Southern Light Opera
Open Audition for SLO’s Oz
“Auditions for major production of Wizard of Oz”
Southern Light Opera are holding open auditions for their production of The Wizard of Oz which will be staged at the King’s in February.
Even more Oliver!
Photos from Act 2 of SLO’s Oliver!:
It didn’t seem right to leave poor old Act 1 of the Southern Light Opera’s record breaking run of Oliver! at the King’s theatre all on its own. So here’s a few pics from Act 2.
More Oliver!
Pictures from the record breaking run:
There have been record numbers of performers on the stage and members of the audience at the King’s this week, for Southen Light Opera Company hugely successful production of Oliver!.
The Musicals are Coming
Amateur musicals companies take to King’s stage:
A quartet of Edinburgh’s leading amateur musicals companies took to the King’s theatre stage on Monday night to show off some of the highlights they will be performing there in coming months.
Brigadoon – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Solidly entertaining
Romance and kitsch are present in equal proportions in Southern Light Opera’s staging of Brigadoon at the Edinburgh King’s until Saturday.
Brigadoon looms out the mist again
Edinburgh’s oldest amateur musical theatre company take over the King’s this week with a new production of Brigadoon, the musical about a Highland village which appears only one day every century.
Review – Oklahoma!
★★★★☆ Long but Strong
It’s seventy years since Oklahoma! first took to the Broadway stage, with its gorgeous, downbeat opening of Oh What a Beautiful Morning, sung by cowboy Curly to the butter-churning Aunt Eller.
King’s AmDram hire rates frozen
Hire rates for amateur companies at Edinburgh’s King’s and Festival theatres are to be frozen “for the next year or two” the new Chief Executive of the Festival City Theatre Trust has told the Annals.
Review – Curtains
✭✭★✩✩ Royal Lyceum Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin It is unclear whether the book for Curtains, Southern Light Opera’s latest offering which is at the Royal Lyceum all week, is brave or simply foolhardy. But it certainly leaves its performers with a mountain to climb. Not content with killing off its leading lady within five […]
Æ Musical Review – Fiddler on the Roof
★★★★☆
There is plenty of tradition and lots of great singing in Southern Light Opera’s robust production of Fiddler on the Roof. It is a show which not only hits the marks bang on but which makes room for a big, brave ending.
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