Herald - Issue 380

24th October 2019 • The HERALD • Page 37 v WHAT’S ON STAGE AND SCREEN LOCALLY v Murder Mystery The Sound of Music Shadowlands Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society will be presenting Shadowlands on Thursday 31st October, Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November at 7.45pm. is will be held at e Vernon eatre, Sandy Lane, Lyndhurst, SO43 7DN. Tickets are £9 for ursday and £10 on Friday and Saturday. ese are available from Lyndhurst Community Centre or for telephone bookings, please call: 023 8028 2729. Shadowlands is an intensely personal and moving biographical drama concerning an intriguing episode in the life of C S Lewis. Probably best known as being the writer of the Narnia Chronicles. Lewis was a Professor of English Literature at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In 1952 he met an American poet, Joy Gresham. e play follows their emotional journey and the impact it had on Lewis and those around him. Waterside Musical Society have been enjoying rehearsals and learning about the real-life story of the Von Trapp family who inspired the iconic e Sound of Music. is will be performed at e Stage @ Noadswood from Wednesday 30th October until Saturday 2nd November . Tickets for e Sound of Music are available online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/watersidemusicalsociety with a small booking fee or by contacting Wendy Hewstone email WMSsales@mail.com or telephoning Wendy on 07852 317 466 or Jen on 07900 556584. Follow on Facebook for details of events. Nomads Drama Group will be holding a Murder Mystery – ‘Murder in the village’. Show dates are Friday 25th and Saturday 26th October and again on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd November . Performances will start at 7.30pm. Tickets will be £8.50 and the price will include supper! e show will take place at Woodley Village Hall, Romsey SO51 7NY. Tickets can be purchased by calling Brian on 01794 513860 or via tickets@nomadsromsey.org Poirot Murder Mystery at Minstead Lodge e nationally renowned Romsey Male Voice Choir and the Rotary Club of the New Forest will be holding a Charity Concert on Saturday 2nd November , 7.30pm in St Michaels and All Angels in Lyndhurst. Recentlyplaced irdintheprestigiousBournemouth Festival and Fi h in the Cornish Male Choir festival, it will be a great occasion for the New Forest. ey will be supported by vocalists from Brockenhurst College. All funds will be split between St Michaels & All Angels and the Minstead Trust. Tickets are £10 each and are available fromLyndhurst Community Centre or www.ticketsource.co.uk Charity Concert What is the Blue Majesty? Who wants it? What lengths will they go to get it? Book your tickets to help solve the mystery at this popular murder mystery fundraiser in aid of Minstead Trust on Friday 15th November at 7pm. e evening includes a two course meal and all monies raised from the night will go towards helping people with learning disabilities to live more independently. Tickets are just £35 per head. It’s a popular event and numbers are limited so please book your tickets now at www.minsteadtrust.org.uk/Event/poirots-murder- m ystery-at-minstead or call 023 8081 2297. JAMES KIRBY PLAYS AT BEAULIEU Music at Beaulieu’s next concert will be on Saturday 16th November when they will be welcoming the renowned pianist James Kirby for the rst time. James has served on the juries of several international Piano competitions, most recently in Romania, Latvia, Russia and Slovenia. He is in considerable demand for masterclasses and as an adjudicator, and is a member of the ABRSM examining panel, which has taken him all over Europe and the Far East. His programme will include works by Chopin and Mozart. Doors open at 6.15pm and the performance will start at 7pm. Tickets £15 from www.ticketsource.co.uk/ musicatbeaulieu or on the door. Please note that the Christmas concert will now take place on Saturday 14th December, not the 7th as previously advertised. Beaulieu Bank Notes, a local community choir are singing to raise funds for Honeypot, the local children’s charity that provides respite care and outreach to vulnerable children and young carers. Please help to support them by attending their concert which will be held at Beaulieu Abbey Church on Saturday 23rd November at 7.15pm. Tickets are £12 per adult and £8 per child under 14 years. is will include a drink and light refreshments. Please contact: mercerdgls@btinternet. com for tickets and further information. Music in Romsey next concert in Romsey Abbey takes place on Saturday 23rd November at 7.30pm for Victory! Michelmersh Silver Band with the Spit re Singers. A gala concert packed full of music for all tastes, with the sparkle of internationally acclaimed singing trio e Spit re Sisters and a special ag-waving celebration of the upcoming 75th Anniversary of VE Day. Concert supporting e Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. Reserved £15, £12. Unreserved £10. en on Saturday 14th December at 7pm for Messiah with Romsey Choral Society and City of Southampton Orchestra. A wonderful opportunity to hear this perennial favourite performed by excellent local musicians with professional soloists. Concert supporting Jane Scarth House. Reserved £20, £16. Unreserved: £12. Students and carers half price (reserved tickets). Tickets are available from Romsey Tourist Information Centre, 01794 512987, online at www.ticketsource/ musicinromsey or at the Abbey door on the night. Music in Romsey Beaulieu Bank Notes Charity Concert Copythorne Amateur eatrical Society will be treading the boards again this autumn, this time with a pantomime version of the ever popular ‘Wizard of Oz’, by Emma Houldershaw and Samantha Cartwright and performed by arrangement with Spotlight Publications. All the usual characters and things are there - Dorothy, Tin man, Lion, Aunt Em, the Wizard, a witch or two – and, oh yes, some giggly little munchkins and a pair of magic shoes. Go and follow them down the yellow brick road to Emerald City. ey’re performing in Copythorne Parish Hall on Saturday 23rd November at 7.30pm, Sunday 24th November at 2pm and again the following Saturday 30th November at 2pm and 7.30 pm. Go along and see their cowardly lion become a little braver, scarecrow get a brain and tin man obtain a heart. ey would be pleased to see you. Tickets: £8 adults, £5 under 16 or family ticket £22 (2 adults and 2 children) available from their Box O ce 023 8081 3810 or from Bartley PO, Bramshaw Stores and Landford Village Stores. The Wizard of Oz