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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 7<br />
News<br />
Drama group to premiere<br />
romantic Aussie musical<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
THE HALSWELL Drama Group<br />
will be the first in the country to<br />
premiere an Australian musical<br />
written by the brother of a<br />
Wiggle.<br />
It will be taking the stage with<br />
Who Loves Me? in August.<br />
The musical is written by<br />
Australian singer and songwriter<br />
John Field.<br />
Halswell Drama Group vicepresident<br />
Tim Gunther said<br />
they’re “really excited” to perform<br />
the musical.<br />
He said Mr Field’s brother,<br />
Anthony Field, co-founded The<br />
Wiggles.<br />
Mr Field helped his brother<br />
write some of the music for the<br />
popular children’s show.<br />
Mr Gunther said the Field family<br />
are well known in Australia as<br />
successful musicians, writers and<br />
actors.<br />
Who Loves Me? follows the<br />
story of Enzo Bellini, proprietor of<br />
Bellini’s Cafe, whose one last wish<br />
is to see his heartbroken daughter<br />
Sophia Bellini happy again.<br />
Sophia finds herself on a giant<br />
billboard across from the cafe put<br />
up by her father, proclaiming her<br />
“the jewel of the city” and inviting<br />
interested suitors to call into<br />
Bellini’s Cafe.<br />
Not long after, a second new<br />
billboard appears with a mysterious<br />
inscription – but who was<br />
responsible for it?<br />
Mr Gunther said they’re planning<br />
on doing six shows, with the<br />
opening night being on August 17.<br />
He said there’s additional pressure<br />
for the cast, with Mr Field<br />
planning to travel across the Tasman<br />
for the opening night.<br />
Mr Gunther said cast auditions<br />
will be in March and he would<br />
like to “encourage people to put<br />
themselves out there.”<br />
•For auditioning information,<br />
email Halswelldramagroup@<br />
outlook.com.<br />
ENTERTAINMENT: Who Loves Me? author John Field is not the<br />
only musical member in his family – his brother Anthony (left) is<br />
the co-founder of the popular children’s show The Wiggles.<br />
SUCCESSFUL:<br />
The man<br />
behind Who<br />
Loves Me?<br />
John Field<br />
with Origin<br />
Theatrical<br />
managing<br />
director Kim<br />
Ransley. <br />
• By Sarla Donovan<br />
VANDALS HAVE damaged<br />
a new $20,000 plastic roof at<br />
the Bromley School swimming<br />
pool.<br />
They cut a hole big<br />
enough for a person<br />
to climb through last<br />
Saturday.<br />
Contractor Darren<br />
King had recently finished<br />
putting on the new<br />
roof.<br />
“It’s never going to<br />
look nice for another<br />
eight years (when it will be<br />
replaced),“ Mr King said.<br />
“It’s like cutting a hole in a<br />
tent – you can patch it but it will<br />
never look the same.”<br />
The roof is made from greenhouse<br />
plastic and shade-cloth<br />
and measures 16m x 30m.<br />
“We’d have to strip it all back<br />
and replace the lot,” Mr King<br />
said.<br />
Principal Scot Kinley said it<br />
was “very disappointing” for<br />
the pupils.<br />
As well as the damaged roof,<br />
the vandals attacked the pool<br />
enclosure.<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Vandals damage<br />
$20,000 pool cover<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
CHRISTMAS arrived early in<br />
Hoon Hay.<br />
The Hoon Hay Community<br />
Assocation hosted a Christmas<br />
party for residents on Friday.<br />
Families took along<br />
their own picnic dinner and<br />
joined in with Christmas<br />
carols.<br />
Music was provided by Brian<br />
Roper who sang and played<br />
guitar, while carols were led by<br />
Daniel Caigou.<br />
Brianna Sauer and Naomi<br />
Thomson, both 8, sang Feliz<br />
Navidad in English and<br />
Maori to open the carol<br />
singing.<br />
The association, which began<br />
Scot Kinley<br />
They broke the toilet cisterns,<br />
poured liquid soap from the<br />
dispensers into the pool and<br />
threw in chairs and other items.<br />
The pool had to be<br />
completely drained<br />
and cleaned and fresh<br />
chemicals were added,<br />
which Mr Kinley said<br />
was very frustrating<br />
given the city has been<br />
close to imposing water<br />
restrictions.<br />
Mr King went to the<br />
school to repair the<br />
damage on Thursday.<br />
He said it would cost between<br />
$400 to $500 to fix, but his<br />
company Tunnel House Tech<br />
would do the work free of<br />
charge.<br />
“It’s about the kids in that<br />
school . . . those kids wouldn’t<br />
have any other means of<br />
learning to swim.”<br />
Roll growth has prompted<br />
the Ministry of Education<br />
to implement a zone around<br />
Bromley and several other<br />
schools in the city’s east this<br />
year.<br />
Xmas at Hoon Hay<br />
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