... 'Night out' on tour THE WOMAN who has choreographed endless shows around the country has decided to take her own extravaganza on the road this summer. Melody Urquhart-Attias, whoK outfit Damon Loy Productions supplied dance groups to all the big Royal Command Performances in recent years, is touring her own show Big Night Out around six venues on the East Anglian coast until October. And if ...

... Paulo's buy BINGO AND casino owner Tom Paulo has bought one of Glasgow's best-known dance halls Tiffany's from Mecca Leisure. No price was disclosed. There is speculation that Paulo may convert the dance hall into a casino. Mecca Leisure said that all Tiffany's employees would be offered employment by the new owners on substantially the same terms and conditions as at present. ...

... Copyright dispute over 'Fame' logo Stage show abandoned MOIRA PETTY reports THE WATCHDOGS of Hollywoods's MGM film studios have claimed copyright infringement by a provincial British dance organisation. The dispute has revealed yet another bid to produce a stage version in Britain of the Kids From Fame story this time by the aptly named DRW's Fame Agency of Colchester, Essex. The British ...

... Council plans pop fest A NORTH-EAST COUNCIL is thinking of staging a second pop festival even though it lost £66,000 on the event last year. Gateshead borough council's parks and recreation committee has heard a second concert may well be staged in the town's stadium this coming summer. The committee were discussing an auditor's report on the loss-making 1982 concert when committee chairman, ...

... Equity benefit A BENEFIT in aid of the proposed North West London branch of Equity is being held at the Tricycle, Kilburn on February 20. Taking part are Anna Rexic and the Compulsives, Derek Smith, Jim Barclay, Maggie Steed, Andy de la Tour, Ruxton Hayward, Bill Monks, Eileen Pollock, Shirley Anne Field, Maggie Ford, Ann Mitchell, Anne Rain, Joe Goodman, Kathleen Kelly, Ray Booth, Howard ...

... Dolphin nightspot BLACKPOOL HAS gained a new dine, dance and cabaret spot but with a familiar name. The Dolphin Room, above the Oyster Catcher in Abingdon Street, is aiming at a combination of cool jazz, easy listening music and guest cabaret acts to become a new social scene for late night diners. It is part of a general new-look package by the Oyster Catcher's new owners, Macclesfield-based ...

... Live music at Royal UNDER A NEW ownership deal the Royal Hotel in Qeveleys is to reinstate live music. Its downstairs King's Bar now features regular Monday night rock music sessions from popular local line up Beatroute. Upstairs in the Royal Bar there is entertainment on different nights from comedian Johnny Breeze, vocalist Dave Spencer, and musical duo Eve Nicky and Ricky Martin. If the ...

... Gloo Joo NEW END In a lake- A way production directed by Peter Benson, Michael Hastings' Gloo Joo is having a revival at the Hampstcad New End, an event more notable for good intentions than solid achievement. The play still works well as a comedy- farce with grim intimations about immigration and emigration, authority, and people who become involved, even dreadfully mixed up, in illegal ...

... Showing right degree of absurd exaggeration TRINITY COLLEGE OPERA GROUP Berkeley Double Bill THERE IS much to attract in Lennox Berkeley's light touch and his stylishly elegant inventiveness in the tonal idiom, as was amply demonstrated in the double bill of his operas to Paul Dehn's libretti put on by the Trinity College of Music Opera Group at the Bloomsbury, as an 80th birthday tribute to ...

... Tonight at 8.00 FARNHAM IN TONIGHT at 8.00 the Redgrave subtracted half an hour from the original title and a wealth of style from Coward's three one act plays which comprise the production. Vulgar, candy-striped pink walls, psychedelic murals, nylon soft furnishings, a grand piano sprinkled with a plastic doily, a pink tea cosy, camouflaging a contemporary telephone (which almost hailed the ...

... £1m float for 'Bounty' A GROUP of American businessmen have agreed to put up the £1 million budget needed to mount David Essex's lavish production of Mutiny on the Bounty in the West End next year. Essex is now searching for the right theatre to take the show, which he hopes to open in May. Said Essex: I was lucky the first people I approached for money liked the idea and were willing to ...

... Losses for Tameside TAMESIDE THEATRE at Ashton-under-Lyne, which has made news recently when Labour councillors sought to ban stars who appeared at a Tory rally, has been forced to cancel a show to avoid massive losses. Manager Jack Clark has axed Paddington Bear's Magical Musical which played to third full houses at Manchester's Palace Theatre in August. At Ashton only 100 tickets had been ...