'Student Prince' at hospital
r Sixty-five old people at the "jSt Nicholas Private Hospital 'jin Kirkwood Avenue will on 1 I Sunday evening have an un’l usual splash of variety ini j their lives. r . The entire cast of the; ;’i Christchurch Gilbert and Sul-' 'livan Society’s production,' “The Student Prince,” will; > rehearse before the patients! ,■ at the geriatric home from 1 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. The cast has been rehears-j ling since February, and the, season begins on June 30. “We are at the stage where ewe are doing the whole f thing.” said Mr P. Mason, el the show’s publicity officer, a “The whole cast, which con•jsists of 55 persons, rehearses i every Monday, Tuesday, s Thursday, and Sunday.” t; One of the “students” in y the production, Mr C. Van de CVeer, is the owner of the t ! hospital, and it was at hisf e| suggestion that it was de-1 s cided to provide the patients ■ J;with a performance. The 20-piece orchestra will' Tnot be present, and the ac-j “tors will not be costumed. as| t 1 the orchestra and chorus will; . practice tosiether for the first; ‘ time on Sunday afternoon. ; and the costumes are not fin-; fished, j
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 18
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