GASS
The Gentlemen's Ale Sampling Society
1982-2017 35 YEARS OF BEERS
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The Gentlemen's Ale Sampling Society 1982-2017 35 YEARS OF BEERS
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JANUARY MEETING THE GREAT GASS PANTO! A full scale traditional comedy panto at The Roffen for friends and family In aid of the FACE charity effort, it's the last event, promise!
This is what we imagined we would look like
This is what we actually looked like!
Now watch the video THIS IS THE SHORT VERSION - 17 MINUTES and for phone and tablet (none flash player) users try this link
THIS IS THE LONG VERSION, NO CUTS, 28 MINUTES and for phone and tablet (none flash player) users try this link
and some stills from the production...
THE STORY The Panto was written by Nick and Steve R, produced by Del DeLorme, Narrated by JB and Steve R. ACTORS - All of us!
REHEARSAL Sunday 5th January - We all met at 10.30am for a DRESS rehearsal, The bar was open during the rehersal with predictable results, however we managed tow run throughs and a dress rehersal, not bad at 10 on a Sunday morning! Once we are finished we enjoyed a slap-up lunch with unlimited wine (£20 a head - how does The Roffen do it?). It was a sell-out. Every single cast member and partners were there, 40 sat down for lunch.
and during lunch it was decided to reward Nick for all his hard work...
TICKETS - £10 Everyone entered into the spirit in every way, including selling at least £50 worth of tickets each, so we made over £1,000 for FACE.
THE PERFORMANCE: Tuesday 7th January Everyone got a part - not actually the part some were expecting as Nick, for reasons only he could fathom, had changed a number of the key parts prior to the rehearsal, but without telling anyone. So actors turned up having hired the costume and learnt their lines, only to find they had been relegated to bit-parts, and vice-versa. The simple solution was to revert to the original cast list, problem solved. Nick choose the harder approach - "It is a play wot I writ, and it stays as I writ it!". With logic flying out the window we now had Ron promoted from Dwarf number 3 to the lead in Aladdin as Abanazar. Along with problems associated with not knowing the lines and not having a costume, Ron can't say "Abanazar. Odd you might think, after all Abanazar is a simple four syllable word, ab-an-az-ar . To Ron he was sometimes Abanazazaarer, sometimes Abunazzarrerera, sometimes Abnu-ohfuckit!, but never Abanazar. No matter, the evening went wonderfully, we had a ball, the audience seemed to enjoy themselves too.
Enormous thanks to Del and Mel - without whom we could not have pulled it off. Same goes to Nick, whose single handed determination to raise yet more money pulled him off, sorry, pulled him through. And of course, last but not least, our wonderful cast...... GASS PANTO CAST STEVE RICHES HIMSELF
DEL DELORME HIMSELF CINDERELLA ALADDIN SNOW WHITE PHIL COCKERTON SCENERY SHIFTER
THE AUDIENCE
Thanks to you too for tolerating - Possible the Worst Panto Ever!
and finally to the GASS band
Sea-sick Steve and his boys!
Apologies to Mudsticks, the actual band, who played until midnight for the after-party, I never got a photo!
NEXT YEAR
Either GASS - THE MUSICAL, or GASS - SWAN LAKE BALLET
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