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On behalf of the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society it is my privilege and pleasure to welcome you to our ‘Jubilee Year’ springtime concert here at the National Concert Hall - a concert which we have entitled Celebration! A Century o f Song.

Certainly the last one hundred years has been a Century of Song - popular songs - which we in the R & R love to sing - songs that have come from the great musical shows of the 20th century.

These popular tunes came firstly from the operettas at the turn of the century, later to be known as ‘Light Operas’. Early in the 20th century light operas evolved into ‘Musical Comedies’ and then into ‘Musicals’ as the shows are known today.

For this evening’s concert we have endeavoured to select songs from shows extending across each decade of the last century. For instance the ever-popular ‘Vilia’ comes from the operetta The Merry Widow which was first staged in the year 1905 while the poignant song ‘Bring Him Home’ can be heard in the musical Les Mis&ables, which had its West End premiere at the end of the century.

We hope we have included many of your favourite songs in this concert.

Pa t Cam pbell, President.The Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society. March 2000

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Gearoid studied music with the late Dr. J. O ’Reilly in the College of Music and graduated with a B.Mus. from GCD. Subsequently, he studied conducting with, among others, George Hurst in London. Since then he has worked as conductor, music director and arranger for most Irish theatrical companies in works ranging from Mozart to Sondheim.

At present, he is resident conductor with the R & R. Gearoid has appeared as guest conductor with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Our Lady’s Choral Society, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTE Concert Orchestra.

JACKIE CURRAN OLOHANDaughter of Josephine Scanlon and the late Chris Curran,Jackie has distinguished herself as a performer, musician,Music Director and Chorus Master. Her education thrived under Sr. Agnes Nolan in Arklow and Eithne Troy in the College of Music before graduating with a B.Mus Hons from CJCD.

Jackie has been Musical Director for many show premieres including Zorba, the Hired Man, Most Happy Fella,Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Chorus Line and Into the Woods - for which she was awarded Best Musical Director at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera. This, along v»̂ th conducting her father in the production of Annie at the Olympia, she regards as her highlight to date.

Jackie has made many solo appearances in the National Concert Hall and she works regularly on television and radio with her husband Sean. She sings as part of the group Avoca who have recently released their new album/CD Autumn Falling Down.

She is the Resident Chorus Master with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society and she teaches music in Our Lady’s School Rathnew.

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RITA KEALYDublin-born Rita originally trained and danced with the famous choreographer Alice Dalgarno. As a professional dancer she appeared in all o f Dublin’s major theatres, in a variety o f shows.She has worked in films and television, including many RTE light entertainment shows.

Turning to choreography, Rita has worked with countless musical societies throughout the country. Recognition has come in the form of many endorsements including ‘Best Choreographer’ at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera on four separate occasions and also similar awards from AIMS.

Rita has choreographed several national finalists in the popular John Player Tops of the Town’ competition. Most recently she has choreographed many shows and concerts for the Rathmines &Rathgar Musical Society and the Qlasnevin Musical Society at the Gaiety and the National Concert Hall, together with the ‘Bank of Ireland Proms' for RTE.

Her work has also been seen on the stages of the Grand Opera House, Belfast and several seasons with the lORC at the Cork Opera House. She recently choreographed the very successful Me and My Gid for the lORC at the Olympia Theatre. Admired for the vitality and dedication o f her work, Rita has also given workshops to a variety of groups countrywide. Rita would like to thank Qer for all her help and support over the last few weeks. She looks forward to choreographing Carousel in the Autumn.

JOHN O’DONOGHGEA graduate of the National College of Art & Design, John has worked on more than sixty productions as designer or scenic artist.

Recent design credits include Buskin ’ at the Tivoli Theatre and Cork Opera House, Return to the Forbidden Planet at Andrew’s Lane and Tivoli Theatres, Assassins at the Samuel Beckett Theatre and Fiddler on the Roof at the Gaiety Theatre. Other design credits include Chess, Chicago, S ing in ’ in the Rain, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, Oliuer, Grease, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Pyjama Game and the plays Canaries and War.

