You don’t have to make a song and dance about it
By Stevie Gallacher
YOU DON’T have to make a song and dance about it when you raise money for our hospice appeal. Fortunately, the Glasgow Light Opera Club did exactly that — and raised more than
£18,000 for CHAS in the process.
 The amateur opera group usually donates money from their annual show at the King’s Theatre to a different charity each year. For the last five years, however, the hospice appeal has benefited from GLOC’s kindness.
Earlier in the month, the group’s show, a version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic
South Pacific, ran for four nights. Collections helped GLOC raise £1142.55.
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 Back — Heather Dunlop, Christine Dunn, Kerry Burley, Ross Nicol and Andrew Rodger. Front — Faylin Lui, Sorcha Lui and Kyle Rodger.
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Vice-President David Conway insists there’s more to come. After costs, the club donates the profits of their shows to the children’s hospice.
“Once we calculate the total profits, we’ll know how much we’ll be giving to CHAS.
We estimate it to be more than £3000.”
That means the club has raised an estimated £18,000 since 2000.
David added, “This is our last year having CHAS as our chosen charity. We always said we’d donate money to Robin House until it was nearly finished and we’ve stuck to that.
“This year, the show went fantastically well. The leads were great, the dancing was perfect and the chorus was brilliant. There are four children who play the parts of the two kids in
South Pacific. They had a whale of a time.
“One of them, Kyle Roger, who played the part of Jerome, was in his first show. His dad has been a member of the GLOC for some time and he played the part of Luther Billis. Both were outstanding and it was good to see a father and son team in the show.” |
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