Pictures of Variety Show 2000

Pictures of 'Variety Show 2000'
presented by
Bottisham Players, May 18-20th, 2000

Introduction

Variety Show 2000 is a celebration of the past 2000 years in song, word and dance. The content of the show is the result of collaboration between a team of people led by Rosemary Jolley. The team members are Pam Daish, Grahame Radford, Philip Routley, David Coles and Richard Clarkson, who have also been responsible for directing different parts of the show. We do not claim to be historically accurate, nor to have included or excluded any particular events or people for any particular reason. This is simply a collection of items chosen to (a) depict some of the eras from the first to the twentieth centuries, (b) to entertain you, our audience, in a variety of styles and (c) to suit our group as performers. We hope that by the end of the evening you will agree with the sentiments expressed in one of the songs from Act 2:

"This night was special, it's been fun and not been a bore
We gave you some jokes, we hope that you've not heard before
We've given you some talent, a wonderful thing
Some dancing and songs that we've wanted to sing
We're so grateful and proud
What we want is to sing it out loud..."

Act 1

In the beginning...

Songs from Jesus Christ Superstar!

Monologue - the origins of "Bottisham"