We love performing at the Beck and want to make each show we do here a really BIG one in terms of quality of music, production, costume enjoyment the audience. Each show is a massive undertaking logistically and financially, so we'd like to thank you very much for your support today and hope you look kindly on our fund-raising efforts (principally through the prize draw being run in the foyer all week, 1st prize being  return flights for 2 to one of several European destinations).

        It really is important for the local arts to be allowed to survive in this very commercial world and our fund-raising efforts during the year which many of you supported (many thanks) including sponsored Sing in February have raised much needed cash not only for ourselves but also for two needy charities with close links to the society, "Great Ormand Street Children's Hospital" and "Myotonic Dystrophy". They received over £1000 each from our efforts. A warm thank you as well to Safeway for their sponsorship of this production.

        So sit back and enjoy your visit to the Iowa State Fair.......... Step right up, get your tickets here for the exotic dancer's show and watch out for the stilt walker!
                                                                                       Tracey Callow - Chairman

        It is 1946 and the Frake family prepares for the first State Fair since the war. Abel, a renowned farmer, is entering Blue Boy, his Hampshire boar, in the Grand Sweepstakes. Melissa is adding the final ingredients to her pickles and mincemeat, which are once again up against those of Mrs Edwin Metcalf, who has won at the last five Fairs. Their son, Wayne still holds a grudge after the last Fair, where he felt cheated by the Hoop-la Barker, and wants to make sure he gets the upper hand this year, while his sister, Margy, is sure that life has more to offer than her relationship with Harry. When Abel takes delivery of a final batch of feed for Blue Boy, a wager is struck between himself and the feed merchant, Dave Miller. Miller firmly believes in the laws of compensation, in that for every good, there is a bad and therefore everything cannot possibly go well for the Frakes.