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Cuba Gooding Jr to Star in CHICAGO

CUBA GOODING JR TO STAR AS BILLY FLYNN IN CHICAGO

AT THE PHOENIX THEATRE, LONDON

FROM 26 MARCH 2018

FURTHER CASTING TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

Oscar winner, Cuba Gooding Jr will be making his British stage debut and his musical debut as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the multi award-winning CHICAGO at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End.  Following a successful UK and international tour, and after a 5½-year absence from London, CHICAGO, the winner of six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and a Grammy, will begin performances at the Phoenix Theatre on Monday 26 March 2018.  

 

Cuba Gooding Jr’s breakthrough role was as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), followed by A Few Good Men (1992), before winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Jerry Maguire (1996).  Later films included As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000) as Carl Brashear,  Pearl Harbor (2001) as Doris Miller, American Gangster (2007), The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, he portrayed O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini-series or a Movie.  In 2013, he made his Broadway theatre debut alongside Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams in the Tony Award-nominated production of The Trip to Bountiful.

 

Further casting for CHICAGO is to be announced.

 

CHICAGO originally ran in London for 15 years, making it the West End’s longest running revival.  It first opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 18 November 1997 to rave reviews and immediately became a sell-out hit.  CHICAGO won the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Outstanding Musical Production’ as well as the 1998 Critics Circle Drama Award for ‘Best Musical’.  CHICAGO transferred from the Adelphi Theatre to the Cambridge Theatre in April 2006, where it ran for five years until 27 August 2011.  The show then opened at the Garrick Theatre on 7 November 2011, where it ran until 1 September 2012.

 

Since it opened in New York in 1996, CHICAGO has played in 36 countries worldwide, and been performed in English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Danish, Japanese and Korean.  It has grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide and has played over 30,000 performances worldwide, with an estimated 31 million people around the world having seen CHICAGO. 

CHICAGO continues to play on Broadway, where it recently celebrated its 21st birthday, and around the world in multiple languages.  It is the world’s longest running American musical.

 

CHICAGO, which is based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.  The 1996 Broadway revival of CHICAGO was choreographed by Ann Reinking in the style of Bob Fosse, directed by Walter Bobbie, and produced by Barry and Fran Weissler.

 

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Phoenix Theatre
110 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0JP

Box Office: 0844 871 7629 / www.atgtickets.com/shows/chicago/phoenix-theatre

Ticket Prices: From £20.00

Performances: Monday-Saturday 8pm, Wednesday & Saturday 3pm

Booking Period:  Currently Booking Until 23 June 2018

Running Time:  2 hours, 25 minutes (with interval)

Website: ChicagoWestEnd.com
Twitter: @ChicagoOnStage

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Dracula at Hull New Theatre

Dracula at Hull New Theatre

New stage adaptation at venue ahead of Halloween

Bram Stoker’s Dracula will be performed at Hull New Theatre in October.

The brand-new stage adaptation is brought to opulent and irresistible life in a contemporary interpretation that includes all the definitive characters and spine-chilling fear.

Completely re-imagined by a world-class creative team from London’s West End and Broadway, this is Dracula as you have never seen him.

Inspiring the recent resurgence in vampire mania and the Twilight movie series, Dracula on stage will be a must-see.

In Transylvania, enter the castle of Count Dracula and his three brides. The Count, who feeds on the elixir of young blood to look youthful, will take you on a deliciously evil ride as he pursues his victims and encounters Jonathan Harker, Professor Van Helsing and Dr Seward along the way.

Dracula is presented by A Touring Consortium Theatre Company in association with Everyman Theatre Cheltenham.

Tickets for Dracula at Hull New Theatre from October 23 to October 27 2018 are from £15. They go on sale at 10am on Friday, January 12.

Book at the Hull New Theatre or Hull City Hall box offices or call 01482 300 306. Visit our new website www.hulltheatres.co.uk to book online or use this link.

