Scratch Gondoliers

SAVE THE DATE!

SOUTHAMPTON OPERATIC SOCIETY’S

COME AND SING GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’S “THE GONDOLIERS”

Sarah and Hilary are busy organising this exciting event which SOS are hosting on Saturday 16th March 2019 at Peartree Church Hall in Woolston.

For those who have never been in a “scratch/come and sing” performance before this is how we are planning for it to work:

• All SOS members past and present with families and friends to come and enjoy this occasion and to help promote among your contacts.
• Other performing societies and groups including churches, youth choirs, etc. in fact any one is very welcome and will be invited to participate.
• We are hoping to cast the principals from SOS and other groups to make it more inclusive and wide spread to encourage inter society “harmony (!)”. So we are going to invite other groups to make suggestions for principal parts and together with Martin Paterson and Paul Spanton a decision will be made. There will be narrators filling in the bits in between – so no lengthy libretto.
• Everyone else will be in the chorus and have great fun in their voice parts.
• We hope that everyone will join in the occasion and wear suitable bits of costume (hats) and enter into the spirit of it.
• If you don’t want to sing (but we hope everyone will) you can still come along to watch and listen as audience and have a great evening.
• Pizzas will be ordered and provided for the supper interval along with ice creams…..and you can bring whatever you like to drink.
• Extra scores are being hired for those who can't provide or source their own.

Don’t worry if you don’t know it, there is going to be a sing through beforehand on Wednesday 6th February 2019.

For all this fun it will only cost £14.00 per person – what a great way to spend the evening – meeting up and welcoming other local singers. Let’s scratch that G&S itch.

Welcome to SOS

We are an award-winning group who perform a wide variety of shows from grand opera and Gilbert & Sullivan to modern musicals. We also have an SOS Entertainers group available for musical events. We support a number of local and national charities. Acting membership is open to anyone who passes an audition but we also welcome non-acting members. Please see our information on how to join SOS.  Follow @sotonopera

SOS performing Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado 2016. See more SOS clips on YouTube

A New (Ad)venture for Youth Productions in Southampton

After 30 years of putting on youth productions under the trading styles SOS Juniors and Debut Youth Theatre (DYT), Southampton Operatic Society (SOS) has decided that the operations of its Junior Members Sub-Committee will cease for the foreseeable future. It is hoped and expected that this will be a temporary cessation.

In the meantime, parents of SOS Juniors / DYT members are encouraged to enrol their children with Dynamic Youth Theatre, a separate charity registered under charity no. 1177421, which numbers amongst its trustees a number of former SOS sub-committee members and which shares very similar charitable objects to those espoused by SOS.

The adult members of SOS wish Dynamic Youth Theatre every success with their future endeavours, commencing with a production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, from 6 to 8 December 2018.