The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of UBC http://gsubc.com Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:56:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Super Fun Christmas Show! Performers Needed! http://gsubc.com/2011/10/13/super-fun-christmas-show-performers-needed/ http://gsubc.com/2011/10/13/super-fun-christmas-show-performers-needed/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:11:12 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=629 Continue reading →]]> Hello everyone!

Regarding the Christmas showcase, we decided to have another meeting on WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19 at 7PM in SUB 207/209, given the poor turnout at last meeting. This meeting is MANDATORY for anyone who is interested in participating in the Christmas cabaret/showcase. If you are unable to make the meeting, please email me (Natasha - nazacher@gmail.com) with your ideas for a performance no later than WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19. We need to start thinking about the program and organize some semblance of a rehearsal schedule.

Thanks and have a great week!

Natasha

]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/10/13/super-fun-christmas-show-performers-needed/feed/ 0 I’ve Got Chills! – Call for Performers for our winter show. http://gsubc.com/2011/10/06/ive-got-chills-call-for-performers-for-our-winter-show/ http://gsubc.com/2011/10/06/ive-got-chills-call-for-performers-for-our-winter-show/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:17:35 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=619 Continue reading →]]> Hello all,

Thank you to those who came out to our planning meeting on Monday!  Your enthusiasm is contagious, and we now have a fabulous performance opportunity coming up in the fall term, a Christmas cabaret/showcase called “I’ve Got Chills!” lead by three lovely ladies Natasha Zacher, Sydney McIvor and Vanessa Quarinto.

But of course, if we’re to have a show, we need PERFORMERS of all sorts, and that’s where you lot come in.  Below I’ve attached Natasha’s email to you guys, and it has all the information you need to get involved!  Please read it and reply to her at nazacher@gmail.com to express your interest.

Please also RSVP to our Facebook event and join our Facebook group for more updates from your favourite society.

Hello everyone!

Given all the enthusiasm we saw at the first mash up meeting, we would like to create a performance opportunity for this semester! The plan is to have a Christmas themed cabaret/showcase performance on Sunday November 27th, with the show tentatively starting around 3 pm. The name of the show is: “I’ve Got Chills!” Pretty general, so you can perform anything you’d like with a “wintery” theme in mind. A solo piece, a duet, a scene, a monologue, a sketch, a crazy sweet dance number – anything you’d like! For a finale, the lovely Vanessa will be choreographing a group number! Those rehearsals will likely be a couple of Sundays in November, but those details will be ironed out later.

What you need to know right now: if you are interested in performing in “I’ve Got Chills!”, please come to the information meeting this WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 from 7-9PM in SUB 207/209 with some sort of idea for your performance in mind. This is just a general meeting to figure out what kinds of ideas and pieces we can play around with! It looks like we are booked in various rooms in the SUB on Mondays and Wednesdays, and a few Sundays in the ballroom.

Thank you guys so much, and if you have any questions please fire them off to me, (Natasha -nazacher@gmail.com), and I will forward them around to the other wonderful ladies (Vanessa and Sydney) heading up this show!

Have a lovely long weekend, and see you on Wednesday!

Natasha
]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/10/06/ive-got-chills-call-for-performers-for-our-winter-show/feed/ 0 How to Succeed: Planning Meeting for 2011-2012 Season. http://gsubc.com/2011/10/01/how-to-succeed-planning-meeting-for-2011-2012-season/ http://gsubc.com/2011/10/01/how-to-succeed-planning-meeting-for-2011-2012-season/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:10:45 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=612 Continue reading →]]> Hello G&Sers!

Thank you to all of you who came out to our Musical Mashup evening last night.  We were overwhelmed and extremely touched by your enthusiasm, and we hope you had as good a time as we did!  It was so nice to meet all of you.

After hearing some of your exciting ideas for the club this year, we’ve decided to hold a (“How to Succeed:”) Planning Meeting on Monday 3 October at 7pm in Room 207/209 in the SUB.  We’re going to hash out some plans and see what we’ll be able to do this year.  Exciting, I know. :)

Even if you weren’t able to come to the Mashup night, please come, we’d love to meet you.  If you’re interested in planning things for next year, being a part of production teams, taking on a leadership role in the club, or joining the Exec, you should also try and make it out to the meeting.

Hope to see you there!