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NATIONAL THEATRE WALES ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF PARTS 1 & 2 OF MIKE PEARSON & BROOKES’ STORM CYCLE

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF PARTS 1 & 2 OF MIKE PEARSON & BROOKES’ STORM CYCLE

National Theatre Wales’ 2018 season will kick-off in February and March with the first two parts of The Storm Cycle, an extraordinary, three-year collaboration with theatre-makers Mike Pearson & Mike Brookes, who have created some of National Theatre Wales’ most critically-acclaimed work to date (The Persians, Coriolan/us and Iliad).

 

STORM.1: Nothing Remains The Same will be a poetic, cinematic reimagining of the first two books of Roman author Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with a new text narrated by Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Detectorists, Peaky Blinders, Jerusalem) and Mike Pearson. It will be performed in Pafiliwn Bont, Ceredigion, 15-17 February.

 

In his epic narrative, completed just before his exile in 8AD, Ovid links together “into one artistically harmonious whole, all the stories of classical mythology”. Above all, he tells of extraordinary and miraculous changes and transformations, in the nature of people and of things.

 

In a theatrically thrilling combination of word, sound and unexpected occurrences, STORM.1: Nothing Remains The Same takes up two of Ovid’s early stories.

 

In the first part, Chaos & Creation narrated by Mike Pearson, a disordered universe is brought into harmony, and then put at risk through the faults, frailties and violent acts of successive races of humanity. In the second, Ignition & Eclipse narrated by Aimee-Ffion Edwards, the foolhardy Phaëthon insists on driving his father Phoebus’s fiery chariot – the sun – to prove he’s his divine son. But his reckless exploits lead to tragedy…

STORM.2: Things Come Apart will be a multi-platform exploration of the Cardiff riots of June 1919 – as documented by the local press of the time. It will be performed in a Cardiff church, 21-24 March.

 

In June 1919, Cardiff city centre was the scene of four days and nights of vicious riots that left three dead, many in hospital, and properties wrecked and burnt. The root causes were a long-standing, complex knot of post-war frustrations following demobilisation – lack of housing, lack of jobs, lack of opportunity. But the spark that finally ignited the worst of the violence was racial tension; local troublemakers and soldiers clashed with Yemeni, Somali and Caribbean seamen in front of vast crowds of onlookers.

 

No full narrative of the riots exists. A new text, specially compiled for STORM.2: Things Come Apart, creates a running account using only the reports in local, period newspapers, as well as the Chief Constable’s assessment. Inevitably partial, they expose the attitudes and prejudices of that era.

 

This verbatim material will be narrated live by a cast of three professional actors (Ali Goolyad, Aisling Groves-McKeown and John Rowley). Combining it with period maps, commercial directories and photographs of the city, STORM.2: Things Come Apart will pinpoint key locations in a now completely changed urban landscape.

 

At a time of global political and social instability, this hard-hitting production will be a reminder of the value of compassion and of hard-won civil rights, and the risks we take when we neglect them.

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Summer Holiday Heads To Storyhouse This Autumn 2018

SUMMER HOLIDAY
 
A BRAND NEW PRODUCTION OF THE FEEL-GOOD MUSICAL
FEATURING CLIFF RICHARD’S CLASSIC HITS
COMES TO STORYHOUSE CHESTER THIS AUTUMN
 
Based on the iconic 1960s film starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, this brand new stage musical of Summer Holiday includes all of the number one hits from the movie, plus some additional Cliff Richard classics.
 
The famous red double-decker bus will be stopping off at Storyhouse this Autumn to entertain Chester audiences from Tuesday 11 September to Saturday 15 September 2018.
 
Tickets are on sale now. Star casting to be announced.
 
Summer Holiday tells the story of Don and his fellow London Transport mechanics as they journey together in a red double-decker bus through Paris, the Alps, Italy and Greece. Along the way they pick up a girl singing group and a young American pop star who is on the run from her domineering mother!
 
This hit-filled musical features many of the biggest songs from the 1960s, including In the Country,Travellin’ Light, Bachelor Boy, Move It, Living Doll, The Young Ones, On the Beach and, of course, the title smash hit song, Summer Holiday.
 
