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9585232
  • Title
    Rockdale Musical Society records
  • Call number
    MLMSS 11624/Boxes 1-9
    MLMSS 11624/Box 10X
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1990-1998
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9585232
  • Physical Description
    2 metres of textual material (9 boxes and 1 outsize box)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Rockdale Musical Society is Australia's oldest continually running Musical Society. It was established in 1939 after a meeting by local residents of Rockdale, hosted at the Rockdale Town Hall.
  • Scope and Content
    Box 1
    Annual General Meetings
    Meetings 1994-1997
    Membership
    Friends of R.M.S.
    Incorporation
    Rocktales Rockdale Musical Society newsletters
    Rockdale Musical Society correspondence
    Rockdale Musical Society miscellaneous
    Newspaper clippings
    Newspaper advertising
    Stage Whispers Vol 5.9 October 1996
    Rockdale City cultural directory (page 48)
    Dominie Pty Ltd
    TAMS-Witmark
    Programmes – Anything Goes, Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, La Cage Aux Folles, Mame, Me & My Girl, Oliver, Sound of Music, South Pacific, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story.

    Box 2
    Various Music scores arranged by Kenn Webber from Oklahoma, Music Man, South Pacific, Oliver and a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

    Productions 1990-1995:
    Oklahoma music scores
    Kiss Me Kate music score
    South Pacific music score Trumpets 1 and 2
    West Side Story music score- vocal and instrumentation – Warner/Chappell Music
    Highlights from Fiddler on the Roof Conductor music score
    Kismet vocal score (Frank Music Company Ltd)
    Into the Woods- Narrator script
    Into the Woods- Narrator dialogue, music and lyrics
    Oliver full script (Lakeview Music Co Ltd)
    Oliver vocal score (Lakeview Music Co Ltd)

    Box 3
    Production 1995:
    Anything Goes Beaumont Theatre version
    Anything Goes Beaumont Theatre version script (with lyrics only)
    Anything Goes script and vocal score
    Anything Goes vocal score
    Anything Goes script revised version
    Anything Goes final script Rockdale Musical Society 1995
    Anything Goes script (dialogue only)
    Anything Goes full script Rockdale Musical Society (RMS) 1995 for Quartet

    Box 4
    Production 1996:
    Me & My Girl full script Rockdale Musical Society 1996
    Me & My Girl music score for flute Rockdale Musical Society 1996
    Me & My Girl music score scenes and musical numbers Rockdale Musical Society 1996
    Me & My Girl- Melody only all principal and chorus members and Libretto corrected version
    Me & My Girl dialogue without songs

    Box 5
    Production 1996:
    Mame Libretto -TAMS-Witmark

    Mame vocal score 1st copy
    Mame trumpets 1 and 2
    Mame scripts (dialogue and lyrics only)
    Mame script (dialogue only)- 1st copy
    Mame Reed I.5
    Mame script with lyrics Rockdale Musical Society 1996
    Mame music score (Edwin H. Morris and Company, Inc) arranged by Kenn Webber
    Mame music score (Edwin H. Morris and Company, Inc)
    Mame full script (Edwin H. Morris and Company, Inc)
    Mame dialogue spare unbound copies

    Box 6
    Production 1997:
    Sweeney Todd cast photos
    Murder he wrote – article on Sondheim and Sweeney Todd
    Sweeney Todd copy of script (Music Theatre International)
    Sondheim Sweeney Todd organisation
    Sweeney Todd music scores
    Sweeney Todd originals
    Sweeney Todd music arrangements
    Sweeney Todd music score

    Box 7
    Productions 1997:
    Cassette tapes Sweeney Todd x 3
    Sweeney Todd piano-conductor ACT I
    Sweeney Todd piano-conductor ACT II
    Sweeney Todd chorus music
    Sweeney Todd cast music
    Sweeney Todd Chorus Book and full script
    Blitz script

    Box 8
    Production 1998:
    La Cage Aux Folles music score keyboard-conductor/piano-conductor 1
    La Cage Aux Folles music score keyboard-conductor/piano-conductor 2
    La Cage Aux Folles music score keyboard-conductor/piano-conductor 3
    La Cage Aux Folles music score keyboard-conductor/piano-conductor 4
    La Cage Aux Folles music scores Trumpets 1 and 2

    Box 9
    Production 1998:
    La Cage Aux Folles music scores keyboard-conductor/piano-conductor

    Potential productions:
    The Boy friend vocal score
    The Spirit of Freedom (Australian musical)
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood Libretto

    Box 10X
    Certificate of appreciation for Rockdale Musical Society from Rotary Club of Hurstville 1993
    Collage of Me & My Girl cast
    Audition sheet, audition script, cast information and Rockdale Musical Society news
    Flyer of La Cage Aux Folles Greenhalgh Theatre, Lindfield musical direction by Kenn Webber.
    Posters – Kismet, Me & My Girl posters (A4, A3 and A0), Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd.
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    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy of copyright holder
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