By Mike Pryce
The divine Sarah Siddons. Worcester educated, she died in 1831 in London and more than 5,000 attended her funeral HAD the Beatles pitched up in Worcester in 1763 – unlikely I know – they still wouldn’t have found a decent auditorium. The city has long lacked one. As it was, when they came twice in 1963, they had to make do with the stage of the Gaumont cinema, which was a bit better than the wooden shed they’d have been offered 200 years before. In the 18th century few places had a theatre that wasn’t a barn or some other impoverished property. At Worcester, the performing arts were staged in a wooden building in the yard of the King’s Head Inn, opposite the Guildhall in High Street.
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he year 2020 looked like it would be a good one for Hawai‘i’s performing arts industry. Diamond Head Theatre and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth were financially stable and expanding their audiences, Kumu Kahua Theatre was preparing for its 50th season, the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra welcomed a new director, and the Hawai‘i Opera Theatre was working on making its opera more relevant to the Islands.
Then, the coronavirus forced them to lower their curtains midseason. Stay-at-home and social distancing mandates shut down in-person performances, and while the organizations were assisted by Paycheck Protection Program loans and other financial support, revenues shrank.
A PERFORMING arts network for young people is ready to open the doors to a new venue as classes resume after lockdown. Stagecoach Washington & Chester-le-Street has found a new home for its students and teachers at Hermitage Academy, Chester-le-Street, following a 12-month-long search. Principal Melanie Hill, who has owned the school since it started four years ago, has worked tirelessly to find the new venue and is excited for the students to finally get to enjoy the new space as classes return for the summer term. She said the sounds of singing, dancing and acting are filling the rooms once again, as local children start to re-build their creative confidence after a hard lockdown.
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