Storyhouse has a dynamic pricing policy on the majority of shows, ensuring the earlier you book your tickets, guarantees the best seats at the lowest price. Tickets range from £20.50 to £39.50.
 
Website:         www.summerholidaythemusical.co.uk
Twitter:           @Summer_UK_Tour
 
 
SUMMER HOLIDAY
 
Stage Adaptation by Michael Gyngell and Mark Haddigan
 
Based on the film SUMMER HOLIDAY, Directed by Peter Yates
Screenplay by Ronald Cass and Peter Myers
By special arrangement with StudioCanal
 
Orchestrations by Keith Strachan
 
Presented by arrangement with
Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited
On behalf of Josef Weinberger Limited
 
Executive Producer
David King
 
Director and Choreographer
Racky Plews
 
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LISTING INFORMATION
 
SUMMER HOLIDAY
Tuesday 11 September – Saturday 15 September 2018
Storyhouse
Hunter Street, Chester, CH1 2AR
 
Tuesday 11 September at 7.30pm
Wednesday 12 September at 2.30pm
Wednesday 12 September at 7.30pm
Thursday 13 September at 7.30pm
Friday 14 September at 7.30pm
Saturday 15 September at 2.30pm
Saturday 15 September at 7.30pm
 
Tickets: £20.50 to £39.50 (each ticket is subject to a £1.50 booking fee)
Dynamic Pricing: Book early to guarantee cheapest and best seats
 
HOW TO BOOK
Online:            Visit www.storyhouse.com
By Phone:       Call 01244 409 113
In person:       Visit the Ticket Kiosks At Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester, CH1 2AR
Visit Chester Visitor Information Centre
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Thirsty! | VAULT Festival | 14th – 18th March

Tori Scott: Thirsty!
VAULT Festival, The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN
Wednesday 14th – 18th March 2018

The vocals are legit, the thirst is real, and the stories are tragically, all true.

Tori Scott, named one of Time Out New York’s top 10 Cabaret artists, is returning to London this year and making her VAULT Festival debut with Thirsty! Direct from sell-out performances at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theatre, New York and Live at Zedel in London, this unstoppable show celebrates poor life choices and Tori’s unconditional love of vodka.

Both hysterical and bawdy, Thirsty! includes songs by Edith Piaf, David Bowie, Adele, Judy Garland, The Drifters, Miley Cyrus and more. The Texas born star is a force to be reckoned with; drawing audiences in close, she has a way of inspiring everyone who sees her. Join Tori and her fabulous three-piece band on a shameless and musical journey of slurred autobiographical stories and songs written by other people…

Tori Scott comments, I am thrilled to make my debut at The Vault Festival and honoured to be included in this amazing line up of artists. Since making my UK debut in July 2017, London has become a favourite place to perform! During my time here, I’ve fallen in love with London audiences, because much like me, they have a love of dark humour, an appreciation for live performance and a serious passion for booze. Now, if only we could get the bars to stay open later

Stunningly powerful…warm, generous and funny (★★★★Everything Theatre)

Tori is a soul-baring singer and a sharp comedian! This is a show for people who enjoy dark humour and exceptional singing, and need an excuse to leave the children at home.

Thirsty! is directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn (Broadway Associate Director: Miss Saigon, Evita and A Little Night Music), with Musical Arrangements and Direction by Jesse Kissel (Broadway: The Visit and Leap of Faith).

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FIRST LOOK: Production Images for STRANGERS IN BETWEEN at Trafalgar Studios 2

THE KING’S HEAD THEATRE AND JOE C BROWN PRESENT TOMMY MURPHY’S STRANGERS IN BETWEEN AT TRAFALGAR STUDIOS 2

FROM 10 JANUARY 2018

The King’s Head Theatre, following on from the exciting news that the company will be moving in 2018 to a purpose built, permanent space in the heart of Islington Square, is delighted to announce that they and Joe C Brown will present the West End transfer of Tommy Murphy’s Strangers in Between. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre, will direct the production, which will run at Trafalgar Studios 2 from 10 January to 3 February 2018. Strangers in Between will have a national press night on 12 January 2018.

