Since the start of tis year, 2011 there have been a handful of new musicals for theatre breaks opening in London. The Wizard of Oz began previews back in February with Danielle Hope starring as Dorothy, and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Expect high demand for theatre breaks and tickets around Christmas and early in the new year as families book themselves a winter treat. With somewhat less of a fanfare, the musical Betty Blue Eyes also opened in March for a limited run and is currently extended unti at least October 2011. Betty Blue Eyes is the story of a household surviving in post World War 2 Yorkshire by raising a pig to avoid the bacon rationing. Betty Blue Blues is in fact the name of the pig! Ghost The Musical is the big one, just opened in June in London after try out in Manchester and a showcase at West End Live 2011. The dazzling new musical GHOST, is based on the phenomenal Oscar winning Paramount Pictures film of the same name, and features great rock music by Eurythmics writer Dave Stewart with the help of Glenn Ballard. If you only see one new musical this year, go and see Ghost Lend Me A Tenor is an old fashioned Vaudeville style musical, which transferred from Plymouth and stars Matthew Kelly London Tube escalators are full of adverts for The Million Dollar Quartet, a story of fame, friendship, discovery, divided loyalties, professional jealousy and incredible music as four of the music industry’s most extraordinary talents, all in their creative prime, made music together for the first and only time in their careers. A true story of the electrifying night in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis came together to make music and ended up making history. Rock of Ages doesn’t actually start until next month, August 2011, but we had a preview of the soft rock, 1980s style juke box musical at West End Live. And last but by no means least, we had the opening of Shrek The Musical with Amanda Holden, a major blockbuster of a film and musical which looks set to be a favourite family choice for theatre breaks in London for many years to come.
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July 18 2011, 4:32am | Comments »
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Despite it being a double bank holiday week, there are plenty of theatre events activity all around the UK. Here’s the cream of the crop
This article titled “What to see: Lyn Gardner’s theatre tips” was written by Lyn Gardner, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 22nd April 2011 16.11 UTC With Easter and the royal wedding (arguably a massive piece of street theatre, but give me an elephant any day) bookending the coming week, theatrical activity is low-key and openings are few. But by the time you read this, The Passion will already be underway in Port Talbot – the last event in National theatre Wales’s first season. It’s been a wonderfully varied year of work, and if not all of it has glistened, it has nonetheless probed how a national theatre might operate and what forms theatre can take. I’m really looking forward to the announcement of the new season, which I have high hopes will be as invigorating as the first. But it’s not the only theatrical activity in Wales this week, where a revival of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money goes out on tour, starting at Chapter Arts Center in Cardiff next week. Moving across the Severn bridge, head down to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro for Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger’s Chouf Ouchouf, which checks in next Thursday after finishing its South Bank run on Sunday. The Brewhouse in Taunton is celebrating both St George’s Day and the royal wedding with the imaginative England, My England. Up in Bristol, things are gearing up for the fabulously juicy Mayfest , but there is still time to catch Tristan Sturrock’s Frankenspine at the Old Vic studio and the excellent Propeller Comedy of Errors at the Tobacco Factory. Salisbury Playhouse offers two contrasting shows that are both well worth a look: a fabulous revival of Guys and Dolls in the main house and Martin Crimp’s teasingly enigmatic The Country in the studio. Probe’s dance-theatre piece May, written by the mighty Tim Crouch, stops off at South Hill Park in Bracknell next week. Mike Bartlett’s satirical baby-boomer comedy, Love, Love, Love, http://www.painesplough.com/current-programme/by-date/love-love-love stops off at the Nuffield Southampton next week. Brighton’s Basement will play a major role in the upcoming Brighton Festival but also opens its doors on Saturday night for one of its regular Supper Club nights, a tasty mix of performance, interventions and installations. In London, meanwhile, the Digital Stages festival takes place for five days from today (22 April) bringing together performances, discussions, workshops and exhibitions. Among those who may take your fancy are Pecora Ura with Part 11 of the Hotel Medea Trilogy and Lightwork’s installation, The Good Actor, which aims to capture the moment