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The AGM will be held on Sunday 14th March at 10am at the Riverbank Centre.

If you wish to nominate someone for a place on the Executive Committee please complete the form,

and ensure it reaches the Secretary by 5pm Friday 12^th March.

The HOT MIKADO is now well into its rehearsal schedule. Director Ross Brown and Musical Director Grant Smith are delighted with the progress made so far, and look forward to presenting this high-energy mix of blues, swing, gospel and jive.

If you would like to help back-stage please contact Alison Thomson (production manager) on 09 435 3222.

Miss Information, the comedy by Waipu's Neil Troost, has finished. Nearly 600 people came to enjoy the well-presented humour of Neil's play, and to savour Faye McMillan's desserts which won their own accolade in the local paper.

by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood

This side-splitting comedy about friendship, solidarity .......and sex, closed on 5 December after a highly successful run. The demand for tickets led to the last three shows being performed in the larger main auditorium. The other 'first' for the show was giving one performance in the Centre at Kerikeri. This was well received by the 170-strong audience, and has raised the possibility of future shows going there as well.

Interest in the show has now been shown by theatre groups from Palmerston North and Whakatane. Both had members come to see the show, and in their own words "...were blown away by it....".

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

closed its successful run on Saturday 19 September

Musical Theatre New Zealand will be celebrating its 50th Birthday

with its Annual Conference from 19 - 21 March 2010 in the Rydges Hotel, Auckland.

The highlight of the weekend will be a glittering Bal Masqué.

6 members of WTC attended the Musical Theatre New Zealand Annual Conference in Queenstown at the end of March 2009. As well as learning that WTC was on track in many of its functions, such as set design, publicity etc they were also delighted to receive the Constance Stewart Memorial Multi C Programme prize for the programme for I'll Be Back Before Midnight.

Vicky Teinaki (left) and Barbara Trimmer (right) with the Certificate and Trophy for the programme, which they created with photography by Duncan Brown.

The AGM was held on Sunday 15th March 2009. Minutes from the meeting can be found here, and a new Executive Committee was elected.

At the end of January 2009 we became the owners of 3 Finlayson Street, and are now busy cleaning the inside. Once that is done we will be replacing the front roller door, and constructing a mezzanine floor to allow the wardrobe to be moved there. The extra space will ensure the clothes can be stored more suitably, and improve access to them. It will also provide a sewing area, which should help the wardrobe team considerably.

The space then available at the Riverbank Centre will enable the props to be stored in a safer manner, and the library and archive material to have more space. All in all, your committee think this is going to make a significant improvement to what we can offer to our members.