Happy New Year!

Katterwall Youth Music Theatre (KYMT), lead by Andrew Swift,  has just started putting together ‘Ladies Who Lunch’ – a revue featuring some of Stephen Sondheim’s many fabulous songs for women. Auditions are happening now until Friday 18th February. Drop Celia a line in the office if you’d like to get involved in this exciting project.

Ladies Who Lunch will be presented at the Skylark Lounge on Saturday 14th May.

Audition season is just round the corner! If you would like to audition for Kassia Men’s Chorus or Kassia Women’s Choir’s next combined JAZZ term - Fly Me to the Moon (starting mid-April) we will be scheduling short and sweet auditions from Monday 14th March.  
 
Yours

Director, Katterwall
 
           
      
     
 
 
Photo Credit: www.broadwayworld.com

IN FOCUS: Stephen Sondheim Trivia
  • He has won 8 Tonys (more than any other composer), 8 Grammys, an Oscar (for ‘Sooner Or Later’) and a Pulitzer (in drama, for ‘Sunday in the park with George’)
  • He saw ‘The Wiz’ 6 times
  • In the 60’s he published a series of cryptic crosswords in the New York magazine
  • He appeared on ‘The Simpsons’ in 2007
  • Most of the episode titles from the television series ‘Desperate Housewives’ reference his work in some way, through the use of either song titles or lyrics
  • His middle name is Joshua
  • He was taught by Oscar Hammerstein II
  • His birthday is the same day as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
  • Katharine Hepburn used to be his next door neighbour and complained about his late night piano playing
His music is being featured in KYMT’s first revue ‘Ladies Who Lunch’, including:

Plus more numbers from Into The Woods, A Little Night Music....

Dates & Times: Saturday 14th May, 6:30pm
Venue: Skylark Lounge, 1/F Parekh House, 63 Wyndham Street, Central
Tickets will be available from Katterwall Office from April.
Email us now if you want to get the updates of the performance.
      
     
 
 
 

Glee!

Kassia Women's Choir are currently rehearsing 'GLEE', taking inspiration from the hit TV show of the same name. The first 13 episodes alone featured 70 songs, so I had plenty of scope for programming!
 
But did you know that Glee Clubs have been around for over 200 years? 

The first was founded at Harrow School in 1787. In England, they were superseded in favour of choral societies in the mid 19th Century but around the same time, Glee Clubs became very popular in North American and Japanese colleges and universities, despite the fact that most are choruses that no longer perform 'glees' (which in this context does not refer to the mood of the music or indeed of its singers, but to a specific form of English part song popular between 1650 and 1900.)
 
The oldest Glee Club in America is the Harvard Glee Club, established in 1858, whose notable members have included Leonard Bernstein, Theodore Roosevelt and FD Roosevelt (Now, I'd very much like to see their version of Single Ladies!)

Dates & Times: 5th and 6th April, 8pm
Venue: Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre
Tickets will be available from Choir members and URBTIX from March 
 
      
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
When            What
Regular    
Mondays
  
Singing Circle (adult) with Bethan @ Katterwall Studio, 12:15-1:15pm
  Katterwall Youth Music Theatre (ages 13-18) with Andrew @ Katterwall Studio, 6:30-8:30pm
Tuesdays   Singing'SKool (ages 9-12) with Naomi @ Katterwall Studio, 4:45-5:45pm
Thursdays   Hullaballoo (ages 5-8) with Celia @ Katterwall Studo, 4:30-5:30pm
March
Sat 5th
Kassia Women's Choir Glee tickets go on sale at URBTIX!
14th onwards Auditions for Kassia Men's Chorus and Kassia Women's Choir.  Email us at audition@katterwall.com
April
Tues 5th and Wed 6th Kassia Women's Choir Glee @ Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre
May
Sat 14th Katterwall Youth Music Theatre presents Ladies Who Lunch @ Skylark Lounge
      
     

Tongue Twister...

Thin grippy thick slippery
  

On another note...

I sometimes wonder which would be nicer – an opera without an interval, or an interval without an opera.
Ernest Newman
  




 
      
     

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