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The ultimate Festive Friends Event is coming to Blackpool

10Nov

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The ultimate Festive Friends Event is coming to Blackpool

Comedy Central UK has announced that following the success of last year’s winter event, FriendsFestive will be returning to The Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, Shoreditch next year, and will also bringing some Friends Christmas magic to brand new location, Blackpool Winter Gardens! The event, produced in partnership with The Luna Cinema, celebrates all the best seasonal moments from the world’s favourite TV show. FriendsFestive will include all the best festive experiences from last year, including giving fans the chance to recreate the titles in the snow with a digital snow globe photo op, and, of course, no holiday season would be complete without a visit to The Holiday Armadillo’s Grotto. Could this BE any more exciting?! More experiences include ringing Phoebe’s bell outside ...

Casting announced for the must see festive musical of 2020

10Nov

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Casting announced for the must see festive musical of 2020

I'm A Celebrity 2019 winner Jacqueline Jossa makes her West End debut in the role of Emily and Busted star Matt Jay-Willis will play Bob Cratchit. Also announced today: Lucie Jones, Sandra Marvin, Martyn Ellis, Cedric Neal and Jeremy Secomb. They join previously announced Brian Conley, who takes the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol A star cast will join Brian Conley in the new, musical staged concert of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent's A Christmas Carol, which is set to play a strictly limited season at the Dominion Theatre in London. Performances run from Monday 7th December 2020 to Saturday 2nd January 2021. I’m A Celebrity...2019 winner Jacqueline Jossa will join the cast as Emily/Ghost of Christmas Future....

SHOUT! the Mod Musical Comes to London in 2021

9Nov

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SHOUT! the Mod Musical Comes to London in 2021

A glittering new ‘Covid-Secure’ production of SHOUT! the Mod Musical is being produced at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate Village, from 10th March until 18th April 2021. Journey back to the liberating days of 1960s’ London and explore the infectious anthems that made household names of stars such as Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Lulu and Shirley Bassey as we track the lives of five women as they come of age in this psychedelic, eye-popping, fun-filled musical comedy which will make you want to throw your head back and SHOUT! The show features over thirty hit songs from the 1960s including “You’re My World”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, “I Only Wanna be with You”, “Those Were the Days”, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”, “Downtown”, “Gold Finger”, “These Boots are Made for Wa...

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to be re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production

6Nov

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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to be re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production

Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast is to be re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production staged by the original award-winning creative team and will open a UK & Ireland Tour in May 2021. Performances will begin at Curve, Leicester on Tuesday 25th May 2021, with other engagements also announced today in Dublin, Bristol, Liverpool and Edinburgh. The general on-sale will follow from Thursday 26th November 2020. Customers can sign up to be amongst the first to access tickets and can find all tour dates and information at www.beautyandthebeastmusical.co.uk Spectacularly reimagined in startling new designs which will use the latest theatrical innovations, this timeless romantic tale will be brought to life on stage like never befo...

World Premiere of The Osmonds: A New Musical in 2021

6Nov

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World Premiere of The Osmonds: A New Musical in 2021

THE OSMONDS: A New Musical will receive its world premiere at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre on 26th August 2021, as part of a UK & Ireland Tour, which will run through to 30th April 2022. THE OSMONDS: A New Musical with story by Jay Osmond tells the true story of the five brothers from Utah who were pushed into the spotlight as children and went on to create smash hits, decade after decade. From their star residency on The Andy Williams Show from 1962 to 1969, to pop stars and ‘Osmondmania’ from 1971 to 1975, to the arrival of The Donny & Marie Show, a popular variety TV show, from 1976 to 1979, The Osmonds lived a remarkable life recording chart-topping albums, selling out vast arena concerts and making record-breaking TV shows - until one bad decision cost them everythi...

