TWO WEEKS AT LEEDS GRAND THEATRE
Leeds Grand Theatre continues to bring an multitude of musicals, drama, dance, comedy and concerts to Leeds for 2017. Recently announcing Nativity! The Musical for Christmas and a World Premiere with Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends, it will soon welcome the first UK tour of Mamma Mia! for a six week run (Tuesday May 30th to Saturday 8th July).
“With drama from The National Theatre’s, Jane Eyre musical classics like Cabaret and comedy from the great Adam Hills we really do have something for everyone,” says Ian Sime, General Manager of the theatre. “Today we are preparing to welcome the much-loved Evita.”
Telling the story of Eva Perón, the wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Perón, the classic musical Evita opens at Leeds Grand Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday 16th May, for one week only.
Evita follows Eva’s journey from humble beginnings through to extraordinary wealth, power and iconic status which ultimately lead her to be heralded as the ‘spiritual leader of the nation’ by the Argentine people.
Featuring some of the best loved songs in musical theatre, including Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, You Must Love Me, and Another Suitcase in Another Hall Evita continues to entertain audiences 40 years on.
Evita is at Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 16th to Saturday 20th May
On Sunday May 21st – the platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter Shakin Stevens takes to the Leeds stage. Stevens holds the distinction of being the UK’s biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s; unforgettable chart toppers included such multi-million selling hits as This Ole House, Green Door and Oh Julie in a dizzying career that stockpiled 38 hit singles in the ’80s and early ’90s.
He brings his new album Echoes Of Our Times to The Grand for one night only.
Shakin Stevens is at Leeds Grand Theatre on Sunday 21st May
The West End’s Olivier Award-winning box office hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, makes welcome return to Leeds from Monday 22nd May.
Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring. The play introduces ‘The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’ who are attempting to put on a 1920s’ murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.
The Play That Goes Wrong is at Leeds Grand Theatre from Monday 22nd to Saturday 27th May.
For ticket prices and to make a booking visit leedsgrandtheatre.com or call Box Office on 0844 848 2700