Thursday's cast were truely professional and well deserving of their standing ovation. Some of the audience were even moved to tears!
Fiddler was a valuable showcase of Takapuna Grammar School's huge pool of talent: singers, dancers, actors, musicians, backstage crew, prop makers, costume designers: you name it, they had it with talent in abundance.
Some School's don't rate the educational value and incredible public relations side of a quality musical production. To their credit Takapuna Grammar School obviously does and this is reflected in the huge effort the staff put into the event, pulling of a seemingly effortless collaborative masterpiece between the School's various performing arts and technical departments. With staff like that the pupils can only raise to the challenge and truely perform to the best of their abilities. What more could a School or a Community ask for?
The only quibble: the microphones seemed to kick into action after the cast began to speak and were turned on and off during scenes which meant that the voices of the leads "came and went", and sometimes the orchestra was too loud and dominated the vocals. I'm sure the Bruce Mason techies can sort that out for the next time!
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Favourite moment: The "nightmare" scene: outstanding costumes, dramatic effect and ghosts, and the "Do you love me" number, for goosebump-inducing romantic quality. @