Up on the Roof-Top

A concert in aid of the Norbury Theatre’s ‘Raise the Roof Fund’ all sections of Wymsical Theatre put together a wide range of mainly Christmas musical numbers, supported by the Fenice Singers, all sensitively accompanied by Stephen Watkins on electric piano.

From the opening number by the Encore group singing ‘We Need a Little Christmas’ there were some lovely harmonies throughout the evening. By their own admission, Encore’s version of ‘Wonderland’ was wonderfully crazy and later ‘Christmas Children’ was very entertaining. Along the way Matthew Street gave a performance of great presence and power, singing ‘Out There’.  Meanwhile Wymsical Debut brought a smile to everyones face with ‘Dance Of the Reeds’ and the Fenice Singers amongst other numbers sang ‘Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day’; a nice arrangement with some lovely harmonies. Britt Needham gave us an amusing version of ‘Nativity Play’, in the style of Joyce Grenfell and Wymsical Glee (A choir consisting of all Wymsical groups) rounded off Part one with a strong version of ‘Carol Of The Bells’ and ‘It feels like Christmas’. It certainly did!

The Debut and Spotlight groups opened Part two with an entertaining ‘Be Our Guest’  and this was followed by a sparkling  rendition of ‘ Somewhere In My Memory’ from “Home Alone” by Encore, all superbly dressed in Prom style dresses and Black Tie. Young representatives from Wymsical Debut gave us some well-spoken poems which were followed by another highlight, ‘The Black Hills of Dakota’ unashamedly plugging ‘Calamity Jane’, Wymsical’s next major musical to be staged next April.

Everyone came together to round off the performance including a couple a carols with audience participation, all concluding what I would say was another successful year for Wymsical Theatre. Thank you for inviting me along and I look forward to another great year.

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