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... Derngate conjures up Panto Aid for orphans NORTHAMPTON'S Derngate this week sent out an urgent call for every theatre and pantomime company in Britain to join its Christmas appeal to raise money for emergency medical aid for Romanian orphans. Harrowing press reports of the continuing plight of youngsters, like two-year-old Catalina (pic tured above), a year after the Ceauscscu regime collapsed ...
... Chrysalis to convert church into studio MUSIC giant Chrysalis is plan ning to transform a Victorian Church in Hampstead into its new recording base and a live concert venue and theatre for the capital. The Grade II listed building at Lyndhurst Hall is to undergo a £10 million conversion into a multi-pur pose complex incorporating a record ing studios, all-purpose theatre, video and editing ...
... Sixties boost for cancer appeal By NATASHA FIELDING AN ORGANISER of a Midland cancer appeal is staging a Sixties Dance Night to help raise much needed cash for research into secondary brain tumours. Management of The New Kings Cabaret Theatre in Birmingham have donated the auditorium and are fund ing the show on behalf of a cancer suf ferer, who is paying a personal thank you to her specialist ...
... Neil's a drag says Duvall BLACKPOOL fun pub entertain er and drag act Tony Duvall won't be voting Labour at the next general election. Having been resident record spin ner and personality at Hacketts ground floor fun pub on Central Drive for the past three years he's now, shall we say, between jobs. Duvall, one of the resort's last per sonality jocks, left the venue rather more abruptly than ...
... Tower gathers strength for live circus CAMPAIGNERS pressing to save live entertainment in Blackpool Tower Circus are taking their battle to London. A public meeting has been called at the Theatre Museum to canvas support for the cam paign to keep a live circus in Blackpool Tower where own ers First Leisure intend operat ing on anitnatronics presenta tion from 1992. Founder of the Tower Circus ...
... Ford slams Doddy as Key favourite By HELEN GOULD COUNTRY musician Jed Ford, has accused his local Peterborough venue of favouritism for welcoming back Ken Dodd's late- running show despite 'fining' Ford for running over time. Ford packed out the 400-seater Key Theatre when he booked it for his own show this summer, and was billed £100 for finishing his performance 15 minutes late. However, he ...
... Venue violence HUNDREDS of people fled in panic from Brixton's Academy venue last week as a gunman blasted a middle aged man in full view of a crowd of horrified onlookers. Fans, who had queued for hours to see reggae star Shabba Ranks, fell choking to the ground after a CS gas cannister was hurled through the packed hall. Minutes later the shoot ing sounded. The lone gunman ran from a side ...
... Empire's in the cash wars By HELEN GOULD LEADING London variety venue the Hackney Empire has been forced to make heavy cutbacks to its 1990 programme after being crippled by a run of financial disasters since the New Year. The East End venue says it has been left struggling to survive, while its expansion plans have had to be shelved because of a succession of cash blows. The Empire started ...
... Festival ousts Sussex Aids appeal SINGER Hazel Dean's bid to raise thousands of pounds for an AIDS charity with a gala concert at a leading south coast venue ended in failure this week. Dean, who had a chart hit with the Stock, Aitken and Waterman pro duced song Who's Loving Who, agreed to headline the May 25 show on behalf of the Sussex Aids Trust. Proceeds from the event would have been ...
... Eugene Onegin BRIGHTON FESTIVAL A DISAPPOINTING performance from the Polish State Opera of Poznan of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, under the baton of Meiczyslaw Dondajewski, directed by Janusz Nyczak, that relied upon static staging and heavy-handed design (Joanna Jarosiewicz) and choreography (Henryk Konwinski). With the exception of rare outposts such as the Komische Oper, one expects old ...
... The Threepenny Opera SCOTTISH OPERA SCOTTISH Opera make their second venture this year into the world of drama--as against conventional opera--with a new production of The Threepenny Opera, directed by Lucy Bailey. Fate, the dramatisation with music of La Forza del Destino, was a brave attempt to do something different in the way of Music Theatre, combining scenes from the original play on ...
... A friend that fans forgot SHOWBUSINESS fans who gathered to honour the memory of Rex Jameson- alias the legendary Mrs Shufilewick-were accused this week of turning a blind eye to the performer's closest companion, now reduced to living destitute in the heart of the West End, writes Brian Attwood. Shuff, who died penniless six years ago, has been commemorated with a bar named in his honour ...