The Opera Dudes at The People’s Hall Of Toft, Cambridgeshire.

Friday 9^th March 2012. 

The People’s Hall Of Toft, Cambridgeshire.

People’s Order 1. 

It is decreed that entertainment is an egalitarian pursuit and should be delivered to the masses on a fair and equal basis to inspire loyalty to the community and to the People's Republic of Toft.

People’s Order 2.   
That State Artistes Opera Dudes be invited to Toft to inspire local residents with performance of Licensed To Trill in the People's Hall of Toft on behalf of the Committee of Arts In Rural Cambridgeshire.

People’s Order 3. 

That the word Audience be replaced with People’s title of Performance Recipients – Audience being an honorific title implying a hierarchical system.

People’s Report. Comrade Artistes Allen and Lole arrive at the state sponsored hall and are greeted by Performance Commission. 

Commissar Tebbit welcomes artistes and provides them with refreshment produced by the hard work on the land. 

Strict protocol is observed and Opera Dudes are offered fair portion of Dundee cake, produced for the glory of the common toilet by Comrade Joan.The Dundee cake is first tested by Committee for its tenderness. Cake must always be soft in Toft.

The Comrade Artistes are installed in the changing room in the roof space - the revolutionary loft in Toft - and introduced to Comrade Martin, chief lighting, plumbing and computing delegate. (Committee to investigate whether this much skill in the hands of one man is a true representation of the democratic ideal.)

Opera Dudes are given demonstration of impressive revolutionary teamwork carried out on the stage and in the hall by the local delegates in true egalitarian fashion - every man is born equal in Toft and remains equal. It is decreed that not a hat is doffed in Toft.

The Performance Recipients arrive, refreshed from hard, honest work on the land. Refreshment continues throughout the evening!

The Performance Recipients include a world authority on snails, a linguistics Professor and a top barrister. People of Toft are not sluggish when it comes to the semantics of the law!

State Artistes sing revolutionary songs and sketches and even liberate the artistic expression of one or two ladies! The performance is deemed a success and at the end of the show, the Performance Recipients show their appreciation after a unanimous vote. 

 

               The Opera Dudes reputation is held aloft in Toft.

                   .....In an egalitarian fashion of course......

The Opera Dudes at Manea Village Hall, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 10^th March 2012. Manea Village Hall, Cambridgeshire

Fenland Frolics.

Opera Dude Mania in Manea!

The Opera Dudes, famous for not being famous, donned snorkels, flippers and wet suits this weekend to perform to the folk in the fens.

Manea was apparently the first choice of capital city of England for King Charles II and for a brief moment on Saturday night it was as if Chaz's wish had come true. The West End of Manea was alive with the sound of carriages, cars and various water-borne vehicles pulling up outside the resplendent Village Hall. 




All Fenland was abuzz with the excitement of Manea's answer to Les Miserables - the Crabby Opera Dudes!!

Janet put the key in the door, Dianne put the tea in the pot and the Dudes put the sea in celebrity.

By the evening the Hall was packed with almost 100 of Manea's finest. 

What an evening it was; the Dudes were bathing in the warm reception all night. The audience were aquatic – I mean, ecstatic. From the word go, it was clear it was going to be a good night.

The more discerning members of the audience went first to Classics Restaurant, where they had a delicious three course meal and a first glimpse of the Dudes over their prawn cocktail.

The show followed and the audience were soon put in their plaice by the late arrival of 

a certain gentleman, bearing some resemblance to Neil but claiming to be an original Maneac! This gentleman's rather fishy, suspicious entrance was soon revealed to be imposterous and the audience had no doubt that they were in for a whale of a time!

The audience was lively but these were no shark-infested waters for the performers. Soon the watery residents were eating out of the Dudes’ hands and chasing rabbits around the Hall. Despite all this, the untimely appearance of a well-known Disney Duck – as opposed to a Nottingham Ducky – was still a shock to all and sundry!

The verdict – this was Salmon Chanted Evening!