CURTAIN UP - LATEST NEWS

Whether you’re a crooner or a flapper, GAOS is jazzed to invite you to the Fringe at 7pm on 24 and 25 January at our usual joint!

Please sign up for 24th Jan or 25th Jan here before 22nd December to let us know you are coming. Numbers are limited to 60 guys and dolls. Should you have any issue signing up, please get in touch with Gisela.

We will contact you following the deadline with the food menu for pre-orders. We’ll take your dough in advance or on the night. Hooch will be available to buy as usual.

So get your glad rags on and be ready to be razzle dazzled. It’s going to be real swell!

Tickets sales for Aladdin open tomorrow, Sunday 3rd November. We have an early-bird 15% discount for members, valid for two weeks. Discount code is OPEN-SESAME. Remember you can buy as many tickets as you need, but please do not share the code with non-members.

As we prepare for our fun, interactive Aladdin pantomime for all ages, we'd love your help spreading the word. Many of you have valuable connections with international businesses, schools, and organisations, where families might enjoy a unique theatre experience like ours. Connections with local influencers or bloggers would also be helpful. If you can assist, we have posters, flyers, and more to make sharing easy - just reach out to publicity@gaos.ch for materials or ideas. Thank you for your support in making this show a success!

Save the date for the Carol Concert and Christmas Market on Wednesday 18th of December at the Salle Communale de Founex. At this year's concert, there will be a small Christmas Market with four stalls. Any GAOS members or their friends and family who are interested in a stall, please contact Bindu. More details regarding the concert and the Christmas Market to follow.

The Library in English is holding its autumn book sale from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th November 2024. Details on opening times can be found here, and here, with more information about the Library as well.

Received from Viki Lazar, member of the Renegade Saints, an English-language improv group in Geneva:

Baby Wants Candy is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed improv comedy ensembles in the world…and they’re coming to Geneva September 17-23!

Baby Wants Candy’s signature format is a full-length improvised musical - with a live band. Now, two Baby Wants Candy superstars will come to Geneva to teach you how to sing, rap, and tell unforgettable improvised stories. And if you just want to watch, we’ve got you covered! Winging It this season will kick off with a show by BWC.

We’ve got workshops for all levels of experience and musical talent.

You do not want to miss this!

Here are the dates

Tuesday, September 17: Show: Winging It at Floky

Weds, September 18: Help me Improvise a Song! workshop

Fri, September 20: Beginner Hip Hop: The Swagger workshop

Sat-Sun, Sept 21-22: Finding the Joy in Musical Improv weekend intensive

Mon, September 23: Story! Unforgettable Improv Narratives workshop

The evening workshops cost CHF 100, while the weekend one costs CHF 360. 

For more information, contact the Renegade Saints at: renegadesaintsimprov@gmail.com

The box office opens on Sunday 8th of September for GEDS's next show, Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen. GEDS is offering GAOS's members a 10% discount until the 17th of September. Code is gaos24.

Dates: 8th-12th October

Venue: Théâtre de l'Espérance

Directed by Gary Bird

Cast: Masha Neznansky, David McClenaghan, Gabriele Erba, Amanda Claire Monroe, and John Ward

More details and tickets at http://www.geds.ch

There's still time to sign up to sing with the GAOS Choral Group in the 2024 Christmas Carol evening, to be held on the 18th of December in Founex. If you've already signed up, thanks and apologies for this message - but for those of you who have forgotten, please send a message to Carolyn Hornfeld, we'd still love to have you!! It will be great fun, with Chelsea at the helm and good Christmas music.

Reminder - First rehearsal is Monday 16th September, 19h20h30 at GAOS HQ! Hope to see you there...

You can now register to attend one of the two events entitled Life Rolls Along, a Musical Evening of songs from musicals by Stephen Sondheim, woven through excerpts from the memoir You Could Make this Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith. The piece takes us on a journey through a woman’s life (“the girl/wife/poet”) and the evolution of her relationship with “the boy/husband/father of the children”, interspersed with songs by Sondheim.

This event is free with a retiring collection. Proceeds will be donated to the Sondheim Society, a charity dedicated to the promotion of musical theatre.

Arranged by Aurélie Laporte and Özge Tunçalp, with Empi Mörn as Musical Director.

Register here:

Saturday 21st September, at 20h

Sunday 22nd September, at 19h

On Wednesday 11th September, we will gather at GAOS HQ around some drinks and nibbles, with GEDS and Scouts members, from 17h45 to 19h30, to share memories of and honour our dear friend Mark Clayton. If you haven't already, please sign up here before Monday to let us know if you will attend.

We would like to invite GAOS members to sing "Climb Every Mountain" together, and plan a few other musical surprises. Sheet music here.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of our Youth Group, we present Twenty, a show written and directed by Frou-Frou, with Philippe Berthoud as Musical Director.

What is it about, you ask? It's the dress rehearsal, the eve of the first performance, and anything can, and does, happen. You will see 20 show-stoppers, from the various shows performed by the Youth Group over the years, including West Side Story, The Addams Family, Hairspray, High School Musical, and many others.

Our fabulous cast has been working hard over the summer to bring this show to our audiences, and now they need your help. Here's how:

- Buy tickets. Come celebrate 20 years of history and cheer the future stars of GAOS.

- Spread the word. Share the flyer, share this message, share the link to the WRS interview with Jo and Deyan.

- Come support our cast in their flash mobs, this Saturday, 24th August, at 15h and 16h in the Chavanne de Bogis shopping centre, and at 17h and 18h in the Signy shopping centre.