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Star cast confirmed for Kay Mellor’s Band of Gold when it plays The Lowry

Band of Gold – the premiere stage adaptation of Kay Mellor’s multi award-winning ITV series, that was one of the most watched shows in television history – today announces that Laurie Brett, Gaynor Faye, Kieron Richardson,Shayne Ward and Sacha Parkinson, will star in the production when it plays The Lowry’s Lyric Theatre in January 2020 (Tue 21 – Sat 25 January).

Band of Gold was the ground-breaking crime drama that captivated over 15 million viewers each week when it aired on ITV. This nail-biting, murderous thriller features a star-studded cast including Gaynor Faye, (Emmerdale, Playing the Field, Calender Girls), Laurie Brett, (EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Les Miserables), Kieron Richardson, (Hollyoaks, Heatbeat), Shayne Ward, (Coronation Street, Rock Of Ages, X Factor winner) and Sacha Parkinson (Mr Selfridge, The Mill).

Following the unprecedented sell-out success of Fat Friends The Musical, producer Josh Andrews and Kay Mellor have teamed up again for Band of Gold, to be directed by Mellor. The nail-biting thriller tells the story of a group of women – Carol, Rose, Anita and Gina – as they battle to survive whilst working in a notorious red-light district. When one of their colleagues is murdered, they need to find the killer before they strike again

First aired on ITV in March 1995, Band of Gold starred (amongst others) Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton. The groundbreaking crime drama captivated the nation, with bookmakers taking bets on the identity of the killer before the final episode!

Listings Information
Band of Gold
Tuesday 21- Saturday 25 January 2020
Tickets From £17.50
Box Office: 0343 208 6000
Website

AYLESBURY WATERSIDE THEATRE CELEBRATES 9TH BIRTHDAY WITH INTERGENERATIONAL TEA PARTY

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre celebrated their 9th Birthday on Thu 10 Oct with their first intergenerational tea party in partnership with Aylesbury Town Council.

The Birthday Party is the second event that has been hosted this year at the theatre as part of their dementia-friendly commitment to the community.

Residents from local residential homes came along with younger partygoers from local playgroups. Life can be lonely for those living with dementia and their carers, so this event aimed to provide some well-deserved light relief and companionship. The different generations engaged and enjoyed light entertainment – complete with the obligatory balloons, cake and game of pass the parcel!

Wendy’s Sing and Play group provided the entertainment with sing-a-long songs, music and hand puppets, MidCounties Co-Op donated party food and volunteers from the Holy Trinity Café make a special cake for the venue.

Nikkie West, Event Manager at the Waterside said: ‘It has been a real pleasure to be part of the team who planned today’s special event. On behalf of the theatre, we couldn’t have wished for a better way to spend our 9th birthday. We look forward welcoming our new friends back very soon.’

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre continues to deliver bi-monthly dementia friendly screenings where lights are left on low, there are no adverts and audience members are welcome to move around freely and enjoy complimentary tea and coffee before the screening and during the interval. The next dementia friendly screening is festive favourite, Miracle on 34th Street on 24 Nov at 2pm.

MAZZ MURRAY AND

JÉRÔME PRADON

COMPLETE THE CAST OF

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S

CINDERELLA IN CONCERT AT CADOGAN HALL

Take Two Theatricals and Club 11 London are delighted to announce Mazz Murray as Madame and Jérôme Pradon as Sebastian in the UK premiere of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA in concert at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 20 October 2019.

They join the previously announced Christine Allado (Prince of Egypt, Hamilton and In The Heights)who will star as Ella with Jodie Jacobs (Unexpected Joy, Bananaman and Lizzie)as Charlotte, Dean John-Wilson (Cruel Intentions, The King & I and Aladdin) as Jean-Michel, Cedric Neal (Back To The Future, The View UpStairs and Motown The Musical) asLord Pinkleton, Dianne Pilkington (Only Fools and Horses, Young Frankenstein and Wicked) as Marie, Zoë Rainey (Kiss Me Kate, An American in Paris and MAMMA MIA!) as Gabrielleand Jac Yarrow (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Winner of the 2019 Stage Debut Award) asPrince Topher.

