The Society, in its present form, was inaugurated in July 1958 by

reviving the old Tenterden Operatic & Dramatic Society and

incorporating The Tenterden Players and The Masquers into that

Society. They are now more often referred to as TODS. It has been

the practice of the Society to stage three productions a year, in

January, April and October. The January production was always a

traditional pantomime but in 1994 the Society ventured into the world

of musical plays and staged The Sound of Music. The April

productions have for many years been Kent Drama Association Full

Length Play Festival entries and have gained the Society a

considerable number of awards as well as many individual acting

awards.

TODS OFFICERS & COMMITTEE

President: Raymond Crawfurd

Vice Presidents: Roger Champion, Brian Fagg, John Link,

Claire Merrifield, Olive Neal, Jackie Whiles and John Williams.

Chairman - Sally Klemen Vice Chairman - Fiona Murch

Secretary - Angela Patrick Treasurer - Michael Patrick

Committee members: Lynne Andrews, Heather Barnes,

Susanne Buckley, Peter Huxley and Vernon Reeve

NEW MEMBERS

TODS are always looking for new members, either to perform on

stage or to help with the myriad of other tasks that make a

production complete. If you are interested in joining either as an

acting member or in any other capacity, then please contact our

secretary:-

TODS c/o Angela Patrick, Holly Cottage, Orchard Court,

The Street, Benenden, Kent TN17 4DE

Tel 01580 241966 or email contact@tods.me.uk

or via social media see back cover for details.

To some, Sondheim musicals are like

marmite. But funnily enough, it's surprising

how many Sondheim songs people are

familiar with but are unaware that he wrote

them. Sondheim's output has been prolific, ‘Into the Woods’,

‘Company’, ‘Follies’, ‘Sweeney Todd’, ‘Anyone Can Whistle’,

‘Gypsy’, ‘A Little Night Music’ to name a few.

The appeal for me to direct this production was because

‘Follies’ is a wonderful character driven show, with amazingly

complex music which sometimes reflects the emotional states

of the characters or is used with humour to satirise earlier

American musicals from a more innocent time. Timing is

everything, and everything came together when TODS decided

to produce the show, they were looking for a director and it so

happened ‘Follies’ was right up my street. I adore strong

storylines and combining this with music - Ah bliss!

I had previously co-directed ‘Gypsy’ at CODS, so I was excited

to be going solo and directing ‘Follies’, my first lone effort on a

musical. I am lucky to have worked with a fabulous cast,

musicians, crew and have had great support from the TODS

committee. We have all worked hard to bring this production to

life and do justice to this often sad and equally fun slice of life.

I hope you enjoy our efforts and leave humming some tunes

and thinking about your next visit to a TODS show.

Louisa Nelson Chamber

Stephen Joshua Sondheim was born March 22,

1930. His parents, Herbert and Janet (née Fox)

Sondheim, worked in New York's garment

industry; his father was a dress manufacturer and

his mother was a designer. They divorced in 1942

and he moved to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with his mother. He

began studying piano and organ at a young age, and he was

songwriting as a student. In Pennsylvania, he became friends with the

son of Broadway lyricist and producer Oscar Hammerstein II, who

gave him tutelage in musical theatre.

After moving back to New York, he met composer Leonard Bernstein

and choreographer Jerome Robbins, who were looking for a lyricist for

a contemporary musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's ‘Romeo

and Juliet’. Writing the song lyrics for ‘West Side Story’, which opened

in 1957, he thus became part of one of Broadway's most successful

productions of all time. He then teamed up with composer Jule Styne

to write the lyrics for ‘Gypsy’, which opened in 1959 with Ethel Merman

as its star.

His best-known works as composer and lyricist include ‘A Funny Thing

Happened on the Way to the Forum’ (1962), ‘Company’ (1970),

‘Follies’ (1971), ‘A Little Night Music’ (1973), ‘Pacific Overtures’ (1976),

‘Sweeney Todd’ (1979), ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ (1981), ‘Sunday in the

Park with George’ (1984), ‘Into the Woods’ (1987), ‘Assassins’ (1990),

and ‘Passion’ (1994).

