Christmas is coming and the Geese are getting........ready for Christmas
- Trills on a Tuesday
- Oct 30
- 3 min read
Firstly , The 2025 Black British Theatre Awards Winners Announced. The Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) lit up London’s Piccadilly Theatre last night in a dazzling celebration of Black excellence, artistry, and legacy. The UK’s biggest night in Black theatre returned with standing ovations, emotional speeches, and unforgettable performances, marking the seventh annual ceremony in spectacular fashion. Scroll down and........... RECOGNITION GROUP (BODY OF WORK) AWARDS
Best Sound and/or Lighting Design — Eamonn O’Dwyer Theatre Design — Georgie Lynch (Sponsored by Disney Theatrical Group)Book and Lyrics — Trish Cooke (Sponsored by Theatrical Rights Worldwide UK)Best Playwright — Anne Odeke (Sponsored by Brixton House in Association with The Writers Group)Best Casting Director — Heather Basten (Sponsored by Spotlight). How lucky are we!
We started the evening singing through the Christmas songs to familiarise ourselves with them as our audience will be joining in.
Look as if you are happy and excited that Christmas is coming as this reflects in your voice and demeanor and everyone will have a jolly time.
Let it Snow, Winter Wonderland and It’s a Most Wonderful Time of the Year are songs we have previously sung. However, to keep it simple we are just singing them as written unless we are told otherwise at a later date!
Wow! this brought back a few memories.
Wish it could be Christmas Every Day, we all basically sing the melody, and with a small harmony on the chorus/coda, and the Tenors and Basses ‘ding donging’
After ‘… let the bells ring out for Christmas’ for the first time, we go back to sing verse 2.
After the second chorus, there is a long piano instrumental before we turn back and sing verse 3.
After the last chorus, we go on to sing ‘Why don’t you give your love for Christmas’
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day is a Christmas song recorded by English glam rock band Wizzard. It was first released in December 1973 and, as with most Wizzard songs, was written and produced by the band's frontman Roy Wood, formerly of The Move and a founding member of Electric Light Orchestra. Despite the song's strong, long-lasting popularity, it has reached no higher than number four on the UK singles chart, a position it occupied for four consecutive weeks from December 1973 to January 1974. The song was beaten to the 1973 Christmas Number 1 spot by Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody, which remained at the top of the charts for five weeks, from December 1973 to January 1974. The video shows the band dressed up in a winter-themed studio and then joined by a group of children who play instruments and join in with the singing.
Having a successful sing-through of these songs (only a little work needs to be done on the harmonies), this really gave us a boost, and we were set for going through our performance songs after a well-earned break.
Fairytale of New York was finished with the humming section and the ending. Crescendo into …’children sing’ and ‘Christmas Day’ at the end. We then sang it through from start to finish and it is in pretty good shape.
The Circle Game verses are as follows:
Verse 1 – Sops
Verse 2 – Sops and Altos
Verse 3 – Tenors and Basses
Verse 4 – Basses
Everyone sings the chorus.
Downtown – try to keep your eyes up as much as possible.
Verse 3 is very quiet to start and build it up to ….’and you can find…’
Altos – you know this, be bold and sing out and be heard!
This is in a good place, and all the hard work has paid off.
Keep up with your homework and practice the parts you know you have trouble with.
If we all do our part, together we will be amazing.
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