Joining them from the LMTO chorus are Christopher Cameron, Charlotte Clitherow, Abigail Earnshaw, Benjamin Froehlich, Charlotte Kennedy, Richard James-King, Jade Marvin, Matt McDonald, Chris McGuigan, Mia Michaud, Sam Oladeinde, Michael Robert-Lowe, Justine Saville, Katie Shearman, Joe Thompson-Oubari and Lizzie Wofford.

Mazz Murray is currently starring as Donna Sheridan in MAMMA MIA! at the Novello Theatre in the West End. Her previous theatre credits include nine years as Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Mama Morton in Chicago (Phoenix Theatre), Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre), Mabel in Fame (Victoria Palace), Grandma Bertha in Pippin (Bridewell Theatre) and Dusty Springfield in A Girl Called Dusty (Duke of York’s Theatre).  On television, she has appeared in EastEnders and Footballers’ Wives, and on film in John Boorman’s Hope & Glory and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.  She has toured with Earth Wind & Fire and Billy Ocean as part of the band Woman the Band, and with Il Divo as a solo artist.  Her debut solo album, Midnight Mazz, was released in 2018.

Jérôme Pradon has had a huge amount of success as an actor both in the UK and his native country, France. His UK theatre credits include Chris in the original production of Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Leon Czolgosz in Assassins (Derby Playhouse), Guillaume in the original production of Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre),  Aragorn in Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane),the Man in Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre) and Javert in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre). Jerome received an Olivier Award Nomination for his roles in Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse). Most recently, he appeared as Ivan in Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre), Louis Braille in Braille (Charing Cross Theatre) and George in Aspects of Love (Hope Mill Theatre/Southwark Playhouse).

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA is the Tony Award-winning musical from the creators of South Pacific and The Sound of Music that has delighted American audiences with its contemporary take on the classic fairy tale. The semi-staged concert, directed by Johnathan O’Boyle (The View Upstairs, Hair, Aspects of Love, Pippin), will feature some of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It’s Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” alongside a hilarious and romantic new book by Tony Award-nominee Douglas Carter Beane, as well as some new characters and surprising twists.

Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella was twice remade, first in 1965 for Lesley Ann Warren and then again in 1997 featuring Brandy and Whitney Houston. The original Broadway production opened in 2013.

CINDERELLA will have musical direction will be by Freddie Tapner with a 21-piece orchestra featuring the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO), dramaturgy by Victoria Saxton and projection design by George Reeve.

CINDERELLA is produced by Brian Zeilinger & Jack Maple for Take Two Theatricals and Darren Bell for Club 11 London and is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of R&H Theatricals

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s

CINDERELLA

Sunday 20 October, 6.30pm

Cadogan Hall

5 Sloane Terrace

London

SW1X 9DQ

Box Office: 020 7730 4500

Ticket Prices: From £32.50

www.club11.london/cinderella

www.cadoganhall.com

Yamin Choudury, Nadia Fall and Michelle Terry announced as Ambassadors for TheatreCraft 2019

The Ambassadors for TheatreCraft 2019 have been announced as Yamin Choudury (Artistic Director of Hackney Empire), Nadia Fall (Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Michelle Terry (actor and Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe).

The three industry leaders will participate in a special panel discussion to conclude this year’s TheatreCraft – the UK’s largest free careers event for young people interested in offstage theatre roles – which takes place at the Royal Opera House and surrounding venues on Monday 11 November. TheatreCraft aims to inspire and support a new generation of offstage theatre talent, ensuring the industry and its workforce remain world-leading. 

Yamin Choudury, Nadia Fall and Michelle Terry said:

‘For the continued success of the theatre sector, it is vital that we open our doors and show young people the incredible range of jobs that keep our industry thriving, especially offstage. TheatreCraft brings experts from all corners of the industry together to do just this – and all for free. We are excited to be part of this year’s event, helping young talent onto the first steps of the career ladder and encouraging theatre’s future leaders.’

Totally free and open to 16 to 30-year-olds, TheatreCraft offers a unique glimpse into a wide range of non-performance careers from directing, stage management and producing to marketing, lighting and costume design. Attendees can take part in dynamic workshops with leading industry professionals, explore a Marketplace of exhibiting arts organisations and education providers, discover current job opportunities, network with peers and employers and get expert careers advice.