]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/10/01/how-to-succeed-planning-meeting-for-2011-2012-season/feed/ 0 Friday, Friday, we have a room for Friday… http://gsubc.com/2011/09/26/friday-friday-we-have-a-room-for-friday/ http://gsubc.com/2011/09/26/friday-friday-we-have-a-room-for-friday/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:31:54 +0000 president http://gsubc.com/?p=607 Continue reading →]]> A quick reminder about our Musical Mashup Mixer happening this Friday 30 September at 6:30pm, we now have a room and will be seeing all your lovely faces in 42U in the SUB.  Here’s the Facebook event, please RSVP so we know to expect you, and also join our snazzy Facebook group.  Friday, we’ll be doing a bit of singing, talking, socialising, finding out what our club will be getting up to this year and other performance stuff…  Bring a friend!  No experience necessary!

See you then.

]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/09/26/friday-friday-we-have-a-room-for-friday/feed/ 0 Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! http://gsubc.com/2011/09/24/willkommen-bienvenue-welcome/ http://gsubc.com/2011/09/24/willkommen-bienvenue-welcome/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:26:45 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=597 Continue reading →]]> A warm welcome to the fabulous 2011-2012 season of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of UBC!  We’re the only UBC club specialising in musical theatre (acting, singing and dancing) and Gilbert & Sullivan (two very cool dudes).  Thank you all for your enthusiasm during Imagine Day and Clubs Days at UBC.  We’re looking forward to meeting you and having a blast this year.

1. First Event! Musical Mashup Mixer, Friday 30th September 6pm

2. Find us on Facebook and check out our website

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1. First Event! Musical Mashup Mixer, Friday 30th September 6pm

Do you want to sing and dance in a no-stress environment with friends?  Are you a fan of GLEE?  Or would you just like to get a preview of or even help plan the amazing things we’ll get up to this year (we’d love to hear your ideas)?

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. This event is FREE of charge and open to anyone who’d like to see what our club’s about.  Can’t sing or dance or want to just help out behind the scenes?  That’s okay!  This meeting is a chance for all of us to get to know each other, and have some fun while we’re at it.

Friday 30th September.  6pm. Book the date/time.

Location: the SUB (we’ll send off another email with a meeting place and room).

What we’re up to: Introductions and icebreakers, followed by a quick beginner workshop in which we attempt to make music with two popular songs from musicals (i.e. MASHUP!), then we’d love to chat and hear what YOU want to do with the club this year.  This will hopefully be the first of a series of workshops held by our Society.

Also a great place to meet future audition buddies, artistic teams, and like-minded people.  Just sayin’. :)

2. Find us on Facebook and check out our website

We use Facebook for RSVPs to events, general updates and any questions you have (please populate our group and our wall!).  More info can be found on our website, www.gsubc.com, where our blog is also located.  Stay tuned there for updates as well.

Hope to see you soon!  (As in, see you all on Friday! :) )

]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/09/24/willkommen-bienvenue-welcome/feed/ 0 The H.M.S. Pinafore! http://gsubc.com/2011/02/07/the-h-m-s-pinafore-2/ http://gsubc.com/2011/02/07/the-h-m-s-pinafore-2/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:03:00 +0000 president http://gsubc.com/?p=508 Continue reading →]]>

Come join The UBC Gilbert and Sullivan Society as the first Student Society to perform in the newly renovated Old Auditorium at UBC in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece, The H.M.S. Pinafore!

What Never?….

…. Well hardly ever

The words of Captain Corcoran aboard the H.M.S. Pinafore are appropriate!  In this hazily mid century set production of Pinafore there are hardly ever any moments of clarity.  Headmistress Hebe, cousin to Sir Joseph Porter, Admiral of the Queen’s Navee, brings a trial run of her girls school to a semester aboard the H.M.S. Pinafore where they will learn liberal arts and marine biology.  Instead they get caught up in a forbidden romance between Josephine, the young daughter of the Captain and Ralph a foremast sailor.  The complication is that Sir Joseph has accompanied the girls school in order to claim Josephine’s “promised” hand for himself and ensure the Captain and Josephine’s place in society. Add to that a group of sailors with a penchant for spontaneous anachronistic dance moves and a school of extremely eligible relatives even Side Show Bob would be astonished.

Back in the venue where the Gilbert and Sullivan Society was founded!


