Calendar Girls - the Big Bake-off

The casts of Calendar Girls from Progress and Woodley theatres held a WI style bake-off on Sunday. There was a huge range of cakes and visitors were asked to vote for the lightest, moistest, most tasty, best iced, most unusual and best overall. In order to be strictly fair to all the entrants it was important to sample all the offerings! Of course there was plenty of tea to wash down all that cake.

This is just half of the cakes.

In the midst of the cake eating there was also a mini badminton tournament where the actors playing the same characters were pitched against each other. I'm afraid I have to report that Woodley Theatre won by 4 games to 3.




John Goodman and Jim McGuigan who play Rod in Progress and Woodley Productions

 

The stars stayed in character for the event including two very grand Lady Cavendishes giving out the prizes. As well as being great fun and promoting the two productions the aim of the afternoon was fundraising and a total of £210 was raised for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research

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Coming up -

Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, 13th - 22nd September 2012, Progress Theatre
(Woodley Theatre's production runs 24th - 29th September)

Auditions for 7th WriteFest, Sunday 16^th September at 2.30pm, Progress Theatre

Auditions for Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett Thursday 27^th September at 7.30pm and Sunday 30^th September at 6pm, Progress Theatre

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard 15th - 20th October 2012, Progress Theatre

7th Annual Write Fest 14 - 17 November 2012, Progress Theatre

Details of all our productions and auditions can be found on our website.