Tommy Murphy’s Strangers in Between tells the story of Shane, a timid 16 year-old who has fled his rural hometown for the glitz and glamour of Sydney’s King’s Cross, in order to escape his troubled past and attempt to establish an urban family. This coming-of-age, dark comedy looks at the importance of friendship and the highs and lows of growing up gay in modern Australia. The cast includes Roly Botha as Shane, Dan Hunter as Will and Stephen Connery-Brown as Peter.

The King’s Head Theatre’s Artistic Director, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, founded the Cock Tavern Theatre, OperaUpClose and the Hope Theatre before joining the King’s Head Theatre as Artistic Director in 2010. Since becoming Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre, Adam’s directing highlights include Trainspotting and the recent 35th-anniversary production of Kevin Elyot’s Coming Clean. He recently opened a critically acclaimed new version of Puccini’s Tosca.

Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir Holding the Man, which won numerous awards including Best Play at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, an award he also won for Strangers in Between, making him the only playwright to win this award in successive years.

Strangers in Between is designed by Becky-Dee Trevenen, with lighting by Richard Williamson and sound by Jon McLeod.

The King’s Head Theatre in the West End season is presented by the King’s Head Theatre and Joe C Brown, in association with In Your Face Theatre and Making Productions.

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Strangers in Between

10 January – 3 February 2018

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes including interval

Trafalgar Studios 2

14 Whitehall

London

SW1A 2DY

Performances: Monday – Saturday at 7.45pm (N.B. 12 January at 7pm), Thursday & Saturday at 3pm

Ticket Prices: from £25 (previews: all tickets £15)

Box Office: 0844 871 7632 Website: www.atgtickets.com/venues/trafalgar-studios Twitter: @KingsHeadThtr Facebook: www.facebook.com/kingsheadtheatre

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The Inheritance cast announced including Vanessa Redgrave, John Benjamin Hickey and Kyle Soller

Casting announced for 

The Inheritance 

by Matthew Lopez
direction Stephen DaldryMain House

Friday 2 March – Saturday 19 May 2018

 

 

 

Today we announce casting for The Inheritance, a major world premiere in two parts: 

Andrew Burnap (Toby)

John Benjamin Hickey (Henry)
Samuel H. Levine (Adam/Leo)

Kyle Soller (Eric)

With Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Hubert Burton, Syrus Lower, Michael Marcus, Luke Thallon and Michael Walters.

Vanessa Redgrave plays the role of Margaret.

The Inheritance gives a panoramic view of gay life in New York City today, a generation after the height of the AIDS crisis.

Of those fears, that activism, the new communities and the new kinds of isolation, what has survived? And what does the experience of the plague years mean to the young, overflowing with life, looking for love?

Due to demand extra performances have been added.

This production is supported by Nattering Way LLC and Sonia Friedman Productions Ltd.

This new play in two parts by Matthew Lopez (The Whipping Man, The Newsroom, The Legend of Georgia Mcbride) is directed by Stephen Daldry (The Jungle, An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, The Hours and The Reader). Design is by Bob Crowley (An American in Paris, Skylight and Aladdin) with light by Jon Clark, sound by Paul Arditti and Chris Reid, UK casting by Julia Horan CDG and US casting by Jordan Thaler CSA & Heidi Griffiths CSA.

Justin Martin is Associate Director. The Jerwood Assistant Director is Sadie Spencer. This role is supported through the Jerwood Assistant Director Program at the Young Vic.

 

Hugo Bolton | Jasper / Young Man 7
Theatre includes: Texas Tax Man (Vault Festival 2017); Love Me Do (Watford Palace Theatre); Travesti (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh); Then Silence (Platform Theatre); Perfect Match (Watford Palace Theatre); Billy Budd (Southwark Playhouse) and Electra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama Centre London)
Television includes: Marcella
Film includes: The Spy Who Dumped Me, Wasp and The Swimming Pool Library

 

 

 

