Hello and welcome to the R.C.M.S. web site, you will notice some changes to our site and more changes will come in the future. The Society has started off the year with the rehearsals for our annual "Panto"- "The Emperors New Clothes" although it is being performed a little later this year due to the closing of the Arts Theatre. We will be performing our "Panto" at the Mercy Theatre in May and guarantee it will be just as enjoyable as all of our Pantomime productions in the past. Predominately moving to a new venue for our productions this year is that we have to think outside the square for the staging. We have had a very comfortable life in the Arts Theatre since it was first built and to all of us it has been a familiar second home over all those years, but just like an old pair of shoes you have to eventually throw them out and buy a new pair and go through the breaking in stage to get them comfortable. Such is the challenge before us to find a way around the confines of the stage at the Mercy Theatre. Although the closing of the Arts Theatre has been an inconvenience for the groups, it is very necessary to have the theatre go through this make over, it needed to have the standard of the facilities updated, and being out of date on the technical side was making it difficult for all of us to move ahead into more creative productions and causing limitations to professional shows wanting to come to our region. I would like to say that being appointed to the Project Reference Group for the Arts Theatre is an honour and I feel very comfortable with the way the redevelopment is moving towards giving us a theatre that will see it usable far into the future. A little inconvenience now will be far outweighed when we have our Arts Theatre back with safer working areas, more technical installations and better facilities that we will all benefit from. I look forward to seeing you in the foyer when our productions for 2010 hit the stage at the Mercy Theatre, until next time, Pamela Bradley President, Red Cliffs Musical Society.
