The double use of the new Primary as a Sunday school and as a stage for our yearly operas has been a wonderful dream, a dream worth working for. The Tabernacle, or the "Tab," as we are affectionately called, has always been traditionally musical. Always having a good choir, in the old days a band, and now the Operatic Society. Before the war there were many operettas produced, but mainly with the Sunday school children. Then after the war years, in 1947, a society was formed, going from strength to strength, producing 17 major productions. What happy times; the world of operetta is a dream world, a world in which romance, adventure, handsome heroes and unsullied heroines are the rule. In which the involved stories were often only an elaborate excuse for joyous, rumbustious, superbly tuneful music, redolent of old Heidelberg, the desert, or Vienna, as the case may be. Yes, we have taken our audiences to these places on hard seats. "Oh, those seats! We shall not come again," they said, "till you get better ones." But they did, bringing more friends with them, so much so that we had to run for two weeks.

Our aim has always been to give a good, clean and enjoyable show. We believe that God gives men and women musical and artistic gifts to use to bring light and joy into the lives of others. Joy is one of the distinguishing notes of the Christian religion. Jesus came that we might have joy. He loved to hear the laughter of little children, and to share the happy fellowship of men and women.

We have a wonderful fellowship in the Operatic Society and a team spirit second to none; a willing band of workers who, after spending many amusing evenings during the winter painting the Chapel, and of late the School rooms, would tackle anything.