Notable scenic artwork includes Godspell at the Tivoli Theatre, Annie and The Hot M ikado at the Olympia Theatre and, most recently, The Costa Lads and On The Piste for the Tivoli Theatre, which earned the nomination for Best Set in the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

For the past six years, John has designed the set for the longest-running show in Ireland, Jurys Irish Cabaret. His designs for Barnum and Crazy for You have both won awards for Best Set at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera.

JIMMY DIXONJim m y began his stage appearances in Wexford, playing a variety o f parts. Following this he spent a year touring the USA with the international musical group ‘Op With People’. Over the past fifteen years he has performed roles with many societies in Dublin. Appearances with the R & R since 1987 have been many and varied. Shows include Hello Dolly, Showboat, Fiddler on the Roof and Kiss Me Kate. In Gilbert & Sullivan he has played the Major General in The Pirates o f Penzance and the Duke of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers.

He is delighted to be returning to the National Concert Hall for another Spring Season, this being his fifth concert as compere.

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Celebration! A (Century of SongP resen ted by Jimmy D ixon

PART ONE

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We Sing the Songs Full Company

The New Moon Wanting You Niamh

Stout Hearted Men Paul & Men’s Chorus

Baby It's Cold Outside Jimmy & Elaine

George M! Yankee Doodle Dandy

Give My Regards to Broadway Jimmy & Chorus

The Dancing Years / Can Give You the Starlight Cathy

Showboat Yo u Are Love Niamh & Paul

Perchance to Dream Well Gather Lilacs Niamh & Chorus

West S ide Story Tonight Joan, Andrew & Chorus

Somewhere Ladies’ Chorus

America Cathy, Niamh & Chorus

Chu Chin Chow . The Cobbler’s Song Derek

Carousel You'll Never Walk Alone Sheila & Chorus

Paganini Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss Paul & Dancers

/ Long to be a Prima Donna Niamh

Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls Frank, Jimmy, Killian & Chorus

Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat Frank & Chorus

INTERVAL

PART TWO

Anything Goes Anything Goes

Let’s Do ft, Let's Fall In Love

Chorus & Dancers

Cathy & Jimmy

Pal Joey Bewitched, Bothered

and Bewildered Mary

The Sound of Music Climb Every Mountain Sheila & Chorus

South Pacific Twin Soliloquies

Some Enchanted Evening

Derek & Cathy

Derek

The M erry Widow Vilia Niamh & Chorus

Chess I Know Him So Well

Anthem

Lisa & Claire

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Land of Smiles You Are My Heart’s Delight Paul

Annie Get Your Gun Can’t Get A Man With a Gun

Anything You Can Do, 1 Can Do Better

Elaine

Elaine & Killian

Brigadoon Almost Like Being in Love Frank, Chorus & Dancers

Les M iserables Bring Him Home

1 Dreamed a Dream

The People’s Song

Paul

Niamh

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My Fair Lady Ascot Gavotte

Street Where You Live

1 Could Have Danced All Hight

Get Me To The Church On Time

Chorus

Paul

Niamh

Arthur, Killian & Chorus

Bih e r Sweet n i See You Again Full Company

Imelda Bradley Reiltin Bowes-Kerrigan

Deirdre Connolly Lisa Costello

Ann Cumnnings Margaret Dickson Claire Fee Mary Flaherty N iamh Flanagan

Siobhan Flood

Uat>i:bs' cHonasMichelle Foynes Lorraine Frewen Eileen Gildea Claire Hayden Mags McGrath Susie Meagher Marion Megannety

Pat Moore Nimah O ’Bryne Veronica O ’Loughlin

Joan O ’Malley

Valerie Roche Ann Marie Sheridan Ailsing Sullivan V/endy Thom pson

Margaret Timoney Susan V/all Pauline Woods

Declan Adams Frank Brennan

Noel Byrne

Roderic Campbell Liam Carroll

Eddie Corry Je ff Crosbie Barney Gorman Robbie Keogh

C H O R U SRobby Power Derek Ryan Shay Ryan Conor Sheridan

Richard Stapleton John Sweetman

Joe Lalor Andrew Lummis Michael McFall Eamonn Murphy Peter Nolan

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Luke O'Reilly Fergal O ’Sullivan Noel Porter

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Oonagh Barrett Sandra Mullen

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FRANK BEADLEFrank won a scholarship to the DIT Conservatory of Music

and Drama studying under Mary Brennan and Deborah Kelleher. Since then he has sung many leading tenor roles

in college productions including ‘1st Sailor’ in Dido and Aeneas, excerpts from West Side Story, Showboat, The

Magic Flute, The Marriage o f Figaro and Carmen. In 1997 he won the tenor solo in the Feis Ceoil.

He has been a member of the Rathmines and Rathgar

Musical Society since then and performed with them in Showboat and HMS Pinaofore. He sang the role of the

Russian tenor in their production of Fiddler on the Roof and

was a soloist in last year’s concert Romberg to Rodgers here in the National Concert Hall.

At the end of last year he played the part of The Arbiter’ in Chess with the ESB Musical

and Dramatic Society which was a great success in the Waterford Festival of Light Opera.

He performed scenes from Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, The Mikado in the AIMS Eastern Region Concert here in the NCH.

CATHY CORCORANCathy’s first leading role in a musical was that o f ‘Polly Brown’ in The Boyfriend with Bray Musical Society. Since

then she has played many parts with several different

companies. These include ‘Laurie’ in Oklahoma, ‘Sarah’ in

Guys and Dolls, ‘The Narrator’ in Joseph, ‘Hope’ in

Anything Goes, ‘Connie Wong’ in the Irish premiere of A

Chorus Line, ‘Gianetta’ in The Gondoliers (R&R) and ‘Kate’ in Big Maggie.

Cathy received a nomination for ‘Best Actress’ (AIMS) for her

portrayal of ‘Eliza Doolittle’ in My Fair Lady (ESB Madsoc)

and was awarded ‘Best Female Performer’ in the Waterford

International Festival of Light Opera for her portrayal of ‘Maria’ in West Side Story.

Other highlights for Cathy were appearing in The King and I with Gemma Craven

(Olympia) and also in the wodd premiere of Prionnsias 6 Duinn’s musical Stuff and

Nonsense, (NCH).

No stranger to the National Concert Hall, Cathy has been a soloist in many concerts and

lunchtime recitals, including the Eastern Region AIMS concert last November.

Cathy has sung in Live at Three and can be heard singing on Cathy Yard’s latest album.

MARY FLAHERTY

Mary has been interested in singing from an early age. She has studied with Veronica Dunne and Evelyn Dowling in the past and is currently studying with Mary Brennan.

She has performed on numerous occasions including narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicoior Dreamcoat, Golde in Fiddler on the Roof and Maria in The Sound o f Music.

Mary played the part of Fruma-Sarah in the R & R’s production of Fiddler on the Roof in 1998 and was a member of the chorus in last year’s Oklahoma!.

NIAMH FLANAGAN

Niamh trained at the Billie Barry Stage School and has much professional experience to her credit in theatre, cabaret, television and radio productions throughout Ireland.

She has been an active member of the R & R for three years now, and thoroughly enjoyed playing the part of Ellie May Chipley in the R & R’s production of Showboat in the Gaiety Theatre in 1997. Niamh was one of the soloists in Romberg to Rodgers in the NCH last year.

ELAINE HEARTYElaine has recently graduated from a three-year course in Speech and Drama Studies with the Dublin Institute of Technology. In 1998 she won the 2FM Jacob’s Song Contest with one of her own compositions and appeared on various radio and television programmes. At present she is working with other writers, with a view to developing her style and performance. Her aim is to become a professional recording artist.

She is delighted to be back with the R & R. This is her third show having played Ado Annie in Oklahoma! and Chava in Fiddler on the Roof.

PAUL KELLY

Paul Kelly studied with Dr. Veronica Dunne at the College of Music, Dublin and has won many prizes for his singing including the John McCormack Cup at the Feis Ceoil. Paul has sung roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Smetana and Poulenc and has many roles to his credit in light opera. Equally at home on the concert platform, he has given several song-and lieder recitals and has regularly featured in performances of oratorio.

He is well known to Dublin audiences for his appearances with the Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society for whom he has sung Col. Fairfax, Manki Poo and Frederick in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire as well as appearing in several of its concerts at the National Concert Hall.

