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🍸💃🏼 70th Anniversary Ball 🎉🎩 Get your tickets now. It’s our 70th Anniversary, you don’t want to miss it. Open to all friends, old, new, or perhaps an opportunity to meet fellow thespians! See you there🍸💃🏼🎩🍾 Saturday 9th November 2019 – arrival from 6.45pm Comis Mount Murray Hotel, Santon Tickets £35 including drinks, reception, 3…

We are very pleased to announce our 2020 Production of Ghost Cast List… Sam Wheat – Alex Maxwell Molly Jensen – Dandi Dancox Carl Bruner – Liam Behan Susan (Sam’s Assistant) – Gaynor Denham Willie Lopez – Marc McCabe O’kelly Hospital Ghost – Neil Taverner Subway Ghost – Joey Wylde Oda Mae Brown – Nikki…

The Manx Operatic Society is 70 this year. To celebrate we’re having a ball at Comis Mount Murray on 9th Nov 2019, tickets are £35 per person, this will include reception drinks, 3 course meal & dancing….. You can stay over for just £80 per room so we can party the night away…. If you’d…

Taking a break from shows this year? For just £20 why not become a social member?! As a social member you will be notified/invited when any social events happen!! For more information visit our Become a Friend page, for a membership form please contact info@mos.im 🎭🎼😀👻

Manx Operatic Society is 70 this year….. To celebrate we are having a ball Saturday 9th November 2019 Comis Hotel (former Mount Murray) The event is open to members (past, present) & friends of the Society, more details to follow but in the meantime please save the date…..

I hope everyone is excited for our upcoming Ghost auditions! 👻🎭 Please see below the pre audition rehearsal schedules Tuesday 27th And Thursday 29th August 7pm – 8pm: Ensemble 8pm – 9pm: Clara, Louise, Hospital Ghost, Subway Ghost and Carl 9pm – 10pm: Sam, Molly and Oda Mae Wednesday 28th August 7pm-8pm: Dialogue prep/ run…

Ladies & Gents – we have our audition pieces finalised. All required pieces are available at the Copy Shop. To register for your audition, please email info@mos.im to let us know what role you would like to be considered for. Auditions for all Principal and featured roles will be starting from 11AM Sunday 1st September.…

The Manx Operatic Society GHOST THE MUSICAL 28th March to 4th April 2020 Gaiety Theatre, Douglas Join us to become part of this magical romantic musical production To audition for the Ensemble you must be 16 or older by 1st February 2020 To audition for a Principal role you must be 18 or older by…

Coming soon Ghost The Musical – Auditions 1st & 2nd September 2019. Join us to be part of this magical romantic musical production. Further information regarding our fast approaching auditions for the upcoming production of Ghost The Musical will be available shortly. Follow our Facebook page to keep up to date with all the latest…

Hello everyone, we are delighted to announce the 2019/20 Manx Operatic Society executive committee. Gail Hampson (chair) Simone Georgeson (vice chair) Cheryl Baxter (secretary) Sarah Elder (treasurer) Bryony Grant Joey Wylde Sam Baxter We are looking forward to producing Ghost the Musical in March 2020. We would love to see you all down at the…

Current & Life members (performing & non performing) it’s the agm tomorrow night, 21st May, 7.30pm at the rehearsal rooms in Finch road. See you all there 🙂

29th March – 4th April 2020

Congratulations to the Cast of Chess.   NODA Awards Tonight Best Actor as Anatoly Alex Toohey Best Actress as Svetlana Sarah Elder Best Chorus A special award with a worthy mention that they were all worthy of places on a West End Stage Kathryn Toohey as Florence Damian Kneale as Freddie Alex Toohey as Anatoly…

Congratulations to all that auditioned. Les Miserables Cast List Jean Valjean : Alex Toohey (u/s Jonathan Sleight) Javert: David Artus Fantine: Kristine Sutcliffe (u/s Sue Tummon) Mme Thernardier: Nikki Openshaw Thernardier: Mark Dougherty Eponine: Dandi Dancox Marius: Jack Munro Cossete: Hannah Clinton Enjoiras: David Lyons (u/s Joey Wylde) Bishop of Digne: Neil Taverner Gavroche: Cory…

Great turn out for the meet and greet last night. Can’t wait for tonight’s auditions. Very exciting weekend

If you auditioning for a principal part and also want to be part of the Ensemble, you will have to attend the Ensemble audition as well. If you just want to go for say Cosette and nothing else, then you don’t have attend the Ensemble audition. The Ensemble audition will involve a few games, an…

Auditions Date’s 26th, 27th, 28th & 29th July 2018 Castle on a cloud is the audition piece for both young Eponine & young Cosette. ALL AUDITION PIECES CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE COPY SHOP Castle on a cloud is the audition piece for both young Eponine & young Cosette. —————————————————— Ensemble age requirements To audition…

Florence – Kathryn Toohey Svetlana – Sarah Elder Anatoly – Alex Toohey Freddie – Damian Kneale Arbiter – Alice Quayle Molokov – Mike Bonner Walter – Phil Bird Ensemble Adele Dube Bryony Grant Bex Rhodes Beth Thomas Callum Brew Carolyn Davis Dandi Dancox Gail Hampson Georgia Dugdale Jack Munro Joanne Gibney Liam Kaneen Lisa Dancox…

Good Luck to everyone auditioning this weekend. Don’t forget to bring your application forms and audition fee.

Audtion Weekend starts tonight with our Meet & Greet Why not join us at the rehearsal halls at 8pm to meet our Director. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find out what he’s looking for in the audition and what his vision is for the show. We have a couple of One on Ones avaiable. If…

Another great night at pre-audition rehearsals, lovely to see some new faces. Don’t forget to email info@mos.im to register.

Revised timetable for pre-audition rehearsals. It’s a great chance to prepare for the auditions, it’s also a fab excuse for a cuppa and a catch up. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night at 7.30 at the MOS Hall, Douglas.

Following our AGM , we are delighted to announce our Executive Committee for 2017/18 Lisa Dancox – Chairman Kate Schofield – Vice Chairman Gail Hampson – Committee Liam Kaneen – Committee Shay Marsden – Committee Officers of the Society Cheryl Baxter – Secretary Sarah Elder – Treasurer

The Manx Operatic Society are delighted to announce our show for 2019.

First of all we would like to thank absolutely everyone who auditioned today for our new production of Legally Blonde. Our apologies for the lateness of posting this cast list however, the standard across the board was extremely high and therefore the task to cast the show was, in the best way, an incredibly hard…

COULD IT BE YOU? COULD IT BE YOUR DOG?  

COULD IT BE YOU? COULD IT BE YOUR DOG?

We are delighted to announce that the audition pieces for our exciting next production of the Island’s Premier of Legally Blonde are now available for you at The Copy Shop in Douglas. PLEASE NOTE: the audition song for those wishing to audition for the ensemble is “Omigod You Guys” bars 1 to 48. Audition weekend…

Following our AGM , we are delighted to announce our Executive Committee for 2016/17: Lisa Dancox – Chairman David Cowley – Vice Chairman Sarah Elder – Treasurer Cheryl Baxter – Secretary Ellen Esptein Sarah Holland Jonathon Pressley Rebecca Rhodes Kate Schofield

It’s back to the theatre today for our second performance of Oklahoma! Undecided? Here’s what our opening night audience had to say…