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When theatre people get together.............

Thu, 26 June 2008, 05:36 pm

David Ashton19 posts in thread

When theatre people get together we can talk for hours about the venues, old and new, actors, directors, scenery painters, stage managers and all the characters which made the business as fascinating as it is.However it is pretty much an oral tradition and would there be any support for a thread where the characters who founded this industry could be documented? A penny for your thoughts.

One story I was told

Mon, 28 July 2008, 10:43 pm

David Ashton

One story I was told concerned a previous show with Sir Robert Helpman during which a "prop" crown was stolen, vanished without trace, until some years later at the electricians house in Narrogin it was on his mantlepiece with an engraved plate "Many thanks for all your help, Sir Robert Helpman" Another rogue nicked a heap of patt 23's and sold them around the south west town halls, I remember a pair at Kattaning town hall.

Thread (19 posts)

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When theatre people get together.............— David Ashton26 June 2008

I know I'd support it!I'm— JoeMc26 June 2008
Reader...— Skybe27 June 2008
exciting...— actorfromoz27 June 2008
in 1960, after being— JoeMc27 June 2008
A few random memories-In— David Ashton27 June 2008
I'd just like to add, then— JoeMc27 June 2008
preserving those memories— SHI Symbol28 June 2008
[Opens lid & sticks head— JoeMc28 June 2008
A few other characters— JoeMc29 June 2008
Frank Baden Powell— Walter Plinge24 July 2008
- Frank was most defiantly a— JoeMc24 July 2008
Do you mean the Frank Baden— Don Allen24 July 2008
When theatre people get together— Don Callison24 July 2008
Don you bring back memories— JoeMc24 July 2008
more memories— Don Callison24 July 2008
I wasn't going to mention— JoeMc25 July 2008
One story I was told— David Ashton28 July 2008
- Just Checking— Walter Plinge29 July 2008

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