Fun 'n' Games
N Impromptu Concert excuses itself by its very. title, so I did not tune in to Fun ’n’ Games from 4YC the other Saturday night in any very critical mood. But, even so, I found the offering of the Green Room Club,of the Dunedin Repertory Society a disappointment. The opening quiz established a hearty concert atmosphere and revealed some excellent male voices with
an assured microphone manner. Then, when we were looking forward to a bright half-hour, the programme degenerated into a commonplace Community
Sing, relieved only by the contribution of a guest singer and a pianist, and concluding with a particularly repulsive piece of recitation. Impromptu concerts, I fear, rarely succeed over the air: without the charitable covering providéd by a sympathetic audience the
shortcomings of the performers are too nakedly revealed, But, apart from this, listeners’ chief feelings would be of disappointment that the Green Room Club did nothing in this performance to justify its name, I, at any rate, looked for something in which the dramatic talents of Repertory Society members would be better displayed. Was it not this same Green Room Club that won the Drama League award for 1949?
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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199Fun 'n' Games New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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