Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

We got back from Nepal on 10th December but I missed the concert at St Lukes. It was apparently very hot. I did however go to the breakup the following Wednesday and found that some choir people and Elizabeth Egan conducting, were singing in this service at St Lukes   the following Sunday with one rehearsal on Thursday night, so I went. It is the service we see in Carols from Kings so we got to walk down the aisle singing Once in Royal David's City with the Organ and up into the choir stalls. The Readings and prayers were suitably brief and I caught up with Graham and Judy Stevens while I was there.
A nice lead in to Christmas.

Ding Dong

A farce in the tradition of Boeing Boeing and Don't Dress for Dinner. Bernard finds that his wife is having an affair with Robert and gives him two options to compensate: either he will sleep with Robert's wife in order to keep things even, or he will have him killed. A non-stop feast of mistaken identities and farcical hijinks.

The Armed Man

A Mass for Peace. Music by Sir Karl Jenkins.
At Fairholme College Assembly Hall.

I really enjoyed learning this music but we went to Japan with Lee in September and only arrived home that morning so I was too tired to go. Also it is a good way to pass on any infection one might return with.

Toowoomba Choral Soc choir did it with Tba Cncert Orchestra and we went to one of their rehearsals at USQ. It was nice to be recognised by several players from Eileen's string concert at Greenmount in August when Dick got up and played.

The Mouse Trap

Agatha Christie
the world's longest running play - continuous since 1952.
Eight people are snowed in at a guest house and a murder takes place. Can the murderer be caught before more deaths happen?
I did Front of House twice for this play and that was the last time I saw Neil McKilligan. We had a nice chat at interval although he was very frail.
He went to a nursing home in Brisbane at the beginning of October and died in the first week of January 2020.

Crossing Delancey

this is the story of Izzy, a modern youg woman, and her 80 year old Bubbie who is woried that her granddaughter is not yet married. giving Cupid a nudge, this irrascible graany hires a matchmaker and sets out to find Izzy the perfect mate.
This play takes a bemused look at the clash between traditional Jewish-American immigrant culture and the more modern aspirations of the next generation.
[Delancey is a street in New York which divides parts by culture.]

Life and Beth

Beth is mourning the recent death of her husband, Gordon, and the family arrives to comfort her. However between her sister's drinking problem, her son's emotional girlfriend and the earnestness of the local vicar who unwittingly summons Gordon's ghost, it's soon evident that things are not going to go smoothly.