Name: Betty Blue Eyes
Start: 2022-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: HMP Bronzefield

Organization

Stage director

Sasha Regan

Conductor

Ashley Jacobs

Assistant Director

Kasper Cornish

Choreographer

Set designer

Alex Doidge Green

Costume designer

Bek Palmer

Lighting designer

Warren Letton

Sound designer

Mike Thacker

Singer

Michael Burgen

Dr James Swaby

Charlotte Fleming

Joyce Chilvers

Freddie King

Gilbert Chilvers

Tom Duern

Henry Allardyce

Grange Park Opera

Betty Blue Eyes

Ashford

United Kingdom

HMP Bronzefield

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Bass

Countertenor

Contralto

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

It is 1947 in a hungry small town in the north of England. Rationing rationing rationing.

Local businessmen plan a party to celebrate the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig (Betty) for this royal occasion. She is gorgeous and delicious and abducted by Gilbert Chivers (played by Michael Palin in the film).

And then there is the region’s food inspector to contend with…

The musical is based on the 1984 film A Private Function to a screen play by Alan Bennett.

In 2011 Cameron Mackintosh, presented with the idea to make the film into a musical, said “The score was written by friends of mine, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, whom I’ve known for 25 years and [who,] of course, did all the terrific new songs for Mary Poppins … The book was written by two Americans [Cowen and Lipman], and it was their idea… I read it and I thought it was the most original piece I had read in a long, long time. I mean, I knew they were working on it, because the moment I heard it was a musical version of A Private Function — a film I loved, by Alan Bennett, which was very, very funny and off-the-wall — I was intrigued…“

English

Betty Blue Eyes by Stiles, lør. 12 nov. 2022, Fra (2022/2022), Instrueret af Sasha Regan,, Dirigent Ashley Jacobs, HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, United Kingdom

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