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GARTLAND PRODUCTIONS AND CHRIS MAGUIRUE ANNOUNCE CAST FOR EUROPEAN PREMIÈRE OF HEAD OVER HEELS

Gartland Productions and Chris Maguire today announce the cast for the European première of Head Over Heels at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s.  Luke Bayer leads the cast as Musidorus, alongside Alison Driver (Ensemble) Iz Hesketh (Pythio), Jenny O’Leary (Pamela), Daniel Page (Dametas), Maiya Quansah Breed (Philoclea), Samuel Routley (Ensemble), Khadija Sallet (Mopsa), Julie Stark (Gynecia), Marina Tavolieri (Ensemble), Timo Tatzber (Ensemble), and Fed Zanni (Basilius). The production opens on 1 February 2023,with previews from 26 January, running until 4 March.

This fantastically queer juke box musical was adapted from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia written by Sir Philip Sidney in the 16th century. It had its world première in June 2015 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, after which it was adapted by James Magruder and his version opened in San Francisco 2018. It is also notable for starring Peppermint (Pose, RuPaul’s Drag Race) – who was the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway.

Director Tom Jackson Greaves said today: “We’re so excited to introduce you to the cast of Head Over Heels – each individual bringing such a glorious breadth of talent, generosity and go-go spirit to the production. I am so buzzing to dance; sing and tell stories with them and Manchester is In for a real treat.”

Gartland Productions and Chris Maguire co-present

HEAD OVER HEELS

Based on ‘The Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sidney

Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty

Adapted by James Magruder

Songs by The Go-Go’s

26 January – 4 March 

Director and Choreographer: Tom Jackson Greaves; Musical Director: Arelene McNaught; 

Casting Director: Lucy Casson; Set and Costume: Sophia Pardon; Lighting Designer: Jamie Platt

Luke Bayer (Musidorus); Alison Driver (Ensemble); Iz Hesketh (Pythio); Jenny O’Leary (Pamela); Daniel Page (Dametas); Maiya Quansah Breed (Philoclea); Samuel Routley (Ensemble); Khadija Sallet (Mopsa); Julie Stark (Gynecia); Marina Tavolieri (Ensemble); Timo Tatzber (Ensemble); and Fed Zanni (Basilius).

This laugh-out-loud love story is including the hit songs, We Got the Beat, Our Lips Are Sealed, Vacation, Belinda Carlisle’sHeaven is a Place on Earth, and Mad About You.

A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, Head Over Heels follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.

Head Over Heels is presented through special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, 7 Penn Plaza, Suite 904, New York, NY 10001, www.broadwaylicensing.com.

Luke Bayer plays Musidorus. His theatre credits include, RENT (Hope Mill Theatre), Hair (London Palladium), I Could Use a Drink (Garrick Theatre), Fiver, The Great Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre), Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre), Yank! (Hope Mill Theatre), The 12 Tenors (China Tour), and Les Misérables 20th Anniversary (Queen’s Theatre). His television credits include Ackley Bridge, and The X Factor.

Alison Driver, Ensemble and Dance Captain. Her theatre credits include What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep), RENT (Hope Mill Theatre), Love Story (Cadogan Hall), and Paw Patrol Live Race to The Rescue (UK tour).

Iz Hesketh plays Pythio. Their theatre credits include Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), RENT (Hope Mill Theatre), and The Book of Mormon (UK tour).

Jenny O’Leary plays Pamela. Her theatre credits include Groundhog Day (The Old Vic), RENT (UK tour), The Secret Garden (The Barn Theatre), Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket, and The Other Palace). Her television credits include Gangs of London; and film credits, Matilda and Unicorns.

Daniel Page plays Dametas. His theatre credits include My Kingdom Is a Horse (Rose Theatre Kingston), Billy Elliot – The Musical (UK tour), The Producers (Gordon Craig Theatre) Players Music Hall (Charing Cross Theatre), Priscilla, Queen of The Desert (NCL), and The Wind in The Willows (Kew Gardens/Australian Shakespeare Company). His television credits include Simply Musicals, Musicool, The Royal Butlers, Nightmare Situation,and  Worzel Gummidge; and for film credits include Reaper, Ill Manors, Better Than Tomorrow, Chasing Charlie, Vandalis, Open Mic, Open Your Eyes, The Heist, Kill Ben Lyk, and Snow White.

