2012 Review.

Posted by tony mcdonald on January 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get … Continue reading →

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Big Dance 2012

Posted by tony mcdonald on June 28, 2012 · 1 Comment 

Dance, Your troubles away.

Well it’s nearly upon us, Big Dance Weekend in Edinburgh. Covering a multitude of Dance styles and loads of performers, I hope you will find the time to head up to Edinburgh to enjoy or even take part on either Saturday 30th June or Sunday 1st July. And the best bit is, it’s Totally Free, … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Am Dram, Healthy?

Posted by tony mcdonald on April 5, 2012 · 3 Comments 

Warrick Hunter as Sweeney Todd

Putting Smycms problems to one side for the moment, its good to see that Edinburgh’s  Am Dram scene seems to be  in good health, recent productions of Sweeney Todd by Edinburgh Music Theatre and Carousel by The Bohemians Lyric Opera Company both received favourable reviews in the Evening News recently and by all accounts were well … Continue reading →

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This May Be our Last Song Together.

Posted by tony mcdonald on January 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

The Finale of Guys and Dolls, lets hope its not the Finale of The Smycms.

As you are no doubt aware The Smycms have been trying to stage Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Sadly for Smycms insufficient people were prepared to audition for the show and it is therefore not possible to continue with this production. Those people who did attend the auditions last Monday evening are extremely keen to … Continue reading →

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Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Posted by tony mcdonald on January 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Wots gone wrong with The Smycms. For Gawds sake get me to the bar.

If you don’t know the show then here is a brief, and i do mean g-string rather than y-front, synopsis of the story. Adam Pontipee lives with his six brothers, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank and Gideon. but soon realises that he can’t cope and needs a woman’s touch, i.e. cooking, cleaning etc for his … Continue reading →

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Rehearsal Update

Posted by tony mcdonald on December 12, 2011 · 4 Comments 

When you need a Guy but there's none to be had, you can guess that we'll dress a dame as a lad. OH MY GAD!!

We have had to suspend rehearsals for Seven Brides For Seven Brothers until January 2012 when we will be in a better position (we hope) to finalise the Rehearsal Schedule. There does seem to have been a bit of confusion recently regarding rehearsals being on or off, sorry for this, but part of the problem is that … Continue reading →

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you got me singin’ the blues.

Posted by tony mcdonald on December 4, 2011 · 1 Comment 

beggin' your pardon sir, The Smycms here, have you any men you could spare?

Remember, all company members should attend tomorrow, Monday 5th for rehearsal at St Michael’s Church 7:30pm, see you all there, you will have received a notification by e-mail from Clubbz about Monday and also an e-mail about Principal auditions that were scheduled for next Sunday 11th December, unfortunately we have had to postpone these auditions … Continue reading →

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