{"id":3487,"date":"2015-01-21T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2015-01-27T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T10:28:14","slug":"milborne-port-opera-up-for-4-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"Milborne Port Opera up for 4 awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milborne Port Opera,\u00a0 Horsington&#8217;s favourite local amateur group,\u00a0has been nominated by the Somerset Fellowship of Drama for 4 awards in the annual David Beach Awards for musical theatre. \u00a0(<em>Somerset\u2019s answer to the Oscars \u2013Ed<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The nominations are for the group\u2019s last production, the rarely-performed \u201cUtopia Limited\u201d by Gilbert &amp; Sullivan. They are:<\/p>\n<p>Best Cameo:\u00a0 Former Horsington resident Andrew Armstrong as Mr Goldbury<br \/>\nShow Stopper:\u00a0 Whole company for \u201cEagle High\u201d<br \/>\nBest Musical Direction:\u00a0 Caroline D&#8217;Cruz<br \/>\nBest Small Venue<\/p>\n<p>The nominations are made by an expert panel of adjudicators who see each show. The winners\u00a0will be \u00a0announced at a dinner in Taunton on Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> March .<\/p>\n<p>There are 25 award categories in total, and 82 groups across the county competing to win them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtopia Limited\u201d was a landmark production for Milborne Port Opera, as it completed their ambition to perform every single Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.<\/p>\n<p>The next show at Milborne Port Opera is an original work, \u201cSpring Fate\u201d, a comic opera written by MPO member Neil Edwards, who also directs. It is his third show for the MPO.<\/p>\n<p>Performance is 8 to 11<sup>th<\/sup> April, the week after Easter. Tickets go on sale in March. More about this show soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milborne Port Opera,\u00a0 Horsington&#8217;s favourite local amateur group,\u00a0has been nominated by the Somerset Fellowship of Drama for 4 awards in the annual David Beach Awards for musical theatre. \u00a0(Somerset\u2019s answer to the Oscars \u2013Ed) The nominations are for the group\u2019s last production, the rarely-performed \u201cUtopia Limited\u201d by Gilbert &amp; Sullivan. They are: Best Cameo:\u00a0 Former &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Milborne Port Opera up for 4 awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2781,2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-Uf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}