Last year nearly 1000 young theatre enthusiasts attended, over 100 theatre professionals led workshops, talks and Q&A sessions, and 60 of the country’s top theatre companies, arts organisations and education providers exhibited in the careers Marketplace.

Whether students taking their first steps into a future career or young professionals looking for a job change, 16 to 30-year-olds are encouraged to book their free place via the TheatreCraft website.

Details of the event programme will be announced nearer the time.

www.theatrecraft.org | @TheatreCraft | #TheatreCraft19

ARTS COUNCIL TO SUPPORT ADAPTATION OF POPULAR CBEEBIES TV SHOW PABLO

Selladoor Creation (part of Selladoor Worldwide) in association with Paper Owls Production with the support of The Arts Council will produce a stage adaptation of popular CBeebies show Pablo to be developed at the Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe in preparation for a 2020 UK tour.

The Selladoor venue in North Devon is earmarked to become a centre of excellence and development hub for new work for Selladoor Creation with Pablo the show marking their first project.

Dean Stewart Theatre Director at The Landmark says “We are delighted that the Landmark Theatre and Selladoor Creation has been awarded Arts Council Funding to bring this wonderful CBeebies show to life on our stage. Ilfracombe is quite simply the perfect quirky, creative location to launch this tour and be the starting point of Pablo’s exciting journey beyond North Devon with Selladoor.”

Selladoor Creation are committed to the development of new work. Building on an already extensive portfolio of commissions and adaptations, their aim is to commission a wide variety of bold new works which include musicals, adaptations of novels, and exciting new takes on classic stories.

Anna Fox – Head of New Work for Selladoor Creation says “This is such an exciting and important project. Pablo brought a whole new voice to the Autism conversation when it first came to our TV screens in 2017  and we want to continue that conversation into the world of theatre.  Through this experience youngsters can learn about how others might think differently to them and what the world is like for those with autism and also have a whole lot of fun!”

Pablo follows the fantastic adventures of 5 year old boy who is on the autism spectrum. The smart, funny and creative boy draws imaginary animal friends which come to life to help him handle situations which make him feel anxious, such as going for a haircut or to the supermarket. To cope with the challenges he faces, Pablo enters into an animated art world, the world of his imagination where he is able to explore things that confuse him. With the help of his animal friends, Pablo is free to work through things and figure them out, having lots of fun along the way.

Magic crayons, animated friends and a wonderful imagination… these are the tools that five and a half year-old Pablo uses to turn life’s little challenges into big adventures. The stage adaptation of Pablo will take all of these ingredients to bring Pablo’s colourful and magical world to life on stage; translating the cartoon in a fresh and unique way – Much like the TV show, cast and the creative team will include individuals who are on the Autistic spectrum.

The announcement marks exciting times for Pablo following this weeks first episode of the brand new series on Cbeebies with a host of new fun-filled new episodes and a whole series of adventures to look forward to.  With the recent announcement of a four-book publishing deal from Penguin and a music album in development alongside the theatre project, the Pablo brand is fast becoming a fully fledged franchise – making bigger strides in its mission to make autism more widely understood and accepted.

To find out more about Pablo the Show and for more information on Selladoor Creation visit www.selladoor.com for information on the Landmark Theatre Ilfracombe visit

Hull New Theatre Hull – until 12 October 2019

Reviewed by Dawn Bennett

5*****

Having read the book and seen the film I was very much looking forward to seeing the stage production. Everything from the very clever set (designed by Jacqueline Trousdale) which was moved around by the cast and transformed into multiple things (Joes house, Raj’s shop and Ruffington School to name a few) to the fabulous singing made it a very good night out.

The story is about Billionaire boy Joe (Matthew Gordon) who’s dad (Jason Furnival) invented Bum Fresh toilet roll and made him into a billionaire. All the money in the world should have made Joe are very happy boy but Joe just wanted to be normal and asked his dad to move him to the local comprehensive from his private school. Joe wanted a friend who didn’t want to be his friend just because he had money. He met Bob (Davy Bell) and they bonded over their love of chocolate and their dislike of cross country running and bullies! The story moved along quickly from Raj’s (Aosaf Afzal) shop to their school, to Joes house, to the school canteen with Mrs. Trafe (Emma Matthews) and her strange school lunch concoctions!

