This Concert covered some of the musical favourites of the South Shields Amateur Operatic Society

In the programme notes from the chairman of the Society, Stewart Blenkinsop, they ncluded the following -

The new milestone in our history could not be allowed to be passed without some special effort by the Society. It is many years since we produced an evening of entertainment, other than the annual November Show, so  when the idea of "Sixty Glorious Years" was first brought to the Committee it was decided to time our own Jubilee effort to fall into the timetable of local events celebrating Her Majesty's [Queen Elizabeth] Silver Jubilee.

We present our show, too, as a token of appreciation of the support we have received over all the years from our Vice-Presidents and from a loyal and ever increasing number of patrons, not only from the South Tyneside area but more recently from Wearside and further afield.

"Sicty Glorious years" is only the 'taster'. Our Jubilee production in November will be Ivor Novello's "PERCHANCE TO DREAM" - surely a happy choice when we recall the success we had with our 50th birthday production "KING'S RHAPSODY", also a Novello show. We know you will all support us at the Regent to wish us a 'Happy Birthday Show', with many more to come.  

Cast

Ladies:
Patricia Bertram, Ethne Brown, Sylvia Coverdale, Brenda Davison, Dulcie Denison, Janet Dodds, Noreen Forrest, Beryl Henderson, Margaret Hogg, Patricia Hughes, Gwyneth Hunter, Marjorie Hunter, Ann joseph, Edith Keedy, Edith Kemp, Alison Lovely, Diane Mc Hugh, Ann McLennan, Patricia Meeks, Moira Milburn, Kathleen Peacock, Theo Reed, Joan Sanderson, Sylvia Smith, Sadie Todd, Freda Thompsett, Patricia Trewhitt, Judith Wilkin, Margaret Wood, Betty Wray,

Gentlemen:
Richard Bainbridge, Malcolm Becke, Wentworth Driver, Kenneth Dunn, Peter Golightly, Sandford Goudie, James Grey, Ronald Kemp, Peter Peel, Keith Potts, Maurice Powell, William Scott, Gerald Troughton, David Wilson, Chris Youngs.

Narrator:
Alec Forrester.

			PROGRAMME
Section One - Gilbert & Sullivan			Section Two - Old MusicalFavourites	Section Three - Operettas
The Mikado The Pirates of Penzance			The Desert Song Showboat Bitter Sweet Lisa Vagabond King Merrie England	Die Fledermaus Tom Jones The Merry Widow
Section Four - Rogers & Hammerstein				Section Five - 'The Moderns'
The King and I South Pacific Oklahoma Carousel		FINALE Annie Get your Gun -			Kismet Half a Sixpence King's Rhapsody Annie Get your Gun Fiddler on the Roof Hello Dolly
	There's no Business like Show Business

The 1977 Executive Committee

Dulcie Denison, Ann McLennan, Joan Sanderson, Kathleen Peacock, 
Margaret Wood, Ken Dunn, Sandford Goudie, Ron Kemp.

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