Maiya Quansah Breed plays Philoclea. Her theatre credits include RENT (Hope Mill Theatre), and Six: The Musical (Arts Theatre), The Secret Garden (London Palladium), I Could Us a Drink (Garrick Theatre) and The Love Revue and Starry (Stanley Arts).

Samuel Routley, Ensemble. His theatre credits include Priscilla, Queen of The Desert, The Osmonds (UK tour), and West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival).

Khadija Sallet plays Mopsa. Her theatre credits include Last Life (Edinburgh Fringe), The Amen Corner (West-coast Black Theatre), Hair, Ragtime (AxelRod Theatre), In the Heights (West-coast Black Theatre), Legally Blonde (Sarasota Players Theatre), and James and The Giant Peach (Venice Theatre).

Julie Stark plays Gynecia. Her theatre credits include The Lesson (Icarus Theatre), Bat Out Of Hell (Dominion Theatre), Rapunzel, The Producers (Gordon Craig Theatre), Priscilla, Queen of The Desert, Les Misérables (UK tour), Sleeping Beauty (Wakefield Theatre Royal), Chess – The Musical (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Love Story (Duchess Theatre), The Witches of Eastwick (Manchester Opera Hose), and Shout! (Arts Theatre). Her film credits include Les Misérables.

Marina Tavolieri, Ensemble. Her theatre credits include Mother Goose (Hackney Empire), Sister Act (Eventim Apollo, London), and A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve).

Timo Tatzber makes his professional stage debut in the ensemble.

Fed Zani plays Basilius. His theatre credits include Mamma Mia! The Party (O2), The 12 Tenors (European tour) Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical (New Wimbledon Theatre), and The Night of The Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre). His television credits include Delicious, Being Human, Hotel Babylon, ShakespeaRe-Told and Afterlife, and for film The Girl in The Café.

Tom Jackson Greaves is a theatre maker based in the UK, specialising in creating cross-art-form, collaborative work with movement at its heart. Greaves is an Associate Artist at The Watermill Theatre, and he has won the 2012 New Adventures Choreographer Award. As a director his credits include Whistle Down the Wind and The Jungle Book (The Watermill Theatre), Brother (Southwark Playhouse), Extraordinary Women, Lucky Stiff (GSA), High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre) and Run For Your Life (Kneehigh).  His credits as choreographer/movement director include The Book Thief (Bolton Octagon), The Da Vinci Code, Zog and The Flying Doctors, Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tours), Rent (Hope Mill Theatre), Amélie (The Other Palace), King John (RSC), , Miracle on 34th Street, Paint Your Wagon, Fiddler on the Roof (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse), The Audience, Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Southampton), Macbeth, Sweet Charity, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Borrowers, Romeo and Juliet (The Watermill Theatre), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Manchester), Teddy (The Vaults/UK tour), Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Life (Southwark Playhouse), Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate), The Glass Menagerie (Headlong) and The Crocodile (MIF)

Listings

Hope Mill Theatre

Hope Mill Theatre, 113 Pollard Street, Manchester, M4 7JA

Box Office: 0161 275 9141 (Tuesday to Friday 12:00pm-6:30pm)

https://hopemilltheatre.co.uk/

Performances: 

Tuesday – Sunday at 7:30pm

Matinees 2:30pm on Wednesday & Saturday and 5:00pm Sunday https://hopemilltheatre.co.uk/events/head-over-heels

Gartland Productions/Liam Gartland is a commercial theatre producer based in London. In 2021, Liam was named one of the ‘Rising Stars of the West End’ after producing Drew Gasparini’s ‘I Could Use A Drink’ at The Garrick Theatre. 

Previous productions include; Daddy Issues (Seven DIals Playhouse), LIFT (Southwark Playhouse) Tell Me Straight (King’s Head Theatre) and A Song For Christmas (Iris Theatre). 

In 2020, Liam co-founded and is the Executive Director of The Grad Fest, an award winning company providing performance opportunities and support for recent theatre graduates. The Grad Fest were awarded a ‘ONEOFF Special Award’ for their dedicated work through the pandemic supporting theatre graduates and were nominated for the ‘Recognition Award’ by Industry Minds. 

Liam is proudly supported by Stage One, a charity that supports new UK Theatre producers. Having attended the Stage One New Producer’s Workshop in 2021, the following year he went on to be a recipient of the  Stage One Bursary.

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EMPIRE THEATRE, LIVERPOOL – UNTIL SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY 2023

REVIEWED BY MIA BOWEN

4****

Dreams do come true! This sensational and iconic, multi award winning musical returned to the Empire Theatre last night for a second time during their UK tour, direct from the West End. It is a musical extravaganza from start to finish and never in all the years of going to the theatre have I witnessed an emotional standing ovation at the end of the first half!

Nominated for 5 2017 Oliver awards, including Best Musical, Dreamgirls transports you to a revolutionary time in American Motown music history and when being Black and being female meant persecution, suppression and fighting for every opportunity. It follows the lives of three young talented friends, Effie, Deena and Lorelle, the Dreamettes that went from rising backing singers to world famous phenomenons. It was first performed on stage in 1981 on Broadway and in 2006 the story of the Dreams was adapted into a film with a star studded line up.

The music by Henry Krieger is impressive and known around the globe. There is such a variety of styles, from Motown, gospel, R&B, smooth pop, disco and more. The score pulses with drive and energy throughout and the music rarely stops because it accompanies much of the dialogue. The visuals are remarkable throughout and credit should be given to the creative team for such a marvellous show, Hugh Vanstone’s lighting and Tim Hatley’s set and costume design enhanced ‘Steppin’ To The Bad Side’, making it my favourite musical performance.

Without doubt the unassailable star of the show is Nicole Raquel Dennis, as Effie. Her voice is commanding, beautiful and brought the whole audience to a roaring standing ovation at the end of the first half. And of course the audience favourite, Brandon Lee Sears as Jimmy, who’s performance is impressive, he is a gymnast, a dancer and an incredible vocalist.

Dreamgirls is dazzling and beautiful to watch with a whole lotta soul.

Southampton Mayflower – until 7th January 2023

Reviewed by Lucy Hitchcock

4****

The closest you will get to Cher has burst its way to Southampton.

From the creative prowess of Arlene Phillips, Oti Mabuse and Gabriella Slade mixed with the sterling performances of Debbie Kurup, Danielle Steers and Millie O’Connell comes the best performance and great way to start the year!

As told through the eyes of Star, Lady and Babe (Debbie Kurup, Danielle Steers and Millie O’Connell), 3 eras of Cher who are narrating the audience through her life story and entertaining us as well. These 3 actresses are incredible, with Cher’s mannerisms and voice down to a T, this is not an easy part to undertake. Together with Lucas Rush as ‘Sonny’, this foursome create an exciting and exhilarating atmosphere. The whole of this cast is on fire for every moment of the show, with the ensemble carrying out perfect dance routines and backup singing.

The stand out of this show however, is Gabriella Slade and Sophie Wilson’s incredible costuming, as well as Natascha Shnieden’s superb wigs. I could not count how many costume changes there were, but it was so impressive how intricate and detailed they were-which played perfectly to the audience. There was not an inch of the stage that didn’t glisten with sequins or rhinestones – much like Cher’s performances!!

This is an exquisite show and truly is a masterpiece. If you want an evening of excitement, hilarity and joy this is certainly for you.

Theatre Royal, Brighton – until 7 January 2023

Reviewed by Sue Bradley

4****

As we queued to get into the theatre on a cold, blustery and wet night, the ebullient tone of the evening was set by the tall man in front of us wearing fishnet stockings and sky-high stiletto heels. And, as we took our seats inside, another man sitting in front of us took off his raincoat to reveal that he was wearing nothing but a pair of skimpy gold lame underpants…..

The Rocky Horror Show is now in its 50^th year and shows no signs of slowing down.  Over the years, the audience has become an integral part of the experience. Every scene has its audience catchphrases and the audience are constantly offering new heckles, perhaps hoping that theirs will be added to the ever growing collection.

This type of audience participation can make it a challenge for the onstage performers to find their rhythm, either waiting for the next expected ‘heckle’ or being interrupted by a new one. The cast kept up the pace but the first half of the show didn’t quite crackle in the way that the second half did; by this time the audience had settled down more, allowing the cast to be more in control.

Although the show is built around the Frank N Furter character (Stephen Webb), this is very much an ensemble piece and Janet (Haley Flaherty), Brad (Richard Meek), Riff Raff (Kristian Lavercombe) and Magenta (Suzie McAdam) all keep the action flowing.

Special mention, too, to Philip Franks as the Narrator who managed a fair amount of very funny ad-libbing and interaction with the audience without losing the spirit of the script, or, indeed, his place in the script. 

Almost all of the cast are veterans of Rocky Horror – with one member having more than 2000 appearances to their credit – and this familiarity allows them and the show to rock along with evident pleasure. They just looked like they were having so much fun. 

The set design was effective rather than spectacular but, looking back, I realise it evoked the slightly shabby B-Movie theme extremely well and didn’t call attention away from the performers. 

The sound design was good – be aware that this is not a quiet show and, although I didn’t need ear plugs, there were a couple of moments which took it pretty close to the edge – it should be said that this wasn’t gratuitous use of volume – just serving the plot. And the on-stage live band (just visible to the back and above the heads of the performers) are polished enough to know how not to overpower the singers.

Nobody comes to see the Rocky Horror Show expecting to see ‘High Art’ or have their critical thinking challenged. Instead, they come to join in a theatrical experience, and this they get in spades. Flashy, high-camp, funny, tongue-in-cheek vulgar (but never crass) and hugely entertaining. Get a ticket any way you can and, as no two nights will ever be quite the same, don’t resist coming again! 

This show has received so many superlatives, it is difficult to know what to say so instead I’ll paraphrase a line from the show: “Dammit, Rocky, I Love you!”

FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR

MEDEA

STARRING SOPHIE OKONEDO AND BEN DANIELS

DIRECTED BY DOMINIC COOKE

@SOHOPLACE THEATRE

• Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels will be joined by Marion Bailey, Penny Layden, Jo McInnes and Amy Trigg in Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides’ MEDEA, directed by Dominic Cooke. 
• Opening @sohoplace theatre on 17 February 2023, with previews from 10 February.
• The production will run until 22 April 2023 in a strictly limited 10-week season.
• MEDEA is the second West End production for Fictionhouse, run by Dominic Cooke and Kate Horton.
• Fictionhouse’s first West End production, GOOD starring David Tennant, is concluding its record breaking, extended run to sold out houses at The Harold Pinter Theatre on 7^th January.
• Tickets for MEDEA are on sale now.

Fictionhouse Limited, Nica Burns and Kate Pakenham Productions today announce full casting for MEDEA, adapted by Robinson Jeffers from the play by Euripides, directed by Dominic Cooke. The production stars the previously announced Sophie Okonedo (Medea) and Ben Daniels (Jason/Creon/Aegeus). They will be joined by Marion Bailey (Nurse), Penny Layden (3^rd Woman of Corinth), Jo McInnes (1^st Woman of Corinth) and Amy Trigg (2^nd Woman of Corinth) with understudies Alicia Charles, Leda Hodgson and Tom Peters. MEDEA opens at @sohoplace theatre on 17 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs until 22 April 2023.

MEDEA sees Dominic Cooke reuniting with long-term collaborators Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels, most recently with BBC’s The Hollow Crown – Wars of the Roses, in addition to working together across multiple stage productions since the 1990s.

What could turn a woman from a lover into a destroyer of love?

MEDEA tells the story of a woman laid bare by grief and rage, and her terrible quest for revenge against the men who have abandoned her.

Sophie Okonedo brings her visceral, mercurial brilliance to literature’s most titanic female protagonist, whose complexity and contradictions have kept audiences on the edge of their seats, unable to look away, for almost 2,500 years.

Design                                 Vicki Mortimer

Lighting                               Neil Austin

Sound                                  Gareth Fry

Casting Director               Amy Ball

Children’s Casting            Amy Ball and Verity Naughton

Movement Director        Lucy Cullingford

Associate Director           Tanuja Amarasuriya

Production Manager       Igor

Costume Supervisor         Helen Johnson

Wigs Designer                   Sam Cox

Props Supervisor              Mary Halliday

Vocal/Dialect Coach        Jeannette Nelson

Produced by Kate Horton for Fictionhouse Limited, Nica Burns and Kate Pakenham Productions

www.sohoplace.org/whatson/medea

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED

FOR 2023 UK & INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES OF

MAMMA MIA!

Full casting is today announced for the 2023 dates of the UK & International Tour of the sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA!.

Sara Poyzer (Donna Sheridan), Nicky Swift (Rosie/Alternate Donna Sheridan), Sarah Earnshaw (Tanya), Richard Standing (Sam Carmichael), Neal Craig (Harry Bright), Phil Corbitt (Bill Austin), Jess Michelmore (Sophie Sheridan), Christopher Foley (Sky), Tanisha Butterfield (Ali), Freya Humberstone (Lisa), Jaden Oshenye (Pepper), Archie Flynn (Eddie) and Andrew Bateup (Father Alexander) lead the cast.

Further casting includes Clàudia Bahrani, Alice Baker, Peter Camilleri, Henryk Firth, Andrew Gallo, Claire Greenway, Ashleigh Harvey, Ashleigh Jones, Matt Kennedy, Robert Knight, Grace May, Hollie Nelson, Ashley Rowe, Nathen Scott, Marissa Sims and Lucy Walsham.

The new cast begin performances from 17 January at Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, continuing to Manchester, Cardiff, Blackpool, Leeds, Peterborough, Estonia, Portsmouth, Truro, Scarborough, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Further international dates to be announced.  

Fall in love with the irresistibly funny tale of a mother, a daughter and three possible dads on a Greek island idyll, all unfolding to the magic of ABBA’s timeless songs.

The UK & International Tour is celebrating 24 years since MAMMA MIA! premiered in London in April 1999. To date, MAMMA MIA! has been seen by over 65 million people in 50 productions in 16 different languages. In 2011 it became the first Western musical ever to be staged in Mandarin in the People’s Republic of China. MAMMA MIA! became the 8^th longest running show in Broadway history where it played a record-breaking run for 14 years.

Since premiering in London’s West End the world’s sunniest and most exhilarating smash-hit musical has been turned into two record-breaking movies. Produced by Judy Craymer, MAMMA MIA! The Movie became the highest grossing live action musical film of all time upon its release in 2008. The second film, MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, opened in July 2018 and is the most successful live musical movie sequel of all time.

With music & lyrics by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA! is written by Catherine Johnson, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast. The production is designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce & Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material & arrangements by Martin Koch.

The MAMMA MIA! UK & International Tour is produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East & Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal and NGM.

Tour Venues and Dates

Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

17 – 28 January 2023

Opera House, Manchester

31 January – 11 February 2023

New Theatre, Cardiff

14 February – 4 March 2023

Winter Gardens Opera House, Blackpool

21 March – 1 April 2023

Leeds Grand Theatre

4 – 15 April 2023

New Theatre, Peterborough

18 – 22 April 2023

Alexela Concert Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

2 – 7 May 2023

Kings Theatre, Portsmouth

19 – 27 May 2023

Hall For Cornwall, Truro

30 May – 3 June 2023

Scarborough Open Air Theatre, Scarborough

14 – 18 June 2023

Bergenhus Fortress, Bergen, Norway

29 June – 1 July 2023

Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki

13 – 23 July 2023

Ledreborg Castle, Lejre, Denmark

16 – 27 August 2023

We are absolutely delighted to announce the winner of the Aurora Award 2022 is Chloe Hart

Our reviewers nominated them because “Hart is a vocal powerhouse, owning the stage as she sings”

You can find the review for their 5* show, Six here :

“The sensational Chlöe Hart is up first as Catherine of Aragon, showing her fierce determination, smashing the high notes alongside faultless dance moves with her energetic song No Way.” https://fairypoweredproductions.com/six-review-3/

So a huge congratulations to Chloe and thank you for their amazing contribution to keeping us entertained during 2022

NEW VENUES ANNOUNCED

FOR THE UK AND IRELAND TOUR OF

SMASH-HIT PRODUCTION

MOTHER GOOSE

STARRING

IAN McKELLEN AND JOHN BISHOP

Ambassador Theatre Group Productions are thrilled to announce that the smash-hit production of MOTHER GOOSE starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop, will also visit Leicester, Salford and Bristol as part of their UK and Ireland tour.

Following its current run in London, where it runs at the Duke of York’s Theatre (until 29 January 2023), the full touring dates are now Chichester Festival Theatre (7 – 11 February 2023), Sheffield Lyceum (14 – 18 February 2023), Wolverhampton Grand (22 – 26 February 2023), Liverpool Empire (28 February – 4 March 2023), Oxford New Theatre (7 – 11 March 2023), Leicester Curve (15 – 18 March 2023), Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin (22 – 26 March 2023), Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff (28 March – 1 April 2023), The Lowry (5 – 9 April 2023) and Bristol Hippodrome (11 – 15 April 2023).

Alongside McKellen as Mother Goose and Bishop as Vic Goose, Mother Goose also stars Anna-Jane Casey as Cilla The Goose, Oscar Conlon-Morrey as Jack, Simbi Akande as Jill, Sharon Ballard as Good Fairy Encanta and Karen Mavundukure as Evil Fairy Malignia. The cast is completed by Mairi Barclay, Adam Brown, Gabriel Fleary, Becca Francis, Shailan Gohil, Richard Leeming, Genevieve Nicole and Laura Tyrer.

It is written by Jonathan Harvey (Coronation Street, Gimme Gimme Gimme) and directed by award-winning director Cal McCrystal. Set and Costume design is by Liz Ascroft, Choreography by Lizzi Gee, Lighting design by Prema Mehta, Sound design by Ben Harrison andPuppet Design and Creation by Chris Barlow. Casting is by Anne Vosser and the Production Manager is Ben Arkell.

Mother Goose (McKellen) and her husband Vic (Bishop) run an Animal Sanctuary for waifs and strays and live a wholesome life inside an abandoned Debenhams. But when a goose (Casey) flies in, will fame and fortune get the better of them?! Will Ma’s feathers be seriously ruffled? Will Pa tell everyone to get stuffed?! And is their fair life about to turn fowl? Get ready for fairies with hefty vocal chords, puppets with tap dance qualifications and impeccably constructed mayhem that will quack up the whole family. This hilarious family-friendly mother of all pantos is the ultimate theatrical feast full of fun, farce and more than a couple of surprises that will make you honk out loud.

Mother Goose is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, Hunter Arnold, Wessex Grove, Richard Winkler & Dawn Smalberg, Caiola Productions and George Waud for Groove International.

MOTHER GOOSE

www.mothergooseshow.co.uk

Friday 2 December – Sunday 11 December 2022

Brighton Theatre Royal

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Wednesday 14 December 2022 – Sunday 29 January 2023

London, Duke of York’s Theatre

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Tuesday 7 February – Saturday 11 February 2023

Chichester Festival Theatre

www.cft.org.uk

Tuesday 14 February – Saturday 18 February 2023

Sheffield Lyceum

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

Wednesday 22 February – Sunday 26 February 2023

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre

www.grandtheatre.co.uk

Tuesday 28 February – Saturday 4 March 2023

Liverpool Empire

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Tuesday 7 March – Saturday 11 March 2023

Oxford, New Theatre

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Wednesday 15 March – Saturday 18 March 2023

Leicester Curve Theatre

www.curveonline.co.uk

Wednesday 22 March – Sunday 26 March 2023

Dublin, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie

Tuesday 28 March – Saturday 1 April 2023

Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre

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Wednesday 5 April – Sunday 9 April 2023

Salford, The Lowry

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Tuesday 11 April – Saturday 15 April 2023

Bristol Hippodrome

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