The truth soon gets out as to who Joe is and the arrival of his Dad’s girlfriend Sapphire (Rosie Coles) and new boy Jayden (Bernard Mensah) makes life a bit more difficult for him.

The adaptation (by Neal Foster) is very well done, it kept the story moving and the songs (Jack Poore/Neal Foster) and dances (Paul Chantry/Rae Piper) kept the young audience’s attention.

A number of the cast (including the ensemble Mared Lewis and Joe Sangha) played differnt characters, swapping and changing clothes, ages and in some cases hair!

David Walliams books transfer well to stage and with this talented cast it made it a very watchable and enjoyable couple of hours.

KING’S HEAD THEATRE’S

REVIVAL OF KEVIN ELYOT’S

COMING CLEAN

RETURNS TO PLAY TRAFALGAR STUDIOS 2

FROM 8 JANUARY TO 1 FEBRUARY 2020

Following a critically-acclaimed sell-out run, the King’s Head Theatre, Making Productions and RGM Productions are delighted to announce the smash-hit play, Coming Clean by Kevin Elyot will return to Trafalgar Studios 2. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre, will direct the production, which will run for a strictly limited four week season from 8 January to 1 February 2020.

In 2017, Adam Spreadbury-Maher directed the 35th anniversary production and the first London revival of Coming Clean, Kevin Elyot’s first play, which transferred to Trafalgar Studios 2 earlier this year.  The play premiered at the Bush Theatre on 3 November 1982. Coming Clean looks at the breakdown of a gay couple’s relationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love.

The play is set in a flat in Kentish Town, north London, in 1982.  Struggling writer Tony and his partner of five years, Greg, seem to have the perfect relationship.  Committed and in love, they are both open to one-night stands as long as they don’t impinge on the relationship.  But Tony is starting to yearn for something deeper, something more like monogamy.  When he finds out that Greg has been having a full-blown affair with their cleaner, Robert, their differing attitudes towards love and commitment become clear.

In his foreword to Kevin Elyot: Four Plays (Nick Hern Books, 2004), Elyot writes, “From 1976 to 1984 I’d acted in several productions at the Bush Theatre, and Simon Stokes, one of the artistic directors, had casually suggested I try my hand at a play.  I presented them with a script entitled Cosy, which was passed on to their literary manager Sebastian Born.  He responded favourably and, largely through his support, it finally opened on 3 November 1982 under the [new] title Coming Clean.”

Written 12 years before his most famous play, My Night With Reg, Coming Clean won Elyot the Samuel Beckett Award for writers showing particular promise in the field of the performing arts.

Theatre critic Michael Coveney wrote of Elyot in his obituary for The Guardian in 2014, “In writing about the human heart and the art of living… Elyot transcended categorisation and produced a small body of stage plays that will reward revival, and not just as period pieces.”  Coveney goes on to describe Coming Clean as “an elegiac play about sexual relationships at a time when Aids was still a barely credible rumour in Britain, but there was a sense of foreboding in the final scene.”

Coming Clean is directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher with set designed by Amanda Mascarenhas, and lighting by Nic Farman.

This production is being produced in the West End by King’s Head Theatre, Making Productions and RGM Productions in association with DeVere Productions.

LISTINGS INFORMATION

8 January – 1 February 2020

Trafalgar Studios 2

14 Whitehall

London

SW1A 2DY

Performances: Monday-Saturday 7.45pm*, Thursday & Saturday 3pm (*7pm on Friday 10 January)

Previews: All £20

Monday – Thursday (& Saturday Matinees): £25 – £30

Friday & Saturday Evenings: £30 – £40

Box Office: 0844 871 7632

Website: www.atgtickets.com/shows/coming-clean/trafalgar-studios

Twitter: @KingsHeadThtr

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kingsheadtheatre

Instagram: @kingsheadtheatre

Ambassadors, London – until 4 January 2020

Reviewed by Serena Norgren

4****

Perhaps it was the above warning; or the theatre bedecked in construction lights, crime scene tape and nightmarish numbers graffiti-ed everywhere or the low level pulsating noises (can’t really call it music) but there was a palpable buzz in the theatre and a genuine nervous anticipation before curtain up.

Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s cult phenomenon, Ghost Stories, is reprised in the West End after a successful run at the Lyric, Hammersmith. It has been described as the ultimate twisted love-letter to horror. In it, we meet Professor Phillip Goodman, played brilliantly by Simon Lipkin. He is a Professor of Parapsychology delivering a lecture on ghost stories. He has spent much of his career debunking paranormal cases, explaining the apparently inexplicable and recounts three tales that have particularly perturbed him. Lipkin does a first class job – he is engaging, enthusiastic, slightly shambolic but articulate and believable.

Through these tales we are taken on a journey that is macabre, occasionally weird, occasionally funny, tense and often terrifying. The four cast members are all brilliant, the set is extremely clever with lots of surprises and technical wizardry and the writing excellent. Jon Bausor’s design does a great job of dialling up the tension enhanced by James Farncombe’s atmospheric lighting.

Reviewers have been asked not to give too much away about the story but suffice to say this is more than just a Thorpe Park-esque Halloween thrill ride, this is a well-crafted, genuinely chilling piece of theatre brilliantly done that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and leave you sitting on the edge of your seat. Go see it, if you dare!!!

UK tour from the 7th January 2020

STRICTLY WINNER TOM CHAMBERS

AND NOT GOING OUT STAR SALLY BRETTON

LEAD THE CAST IN 2020 UK TOUR OF THRILLER CLASSIC

DIRECTED BY ANTHONY BANKS

Can you ever get away with the perfect crime?

A brand new production of the classic thriller, Dial M for Murder, tours the UK in 2020 opening at Richmond Theatre on Monday 13^th January 2020. The genre-defining thriller –  based on Frederick Knott’s stage and screen play, made world-famous by Hitchcock’s iconic 1954 film – will be directed by Anthony Banks.

TV and stage favourite, Tom Chambers, (Top Hat, Strictly Come Dancing) stars as the charismatic and manipulative Tony Wendice, a jaded ex-tennis pro who has given it all up for his wife Margot, played by Sally Bretton * (Not Going Out, Death In Paradise, The Office). When he discovers she has been unfaithful his mind turns to revenge and the pursuit of the ‘perfect crime’. Christopher Harper (Coronation Street, Strangers on a Train) performs in the dual roles of Captain Lesgate and Inspector Hubbard and Michael Salami (Hollyoaks) as Max Halliday, Margot’s American lover.

Tom Chambers plays Tony Wendice. Tom’s theatre creditsinclude: Crazy For You (UK tour); Private Lives (UK tour); White Christmas (Dominion); Top Hat (Aldwych); White Christmas (Sunderland Empire); The Rover (Young Vic Studio); Journey’s End (Courtyard Theatre); Bloody Poetry (Brockley Jack Theatre); Pendragon (City Theatre Broadway NYMT and Sadler’s Wells); October’s Children (NYMT and Hammersmith Lyric); Cyrano De Bergerac and Macbeth (Derby Rep Theatre); Damn Yankees (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Innocents (Derby Playhouse) and Stepping Out (Electric GSA).Film includes: Fakers and Great in Britain: the Movie. Television includes: Midsomer Murders, Emmerdale, Casualty, Father Brown, The Great Train Robbery, Waterloo Road and Holby City. Radio includes: Mellow Magic every Saturday 10am-1pm.

Sally Bretton appears as Margot Wendice. Sally’s theatre credits include: An Ideal Husband (Classic Spring Company); King Lear, The Front Line and In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Conversation (Manchester Royal Exchange); All My Sons (Library Theatre, Manchester); Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) and Hay Fever (Oxford Stage Company). Sally was nominated for Best Actress – Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards 2002 for her role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at The Library Theatre, Manchester. Film includes: Outlaw, So Long Charlie Bright and Peaches. Television includes: Not Going Out, Death in Paradise, The Office, Green Wing, Absolute Power, Thanks for the Memories, Casualty, Lewis, How Not to Live Your Life, Hotel Babylon, Vincent, Open Wide, Blessed, Blackbeard, If…we eradicate violent crime, Wild West, Blue Murder, Happy Together, Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible, Beast, Armstrong and Miller and The People’s Harry Enfield.

