WHAT’S ON AT LEEDS GRAND THEATRE
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***BRIAN MAY & KERRY ELLIS***CHICAGO***THE FULL MONTY***ELAINE PAIGE***
ROCKY HORROR SHOW***MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET***GHOST***THE COMMITMENTS***
***SIXTIES GOLD***JANE MCDONALD
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MONDAY 22ND TO SATURDAY 27TH AUGUST
SISTER ACT
STARRING ALEXANDRA BURKE
The habits have hit the road again!
A brand new production starring Alexandra Burke and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood.
This feel-good musical comedy is based on the smash hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith.
Tickets: £22.50 – £44
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TUESDAY 30TH AUGUST TO SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
STARRING ROBERT POWELL AND LIZA GODDARD
Beautifully crafted, wonderfully funny and charmingly English, Relatively Speaking was Alan Ayckbourn’s first great West End success and turned him into a household name.
When the show opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 1967, the critics hailed the arrival of a great new comic talent.
Tickets: £19.50 to £35
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SUNDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER
JANE MACDONALD
Jane presents an exciting, emotionally charged evening of music and laughter. Featuring many of Jane’s best loved songs and hits from her incredible career, including some of her own compositions. Together with her musicians and backing singers Jane this is the ultimate feel-good show.
Tickets £37.50
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MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER TO SATURDAY 29th OCTOBER
OPERA NORTH IN RESIDENCE
For production details visit operanorth.co.uk
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SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER
SIXTIES GOLD
The ultimate line up featuring The Searchers, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, P.J. Proby, Wayne Fontana andGary Puckett & The Union Gap.
Tickets: £36.50
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MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER TO SATURDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
ROCKY HORROR SHOW
This is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos and get ready for the biggest bash in Featuring all of its famous musical classics, including Science Fiction/Double Feature, Sweet Transvestite,Dammit Janet and of course, the classic floor-filler The Time Warp.
Be warned, this show has rude parts!
Tickets: £22 – £43
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MONDAY 7TH TO SATURDAY 12TH NOVEMBER
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
STARRING JASON DONOVAN
On December 4, 1956, four star musicians gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, the studios of legendary record producer Sam Phillips, for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions of all time.
Million Dollar Quartet brings to life the night when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins got together for the first and only time and made rock ‘n’ roll history.
Featuring a score of rock hits performed by a stunning cast and starring Jason Donovan as Sam Phillips.
Tickets: £19.50 – £38
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MONDAY 14TH TO SATURDAY 19TH NOVEMBER
GHOST THE MUSICAL
With a score written by multi Brit-Award winner Dave Stewart and Grammy award winning Glen Ballard, and script by the writer of the original film, Bruce Joel Rubin Ghost brings all the romance and magic of the classic story to life with stunning music and illusion.
Tickets: £20.50 to £41.50
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TUESDAY 22ND TO SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER
CHICAGO
Based on real life events back in the roaring 1920s, nightclub singer Roxie Hart shoots her lover and along with cell block rival, double-murderess Velma Kelly, fights to keep from death row with the help of smooth talking lawyer, Billy Flynn.
Starring Jessie Wallace (EastEnders) as Matron ‘Mama’, John Partridge (EastEnders, Cats, A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon, Starlight Express ) as Billy Flynn and Dancing on Ice winner and Coronation Street star Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart.
Tickets: £23 to £47
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MONDAY 28TH NOVEMBER TO SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER
THE FULL MONTY
Based on his smash hit film, and adapted for the stage by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy, this hilarious and heartfelt production stars Gary Lucy, Joe Absolom, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Chris Fountain, Kai Owen and a cast of fourteen. Not only has the play been getting standing ovations every night, but it was also voted best touring production by the UK Theatre Awards.
Tickets: £14 to £38.50
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MONDAY 5TH TO SATURDAY 10TH DECEMBER
THE COMMITMENTS
Starring Coronation Street’s Kevin Kennedy
The Commitments is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, a young working class music fan, who shapes an unlikely bunch of amateur musicians and friends into the finest soul band Dublin has ever produced.
The Commitments musical has been adapted from the novel by Booker prize winning author Roddy Doyle himself and is directed by award-winning Jamie Lloyd.
Tickets: £25 – £49.50
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SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER
ELAINE PAIGE
Elaine performs ‘Stripped Back’, which will see her perform her favourite tracks, from an array of contemporary songwriters, with a small group of musicians.
Tickets: £32.50 to £59
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MONDAY 12TH DECEMBER
BRIAN MAY AND KERRY ELLIS
Queen legend Brian May and vocal sensation Kerry Ellis present an evening of acoustic music including stripped down versions of Brian and Kerry’s personal favourite songs showcasing Kerry’s exceptional voice with Brian backing her on both guitar and vocals.
Tickets: £46
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THURSDAY 15TH DECEMBER TO SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY
NORTHERN BALLET PRESENT
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Northern Ballet’s Beauty & the Beast brings one of the world’s most famous fairy tales to life in a kaleidoscope of colour, set to an infectious score, including music by Saint-Säens, Bizet and Debussy, played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia.
Tickets: £10 to £47.50
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OTHER SHOWS ON SALE FOR 2017:
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME***NORTHERN BALLET’S CASANOVA
***THE LORD OF THE DANCE***COUNT ARTHUR STRONG***MAMA MIA!***
***DIRTY DANCING***THE NATIONAL THEATRE’S JANE EYRE