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... Marian Montgomery Pizza on the Park In 1965 Mississippi bom Marian Montgomeiy sang at a new London club, the Cool Elephant, accompanied by the Johnny Dankworth band. That year she married British composer and musical director Laurie Holloway and became a permanent dent in England. Thirty years later it is plain to see that this was, and still is, the Yanks' loss and our gain. Montgomeiy has ...
... Blackpool Tower Circus Blackpool For Blackpool Tower Circus' 101st year Laci Endresz Snr has devised a wonderfully theatrical show conjuring up its distant past, so the omate and historic building provides an apt setting. Playing a trumpet under a sin gle spotlight and swirling minor ball reflections, superb white face clown Francesco Sheppard made a graphic, almost eerie start. Then ...
... A night all the stars glittered Swansea South Wales Inter-Clubs Entertainment Federation Club Acts of 1995 Awards Show A capacity audience packed Swansea's Cwmfelin Steelworks Social Club for the South Wales Inter-Clubs Entertainment Federation's glittering 12th annual Club Acts of the Year command performance. It is regarded by booking agents and concertgoers alike as the most prestigious ...
... The Brian Bennett Agency Showcase '96 Review Caerphilly Penarth-based variety agent and entertainer Brian Bennett books acts into the Bedwas Workingmen's Club, Caerphilly, four nights a week. With its large concert hall and excellent acoustics, he could not have chosen a better venue to stage his first case in seven years. Eleven enjoyable acts were presented during the four and a half hour ...
... Birthday bash takes honours Houghton-le-Spring Beverley Artistes 30th Anniversary It is 30 years since Bill Reeve and Bob Gladwin started making Beverley into the welWtfiown organisation that it is today. Their agency's showcase at the Chilton Lodge Country Club was quite simply the best and most enjoyable that I have attended this year. The first night began with compere Matthew Davtes, a ...
... Workshop waxes Lyrical Jermyn Street Theatre Late & Lyrical Mercury Workshop has come up with a new and very welcome initiative in its efforts to highlight the British talent currently writing for musical theatre. In conjunction with the Jermyn Street Theatre, the Workshop has begun a series of late night revues which will case materia) penned by its mem bers. Every six to eight weeks the ...
... Cinderella Buxton It is billed as a traditional family pantomime and indeed it is, but that did not stop director Philip Dart including some of the most topical material imaginable. Cinders was taken to the ball in a fine carriage pulled by real ponies, for example, while her Ugly Sisters, as the in cabaret act at the glittering event, did a splendid parody of The Spice Girls. It was a ...
... A 24-carat gold spectacular Plymouth Dick Whittington Dick Whittington's fortune will be made with this record-beaking spectacular at the Theatre Royal. The 24-carat gold production shimmers with glittering costumes, imaginative sets, stunning effects and a generous dusting of humour. Lesley Joseph gives a magical performance as the irascible and lecherous Fairy BowBells. jingling her way with ...
... Beauty and the Beast Tewkesbury This is a wretched show for the Beast, Garth Bardsley. One wrong word in the opening scene and he is consigned to a fate as a bovine Hannibal Lecter for the next 500 years. This is commuted to two and a half hours by Ian Lauchlan and Will Brenton, writers of Beauty and the Beast, this year's Xmas offering at the Roses theatre. Salvation, as sure as Tewkesbury ...
... Jack and the Beanstalk Norwich With Toyah Willcox and Desmond Barrit this pantomime promises so much. And the Theatre Royal's chief executive Peter Wilson has a reputation for creating lavish and sophisticated Christmas spectaculars. But it seems that local pres sure for something more traditional has won the day and the result allows the youngsters to outclap the band (MD Terry White) and do ...
... Peter Pan Lewisham Theatre Here we have Peter Pan-tomime--part Pan, part musical theatre, and part seasonal panto. The boy may not grow up, but at Lewisham Theatre the show does. What the stem author, JM Barrie, would have thought of it is something else, and individual response is likely to be varied. It opens strikingly with what is the traditional finish Peter Pan fly ing high over the ...
... Glittering show blemish free Richmond, Surrey Aladdin When the curtain rises on Terrence Hardiman's Abanazar bathed in green light, he Is addressing some unseen god of pantomime villainy. And, perhaps because this distinguished but electrifying actor has recently made a wicked reputation as the Demon Headmaster in a children's serial, the booing is unparalleled. In decibel terms it is the ...