Milborne Port Opera Up For Four Awards

Milborne Port Opera, South Somerset’s amateur group specialising in Gilbert & Sullivan and light opera, has been nominated by the Somerset Fellowship of Drama for four awards in the annual David Beach Awards for musical theatre (Somerset’s answer to the Oscars).

Many of our performers come from Wincanton, Horsington, Templecombe, Woolston, Yarlington and Milborne Port.

The nominations are for the group’s last production, the rarely-performed “Utopia Limited” by Gilbert & Sullivan. They are:

• Best Cameo: Andrew Armstrong as Mr Goldbury
• Show Stopper: Whole company for “Eagle High”
• Best Musical Direction: Caroline D'Cruz
• Best Small Venu

The nominations are made by an expert panel of adjudicators who see each show. The winners are announced at a dinner in Taunton on Saturday 14th March . There are 25 award categories in total, and 82 groups across the county competing to win them.

“Utopia Limited”, directed by Geoff Allan from Yenston, was a landmark production for Milborne Port Opera, as it completed their ambition to perform every single Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

The next show at Milborne Port Opera is an original work, “Spring Fate”, a comic opera written by MPO member Neil Edwards, who also directs. It is his third show for the MPO.

Performances are from 8th to 11th April, the week after Easter. Tickets will go on sale in March.

Picture 1: The Chorus of the Milborne Port Opera performing “Eagle High”, nominated for the Somerset Fellowship of Drama’s “Showstopper award”.

Picture 2: Lloyd Davies as Lord Movieleigh and Andrew Armstrong as Mr Goldbury in MPO’s “Utopia Limited” last year. Andrew, a former Horsington resident, has been nominated for “Best Cameo performance” in the Somerset Fellowship Of Drama Awards.

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