“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all”
– Emily Dickinson

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown …”
– John Keats, Ode To A Nightingale

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
– William Blake

“Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up,
Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled down
To reach the misty dewberry”
– John Clare, The Yellowhammer’s Nest

“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands”
– Douglas Adams

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she has wings”
– Victor Hugo

“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest”
– PD James

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert”
– Percy Bysse Shelley, To a Skylark

“I caught this morning morning’s minion, kingdom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
— Maya Angelou

Tasty new musical for YAOS at Westlands

BILLED as “Roald Dahl’s amazingly weird and wonderful stage musical”, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the choice of Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society for the spring show, on stage at Westlands from 17th to 22nd March.

Directed and choreographed by Martyn Knight, the musical director is Gill Merrifield. The music, by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, comes from the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film, and includes Pure Imagination, The Candy Man and Oompa Loompa Doompa-Dee-Do.

Full of spectacle, delight and of course, Golden Tickets, this is a story for all the family and makes its Yeovil debut with the prodigiously talented members of YAOS.

Performances start at 7pm nightly, with a 2pm Saturday matinee.

Len Copland photograhed Willy Wonka and the two alternating Charlies in Yeovil, ahead of the show.

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Tasty new musical for YAOS at Westlands