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Magic Goes Wrong at the Opera House Blackpool this November
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Magic Goes Wrong at the Opera House Blackpool this November

Olivier award-winning comedy favourites, Mischief, today announce hit comedy Magic Goes Wrong is set to head to the Opera House Blackpool this November from Wednesday 24th – Saturday 27th November 2021. Mischief’s biggest and most daring comedy catastrophe to date, Magic Goes Wrong follows a hapless gang of magicians as they stage an evening of grand illusion to raise cash for charity. As the magic turns to mayhem, accidents spiral out of control and so does their fundraising target! The show premiered in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre in December 2019 and is set to resume performances in London this October. Created with magic legends Penn & Teller, the touring cast presents: Daniel Anthony (Mickey), Valerie Cutko (Eugenia), Sam Hill (Sophisticato), Kiefer Moriarty (The...
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage set for Blackpool summer season
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Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage set for Blackpool summer season

Producer Karl Sydow is delighted to announce new 2021 dates for a UK and Ireland tour of a dazzlingly renewed version of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage including a summer season run at the Opera House Blackpool from Tuesday 3rd August – Saturday 28th August 2021. Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is set to be one of the first major large scale shows to return to the Opera House Blackpool in over 12 months since the first lockdown began in March 2020 which saw the enforced closure of venues across the country. After bumper box office visits in 2016 & 2017, Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is sure to once again give visitors to Blackpool this summer the time of their lives. The iconic story of Baby and Johnny, featuring the hit songs 'Hungry Eyes', ‘...
Jersey Boys Comes to Blackpool
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Jersey Boys Comes to Blackpool

The beloved Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical JERSEY BOYS will once again tour the UK and Ireland heading to the Opera House Blackpool from Tuesday 16th – Saturday 27th August 2022. Tickets for the hit musical will go on-sale from www.wintergardensblackpool.co.uk  from Friday 21st May 2021 at 10am. JERSEY BOYS is written by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe. Casting is to be announced. Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony and Olivier Award-winning, true-life phenomenon, JERSEY BOYS. They were just four guys from New Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard… and the radio just couldn’t get enough of. But whil...
Multi-award winning Dreamgirls announces new Blackpool dates
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Multi-award winning Dreamgirls announces new Blackpool dates

Sonia Friedman Productions is delighted to announce that the first ever UK tour of hit musical Dreamgirls, which was due to start in 2020, will head to the Opera House Blackpool for 2-weeks from Tuesday 25th October 2022 – Saturday 05th November 2022. Tickets are available from 10am, Friday 23rd April 2021 from www.wintergardensblackpool.co.uk   Featuring the classic songs ‘And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going’, ‘Listen’ and ‘One Night Only’, this sensational, multi-award winning production of Dreamgirls had its critically acclaimed West End Premiere in December 2016 at London’s Savoy Theatre, 35 years on from opening on Broadway. Meet The Dreams – Effie, Lorrell and Deena – three talented young singers in the turbulent 1960s, a revolutionary time in American music history. Jo...
Don’t lose your head, SIX is heading to Blackpool this summer!
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Don’t lose your head, SIX is heading to Blackpool this summer!

SIX the international smash hit musical will head to the Opera House Blackpool from Wednesday 07th July – Saturday 10th July 2021 as part of a major UK Tour. Multi award-winning, with a spectacularly successful sound-track storming charts across the globe, this sell-out Tudor take-off has ‘an incredibly strong and powerful message. Boundary-pushing, genre-redefining’ (The Australian) and is ‘pure entertainment’ (The New York Times). Tickets from £20.00 are on general sale now!  Picture: Pamela Raith Michael Williams, Winter Gardens Blackpool Managing Director, said “We are delighted to announce that SIX, will head to Blackpool this July. The smash hit show has wowed audiences across the globe and gained a loyal and devoted fan base, it’s a fantastic addition to our reopen...
Derren Brown’s SHOWMAN: New 2021 tour dates announced for Blackpool
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Derren Brown’s SHOWMAN: New 2021 tour dates announced for Blackpool

He’s finally back! This October, Derren Brown, the popular multi-award winning master of mind control and illusion, will bring SHOWMAN, his first new live show for six years to the Opera House Blackpool from Friday 01st – Saturday 02nd October 2021. Not suitable for under 12s Derren’s live shows have won him two prestigious Olivier Awards – for Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006) and Svengali (2012) and he has received more Olivier nominations and wins than any other one-man show in theatre history. He has played to sold-out houses across the country every year since 2003 to over 1.6M people. Previous shows, Infamous, (2013, 2014), Miracle (2015, 2016) and Underground (2017, 2018) have also enjoyed critically acclaimed seasons in London’s West End. In 2017 he made an award-winnin...
Tim Minchin is back Encore Tour 2021
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Tim Minchin is back Encore Tour 2021

Tim Minchin, award-winning comedian, actor and composer, has confirmed new UK dates of his BACK tour this autumn heading to the Opera House Blackpool on Saturday 20th November 2021. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10am Friday 12th March at www.wintergardensblackpool.co.uk BACK is billed as “Old Songs, New Songs, F*** You Songs”, with a set list of material from all corners of Minchin’s eclectic – and often iconoclastic – repertoire. First performed in the UK in 2019, BACK was Tim’s first UK tour in 8 years and the 80,000 tickets sold out over a year in advance. The long-awaited return to the stage received rave reviews and saw Tim pick up a prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert. Picture: Damian Bennett Minchin has been celebrated glo...