Robert Boulter | Young Man 5 / Toby’s Agent
Theatre includes: Revolt. She said. Revolt again., The Ant and the Cicada, I Can Hear You (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wirksworth Festival); The Merchant Of Venice(Derby Live); The Odyssey, Karamazoo (Natonal Theatre); How To Curse (Bush Theatre); Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, An Island Far From Here (Cottlesloe National Theatre); Mercury Fur (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Herons (Royal Court)
Television includes: Evidence, Doctors, Father Brown, Casualty, Survivors, Waking The Dead and The Long Firm
Film includes: Star Wars Episode Vii – The Force Awakens, Genesis, Mark, Some Things Mean Something, Mercenaries, Donkey Punch and Daylight Robbery

 

Andrew Burnap | Toby Darling
Theatre includes: The Legend of Georgia McBride (Geffen Playhouse);This Day Forward(Vineyard Theatre); Troilus and Cressida, King Lear (Public Theater/Delacorte); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); Once Five Years Pass, Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Two Gentlemen of Verona, Kiss Me Kate, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)
Upcoming film includes: A Star Is Born, Spare Room and The Chaperone

 

Hubert Burton | Young Henry / Young Man 3
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea, Waste (National Theatre) and She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath)
Television includes: The Last Post, Jekyll and Hyde, UKIP: The First One Hundred Days, The Outcast, Holby City and The Passing Bells
Film includes: Their Finest and Testament of Youth

 

 

John Benjamin Hickey | Henry Wilcox
Theatre includes: Six Degrees of Separation (Ethel Barrymore Theatre); The Normal Heart (John Golden Theatre – Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play); Mary Stuart (Broadhurst Theater); The Crucible (Virginia Theatre); Cabaret (Henry Miller’s Theatre/Studio 54); and Love! Valor! Compassion! (Walter Kerr Theater)
Television includes: The Good Wife, Manh(a)ttan, The Big C (Emmy Nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Modern Family, Hannibal, Law and Order, and Sex and the City.
Film includes: Mapplethorpe (upcoming), Hostiles, Forever My Girl,  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Barry, Tallulah, Truth, Infamous, The Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Flags of Our Fathers and Pitch Perfect

 

Samuel H. Levine | Adam / Leo / Young Man 1
Theatre includes: A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre Company); Alligator (New Georges Theater) and Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theater)
Television includes: Bull, Elementary, Red Oaks, and Big Dogs
Film includes: The Transfiguration

 

 

Syrus Lowe | Tristan / Young Man 6
Theatre includes: Saint Joan (Donmar Warehouse); Henry V (Regent’s Park); Walking the Tightrope (Underbelly); Fast Cuts & Snapshots (Oran Mor); The Velveteen Rabbit (Unicorn Theatre); Fragile (Southwark Theatre / Soho Theatre, Theatre Uncut / Paterson’s Land); The President and the Pakistani (Waterloo East Theatre); Six Books (Bush Theatre); Macbeth (Liverpool Everyman); The Charming Man (Theatre 503) and Earthquakes in London (National Theatre)
Television includes: Holby City, The Living and the Dead, The Five, Critical, DCI Banks, Talking to the Dead, Doctors, Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet, Ashes to Ashes and The Bill

 

 

Michael Marcus | Jason/Young Man 2
Theatre includes: Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse), Jumpy (Royal Court)
Television includes: Siblings, Lucan, Ripper Street, The White Queen and Misfits
Film includes: Their Finest, The Theory of Everything, The Physician and The Invisible Woman

 

 

Kyle Soller | Eric Glass / Young Man 9
Young Vic includes: The Government Inspector, The Glass Menagerie
Theatre includes: Hedda Gabler, Edward II (National Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (American Airlines Theatre); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Apollo, for which he was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Supporting Actor); The Faith Machine (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie (Salisbury Playhouse/UK tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe/UK tour)
Television includes: Bounty Hunters, The Trip to Spain, American Odyssey, An Inspector Calls, Silent Witness, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Poldark, The Hollow Crown and Bad Education
Film includes: Marrowbone, The Titan, The Fifth Estate, The Keeping Room and Anna Karenina.
Kyle was awarded the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer at the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

 

 

Luke Thallon | Young Walter / Young man 4
Theatre includes: Albion (Almeida Theatre – nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award); Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre); Bent (National Theatre) and Out There (Riverside Studios)
Film includes: The Favourite