He has written film music, including five songs for 1990's Dick Tracy,

including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" by Madonna, which

won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

He has also won eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer),

including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the

Theatre, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier

Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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is a musical with music and lyrics by

Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story

concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre,

scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the

"Weismann's Follies", a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld

Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer

and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending

the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies.

Both couples are deeply unhappy with their marriages.

Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on

the road; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was

years ago; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels

emotionally abandoned. Several of the former showgirls

perform their old numbers, sometimes accompanied by the

ghosts of their former selves. The musical numbers in the

show have been interpreted as pastiches of the styles of the

leading Broadway composers of the 1920s and '30s, and

sometimes as parodies of specific songs.

The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed

by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, and with choreography

by Bennett. The musical was nominated for eleven Tony

Awards and won seven. The original production, the most

costly performed on Broadway to that date, ran for over 500

performances but ultimately lost its entire investment. The

musical has had a number of major revivals, and several of

its songs have become standards, including "Broadway

Baby", "I'm Still Here", "Too Many Mornings", "Could I Leave

You?", and "Losing My Mind".

The Sinden Theatre

Juliet Mander

Steve Town

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Musical Director & Keys 1.............................................................Ian Harby

Piano Celeste & Keys 2.............................................Ciara Crossley-Roberts

Vocal Coach & Keys 3.........................................................Samuel Richards

Electric Guitar...........................................................................Tom Wakely

Drums.........................................................................................Nick Barker

Flute, Clarinet & Saxophone......................................................Daryl Oliver

Rehearsal Pianist, Flute, Clarinet & Saxophone...................Hugo Maughan

Clarinet, Saxophone & Bass Clarinet.............................Alison MacFadyden

Oboe & Cor Anglais..............................................................Ronnie Warner

French Horn...............................................................................Derek Limer

Oboe & Saxophone....................................................................Dawn Hollis

Trumpet & Flugelhorn....................................................................Mo Gillis

Trombone.............................................................................Michael Barker

Rehearsal Pianist.......................................................................Tracey Laws

Director...................................................................Louisa Nelson Chamber

Assistant Producer....................................................................Fiona Murch

Vocal Coach............................................................................Heather Coles

Choreography........................................................................Hannah Carter

Stage Manager.........................................................................Sally Klemen

Assistant Stage Manager & Props.................Jane Barton & Lynne Andrews

Assistant Stage Manager & Set Design & Construction...........Peter Huxley

Assistant Stage Manager & Set Construction......................Michael Patrick

Lighting...................................................................................David Beeken

Sound..............................................................Steve Town & Duncan Curtis

Costumes...................Charlotte Maughan-Jones, Louisa Nelson Chambers,

Beverley Moses-Mulrooney, & Rita Wilkins

Front of House.......................................Jackie Whiles & Members of TODS

Additional Set Construction............................................Members of TODS

Programme................................................................................John Sewell

Publicity................................................Susanne Buckley & Michael Patrick

Poster, Banner & Flier Design......................................................Brian Fagg

1983

Black Kate

Hedda Gabler

See How They Run

1984

Old Mother Hubbard

The Ghost Train

Pools Paradise Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1985

Rebecca

The Happiest Days of Your Life 1986

Florence Nightingale How the Other Half Loves

1987 Confusions

1988 Beauty & the Beast

Send Me No Flowers An Inspector Calls

1989 Humpty Dumpty

Rashomon Suddenly at Home

1990 The Owl and the Pussycat

Outside Edge Knightsbridge / Dock Brief (M)

Bugsy Malone (Y) Deadly Nightcap

1991 Cinderella

The Anastasia File Annie

The Proposal / We Three / Lunch Hour(M)

The Miracle Worker 1992

Toad of Toad Hall Was He Anyone? The Wizard of Oz Relative Values

1993 Sleeping Beauty

The Dresser Dracula Spectacular (Y)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1994

The Sound of Music Hay Fever

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(Y)

The School for Scandal 1995

My Fair Lady A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Midsummer Nights Dream(Y) Dangerous Rhythm

1996 Cabaret

Blue Remembered Hills Peter Pan (Y)