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NIAMH MURRAY

Leading Irish soprano Niamh Murray studied music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, at the Leinster School of Music with Dr. Veronica Dunne, and at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

An Italian government scholarship facilitated further study in Sienna with maestro Cado Bergonzi. Niamh is a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), is an Associate of the London College of Music (ALCM), is a regular guest presenter on Lyric FM, has a Licentiate in Speech and Drama (LLSM), and a Diploma in Public Relations (PRIl).

Her versatility as a singer is quite breathtaking, encom passing leading roles in opera, operettas and musicals. A regular performer at the National Concert Hall, Niamh broadcasts on television and radio both in Ireland and abroad.

On Easter Sunday 1997 she featured on BBC’s Songs of Praise which was broadcast from Rome, and was guest soloist at the widely televised Pioneer Centenary Mass held in Croke Park in 1999.

A prolific recording artiste, Niamh’s albums include: A Fairer Paradise, Wtien Irish Eyes are Smiling, Wedding Memories from Ireland and Best Loved Sacred Music. A multi­talented lady with a warm and charismatic personality, Niamh lives in Dublin and enjoys golf, swimming and reading.

SHEILA McCa r th y

Sheila studied singing at the Cork School of Music with the

late Margaret Dillon and with Maeve Coughlan, and in London with Paul Hannburger.

She has sung oratorio with choral societies all over Ireland; she has performed in numerous operas with the Opera

Theatre Company and the Cork City Opera as well as opera

concerts with the RTE orchestras and others. Her most recent role was ‘Anina’ in La Trauiata in Cork. She has given

numerous song recitals all over Ireland, and will give a

lunch-time recital in the John Field Room on 19th May next.

Sheila has also sung most of the Gilbert & Sullivan alto and mezzo roles, with various musical societies. Most recently

‘Buttercup’ in the R&R’s production of/-/MS Pinafore at the National Concert Hall, and she sang ‘Kallub’ in a recent recording of Gilgamesh, a new opera composed by Carole

Nelson.

Sheila taught singing for seven years at the Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD, and she now

teaches singing at the Newpark Music Centre.

ARTHUR McGAURANArthur has been involved in over seventy musical

productions since he started at the tender age of 17. In that

time he was nominated for four AIMS Awards culminating in

the Best Supporting Actor Award for Jud Fry in Oklahoma!

His successes on stage include such parts as Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld, the King in The King and I, Joe

in Show Boat and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which is his

favourite part.

He has competed in four international festivals of light opera

and has been the recipient o f the Gold Medal for Bass Solo

in the Feis Maitiu.

In the last few years he has directed a number of musicals and was a founder member of

the Celbridge Musical Society. Arthur played the part o f Captain George Brackett in the

R & R production o f South Pacific in 1996. He performed in Show Business in the

National Concert Hall and was Captain Andy in the R & R production of Show Boat in

1998. He played Andrew Carnes in Oklahoma! in October 1999.

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He has also taken part in the Gay Byrne Gala Concerts and the Bank o f Ireland RTE Proms. His most recent appearances with the Society were in Show Boat where he played the role of Steve Baker and in last year’s production of Oklahoma!.

DEREK RYANDerek joined the R & R last year for Fiddler on the Roof and since then he has been very active in all their productions. He has competed in many competitions throughout Dublin including the Robert McCullagh Bursary in which he was jo in t runner-up.

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DUBLIN COUNTY CHOIRChorus Master: John Dexter

presents

Elijahan Oratorio by

Mendelssohn

with

P h i l i p O ’R e i l l y - Baritone

and

Mary Edel O’Sullivan Edel O’Brien Paul KellySoprano Contralto Tenor

and the Orchestra of St. Cecilia

Conducted by: Colin Block

THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALLSaturday 6th May, 2000 at 8.00 p.m.

Tickets £12, £10 & £8 (group rates available) from the NCH Tel: 475 1572 On-line: www.nch.ie

Sponsored by Hugh Jordan & Co.-The Catering Supplies Centre

HEALY FOOD INGREDIENTS

Servicing Irish Food Industry with a comprehensive range of

food ingredients.

Proud to support the arts. Best wishes to the R & R

HCL House,Cookstown Ind. Est., Tallaght, Dublin 24.

Tel: 404 9200 Fax: 404 9201ns&i

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