Where:    UBC Old Auditorium


When:      February 9, 10, 11 at 8pm

February 12 at 2 pm


Ticket Price:  $15 General

$10 Student


Reserve your tickets today by emailing info@gsubc.com


]]> http://gsubc.com/2011/02/07/the-h-m-s-pinafore-2/feed/ 0 Masquerade! http://gsubc.com/2010/02/21/masquerade/ http://gsubc.com/2010/02/21/masquerade/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:40:29 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=495 Continue reading →]]> We are currently in the limbo after a big show.  Thanks to all of you who came to see Fiddler on the Roof!  It was quite amazing!

Now, in the limbo between the rehearsals of shows, we are presenting the UBC Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s Fifth Annual Musical Revue!  Our revues are a fun collection of the club’s favourite musical numbers as allocated to a common theme: this year, “Masquerade”.

Featuring numbers like “Facade” from Jekyll and Hyde, “Masquerade” from Phantom of the Opera, “Master of the House” from Les Miserables and others from the musicals Chorus Line, Spamalot, Chicago, Annie and Wicked among the multitude.

There is only a one-off performance, so be sure to visit the Student Union Building Ballroom at UBC on April 1st at 8:00PM to see it!  The admission fee is $5, paid in cash at the door. Come for the singing and dancing and general revelry.  Best of all?  Come in Costume.

We are all very excited, and we woul d love for you to be there!

]]> http://gsubc.com/2010/02/21/masquerade/feed/ 0 GSUBC’s Fiddler on the Roof! http://gsubc.com/2010/01/28/gsubcs-fiddler-on-the-roof/ http://gsubc.com/2010/01/28/gsubcs-fiddler-on-the-roof/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:00:45 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=472 Continue reading →]]> Left: Vanessa Coley-Donohue as Fruma Sarah; Right: Patti Palm as Grandmother Tzeitel Arne Larsen as Tevye!

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents Fiddler on the Roof!

Fiddler is to be performed at John Oliver Secondary School’s auditorium on the following dates:

7:30PM on Thursday, 04 Feburary
7:30PM on Friday, 05 Feburary
2:00PM and 7:30PM shows on Saturday, 06 Feburary

In addition to these shows, there is an open dress rehearsal on Wednesday, Feburary 03, to which any may come in to watch.  We gladly accept donations on this date.  John Oliver students in particular are most welcome!

John Oliver Secondary is located at 530 East. 41st Avenue.

Tickets will be sold at the door, and the price is $15 for students, and $20 for non-students.  Please be aware that we only accept cash.

Look out for our posters around town!

]]> http://gsubc.com/2010/01/28/gsubcs-fiddler-on-the-roof/feed/ 0 Tickets for Fiddler on the Roof http://gsubc.com/2010/01/22/tickets-for-fiddler-on-the-roof/ http://gsubc.com/2010/01/22/tickets-for-fiddler-on-the-roof/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:52:07 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=481 Continue reading →]]> are being sold in the South Student Union Building Concourse!  From 11AM to 2PM on January 25th through January 29th, there will be handbills and posters marking our table.  It should be manned throughout the week, but if you pass by and someone is on break, feel free to take a handbill for further perusal and to book a reservation at info@gsubc.com.

]]> http://gsubc.com/2010/01/22/tickets-for-fiddler-on-the-roof/feed/ 0 Mailing Lists and Clubs Week http://gsubc.com/2009/09/09/mailing-lists-and-clubs-week/ http://gsubc.com/2009/09/09/mailing-lists-and-clubs-week/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:17:20 +0000 secretary http://gsubc.com/?p=467 Continue reading →]]> For those interested in more detailed and frequent information regarding auditions and other opportunities within our society, including technical assistance with backstage and sets as well as information on auditions and positions within the pit orchestras for both shows, there will be a mailing list providing such information.  Simply e-mail secretary@gsubc.com with your e-mail and with mailing list (acting/theatre/dancing or orchestra or technical or any such combination of those three) and you will be added to the pertinent mailing list as well as receiving an update of all the most recent issues.

In other news, UBC’s Imagine Day has come and gone, but there is still the AMS Clubs Week! The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of UBC will be manning a booth in the Student Union Building from the 21st through to the 25th during this, and any interested parties may sign up for an audition slot, obtain a membership or simply show up to listen to an enthusiastic representative to take notes of show dates as well as other social events one will be invited to with an invitation.

See you there!

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