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DECEMBER

SANTA SPECIALS

Good golly Miss Mollie!
Trains run from
Pupils invited to 80th birthday party for Tanwood trouper 11am to 4pm on

Generations of children have learned carved in it. They were married the Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd
to dance under the careful eye of next year and ‘Mr John’ became a Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th
Mollie Tanner and all are invited to the regular in dance classes providing Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th
grand Tanwood reunion to celebrate piano accompaniment.
her 80th birthday at The Apartment Although she loved to dance, Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd
on Sunday 23 December. Mollie didn’t feel drawn to a stage Also 6pm to 8pm on
“Thousands of pupils have come career. “My heart was always in Saturday 8th
under Mollie’s spell over the years helping young people do the very
she has been teaching and thou- best they could and achieve as Blunsdon
sands more families have enjoyed much as possible,” she said. “I’ve Station
the shows,” said daughter Pollyann. always made it clear to my students Tadpole Lane
The party will take place at the that success does not come eas- Tel: 771615
end of a month of celebrations for ily: you really have to work at your Trains: 11am-4pm
Tanwood. In November, the school ambitions.” Cafe, shop and
returned to the Wyvern stage with For tickets to the big reunion, call free parking
their show Dancing Through Life Pollyann Tanner on 772729 or mail: Licenced to carry out weddings
and on 16 December, Tanwood’s GWR offi ces during the day. [email protected] and naming ceremonies
patron, Bonnie Langford, hosts One day she was picked up from •The Empire comes back - see www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
a special show at Her Majesty’s home in a military lorry to take her page 25
Theatre, London. troupe to a show. The young man
Mollie, who still teaches at Tan- who hauled her into the back was
wood and also privately, started to become her husband John. The Raymond Gubbay presents www.raymondgubbay.co.uk
performing aged 16 in 1944. She next day, Mollie learned that the 21 THE RUSSIAN STATE BALLET OF SIBERIA
joined an entertainment group which year old piano player worked on the
visited injured soldiers at hospitals in fl oor above her at the GWR when he Tchaikovsky’s ballet masterpieces
and around the town, working in the brought her a ruler with her name
SWAN LAKE
Cinders dancers get r
Cinders dancers get ready for the big showeady for the big showeady for the big show MONDAY 21 JANUARY AT 7.30PM
Cinders dancers get r
The panto is back at the Wyvern, the fi rst for two years and the cream
of Swindon’s young performers from dance schools across the town are THE
rehearsing for Cinderella, starring Brit Eckland. NUTCRACKER
Many were disappointed when last year’s show was cancelled and
are looking forward to taking part. Talented Hannah Farrow, who recent- TUES 22 JANUARY AT 7.30PM &
ly turned eighteen, has appeared in two previous Wyvern pantomimes WED 23 JANUARY AT 2.30PM & 7.30PM
and this year has been specially selected to understudy for the parts of
Cinderella and The Fairy Godmother. What the critics say:
Cinderella will run from 7 December to 6 January. Call the Wyvern
box offi ce on 524481 for tickets. “this production is a triumph”
www.wyverntheatre.org.uk

“great fun and appealing
for children”

Box Office 01793 524 481
Book online www.wyverntheatre.org.uk

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