Opening Night

No, the title of this blog isn't anything witty or smart. It's something even better!

Dublin City Musical Society are proud to announce that their upcoming musical extravaganza will be called...'Opening Night'. (Wait for applause)


The show is going to be held on Wednesday April 21st in the aforementioned Sugar Club on Leeson St, and will BLOW your mind. Well, it'll definitely be very good.

So with that date approaching the group of loyal DCMSers are knuckling down and drilling God's Love Nubia harmonies into our heads. Ephemeral and fleeting is less of a lyric right now and more a description of my memory of harmonies.

But it's coming together. Everyone involved in working extremely hard to make sure we make Mammy and Daddy DCMS (Eimear and Kevin) very proud. And for those planning on attending the show, I'm pleased to inform you that at the very least it's bearable!

Hope to see you there

-Ms. DCMS xox

All work and no Play

DRINK!
We at DCMS, while taking our work extremely seriously, nose to the grindstone and all that, also enjoy some fun and frolics now and again.
Seeing as we have been working so very hard, the committee thought it would be a lovely idea to let us all relax and put up our feet with a pint after rehersals on Monday night.
Everyone was encouraged to stay in our usual venue of Doyles to socialise and get to know their fellow musical loving city dwellers.
This blogger is extremely happy to admit that the night was a huge success. After blasting our lungs out in a frantic effort to get the One Day More finale sounding satisfyingly 'oomphy',we retired to the bar. Everyone's favorite place to be.

Not a poser among tham.
Even though it was a Monday night everyone made an effort to stay, learn some names and have some fun. I'm sure there were some not so pleasant heads in need of a dose of Diorlite the next morning in work...But I'm sure they all will say it was worth it.
So DCMS isn't all work. We have fun too, and we're still open for business. So come along new people. You can hungover in work on a Tuesday too. Oh, and there's some singing stuff as well.

And the winner is!

Spectacular spectacular...is most definitely what little Louise Fox is aiming for. Nothing less than perfect. With the la la las and the red lorry, yellow lorries, she's turning us all into glorious West End stars!

So the results of auditions are out and it's easy to say that with the amount of talent ready to take to the stage, DCMS's first ever show is going to be a blinder.

With songs from Cabaret, Annie get your gun, Phantom of the Opera and loads more, this blogger would be very surprised if we don't get a bit of unwarranted audience participation on the night.

And what stage will it be? Committee members have been frantically trawling through the masses of city center venues looking for a stage to highlight DCMS, to bring us forward into the packed world of Irish musical societies. And the winner is........The Sugar Club.
DCMS would like to assure its readers that choice of venue had absolutely NOTHING to do with budgeting.......hmm.

But the Sugar Club, Leeson St it is. And no one's complaining. With the venue, soloists and songs announced tension is a word on everyone's lips. Gotta get those God's love Nubia lyrics into ones head, or one may incur the rath of the almighty Foxy.

I swear to Sondheim she's like a crazy Greek God behind that keyboard.

And we really are all as happy as we look in that picture.

-Ms. DCMS xox

Ready, Steady...

And they’re off! Songs have been printed off and on the Monday of the first rehearsal 25 frantic people rushed around their houses looked for that damn stapler.

With Louise Fox behind the keyboard and the comfort of Doyle’s to keep us out of the elements, DCMS are well on our way to our first performance.

The results of auditions, ooh, will be out shortly, so our poor members will be finally get some sleep and stop pacing around the kitchen at night in nervous anticipation.

On top of that, DCMS are in the process of organising some once in a lifetime, all access, learn stuff they won’t show you on Youtube, workshops. As if learning show stopping numbers with Foxy isn’t enough, both members and non-members will learn to perform like a West End star.

The Food Hall Musical is also in the works, with loads signed up with a driving ambition to embarrass themselves and shock the life out of a small percentage of Dublin. We’ll see how it goes, but Ms. DCMS predicts it going down a storm. Of course this may be the storm of people marching to security, but a storm nonetheless.

Of course new members are always welcome and don’t worry, you’ll catch up no problem.

Rehearsals on Mondays in Doyle’s bar, College Green and there is now a charge of €5 per rehearsal which will be deducted from an eventual membership.

-Ms. DCMS xox

The terrible twos.

So, the second ever meeting of Dublin City Musical Society was held last Monday (7th December) to discuss all the major world issues - rehearsal space, the first show and most exciting of all...drumroll please.......insurance.YAY!
With these serious matters to consider a suitable venue and atmosphere was chosen. That being Doyles Bar with a bit of kareoke thrown in.

But despite the somber setting fun managed to be had..don't ask me how! There was an air of excitement around the talk of the first performance being held in January/March of the New Year.It will be in a concert format rather than a full show (to show off our admirable singing talents you see). It's probably going to happen somewhere, sometime, somehow..Oh the professionalism of it all. But what I can garuntee is that something will happen, soon..ooooo. What is definite is that the society is looking to be extremely active and extraordinarily loud.

There was a fair turnout, but many more are welcome, if for no reason other than that the extra voices are more likely to drown out some of the kareoke.
Auditions for the first performance will be held in early January, so I'd probably start queuing now.

If you'd like to get in touch with this wonderful group of people you can view the facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/#/dublincitymusicalsociety?ref=ts

P.S.any photos displayed should not be held against their subjects.

-xox Ms DCMS