Batley Gilbert & Sullivan Society

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Did You Know?

This was the our 56th production and the sixth time the Society had presented "Princess Ida" (or "Castle Adamant"). Having performed a variety of roles with the Society, David Hall, for the first time, took on the role of Musical Director.

• The production was presented in the Dewsbury Little Theatre, our home for 25 enjoyable years. Car park security was though a problem, with a number of car break-ins particularly in the later years and resulting in our paying for on-site security. To mitigate the cost, one of our members penned the following as a programme insert (based on King Gama's song "If you give me your attention").
• GAMA'S CAR PARK PATROL
  

  If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,
  If you come here by bicycle, by motor car or van,
  I'll look after your vehicle and keep away the crooks
  While you admire my daughter, who's the one with the good looks.
  I'll scare away the criminal but don't do this for free,
  So put money in the buckets so that they can pay my fee.
  I love my fellow creature, I do all the good I can,
  Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man.
  And I can't thing why.

• From a series of watercolours by W.Russell Flint: