig Murray will lead stagecraft and characterisation workshops. We will also be inviting visiting actors, directors, singers and musical directors.

WHAT WILL WE DO?
Generally we’ll have loads of fun learning, singing and performing songs that you love; from musical theatre and pop favourites to a few more challenging classical pieces. You will learn singing techniques such as breathing, placing and pitching through group exercises, work on some harmony and part singing, and for anyone who wants to step into the spot-light, we’d love to hear you sing a solo!

DO WE HAVE TO COME EVERY WEEK?
The workshops will be in blocks of 2, 4 or 6 weeks.
Some workshops will be held in the evenings, some during school holidays.
Young people can sign up for whichever course or workshop they wish.

WHEN ARE THE WORKSHOPS?
The first Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops will be held on Thursdays 28th May and 4th, 18th & 25th June. Please note no workshop on 11th June.

INTERESTED? RETURN THE COMPLETED FORM BELOW WITH YOUR £20.00 ASAP.
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THE FIRST WORKSHOPS BUT MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE, LET US KNOW. WE WILL BE DESIGNING EACH WORKSHOP WITH YOU IN MIND – TELL US WHAT YOU WANT!
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I WISH TO APPLY FOR A PLACE AT THE SUMMER09 MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS AND ENCLOSE £20.00

NAME…………………………………………………………………….

Age……………………..

Contact telephone & email………...……………………………………………………………..

I am unable to attend the summer workshop but am interested in future workshops please keep me on your mailing lists. I am interested in.………..…………………………………………

Please return to: Monument Dance Centre, Easter Cornton Grange, Easter Cornton Road, Causewayhead, Stirling, FK9 5PB

For further details, contact us on 01786 451 244 or Monumentdance@aol.com

Next year's show chosen!

Next year's show will be "Meet Me In St Louis" to be performed in the macrobert from 16-20 March 2010

AGM Details

All members should already have received their notice of the 2009 Annual General Meeting.

This will be held in St Ninian's Church Hall, Wed 27th May at 7:30pm

Free Singing Course

Free Singing Course: I got a flyer from Russell Malcolm offering:

Free Singing Course,

Open to all

Flexible 6 Week Tuition.

Free CD and course pack is included.

No previous experience required.

Meet 6:30 [pm, I assume] in the Hall opposite the Art College, Perth Road, Dundee from Sunday 17th May 2009

Just Come Along!

Further info from Russell on 07721 015255 or recitals@uku.co.uk

The flyer also has a logo for "Making Music - Supporting & Championing Voluntary Music"

Updates to the SABOS web site

I am pleased to announce some updates to the web site. You may already have noticed them. However, the main updates are:

1. The photographs from the 2009 show - The Boy Friend - have now been posted in our Past Productions page
2. I have updated the right-hand image and the "current production" page to reflect the fact that the 2010 show is yet to be announced
3. Updates to the blog now appear on the site's front page. Please keep a weather eye on this, as I occasionally receive notifications from various organisations of things that may be of interest to society members.

Please let me know if you have any problems with these features, or indeed anything you'd like to see published on the site, using the "Contact Us" link.