 

Michael Walters | Jason 2 / Young Man 8
Young Vic includes: If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate & UK Tour); The Drunken City (19th Street Productions); In the Jungle of Cities (Arcola); A Thousand Miles of History (Bussey Building); and Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse)
Film includes: Now You See Me: The Second Act, About Time, and Better Than Happy

 

 

 

Vanessa Redgrave | Margaret 

 

 

 

 

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THE BAND UK and Ireland Tour – New Dates Announced

UK & IRELAND TOUR OF

TIM FIRTH’S NEW BRITISH MUSICAL

THE BAND

WITH THE MUSIC OF TAKE THAT

WILL NOW EXTEND THROUGH INTO 2019

DUE TO OVERWHELMING PUBLIC DEMAND

 

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams are delighted to announce that, due to overwhelming public demand,  Tim Firth’s new musical, THE BAND, with the music of Take That, will now play extra dates on the UK & Ireland Tour.

 

The newly announced 2018/19 dates are Cliffs Pavilion, Southend (19 – 29 September 2018), His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen (3 – 13 October 2018), Sheffield Lyceum Theatre (16 – 20 October 2018), New Wimbledon Theatre (23 – 27 October 2018), New Theatre, Oxford (30 October – 3 November 2018), Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin (6 – 10 November), Grand Opera House, Belfast (13 – 24 November 2018), The Lowry, Salford (16 – 26 January 2019), Swansea Grand (29 January – 2 February 2019), Orchard Theatre, Dartford (5 – 9 February 2019), Regent Theatre, Ipswich (12 – 16 February 2019), New Victoria, Woking (19 – 23 February 2019), Wolverhampton Grand (26 February – 2 March), Milton Keynes Theatre (5 – 9 March 2019) and Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (12 – 16 March 2019) having previously played there last year to over 40,000 people.

 

THE BAND opened at Manchester Opera House on 8 September 2017 to critical and public acclaim.

 

The musical stars Rachel Lumberg as Rachel, Alison Fitzjohn as Claire, Emily Joyce as Heather, Jayne McKenna as Zoe, AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Curtis T Johns, Yazdan Qafouri and Sario Solomon, collectively known as Five To Five, winners of BBC’s Let It Shine, as The Band, Faye Christall as Young Rachel, Katy Clayton as Young Heather, Rachelle Diedericks as Debbie, Sarah Kate Howarth as Young Claire, Lauren Jacobs as Young Zoe, Martin Miller as Jeff and Andy Williams as Dave.

 

THE BAND is a new musical about what it’s like to grow up with a boyband.  For five 16 year-old friends in 1992, ‘the band’ is everything.  25 years on, we are reunited with the group of friends, now 40-something women, as they try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting their heroes.

 

THE BAND is directed by Kim Gavin and Jack Ryder, designed by Jon Bausor and choreographed by Kim Gavin, with lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, video design by Luke Halls and sound design by Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster.

 

THE BAND is produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams.

Website – www.thebandmusical.com
Twitter – @TheBandMusical
Instagram – BandMusical
Facebook – /TheBandMusical

2018/19 TOUR SCHEDULE

Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre

9 January 2018 – 20 January 2018

 

Liverpool Empire Theatre

23 January 2018 – 3 February 2018

 

Norwich Theatre Royal

6 February 2018 – 17 February 2018

 

Canterbury Marlowe Theatre

20 February 2018 – 3 March 2018

 

Hull New Theatre

6 March 2018 – 17 March 2018

 

Leeds Grand Theatre

20 March 2018 – 31 March 2018

 

Newcastle Theatre Royal

3 April 2018 – 14 April 2018

 

Bristol Hippodrome

17 April 2018 – 28 April 2018

 

Birmingham Hippodrome

1 May 2018 – 12 May 2018

 

Plymouth Theatre Royal

15 May 2018 – 26 May 2018

 

Northampton Royal & Derngate

29 May 2018 – 9 June 2018

 

Nottingham Theatre Royal

12 June 2018 – 23 June 2018

 

Glasgow King’s Theatre

26 June 2018 – 7 July 2018

 

Edinburgh Playhouse

10 July 2018 – 14 July 2018

 

Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

19 – 29 September 2018

 

His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

3 – 13 October 2018

 

Sheffield Lyceum Theatre

16 – 20 October 2018

 

New Wimbledon Theatre

23 – 27 October 2018

 

New Theatre, Oxford

30 October – 3 November 2018

 

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin

6 – 10 November 2018

 

Grand Opera House, Belfast

13 – 24 November 2018

 

The Lowry, Salford

16 – 26 January 2019

 

Grand Theatre, Swansea

29 January – 2 February 2019

 

Orchard Theatre, Dartford

5 – 9 February 2019

 

Regent Theatre, Ipswich

12 – 16 February 2019

 

Woking, New Victoria

19 – 23 February 2019

 

Wolverhampton Grand

26 February – 2 March

 

Milton Keynes Theatre

5 – 9 March 2019

 

Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

12 – 16 March 2019

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Australia’s best selling stand up @ the Appollo – Carl Barron in London Sat 3rd March

AUSTRALIAN’S BIGGEST SELLING COMEDIAN

TO PLAY HAMMERSMITH APOLLO

Carl Barron – Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith – Sat 3 March 2018

“The skinny balding master of observational humour…” The Sun Herald Sydney

 “Carl Barron is an awesome stand up comedian…I had tears in my eyes…”

The Age, Melbourne «««««

“A gifted physical comic and monologist” The LA Times

 

Carl Barron, arguably the most successful and accomplished comedy performer in Australia, is set to make a rare visit to UK soil, bringing his hugely successful new stand up show “Drinking with a Fork” to the Hammersmith Apollo .

 

For established fans and for those yet to become familiar with Barron’s wry observational style of humour and impeccable physical comedy, this show promises to be a real treat.

 

Barron’s unique storytelling style allows him to expertly mine his own life and childhood for comic gems.  He was born in Longreach, Queensland, the son of a sheep shearer from the outback and worked as a roof-tiler for 13 years before he moved into comedy and became a national icon with millions of fans worldwide.

 

In July 2016 Ticketmaster, the largest ticket sales company in the world, rated Barron as Australia’s most popular comedian and as the third most popular comedian worldwide, based on sales of his stand up shows. He is also the highest selling stand-up comedian on DVD in Australian retail history and his last tour sold over 300,000 tickets in his homeland alone.

 

This rare visit to the UK will give London based Aussies a chance to catch a firm favourite, and gives Londoners who aren’t yet aware of the charismatic stand up phenomenon that is Carl Barron, a chance to discover one of the most accomplished and engaging performers of his generation.

 

 

Carl Barron – Drinking with a Fork

Sat 3 March 2018

HAMMERSMITH APOLLO

45 Queen Caroline St, Hammersmith, London W6 9QH

EVENTIM ticket hotline: 0844 249 4300

www.eventim.co.uk

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The Grand Opera House staff wannabe The Spice Girls

Introducing WANNABE, the Spice Girls Show.

Staff at the Grand Opera House will use any opportunity to get dressed up and the more outrageous the better.  To promote Wannabe – The Spice Girls Show, which comes to the theatre on Thursday 29 March, they had a ball dressing as  Baby, Posh, Scary, Sporty and Ginger Spice.

Spice Girls remain the biggest girl band of all time with 9 number 1 singles, 80 million record sales, World tours, movies & a musical to their name.

Featuring your favourite Spice Girls hits, the Wannabe show recreates the era of Girl Power giving you a 90s night out to remember!

From the chart stomping ‘Spice Up Your Life’ through to the hip shaking ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, they will take you on a Spice World journey that will make you Zig-A-Zig-Ahhhh.

“The perfect girls night out!” – The Venue, London

Swing it, shake it, move it, make it down however you can. Costumes, groups & families all welcome for the biggest 90s party in town.

Come and join Ginger, Scary, Posh, Sporty & Baby Spice on the smash hit touring sensation not to be missed!