Love Letters set to Open at Theatre Royal, Haymarket

6Nov

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Love Letters set to Open at Theatre Royal, Haymarket

Just eighteen hours after the end of the UK’s current lockdown, Bill Kenwright presents MARTIN SHAW and JENNY SEAGROVE in A.R. GURNEY’s Love Letters, directed by ROY MARSDEN, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The play will open on 3rd December 2020, the first day after the Prime Minister has decreed that lockdown ends. This production of Love Letters was previewed at Theatre Royal, Windsor as part of its five-week, five-day, five-play season. THE PLAY Love Letters first opened in New York in 1989 and was a finalist in the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gaining huge popularity, it has since played in theatres across the globe, attracting both real-life and on-screen couples to star as the protagonists. The last Broadway production in 2014 featured Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy. ...

English Touring Theatre Announces Phoenix by Mike Bartlett

6Nov

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English Touring Theatre Announces Phoenix by Mike Bartlett

New Mike Bartlett audio-drama read by Bertie Carvel in rapid response to the present moment, marking the beginning of a new lockdown. ETT (English Touring Theatre) announces Phoenix, an audio drama written by Mike Bartlett and read by Bertie Carvel, Olivier Award winners, who previously collaborated on the BBC’s Doctor Foster. The production is part of Signal Fires, a project conceived by ETT and Headlong to bring together over forty of the UK’s leading touring companies to tour an idea at a time when traditional touring isn’t possible. Phoenix was released on Thursday 5th November on ETT’s website and social media channels ahead of a release on iTunes and Spotify. Phoenix is a story about fire, destruction, and rebirth; about the impact an individual’s choice can have on the nationa...

Oldham Coliseum to remain dark until early 2021

5Nov

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Oldham Coliseum to remain dark until early 2021

In order to safeguard the future of Oldham Coliseum Theatre and our vital role in the communities of Oldham and Greater Manchester, it is with heavy hearts that we announce that the Coliseum will remain closed to the public until early 2021. The Coliseum was less than two weeks from reopening with a season of Covid-secure, socially distanced events when the Government announced that a further UK lockdown would commence from Thursday 5 November. We do not know for certain whether theatres will be permitted to reopen on Wednesday 2 December, what the Tier system will mean for the Coliseum, or if - as reported - the national lockdown is extended beyond that date. We have cancelled our festive production of A Christmas Carol as we cannot guarantee at this stage that it can go ahead...

Rob Brydon is to take to the road in 2021 with his new show

4Nov

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Rob Brydon is to take to the road in 2021 with his new show

Award winning comedian Rob Brydon and his eight-piece band will take to the road next year with his new show, Rob Brydon – A Night Of Songs & Laughter. The new dates follow the huge success of his 2020 Tour, and together mark the first time Brydon has created a show that includes songs and music as well as his acclaimed wit and comedy. Tickets across the tour are on general sale at www.robbrydon.live This extensive new tour begins in March 2021 and will travel to almost 20 venues across the country, opening in Rhyl on Saturday 27th March 2021, and playing through until the final date at Northampton Derngate on Sunday 2nd May. Further dates follow in September–December 2021. With songs from Tom Waits to Tom Jones, and Guys and Dolls to Elvis (and almost everything in between), ...

Wrongsemble returns with innovative COVID-safe Christmas show for all the family

4Nov

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Wrongsemble returns with innovative COVID-safe Christmas show for all the family

Family favourite theatre company Wrongsemble return this Christmas with HUMBUG: a COVID-safe family show that promises to delight and unite all ages. This innovative digital production will allow families to enjoy seven filmed episodes of this exciting story throughout December, accompanied by an interactive HUMBUG ‘Fact File’ filled with 13 artefacts sent directly to their homes. HUMBUG takes place deep beneath the city, where a secret world full of wonder awaits; a place where wizards bake endless gingerbread, goblins bottle festive cheer, and there’s a whole department devoted to detangling fairy-lights! This is the Ministry of Make Believe… But recently, strange things have been happening at the Ministry. From nose-less snowmen, to exploding baubles, and a forest of bald Christma...