YAOS all set for Me and My Girl

“THE Sun Has Got His Hat On and He’s Coming Out To Play” . . . wouldn’t we all love the sound of that?

You can capture the joy and toe-tapping fun of Me and My Girl with Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society’s latest show at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil on March 12-23.

You can join in with The Lambeth Walk and Leaning on a Lamp Post as the cockneys try to make their way among the Earls & Duchesses of Hareford Hall in this 1937 musical comedy by Noel Gay, which has been souped up with gags and one-liners by Stephen Fry.

YAOS are excited to welcome back Shaun Driver, right, in the lead role of Bill Snibson – a brilliant all-rounder, he sings, dances, acts and squeezes every ounce of comedy from the character.

Shaun was drafted on to the stage by Thelma Parish in his early teens to show off his gymnastic and break-dancing skills, and then did his first show with YAOS as an acrobatic waiter in Hello Dolly.

Since then he has performed up and down the country both as an amateur and professional in musicals and plays, most notably in Cameron Mackintosh’s UK tour of Moby Dick in the 1990s.

Shaun’s last role with the society was Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar back in 2003.

Since then he has pursued many demanding roles in “legitimate theatre” at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil, where audiences will have seen him in A Man For All Seasons, Tess of The D’Urbervilles and many others.

Tickets for Me & My Girl are on sale at the Octagon box office on 01935-422884 or online from their website.

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