Fascinating Rhythm Party Piece

The Spirit of Christmas (M) 1997

The Other Cinderella The Rise & Fall of Little Voice

Wind in the Willows (Y) Boeing – Boeing

1998 Fiddler on the Roof

Wildest Dreams Nativity Play (M)

1999 Pajama Game

Roman Fever/Cleaning up Justice/ The Black & White (M) Lessons and Lovers

Whistle Down the Wind (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest

2000 100 Years of Musical Theatre

A Medieval Passion Play Dangerous Corner

2001 Godspell

The Winslow Boy Ladies Who Lunch

2002 Return to the Forbidden Planet

Steel Magnolias The Dining Room

2003 Into the Woods

Warrior Rats / Shake, Ripple & Roll(Y)

My Friend Miss Flint 2004

Little Shop of Horrors Sand Castles

A Murder is Announced 2005

Summer Holiday On Golden Pond Daisy Pulls it Off

2006 Talking Heads

Kindly Leave the Stage Bazaar & Rummage

2007 Disco Inferno

The Day After the Fair Day Of Reckoning

2008 Under Milk Wood

The Secret Rapture Plaza Suite

2009 Our Musicals Re-Viewed

Brontë Farce & Furious

2010 The Railway Children

The Beauty Queen of Leenane Hay Fever

2011 Well That’s Life!

Road Relatively Speaking

2012 Coram Boy

The Chalk Garden The Unexpected Guest

2013 Calendar Girls

The Mystery of Talbot Manor(M) The New Electric Ballroom

What the Butler Saw 2014

Shout! Oh What a Lovely War!

Verdict 2015

Sweet Charity The House of Bernarda Alba

Shop for Charity (M) Wife After Death

2016 Abigail’s Party

Side by Side by Sondheim Equally Divided

2017 The Pajama Game Entertaining Angels

TODS Variety Show (M) 2018

Sister Act the Musical Haywire

For King & Country 2019

Follies

See Back Cover for details of TODS Next Production

Previous T.O.D.S productions (M) Members Night Productions / (Y) TODS Youth Productions

TODS is affiliated to The National Operatic and Dramatic Association

The National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA), founded in 1899, is the leading

representative body for amateur theatre in the UK. The Association has a membership of

approximately 2000 amateur theatre groups and approximately800 individual members

staging musicals, operas, plays, concerts and pantomimes in a wide variety of venues

ranging from the country’s leading professional theatres to village halls. Covering a broad

spectrum of age ranges NODA member societies meet the needs of all levels of both

performers, whether dramatic, dance or musical, and those involved backstage, front of

house or in society administration.

NODA aims:

- To give a shared voice to amateur theatre

- To help societies and individuals achieve the highest standards of best practice and

performance.

- To provide leadership and advice to enable amateur theatre to tackle the challenges

and opportunities of the 21st century

- To achieve these aims NODA is divided into eleven regions, each headed by a regional

councillor who sits on the national council (ruling body of the Association), and

supported by a network of regional representatives and officials. These volunteers are

the vital link to the grass roots of the Association; the amateur theatre groups

themselves and their members.

- To provide support and assistance to these volunteers the Association is administered

from its office in Peterborough by a knowledgeable and friendly staff who can deal with

any enquiry about amateur theatre.

Membership of NODA provides theatre groups and individuals with a wide range of benefits

including access to NODA’s advice service at national and regional level, as well as

representation to government, access to funding agencies, direct access to rights holders

and the media as well as access to regional and national conferences, workshops and

seminars to help share information on best practice.

NODA holds an annual residential Summer School (with bursaries available) offering training

from professional tutors in a wide range of both performance and technical courses.

NODA also holds an annual national and regional programme and poster competition to

encourage high standards in design.

Through its trading arm, NODA Limited members have access to a varied range of products

and services including insurance for both societies and individuals, long service awards that

recognise the dedication made by individuals to amateur theatre, discounts on plays, vocal

scores, libretti and technical books and a range of NODA branded merchandise. As a rights

holder NODA Limited has 150 pantomimes by leading authors as well as a growing

catalogue of plays and musicals.

National Operatic and Dramatic Association Headquarters: 15 The Metro Centre, Peterborough, PE2 7UH

Telephone: 01733 374790 Email: info@noda.org.uk Website: www.noda.org.uk