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THE CRUISE
A REVUE by OPUS 8
New Forest Arts Centre
New Milton
June 2002

IT’S all aboard the SS Harmonious as Opus 8 launch their latest sell-out revue, and it’s an experience to linger in the mind long after the holiday snaps have been pasted in the album and the flags have been packed away.
An 18-strong entertainment team, played in a spectacular array of colourful costumes and wigs by the 4-strong company - Glinys Luff, Helen Barrington, Bryan Newman and Paul Barrington – provide keep fit, cookery classes, country music, Stars on Sunday, ballroom dancing, West End showstoppers and all those other touches to keep passengers captive – sorry, amused – on the high seas.
But would anyone want to jump ship? Once you’ve seen the likes of opera singer Louciano Pizzaria, dance instructors Babette and Nigel Forbes-Winkton or Spanish spitfire Marguarita Maria Louisa Maraca you’ll be too weak from laughter to try, and no-one would want to miss the company in more serious mode singing show songs, Bacharach and more.
All that, plus a great set and the brilliant John Aveyard on piano, adds up to a glorious evening of first-class entertainment. Next time the ship sets sail (at the Regent Centre Studio in November) please be there. It’s the cruise of a lifetime.

Linda Kirkman
Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo

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