... An uplifting show to cup it all CALLING ALL red blooded fellas. You've seen the pictures, you've slobbered over the posters now watch the pop up three dimensional stage version of PAGE THREE GIRLS! writes Brian Attwood. Yes folks, PAGE THREE GIRLS! It's raunchy, it's risque and it's got more sauce than Joe's cafe. It's enough to put hairs on your chest! It's the latest whacky idea from ...

... First night dinner date THIS YEAR'S Gallery First Nighters dinner is to celebrate the musical Follies, and will be attended by artists from the show. The dinner will be held at the London Marriott Hotel on April 24, and tickets, priced at £21, are available from Stephen Marshall, 4 Vale Drive, Barnet, Herts EN5 2ED (01-441 2647). TED DARLING. DAI FRANCIS and LES WANT, together with Eastbourne ...

... Two year reprieve for beauty contest LANCASTER City Council has temporarily agreed to keep More- cambe's controversial Miss Great Britain contest in its present form for the next two years. Labour council members have been campaigning to rid Morecambe of the competition once and for all. But their Tory rivals have argued that the competition was the best publicity that the resort could have. ...

... Muller does all the legwork for Children's Hospice AFTER 32 hours and 25 minutes of non-stop tap dancing, Stephen Muller was finally able to rest his weary feet and claim the world record for marathon tap dancing. He smashed the original record, held by tap dancing expert Roy Castle, by nine hours and raised £10,000 for the East Anglian Chil- drens' Hospice while he was about it. Muller, who ...

... Blow to school orchestral shows CONDUCTOR Geoff Love may be forced to wind up his orchestral shows in schools because of council cuts. The top musical director and in strumentalist, who has worked with Dame Vera Lynn, fears that his Young Persons Concert Foundation will be stopped from performing in Enfield schools because of budget cuts. Love was shocked by the news that the Enfield ...

... Colchester gets Hip By LIZ MULLEN AN EMPTY Edwardian theatre has been restored to its former glory and given a £3 million facelift, to reopen as a hi-tech night club. The Hippodrome, in Colchester High Street, received its new lease of life from businessman Roger Williams' Big R Leisure group and was officially opened at a cham pagne guest night by Margaret Thatcher impersonator Steve Nat ion ...

... A gig gag to help solve tax problems By BRIAN ATTWOOD A ROCK group with a difference has launched its international career this month before an audi ence of admiring fellow artists and an army of accountants. Tiny Hates Tax is a band with no members, no track record and none of the vinyl variety either to boast of. Undeterred by this obvious lack of experience the group announced last week it ...

... Hollies tour THE HOLLIES start their 1988 tour at Fort Regent, Jersey on September 29, followed by Beau Sejour Leisure Cen tre, Guernsey the next night. Returning to the mainland, they are at Harrogate on October 7, with Pre ston, Northampton, Hastings, Poole, Bristol, Manchester, Lincoln, Notting ham, Exeter, Dartford, Southend, Reading, Portsmouth, Cardiff, Canter bury, Croydon, Norwich, ...

... L'lncoronazione di Poppea SPITALFIELDS THIS OPERA London production of Monteverdi's last opera, composed for Venice when he was still a remarkably active 75, was given in an unusually full version prepared by Clifford Bartlett. It was fortunate that ChristChurch had been furnished with comfortable new seating for the occasion, because aunuM iuui uuura ui muMi was in volved. I am certainly ...

... The Sleeping Beauty ROH WITH TWO major ballet companies in London last week (and two others arriving this week and next, comparisons may be invidious, but they are also unavoidable. Watching the Australian Ballet at the Royal Opera House in The Sleeping Beauty I missed the richness of movement of the Kirov Ballet. The Australian style in common with most European schools is less deeply ...

... Time for the north By PETER HEPPLE THE SHOWCASES presented for delegates at Entertainment '88 in Harrogate were particularly interesting for a Southerner because they proved there is an amazing amount of talent which can never be seen in the south because the venues are not there. Moreover, one or two of the offerings were astonishingly elaborate, of touring fringe company numerical strength, ...

... Circuit breakthrough ELECTRICITY circuit breakers are to be mandatory in all licensed clubs and pubs in Edinburgh which feature live acts. The decision was taken by Edin burgh's Licensing Board after it heard how 18-year-old rock guitarist Phillip Hardy was electrocuted in a pub in Stratford Upon Avon last year. The South of Scotland Electricity Board's Consultative Committee and Edinburgh ...