prior to actors going on stage to perform. The Spill festival also continues in fine fettle, and includes the Spill National Platform over the weekend, featuring work by Jo Bannon as well as Martin O’Brien’s punishing The Mucus Factory. There’s also a chance to see new work by Sylvia Rimat and Kings of England. The Globe’s touring production of Hamlet, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, heads to home base for a few performances before setting out on a long tour. I saw the viciously funny and sad Chekhov in Hell at the Drum in Plymouth and now you can catch it at Soho, and Told by an Idiot’s examination of what motivates violence, And the Horse You Rode in On, clip clops into the Barbican Pit before galloping off to the Brighton Festival. It’s your last chance for David Eldridge’s Knot of the Heart at the Almeida. Birmingham Rep’s Behna (Sisters) makes its London debut in somebody’s kitchen in a secret location in North London from Thursday. I’m looking forward to Philip Ridley’s first new play for three years, Tender Napalm, at Southwark Playhouse and The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut at the Roundhouse, a show created with teenagers by the brilliant Mark Storor, and am still dying to see the Ipswich musical London Road at the National which everyone seems to have an opinion on. If you live in the east of the country, take a look at a very well-received A View From the Bridge at the Mercury in Colchester, and book for the High Tide festival which opens on Thursday with the European premiere of Stephen Belber’s Dusk Rings a Bell about a teenage romance reignited 20 years later. Put the weekend of 30 April in your diary for the Junction Sampled at the Junction in Cambridge, which includes a chance to see work from some really talented artists including Deborah Pearson, Greg McLaren, The Other Way Works, Dancing Brick, Non Zero One and others. And don’t forget that the Norfolk and Norwich festival opens on May 6. There are some great shows, including a number of Without Walls outdoor theatre commissions. Pulse won’t be far behind at the New Wolsey in Ipswich. The RSC open their new season with a version of Shakespeare’s lost play, Cardenio, and Jonathan Slinger as Macbeth on the main stage. Plenty of Macbeths at the moment, in fact, with Belt Up getting lost in the mind of the anti-hero in an old underground prison in Clerkenwell, and David Morrissey losing his Lady M – Jemma Redgrave – in Liverpool. (She’s been replaced by Julia Ford.) It’s your last chance for a blistering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Northern Stage and you don’t have long for Arthur Miller’s The Price which is at the Stephen Joseph in Scarborough. Book for Fissure, a walking performance over the weekend of 20-22 May in the Yorkshire Dales. Heading into Scotland, you should catch Catherine Wheels’ Caged, a beauty and the beast variation, which is at the Macrobert in Stirling, Eastwood Park and the Tron this week. Des Dillon’s revenge comedy Six Black Candles goes into Dundee Rep, Liz Lochhead’s spin on Moliere, Educating Agnes, continues at the Lyceum in Edinburgh and Rona Munro’s rom-com, Pandas, is at the Traverse. Phew. That’s that. Enjoy your Easter break.
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April 25 2011, 6:26am | Comments »
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News in of some tour dates for Quadrophenia the iconic Rock Opera. As announced last night, the Quadrophenia UK tour starts in Plymouth
Saturday 9th May 2009, Monday 11th May 2009 - Saturday 16th May 2009
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Tuesday 19th May 2009 - Saturday 23rd May 2009
Hippodrome Birmingham
Tuesday 16th June 2009 - Saturday 20th June 2009
Opera House Manchester
Tuesday 7th July 2009 - Saturday 11th July 2009
The Empire Theatre Sunderland
Tuesday 25th August 2009 - 29th August 2009
Empire Liverpool
Set in London and Brighton at the height of the 1960s Mods and Rockers scenes, Quadrophenia the Rock Opera is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a thrills seeking teenager who hates his mundane job, is misunderstood by his parents and lives only for his music, scooter gatherings Mod culture. But Jimmy always takes things just a little bit too far..
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Quadrophenia, the rock opera is to have a six-month tour of the UK. Just a few days ago Andy was wishing for a revival of that other Who classic Tommy. Quadrophenia should be a great live show with powerful music, Mods and Rockers and scooters According to The Stage the production will start at the Plymouth Theatre Royal on May 11. Quadrophenia has been adapted by Jeff Young, John O’Hara and Tom Critchley from the 1973 The Who album written by Pete Townshend, which became a film in 1979 following the success of Tommy. The cast has yet to be announced. Quadrophenia is produced by Bill Schultz, Ina Meibach and the Theatre Royal Plymouth in association with Industrial Language Ltd.
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