Walmsley Church Amateurs have a long and distinguished reputation - well earned if their current offering is anything to go by.
The society opened on Saturday for a seven night run of Kiss Me Kate at the community hall in Blackburn Road, Egerton. The wonderful music and lyrics of Cole Porter provide a tremendous vehicle upon which this play within a play is carried. It is the story of an American theatre group rehearsing for Taming of the Shrew with all its love tangles on and off the stage.
David Kellie playing Fred Graham and Margaret Steel as the untamable Lilli Vanessi gave superb performances. Both of their strong and appealing voices packed a punch in songs like Wunderbar, I Hate Men and Where Is The Life That Late I led.
There were as able performances from Gillian Pollitt as Lois Lane and Adrian Pollitt as Bill Calhoun with an appealing rendition of Another Opening Another Show by Sylvia Fishwick as Hattie.
The costumes for the society's 96th production were excellent, many of them having been hired from the Royal Shakespeare Company. They looked really good and well worth the hire charges.