Christopher Harper performs as Captian Lesgate and Inspector Hubbard. Christopher’stheatre credits include: Strangers on a Train (UK tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s’ Globe); Slipping (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Wind in the Willows, Man of the Moment and Private Fears in Public Places (Royal & Derngate); I Know How I Feel About Eve (Hampstead Downstairs); The Night Before Christmas (Different Breed); The Village Bike (Sheffield Crucible Studio); A Kid Like Jake (Old Vic New Voices); OurCountry’s Good and Journey’s End (Original Theatre Company); Persuasion, After Miss Julie and People at Sea (Salisbury Playhouse); Saturn Returns (Finborough Theatre); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Lie of the Land (Arcola). Television includes: Holby City, Endeavour, Coronation Street, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher,Doctors, Upstairs Downstairs, The Bill, Heartbeat, The Roman Mysteries, Housewife 49,Life on Mars and Rosemary and Thyme. Chris also produced and voiced the award-winning charity animation The Mouse.

Michael Salami is Max Halliday. Michael Salami is a multi-award-winning actor. Born in America and raised in London, Salami discovered his passion for acting in 2007. Salami made his first on stage appearance at Oval Theatre in 2010 and has since then performed at The Old Vic, Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Southwark Playhouse and Theatre503. Salami studied at Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York graduating in 2016 and since then has appeared in Hollyoaks; Catastrophe; The Temple and Magic Hour. His leading role in Just A Couple has landed him a number of nominations and awards such as a Screen Nation Award for Best Actor. Just A Couple is now in full development with Channel 4.

Anthony Banks directs Frederick Knott’s Dial M For Murder, adding another Hitchcock classic to credits that recently include Gaslight and Strangers on a Train. His production of the hit thriller, Girl on a Train, continues to tour the UK. The creative team is completed by David Woodhead, Designer; Lizzie Powell, Lighting Designer; Ben & Max Ringham, Sound Design; Betty Marini, Wigs Supervisor; Siobhan Boyd, Costume Supervisor,  Robin Morgan as Props Supervisor and Alison de Burgh as Fight Director.

Dial M For Murder is produced by Simon Friend and Gavin Kalin. 

DIAL M FOR MURDER 2020 TOUR DATES

   *Sally Bretton performs as Margot Wendice until Sat 11^th April

Richmond Theatre, Richmond                               Box Office: 0844 871 7651          

Mon 13^th – Sat 18^th Jan                                           www.atgtickets.com

Theatre Royal, Norwich                                           Box Office: 01603 630000

Mon 20^th – Sat 25^th Jan                                            www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk

Orchard Theatre, Dartford                                      Box Office: 01322 220000                           

Mon 27^th Jan – Sat 1^st Feb                                        www.orchardtheatre.co.uk

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford                       Box Office: 01483 440000

Mon 3^rd – Sat 8^th Feb                                                 www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk

Theatre Royal, Bath                                                  Box Office: 01225 448844

Mon 10^th – Sat 15^th Feb                                            www.theatreroyal.org.uk                           

His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen                           Box Office: 01224 641122

Mon 17^th – Sat 22^nd Feb                                           www.aberdeenperformingarts.com

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh                                        Box Office: 0131 5296000

Mon 24^th – Sat 29^th Feb                                            www.capitaltheatres.com

Theatre Royal, Glasgow                                           Box Office: 0844 8717647

Mon 2^nd – Sat 7^th Mar                                                www.atgtickets.com

Salisbury Playhouse                                                   Box Office: 01722 320333

Mon 9^th – Sat 14^th Mar                                              www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

Churchill Theatre, Bromley                                     Box Office: 020 32856000

Mon 16^th – Sat 21^st Mar                                            www.churchilltheatre.co.uk

Palace Theatre, Southend                                        Box Office: 01702 351135

Mon 23^rd – Sat 28^th Mar                                           www.southendtheatres.org.uk

