After almost three months of rehearsals and four spectacular performances, on November 22nd we reluctantly lowered the curtain on our 40th show ‘Curtains’.
We, the Boyle Musical Society committee would like to extend a very sincere thanks to those from Boyle and beyond, who attended the shows in such large numbers. As our audience, you are the heartbeat of Boyle Musical Society and your cheers, applause and presence every night added the final layer of enchantment to our performances. The capacity houses and standing ovations told us that this show was a massive success and we couldn’t have asked for more.
To all the local individuals and businesses that sponsored our show, you are our life blood. Thank you for responding so generously yet again by subscribing to the funding of our show through our GoFundMe page or by sponsoring great prizes. Thanks also to those who contributed either financially or otherwise and were too late for inclusion in our programme. All contributions have been acknowledged on our GoFundMe page.
This Christmas, we once again urge everybody to love where they live, to shop local and support all our great local businesses over the season and throughout the coming year.
We would of course like to thank our very talented cast, and especially all those who travelled to join us this year. Thanks to Karen, Anne and Eiméar in our Production team for their outstanding talents and endless energy, not forgetting to mention the stage crew, set builders and painters, light and sound crew, costume, make-up, hair and props teams, front of house team, stewards, raffle and programme sellers, the orchestra, shop assistants, hospitality team and all those who helped out in any way. We are also indebted to the St. Joseph’s Hall committee and Abbey Community College for rehearsal facilities. Special thanks also to Shane Caslin and Tommy Egan for all their assistance and to Skirmante O’Beirne for all her help with the costumes.
We are especially grateful to Anna Robertson for co-ordinating our ticket sales and running our booking office and to Roscommon Co. Council and the New Art Gallery at An Rioga, for allowing us to have the use of their premises.
Publicity is vital for any production and we thank all the local publications, Roscommon Herald, Roscommon People, Sligo Champion, Leitrim Observer, Sligo Weekender, Boyle Parish Newsletter and all who made room for our posters and signs. We would also like to thank BoyleToday.com, Charlie McGettigan and Ronan Flanagan at Shannonside Radio and Ciara Hassett at Ros FM. We are very grateful to Benny Morgan for the beautiful photographs and also to Pat Gannon for managing our roadside billboards.
From backstage to front of house, we have a fantastic team behind us to ensure that the show runs smoothly every year. Apart from the cast of 41 and committee of 11, there were approximately 50 voluntary, talented and generous people, available to help out in every way possible this year.
As a voluntary organisation, it has always been our intention to showcase the abundance of talent that we have here and to bring a little love, light, magic and music to everybody during the winter. Boyle Musical Society is your Musical Society and it is heart-warming to see that the community spirit in Boyle continues to thrive.
‘Curtains’ will be ‘A Tough Act To Follow’ as the song says, but as always we get to dream it all up again, and early in the new year we will be looking at ideas for our next show!
Wishing everybody a Peaceful Christmas and a New Year filled with health and happiness.
Brendan McGee,
PRO
Boyle Musical Society.
Photo by Benny Morgan
