www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbeThQhE7ew<\/p>\n
Milborne Port Opera\u2019s nominations and wins were:<\/p>\n
Best Sound<\/strong>\u00a0 (Musical director Caroline d\u2019Cruz) \u2013 WON! The awards were all for MPO\u2019s last production \u201cThe Sorcerer\u201d by Gilbert & Sullivan, directed by Linda Mumford, which played to packed houses in April last year.<\/p>\n MPO has form in this area. They have now won the \u201cShow Stopper\u201d award twice and the Best Set award once.<\/p>\n Rehearsals are now in full swing for the 2017 production \u201cInto the Woods\u201d<\/strong> by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, which intertwines traditional fairy stories into a spellbinding musical with a few twists and surprises thrown in. “Be careful what you wish for”, as they say.<\/p>\n The show will be a stunner. It plays in the Milborne Port Village hall from April 19-22. Book now \u2013 www.thelittleboxoffice.com\/mpo<\/a> or via the MPO\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some good news at last. Milborne Port Opera, Horsington’s favourite local musical theatre company, has scooped three out of the five awards for which they were nominated in the prestigious David Beach Awards for musical theatre. Some 33 companies across Somerset competed in this hotly-contested annual competition, organised by the Somerset Fellowship of Drama. www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbeThQhE7ew … Continue reading “Milborne Port Opera wins THREE Awards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1lY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>This is a remarkable win. MPO does not use any amplification at all. The award was for \u201ca pure, beautifully balanced sound\u201d.
\nBest Set Design<\/strong> (Naomi Booth and Trevor John)
\nBest Actor<\/strong> (Mark Blackham as John Wellington Wells in \u201cThe Sorcerer\u201d)
\nThe \u201cShow Stopper\u201d<\/strong> award for the best musical number (entire company)
\nWON!
\nBest Small Venue<\/strong> (Milborne Port village hall) WON!<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/Ugly-sisters.jpg\")