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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Wimborne Musical Theatre Society
Tivoli Theatre
Wimborne
November 2002

NOSTALGIA lovers would have had a whale of a time at this concert, directed by Roy Joseph and probably the last of the year’s Jubilee tributes. There is strength in the company’s chorus singing and this was shown to great advantage in the first part of the evening, an hour-long, non-stop medley of songs, mainly from the 1950s.
From Bring Me Sunshine and Love and Marriage via Catch A Falling Star, Standing On The Corner and Twenty Tiny Fingers to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, If My Friends Could See Me Now and The Way We Were, the audience clearly knew and loved every number.
In the second half the running order might perhaps have been changed to build to a more satisfying climax. The company returned to sing numbers from popular musicals such as Les Miserables and Aspects of Love, followed by the Purbeck Big Band, whose set included a Rodgers and Hammerstein section, the title number from Mame and the Sinatra favourite New York, New York.
Their subsequent appearance, entering through the auditorium singing I Vow To Thee My Country, seemed rather dull after such a stirring previous number and made the atmosphere of a flag-waving Last Night Of The Proms style finale a little difficult to achieve.

Linda Kirkman
Courtesy of the Bournem,outh Daily Echo


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