... RUTH Allen's new Coc kney musical Lil! will be given a concert airing at the Player's Theatre, Villiers Street, for a week from November 19. SCOTTISH Opera has been awarded the prestigious Preis der Deutchen Schallplatten Kritik from German critics for its recent recording for Decca of Kurt Weill's Streetscene, performed at Glasgow Theatre Royal in 1989. ELIXIR Enterprises, a new Horsham-based ...

... Snaps GREENWICH Theatre is looking for four boys aged betweenl2 and 15 for its February production of The Corn In Green starring Pat ricia Routledge. No acting experience necessary but an ability or aptitude to speak Welsh is essential. Rehear sals start January. Contact Pat Read at the theatre. WOMEN'S theatre group, Monstrous Regiment will be staging a festive freebie about pagan sacrifice, ...

... Snaps GEORGE Michael has confirmed UK dates for his forthcoming Cover to Cover '91 tour. They include Birmingham NEC on January IS and 16 and Wembley Arena on March 19 and 20. COSTUME students at Wimbledon School of Art will be displaying their exot ic designs at a series of free parades at the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday and the Barbican Centre on January 8. SHOWBIZ charity Stage ...

... Snaps ITV'S training prog ramme for new skills in stereo sound, which was recommended by the Independent Television Association, has won a 1990 National Training Award. The training, which was delivered at a time of 25 per cent staff cuts, according to the ITV Association helped to ensure that the stereo transmissions began smoothly, successfully and on schedule. THAMES International sales ...

... STRATFORD UPON AVON DAY ONE By PETER HEPPLE IT MAY not quite be in the opening night of Miss Saigon class, but over the years an undeniable feeling of anticipation is in the air at the beginning of a . Quite rightly, there is a spot of ceremony- consultant producer Sidney Vauncez ringing his bell for silence, managing director Frank Comerford welcoming the artists and bookers, the Mayor of ...

... INDEPENDENT radio production company Rewind has won two me dals at the International New York Radio Festival for its BBC Radio 5 drama serial Teen Lurve and Partners In Crime? a Radio 4 documentary. SATELLITE and cable broad- casters The Discovery Channel Europe, Bravo, CMT Europe and The Children's Channel have gained 1 1 0,000 new sub scribers in Ireland in a four year deal struck with ...

... 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD by Helen Hauff, adapted by James Roose-Evans. Dylan Thomas, Swansea to August 20. Cast includes: Menna Trussler, Jan Shan, Rosemary Faith, Carolyne Berry. Leader Hawkins, William Buckenham, David Simcock. Director: Des Barritt. MOVE OVER MRS MARKHAM by Ray Cooney and John Chapman. Gateway. Chester to September 3. Cast: Anny Tobin, Malcolm McKee, Pauline Jefferson, ...

... THE OPENING production of this year's Chichester Festival on May 2 will be The Meri^ Wives of Windsor, directed by Michael Rud- man. Penelope Keith appears as Mistress Ford, with Bill Maynard making his Chichester debut as Falstaff. TIM ALBERY is directing Racine's Berenice at the Cottesloe, where it opens on May 9. FRANK LANGELLA makes his West End stage debut in Abracad- ver, by Allan Scott ...

... THURS, FEB 15 SAVE THE HUMAN bv David Wood. Arts, Cambridge, then tour. Management: Cambridge Theatre Company. Press: Paul Kaynes, 0223 357134. DER FREISCHUTZ by Weber. New. Cardiff. Management: Welsh National Opera. Cast: Mary Callan- Clarke, Eirian Davies, Joseph Evans, John Hancorn, David Bar- rell, Ian Comboy, Philip Joll, Geof frey Moses. Conductor: Peter Hirsch. Producer: Andre Engel. De ...

... Sky watched by 75% of cable homes THE latest research from AGB Cable and Viewdata, carried out over a week from July 28 to August i, snows mat Sky Channel is watched by 75 per cent of viewers in cable households in this country. Two hundred households, chosen at random from cabled areas in the UK as a representative sample, were monitered for the survey. Research was earned out by viewdata ...

... SHOWCALL ?MnTfi OVERLAP No. 65 Overlap rules: Enter answers clockwise. Each starts with the last letters never fewer than 2 nor more than 3 of the preceding answer (thus CONE NEST ESTEEM would be entered as CONESTEEM and the answer to the illustrated clue overlaps the first This week's clues: The votes in favour (4): Igloo dweller (6): Nocturnal insect destructive of clothing (4); Bless house ...

... THURS, OCT 25 SATYRICON by Bruno Maderna. Drill Hall Arts Centre, WC1 to November 10. Management: Opera Factory. Cast: Bertie, Mark Didcot, Angela Hickey, James Meek, Christopher Robson, Helen Sheals, Sian Thomas, Kevin West. Director: Robert Chevara. Conductor: David Parry. Designer: Patricia Boulter. Lighting: Steve Whitson. Press: Erica Bolton and Jane Quinn, 081 995 5592. ZAZA by ...