HULL SAVOYARDS REHEARSING FOR ITS LATEST PERFORMANCE

A MUSICAL performing group with a history stretching back more than 90 years in Hull is looking for new people to swell its numbers.

- By DEBORAH HALL

Hull Savoyards will start rehearsals later this month for its early summer production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.

The amateur operatic and dramatic society performs concerts and staged productions, featuring music from Gilbert and Sullivan, classical opera, and musical theatre.

It takes its name, Savoyards, from the Savoy Theatre in London, where operettas by Gilbert Sullivan "bigger than The Beatles in their heyday" were originally staged.

Now entering its 92nd year, Hull Savoyards will start rehearsals for the principal parts in Patience, on Saturday, January 17, at Cottingham Civic Hall.

A call has gone out from the society to anyone wishing to audition - for these roles or lesser parts in the comic opera.