About GMS
GMS - Gosford Musical Society - has a membership of over 600.
Our Society performs 3-4 "senior shows" and 2 junior shows every year at our home base
at The Laycock Street Bicentennial Community Theatre in Wyoming (Gosford).
The theatre which seats 400 patrons was largely built due to the efforts of GMS in
the early to mid 1980s.
Each member was not only given 20 tickets to sell each show
("remember that the profits go into building our theatre" ), but many fund raising activities
were held by the Society to donate to the new theatre, which was opened with much
fanfare in 1988 as a joint community / bicentennial project.
The Society is managed by a 10 person Management Committee, which includes a President,
2 Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, 4 Committee members and our Patron
(Mr Kevin Booth).
Gosford Musical Society has a very long and consistent history with the people of Gosford and the greater Central Coast.
Our Society was established in 1947 by a band of intrepid founders who firmly believed Gosford with a population of 18,000 needed a musical and dramatic society.
The basic aims of the Gosford Musical & Dramatic Society were:
- provide an outlet for budding actors, musicians and dancers
- to bring forth various forms of the thespian arts to the people of the Central Coast
- to build our own "theatrical bowl"
- GMS, as we became in 1972, has a policy to produce 3 - 4 adult shows and at least 2 shows that showcase our fabulous Juniors.
GMS has performed at 4 "home venues" since 1948:
Valencia Theatre 1948 - 1960
Dwyer Pavilion 1965 - 1975
Gosford High School Hall 1976 - 1988
Laycock Street Bicentennial Community Theatre 1988 -