Milton Keynes Theatre                                             Box Office: 0844 871 7652

Mon 13^th – Sat 18^th Apr                                            www.atgtickets.com

New Alexandra, Birmingham                                  Box Office: 0844 871 3011

Mon 20^th – Sat 25^th Apr                                             www.atgtickets.com

New Theatre, Cardiff                                                Box Office: 029 2087 8889

Mon 27^th Apr – Sat 2^nd May                                    www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk   

Curve Theatre, Leicester                                          Box Office: 0116 242 3595

Mon 4^th – Sat 9^th May                                               www.curveonline.co.uk

Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield                                       Box Office: 0116 242 3595

Mon 11^th – Sat 16^th May                                          www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool                                 Box Office: 0151 709 4776

Mon 18^th – Sat 23^rd May                                           www.everymanplayhouse.com

Theatr Clwyd, Mold                                                   Box Office: 01352 344 101

Mon 25^th – Sat 30^th May                                           www.theatrclwyd.com

Theatre Royal, Brighton                                           Box Office: 0844 871 3011

Mon 1^st – Sat 6^th June                                               www.atgtickets.com

Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury                                   Box Office: 01743 281 281

Mon 8^th – Sat 13^th June                                            www.theatresevern.co.uk/

The Lowry, Salford                                                    Box Office: 0843 208 6000

Mon 15^th – Sat 20^th June                                          www.thelowry.com

Royal & Derngate, Northampton                           Box Office: 01604 624811

Mon 22^nd – Sat 27^th June                                          www.royalandderngate.co.uk    

Theatre Royal, Plymouth                                          Box Office: 01752 267 222

Mon 29^th June – Sat 4^th July                                    www.theatreroyal.com/

Grand Theatre, Leeds                                               Box Office: 0844 848 2700          

Mon 6^th – Sat 11^th July                                              www.leedsgrandtheatre.com

Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton                            Box Office: 01902 429212

Mon 13^th – Sat 18^th July                                            www.grandtheatre.co.uk/

MAMMA MIA! ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATION TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR OVARIAN CANCER

#DynamosBeAware

MAMMA MIA! is delighted to announce a collaboration with Target Ovarian Cancer to raise much-needed funds to transform the future for women with ovarian cancer. 11 women die every day in the UK from this disease and ovarian cancer faces chronic underfunding compared with other cancers.

MAMMA MIA! was created by three women, is all about female friendship and support, and is embraced and loved by women of all ages all over the world so where better to start raising awareness of ovarian cancer than to make even more women aware of the signs and symptoms.

To kickstart the partnership, the distinguished couture designer Elizabeth Emanuel – of Atelier Elizabeth – has exclusively designed a t-shirt in her own distinctive style featuring an iconic image of a MAMMA MIA! Dynamo in both gold and silver foil etched with Elizabeth’s renowned elegant calligraphy. The Dynamo t-shirt comes in both gold on black and silver on white. And there is a very special limited edition of each with exquisite Swarovski crystal embellishment. Each t-shirt comes with a special hangtag, sharing the symptoms of ovarian cancer to raise awareness of this devastating disease.

The t-shirts are available online and at the London and UK & International tour productions’ theatres’ of MAMMA MIA! for £20, with £9 going directly to Target Ovarian Cancer from each sale. 

MAMMA MIA! creator and producer Judy Craymer said;

“I’ve seen at first hand the devastation of this disease and the work of Target Ovarian Cancer is essential to save more lives. As the show has such a strong female audience and cast, I thought it would be an ideal collaboration for MAMMA MIA! to work with Target Ovarian Cancer. We are delighted to be working together and to in some small way help to raise awareness. Every t-shirt sold will help fund life-saving awareness, research and support, spreading the word a little further to save lives in the future.”

Target Ovarian Cancer Chair Emma Kane said: “Survival rates from ovarian cancer in the UK are among the worst in Europe. Target Ovarian Cancer is transforming the lives of women with ovarian cancer now and in the future. Working in partnership with MAMMA MIA! will help us to reach thousands more people, to raise awareness, offer support and save lives.”

To buy a Dynamo t-shirt go to https://www.theatre-shop.com/mammamia/shop/

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