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Queensland's Gold Coast arts scene boasts a community theatre group which celebrates its 65th Anniversary in 2020, has been going strong since 1955 and shows no signs of slowing down. The Spotlight Theatrical Company started life as the South Coast Revue Company, under the guidance of one Joyce Forbes, who wrote and directed the shows, originally staged at the old Diggers Hall in Scarborough Street, Southport - no-one on the Coast was doing musicals in those early days. Music was supplied by Isobel Williams, who continued with the company and played in about 85 of their shows until her 80th birthday.
In the early days all profits from the shows were donated to local charities; performers purchased their own costumes (and forget mikes and footlights!) and rehearsals seem to have been very interesting affairs, with the cast meeting at an agreed point to find out where rehearsals would be that night. There was a party after every rehearsal, and the shows were well received by an entertainment-starved local audience. The very first show was High Jinks, and the company continued to stage musical revues until TV arrived, when they began to present musical theatre book shows.
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