READ FIRST: A CENTURY OF SONG PART 1: HOW DARLINGTON OPERATIC SOCIETY MADE THE HIPPODROME ITS HOME
AND: IN A DAY OF GREAT DRAMA, HOW THE OPERATIC SOCIETY SAVED THE HIPPODROME BUT LOST £50,000
A lovely picture of children appearing in DOS's production of Carousel in November 1961The adult members of the chorus in Carousel in November 1961Ever wondered how they made those sound effects? Here's the backstage crew in October 1963 providing all the noises needed for The Maid of the MountainsPeter Sanderson, eight, serenades Ann Thompson, Fiona Bishop and Julia Thornton during the interval of The Music Man in May 1964. He and his brother, Stephen, 10, were stealing the show with their number, Seventy Six Trombones
The cast of Annie Get Your Gun in May 1966Preparing for one of the dance sequences in The Boyfriend in in April 1977A curious encounter with the police in Salad Days in April 1979, starring June Aitken, Warnock Kerr and Barry DargilleSteve Luck is centre of attention as he plays Sigrismund alongside Lynne Kew's Gretel in White Horse Inn in October 1979 These three ladies found a strange way to promote DOS's production of The Gondoliers in 1984. We only reproduce these pictures because the ladies are wearing legwarmers, the 1980s essential which featured in Memories a fortnight ago. Whether Irene Cara wore legwarmers with hiking boots, as the DOS girls are doing, is unlikelyREAD THE HISTORY OF LEGWARMERS HERE!
Cheeky, but...Promoting the show in 1984 Members of DOS using the banks of the Skerne to promote The Gondoliers in May 1984. From left: Judi Kent, Jennifer Wood, Fay Nutting, Jacquie Wright, mavis Wilson and June Aitken
READ NEXT: MADE IN DARLINGTON: HOW MEMBERS OF DOS HAVE GONE FROM THE HIPPODROME STAGE TO THE WIRELESS OR THE WEST END
Public demand for The Gondoliers was so great in June 1984 that an extra matinee was added to the run, and these DOS members took to the Skerne in South Park to celebrate: Sam Herdman, the deputy chorus master, is in the background, with, from left to right: Susan Kirkbride, David Beal, David Curtis and Connie Reeves
A lovely study of cast members trying on hats for 1994's production of Gigi
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