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Welcome to EOMSEastleigh Operatic and Musical Society (EOMS) has been entertaining audiences for many years with a wide variety of musicals, operettas and musical comedies, and we now perform two full stage shows a year at The Point, Eastleigh. We are a lively and friendly group and new members of all ages are always welcome, whether you would like to join the Society as a chorus member, a potential principal, to help back stage or front of house or even produce, direct or play the piano at rehearsals!Our two productions take place in the Spring - usually in May - and in the Autumn - usually in November. Productions run for one week. We rehearse throughout the year, with a break in the Summmer, rehearsals take place at 7.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the new community centre (aka Guide Hut!) in Hoddinott Road, Eastleigh. We also have a very successful junior section - Footlights Youth Theatre - for young people from the age of 8 to 18. Rehearsals for the Junior group normally take place on Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The society was originally known as Eastleigh Orchestral and Operatic Society and performed its first show, The Mikado, at
Eastleigh Town Hall (now The Point) in 1937. Over the years, the society has performed operettas, modern musicals, pantomimes and concerts,
and taken part in charity productions and carnivals. EOMS is an amateur company, affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA)
News and EventsNominations for the 2011 Daily Echo Curtain call awards are out. The Gondoliers, Beauty and the Beast and Pocket G&S's Iolanthe are all in the running... see the Daily Echo The rehearsal schedule and cast list for EOMS next show The Mikado is available on the rehearsals page here EOMS Christmas Carols & American Supper took place on Tuesday 20th December - fabulous food and festive fun! Congratulations to our director, musical director, choreographer, cast, stage crew, orchestra, lighting, sound, make-up, costume, scenery, front of house, publicity and everyone involved with EOMS run of The Gondoliers at The Point in Nov 2011. Now it's onwards to EOMS next show, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in May 2012.
David Tatnall with Annie Tatnall and Shaun Dodimead in a Pocket G&S production of
The Sorcerer, at Hanger Farm Arts Centre
Monday 21 - Thursday 24 November 2011.
The October edition of the EOMS Newsletter from Editor-in-Chief Barbara is out now! Front page special from Viv with pictures of the EOMS Gondola display team at the Eastleigh Carnival. Download it here EOMS AGM was held on Thursday 21st July at 7.30pm, at the community centre (aka Guide Hut) in Hoddinott Road, Eastleigh.
Wed 6th to Sat 9th July
Janet Green with Rosa Longman on Piano in "A Celebration of English Song"
WOS production of Anything Goes, at the Theatre Royal Winchester 10th - 14th May 2011
David Tatnall with Pocket G&S in their very first venture. A diverse and innovative production featuring a cast of thirteen,
an orchestra of eight, costumes, scenery, fun, flowers, mischief, mayhem, sherry, scandal, magic, frogs, envy, dancing and sheep - what more
could you ask for in an evening's entertainment?!! EOMS folk involved include Annie Masters as Phyllis, Dan Hickson as Tolloller and Rob Jones
as MD. I am directing (and playing Private Willis).
Information about application for NODA Long Service Medal Awards and NODA Commendation Awards is available for download here. Many thanks to our secretary Helena for putting this together. Full details regarding the application process and qualifying criteria can be found on the NODA website, see the links page here. Congratulations to our winnners at the Southern Daily Echo 2010 Curtain Call awards:
Simon Pontin, Annie Masters, David Tatnall and a cameo by the evil Tony Austin in Shaun Dodimead's production of Carmen. at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. Superb!
EOMS provided the cast for Patience in Opera Comique's highly successful and enjoyable 35th Anniversary Gilbert and Sullivan “Sing-In” on Saturday 9th October, at St George's Church, Waterlooville. The event helped raise funds for a local hospice (9th October was World Hospice Day). A number of local societies sang through all the G&S operettas, starting with “Trial by Jury” at 8.00am and finishing up with Utopia Limited and Grand Duke at 11pm. Oscars of the South! Our winnners at the Southern Daily Echo 2009 Curtain Call awards were
Previous editions of the Barbara's EOMS Newsletter available here:
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Congratulations to the cast, director, musical director, choreographer, orchestra, back-stage crew and everyone involved with Footlights Youth Theatre's
superb production of Beauty and the Beast which ran from Tues 18th to Sat 22nd January at The Theatre Royal, Winchester.
Eastleigh Operatic and Musical Society is registered as a Charity, No 1095271.
