Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2007 | Page 50

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Anything Goes
with a Bang at
Ryde School

A joyful evening of high comedy
and spectacle was enjoyed
when Ryde School presented
its annual musical production
to full houses at Ryde Theatre.
Anything Goes has to be
one of the most delicious
musicals ever written. Based
on a work by PG Wodehouse,
and demanding a high level
of musicality and comic
timing, the cast were utterly

Kit Courage

Lizzie Lawn

Oliver Gully & Lewis Gask

Collette Stirzaker

Angharad Evans

Cast Members

Lewis Gask, Angharad Evans, Oliver Gully

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secure from start to finish.
Indeed, professional is the
word that characterises the
school’s work. Although many
of the chorus and some of
the principals are very young,
within minutes, you sense that
the audience has relaxed,
confident that it doesn’t need
to hold its breath nervously
for the ‘school production’
but that it’s in the presence of
something much more mature.
Professional singer
Jacqueline Morris says: “it was
the best amateur production I
have ever seen and it rivalled
some professional shows."
Ryde School productions
deserve to be written into
your diary well in advance.
With one Cole Porter
classic after another, Collette
Stirzaker as Reno Sweeney
was as sure footed as any
West End professional, her
beautiful voice captivating
audiences from her first note.

Kit Courage

Lizzie Lawn, Oliver Gully, Constance Clarke

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