What? Where? When? Why?

From: ROSS Summer School <ross814@outlook.com>

ROSS is a unique annual event which takes place during one week in August.  A group of amateur theatre performers and technicians gather at the beginning of the week and audition, rehearse and perform extracts of three full-scale musicals facilitated by professional artistic teams and designers .

Find out more at www.rosssummerschool.co.uk

The participants who range from eighteen to eighty come from all over the UK and beyond and everyone stays in en-suite accommodation at the University of Lancaster. Some are experienced and some will be doing a musical for the first time.   All are welcome and the activities are structured to enable everyone to thoroughly enjoy the experience whilst developing skills and attaining their own goals.

At the end of the week, each musical extract is performed in front of an invited audience with costumes and lighting.
Special Rates for those new ROSS

For those who are coming to ROSS for the first time, we are pleased to offer a special introductory rate of just £410.
This covers all costs for the week and includes eight night’s full board plus the opportunity to participate in one of the extracts onstage or behind the scenes) and the opportunity to take part in any of the additional activities during the week.

Auditions and rehearsals take place during the day and in the evenings there are optional theatre-based talks and seminars and additional dance and music sessions for those who wish to participate.
2016 Shows
More information is available on the web site but the shows this year are
Curtains Book by Rupert Holmes, Music and Lyrics by Kander & Ebb
Set in the USA in 1959 Curtains is a send-up of all those backstage murder mystery plots. It follows the fallout when the supremely untalented star of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It is up to a police detective who moonlights as a musical theatre fan to save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens, without getting killed himself.

Candide Music by Leonard Bernstein Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur -additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and John Latouche
Part sophisticated operetta, part wacky screwball comedy this irreverent satire is the perfect musical expression of Voltaire’s tongue-in-cheek send-up of optimistic philosophies.  Through it all, Candide remembers the lesson of his dear master Dr. Pangloss: that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Sunshine on Leith by Stephen Greenhorn Featuring songs of The Proclaimers
This show was written for the Dundee Rep theatre company and first performed in 2007. A film version was completed in 2013. The show, which deals with the everyday stuff of ageing, adultery and falling in love begins on the Afghan battlefield and tells the tale of two returning soldiers finding their feet back in Leith.   It explores the themes of Scottish identity, emotional inarticulacy, the rise of the call centre. Worth walking 500 miles for!

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