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Summer Concerts
July 1st, 2009
Tollbar's summer musical entertainment took on a new look this year when two consecutive evenings were devoted to concerts entitled Fantasia, An Evening of Music, Dance and Drama.
As well as involving the band, the choir and individual artistes, the evenings featured performances from Year 9 Performing Arts students. These students are entered for the Performing Arts GCSE in Year 9 and for 2009 were set the theme of Fantasy with a brief to promote reading to Key Stage 2 children.
With only these guidelines, the groups started from scratch, deciding on their interpretation of the theme, writing scripts, adding music and producing their final performance.
The first concert brought Spotlight Productions on to the stage with their Fairytale Dream, the story of a young girl who wakes up in fairytale land and, in her quest to get home to her bed, meets many people from well-known stories.
The following night, Limelight Productions gave the audience A Wonderful Tale of Three, bringing together Dorothy and friends from the Wizard of Oz, a very fierce Wicked Witch, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland as they followed the Yellow Brick Road.
All members of these two companies are talented singers and dancers and it is easy to see why they also perform outside the college.
On the musical side, the Tollbar Band led the way at the first concert while the choir appeared in the second.
The band's repertoire ranged from Excerpts from Les Miserables through to Annie's Song and the finale, Danse Macabre in which they played with the String Ensemble who had earlier performed We Go Together and Singing in the Rain with Andrew Thompson as a very able vocalist and the lively Zip a Dee Doo Da.
Singers included Amy Garnett, Abigail Jackson and Molly Cutler with their rendition of I Know Him So Well and Lois Perry and Lawrence Cunningham with the lovely Somewhere Out There.
The choir got the second concert off to a good start, showing the audience their Scales and Arpeggios and later performing a superb version of Hallelujah and getting everyone joining in with Abba's Super Trooper.
Highlights included Eleanor Thompson's Just You Wait Henry Higgins, in which she switched effortlessly from very Cockney to very refined and Ella Cunningham's touching Out Here on My Own.
Abigail Pocklington demonstrated why she has just achieved Grade 6 with Distinction in Singing when she sang Tell Me On a Sunday.
Among the instrumentalists, the Wind Trio gave listeners a tune called Waltzing Winds, trumpet player William Vickers, a member of the North East Lincs Big Brass Group, gave an excellent performance of Blue Moon and Lois Perry played Sweet and Low on the clarinet.
Tom Crump and Joel Grainger did a very professional job with the lighting which added to the enjoyment and proceeds from the evenings went to the Organ Fund at All Saints Church, Waltham.
