Thursday 7th November 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

Louis Lucas-Perry returns to the Lunchtime Concert Series, ahead of his solo concert in December

The NCMA Lunchtime Concert Series is proudly sponsored by Nelson Pine Industries

Saturday 9th-Sunday 10th November 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

Music, Mayhem and Madness
Starring Helen Moulder
Directed by Jeff Kingsford-Brown

The magnificent Cynthia Fortitude is definitely in the twilight of her long career as operatic diva. Tonight, she has arrived to give a musical lecture for the inaugural meeting of the Nelson Tasman Opera Guild (NELTOG).

Her longsuffering accompanist, Miss Gertrude Rallentando, is nowhere to be found, so Cynthia must battle on without her.

“I wanted to honour the character of Gertie,” Helen says. “My good friend, Rose Beauchamp, who played Gertie for thirty years with me in Hens’ Teeth, The Legend Returns and Cynthia & Gertie Go Baroque, sadly died in 2022, and I wanted the delicious character of Gertie to live on somehow.”

Gertie does not appear in this show of course, but is very present in all sorts of ways!

“Helen Moulder’s determined, dotty and totally delightful Cynthia…. an unbeatable gem of a comic character.” – Laurie Atkinson, Dominion-Post

“A most enduring clown, an irreverent and fanciful diva.” – Thomas La Hood, Theatreview

Please note, seating is General Admission (not allocated)