Masquerade

When the weather turns to spring, it marks the time of year for this Society to stage their fund-raising Spring Concert. On this occasion, the Society went “on tour” – presenting their entertainment twice in a local Broughty church hall, and then playing their final performance in the Downfield MS Starlight Showroom. Billed as a Musical Merry-Go-Round, it was a selection of songs from West End shows, old and new, performed with great gusto by the society’s members who ably coped with the smallish confines of the stage. There were many highlights, and Moira Inglis and Jill Davidson enthralled us with the fine duet I Still Believe from Miss Saigon. In the section all about “Marriage”, Hazel Grieve had us all laughing when she sang the very amusing Waiting At The Church, and this part of the programme ended with the company performing an energetic Flash, Bang, Wallop!  The full company were also heard at their best in Anthem from Chess and in the musical number Masquerade, when they all appeared on stage suitably masked. Comedy played a big part of the show and Jill, again, came to the fore in her extremely funny song The Alto’s Lament, which told the story of how the singer was always fed up of having to sing the boring alto line and desperately wanted to sing the melody line! The Ballad Of Barry And Freda also brought forth the laughs when Moira Inglis and George Anderson sung and told this hilarious tale on the stage. Music on a Broadway theme found the male duo of David Newton and Paul Campbell expressing their Well, Did You Evah? thoughts in a fine manner, and Vicki Lorimer debated If My Friends Could See Me Now. There were songs from Sister Act, Phantom Of The Opera, and West Side Story all on offer and then, all too soon, the evening’s musical merry-go-round of music and song slowed down and finally stopped.

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