... Best-ever booking DICK CONDON'S pantomime Cinderella and the Magic Slipper for the Norwich Theatre Royal, already boasts bookings more than 100 per cent in excess of those placed up to this time last year. Costing £155,000, it will star Paul Henry of Crossroads fame, as Buttons, and director Yvonne Marsh as Prince Charming. Australian ballet dancer, Petal Miller, who brought Stars of the ...

... Marti's show for charity MARTI CAINE is planning a special cabaret for charity when she appears in Birmingham this month She will top the bill at the Night Out on November 13 when West Midlands newagents are organ ising a charity evening to boost the fund set up in the name of murdered Staffordshire newsboy Carl Bridge- water. The fund, organised by the Natio nal Federation of Retail ...

... Next Publand show to be the last THE CHANGING face of pub entertainment is to force the Publand Show--an annual feature since 1966--out of business, writes Moira Petty. The next show in 1980 will be the last, although Ray Donn sole producer of the shows since their inception plans to stage an alternative entertainment. He explained to THE STAGE the reasons for the decision. The acts I require ...

... Silhouette nightclub plans major cabaret SOUTHAMPTON'S Silhouette nightclub has announced plans for extensive cabaret in the coming months, including a return by sixties pop star Billy J. Kramer and a week of Who Do You Do star Luie Caballero, reports Nick Ralls. From November II, Silhouette owner Brian Adamson is planning weeks of cabaret featuring what he describes as good middle-of-the- ...

... Minstrels return to seaside Futurist THE BLACK and White Minst rels are returning to Scarbo rough's Futurist Theatre next summer with a special 20th an niversary production. It will be the eighth year since I960 that the famous Minstrel Show has played at the Futurist which Is owned by London theatrical impre sario Robert Luff, the man behind the Minstrel Show. Their IS-week season, which ...

... Blackpool stages its own 'Artist of the Year' contest BLACKPOOL, northern Mecca of summer shows with a dozen palatial theatres and scores of workingmen's clubs and cabaret venues, has come up with its own Artist of the Year cont est. The brainchild of new up-and- coming agency, Edwards-Randall Entertainments, in conjunction with Blackpool and District Federation of Concert Secretaries, the ...

... Vegas chiefs plan Midlands ents centre by ROY GILLARD NIGHTCLUB CHIEFS from Las Vegas want to open a £1 million entertainment centre in Birmingham. They aim to stage international cabaret with a top class floor show every night. Visits of the big stars will, they say, be timed to coincide with events such as the International Motor Show at the NEC when companies have plenty of cash to spend. ...