Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society

Our 2008 Production was

Monday 28th January 2008 to Saturday 2nd February 2008

Theatre Royal, Norwich

Director/Choreographer - Jeremy Tustin

Making history all over again. The musical that swept the Tony awards winning 5, including Best Musical. A joyous, breathtaking and heartbreaking show that captures the scope and humanity of what went on during the ship’s historic voyage. Book your passage aboard the world’s most infamous ship, the “ship of dreams”.

The sinking of the TITANIC in the early hours of April 15^th 1912 remains the quintessential true-disaster story. A total of 1,517 souls – men, women and children – lost their lives (only 711 survived). The fact that the finest, largest, strongest ship in the world – called, in fact, the “unsinkable” ship – should have been lost during it’s maiden voyage is so incredible that, had it not actually happened, no author would have dared to contrive it.

The musical play TITANIC examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. This is the factual story of the TITANIC – of her officers, crew and passengers – some high born, some sailing away from grinding poverty. A story in which the TITANIC itself serves not merely as a background against which fictional narratives are recounted but as the central character of this magical musical.

The results of the auditions held on Sunday 22nd July 2007 gave us the following Cast List

*Thomas Andrews*	Andrew Burgess	*Bruce Ismay*	Martyn Rolfe
*Captain E. J. Smith*	John McInnes	*William Murdoch*	William Drew Batty
*Charles Lightoller*	Ed Wilson	*Herbert Pitman*	Andy Lofthouse
*Joseph Boxall*	Timothy Kelly	*Robert Hitchens*	Lee Chapman
*Harold Bride*	Scott Collier	*Frederick Barrett*	Steve Jones
*Frederick Fleet*	William Norton	*Joseph Bell*	Peter Mottram
*Henry Etches*	Christopher Penn
*Isidor Strauss*	John Millward	*Ida Strauss*	Coral Newell
*John J Astor*	Alan Syder	*Madelaine Astor*	Kristina Dalzell
*Benjamin Guggenhiem*	John Fiddes	*Mme Aubert*	Laura Marvel
*John B Thayer*	David Pulling	*Marion Thayer*	Jenny Bugg
*Jack Thayer*	Frank Brown / Jack Daly
*George Widener*	John Newell	*Eleanor Widener*	Val Lofthouse
*J. H. Rogers*	Spencer Botly
*The Major*	David Hawkins
*Edgar Beane*	Ian Chisholm	*Alice Beane*	Christine Mullord
*Charles Clarke*	Josh Lincoln	*Caroline Neville*	Sarah Browne
*Jim Farrell*	Sam Clarke	*Kate McGowan*	Elizabeth Futter
		*Kate Murphey*	Sinead Merron
		*Kate Mullins*	Sharon Aitken
		*Charlotte Cardoza*	Niamh Church
		*Edith Corse Evans*	Ann Stockwell
*Andrew Latimer*	Ian Doughty
*Stewardess Robinson*	Nia Howe
*Stewardess Hutchinson*	Rebecca Rowe
*2nd Class Steward*	Ron Eaglen
*3rd Class Steward*	Christopher Penn
*Wallace Hartley*	Andy Lofthouse
*Frank Carlson*	John Newell	The DaMicos	Liz Ireland
*Bellboy*	Callum Bicknell / Philip Poole		Paul Andrew
*Taylor*	Timothy Kelly
*Bricoux*	Lee Chapman
*Stevedore*	Peter Pepper

FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS: (Opening/Remarkable Age/Latest Rag/Finale Act 1/ Wake Up/Dressed In Your Pyjamas/Lifeboats/Finale Act 2)

Spencer Botly, Andrew Burgess, Roger Cliffe, John Fiddes, Colin Harris, David Hawkins (Remarkable Age & Dressed In Your Pyjamas only), David Knights, John Millward, William Norton, David Pulling, Martyn Rolfe, Alan Syder & Tony Welch, John Newell

Jenny Bugg, Linda Campbell, Niamh Church, Kristina Dalzell, Michelle Gothard, Colleen Harris, Liz Ireland, Val Lofthouse, Laura Marvell, Coral Newell, Clare Rhodes, Ann Stockwell & Maria Wilson

SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS: (Opening/ Finale Act 1/ Wake Up/Dressed In Your Pyjamas/Lifeboats/Finale Act 2)

Ian Chisholm, William Drew-Batty (Opening only), Ian Doughty, Ron Eaglen, Neil Chapman, Vince Hopkins, Josh Lincoln, Ed Wilson (Opening only)

Jacqualyn Aitken, Sarah Browne, Donna Collier, Clare Harper, Carole Lloyd, Joanne Madden, Christine Mullord, Sue Ridge, Melissa Sampson, Helen Van der Velt, Vicky Walker

THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS: (Opening/Lady’s Maid/Finale Act 1/Wake Up/Lifeboats/Finale Act 2)

Lee Chapman (not opening), Sam Clarke, Timothy Kelly (not opening), Nicholas King, Andy Lofthouse (not opening), Jim Lord, Peter Mottram, Peter Pepper

Sharon Aitken, Megan Bradsworth, Hayley Carter, Hannah Donaldson-Davidson, Elizabeth Futter, Nia Howe, Charlotte Litten, Keira Long, Hannah McPhee, Sinead Merron, Rebecca Rowe, Roseanne Sweeney & Rose Williams

FOR LADY’S MAID ONLY: All 3^rd Class Passengers as above plus the following:

Linda Campbell, Liz Ireland, Maria Wilson, Laura Marvel, Val Lofthouse, Jenny Bugg, Carole Lloyd, Donna Collier, Clare Harper, Jacqualyn Aitken, Sue Ridge, Helen Van der Veldt, Alan Syder, William Norton, Spencer Botly, David Pulling, Ron Eaglen, Ian Doughty

FOR REMARKABLE AGE:

Staff: Chris Penn, Ian Doughty, Rebecca Rowe, Nia Howe and Bellboys