Variety the spice of life

The Autumn Centre will host to the Tivoli Variety Concert on May 19 at 2.30pm and it promises to be a colourful, creative and cheerful display.

Picture: The Tivoli Group clown around in preparation for the Tivoli Variety Concert.

The concert will feature acts by the Tivoli Theatre Group, and Eileen Frith, who is lending her significant theatrical expertise to the concert, said the show will offer something for everyone.

‘‘It’s a variety show which means, of course, it has many acts,’’ she said.

‘‘It started many years ago in an Italian village but it began in Australia in 1938, when the prisoners in Sydney put on a concert for the governor of NSW in honour of King George’s birthday. It is all over the world in different forms.

‘‘But for this particular concert, we’re doing an opening number dressing up in evening gowns and dinner suits.

‘‘There’s an ensemble group, an acrobatic dance from the Beverley Margaret School of Dance, a young lady doing a neo-classical dance and she, I believe, is the girl who got the highest ballet mark in the whole of Australia.

‘‘We’ve also got ‘Neil Diamond’ coming to perform.’’

Frith said the show would be a fun afternoon for people who might usually have to miss out on entertainment.

‘‘Because we’re at the Autumn Centre it’s somewhere for people who don’t drive or can’t drive at night to come and have a good afternoon,’’ she said.

‘‘We’re selling raffle tickets at the door with some wonderful prizes but you get a free raffle ticket with the purchase of your ticket, so hopefully we’ll get lots of people through the doors.’’

A free glass of wine or juice will be served on arrival and tea, coffee and cake will also be complimentary.

Tickets cost $8 for adults, $3 for children.

The Autumn Centre is at 277 McNicholl Street in Rockingham and raffle tickets go on sale from Monday, May 14.