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Not what Cinderella had in mind perhaps and it's a long way from Come Dancing but Strictly Glamorous promises to

... be a fundraising ball with a difference. Hosted on February 21 by Stonewall and the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard it offers music to swoon to and buck-ets of glamour at the Camden Centre Ballroom. Entertainers include Regina Fong, Katrina and the Boy, Susan Black, Samantha and Paul Burton. Tickets are still available by telephoning 071-222 9007. ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph 

RICHARD WILSON (back row). PATRICIA ROUT LEDGE. ZOE WANAMAKER and MIRANDA RICHARDSON (front, left to right) ..

... turned out on Sunday for the nominees lunch for this month's BAFTA Awards. Wilson and Routledge are up for the same award-Best Light Entertainment Performance-where they face stiff competition from the stars of BBC2's Absolutely Fabulous, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Wanamaker has been nominated in the Best Actress (Television) category for her role in Alomo Productions' BBCT series ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: photograph 

Say what you like about Scousers but they know how to laugh

... by the city's most famous funnyman KEN DODD, sealed Liverpool's reputation as the joke capital of Britain when he established a new world record for the longest single bout of gag-telling. Martin began his marathon of mirth on Monday morning last week at The Crown pub, in an event sponsored by brewer Tetley Walker. He finally ran out of steam at 2pm on the following Friday a total of 101 hours ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph 

SOPHIE SHURE (100-years-old) proved it's never too late for a laugh when she joined an audience of retired ..

... for a unique concert staged at the Nightingale House in Wandsworth. Entertainer DAVY KAYE, seen here with Sophie, provided the entertainment with fellow artists Linda Watts, Don Sherman, Charlie Noble and Christopher Woodward. The show was hosted by Nightingale, Europe largest Jewish home which has 400 residents and 350 staff. Guests included a coach party from Brinsworth House in Twickenham, ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph 

THAMES Television's police drama The Bill (featuring GRAHAM COLE, far left and ANDREW PAUL, far right) is to ..

... third weekly edition moved to Saturdays in the commercial network's ongoing ratings war with BBC1. Although ITV is currently winning Sunday evenings against BBC1, the success of Noel's House Party and Casualty have seriously dented its viewing figures, in particular for LWT's Blind Date. Now ITV network director Marcus Plantin hopes that moving the third weekly edition of The Bill-which ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: photograph 

COLIN Deveraux and Pip Morgan affect regal postures of Dockyard Doris' North London music hall. As the queen ..

... mum, they will be joining an outragous cast of Graham Hoadley as Brown Boots, the Galloping Major. Sweeney Todd. Fairy Glitterclit and Pandora's Jockstrap, kept in some sort of order by MD Lawrence Payne on April 5 at the Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: photograph 

Rambert's artistic director designate CHRISTOPHER BRUCE and the Gate Theatre scooped the honours at this year's ..

... Bruce took the prize for excellence in international dance, the Gate for services to international theatre. Seen here (L to r): the critic JACK TINKER, NEVILLE SHULMAN, director of the ITI British Centre, CHRISTOPHER BRUCE, THELMA HOLT, SIMON READE, plus the Gate's CAROLINE MAUDE AND LAURENCE BOSWELL. ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: photograph 

TALAWA Theatre Company presents From The Mississippi Delta, the Pulitzer Prize nominated play by New York ..

... Endesha Ida Mae Holland. Holland is said to be an ex-prostitute and criminal who was raped at the age of 11 and witnessed the murder of her mother by the Ku Klux Klan. She recently won the Martin Luther King jnr Lifetime Achievement Award. Selector lead singer Pauline Black (pictured right) and rising Royal Shakespeare Company actress Josette Bushell- Mingo (left) appear with Joy Richardson. ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph