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Light Entertainment News: An uplifting show to cup it all

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: First night dinner date

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Two year reprieve for beauty contest

... 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. ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Campbell's tour

... Campbell's tour GLEN CAMPBELL supported by Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, begins a tour at the Hexagon, Reading on April 17, with dates to follow at Port Talbot, Guernsey, Jersey, Southport, Carlisle, Nottingham, Cambridge, Southend and the Dominion, Tot tenham Court Road, where the tour ends on April 29. The Gatlins will not be going to the Channel Islands but will appear in Stockport ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Nymph night

... Nymph night BARRY J. MISHON has announced that Patricia Hodge, Marti Stevens, Frances Ruffelle, Nichola McAuliffe, Ian Charleson, Virginia McKenna, Elaine Stritch, Paige O'Hara, Kaye Ballard, Robert Meadmore, Patrice Munsel, Liliane Montevecchi, Alexis Smith, Peter Noone, Jane Powell, Andrea McArdle, Fiona Fullerton, Tim Curry and Elisabeth Welch (Subject to availability) will be taking part ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: performance review 

Opera and dance: La Boheme

... La Boheme ROH SEEING this handsome production by John Copley, with its charming and plausible Julia Trevelyan Oman sets, is always a pleasure and to see it with David Rendall as Rodolfo is an added bonus. Following Placido Domingo, Rendall lacks that famous golden mastery of tone but his performance les throughout with an arresting hand some energy and sensitivity. He sus tains his vocal ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: performance review 

Opera and Dance: Resolution Series

... Resolution Series THE PLACE THE RESOLUTION Series of one night stands is a Place initiative designed to give opportunity to emerging choreographers. And in providing a platform for Catherine Willmore's Because I Say So it proved its worth. What impressed was the economy and directness of her four dancers and two actors, wno were snown in a starc set ting establishing an atmosphere of ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Optimistic outlook for Ayr Pavilion after council u-turn

... Optimistic outlook for Ayr Pavilion after council u-turn HOPES are rising that Ayr Pavilion will be saved from redevelopment, will continue to function as a venue for live music and will retain its potential as a theatre. After inviting purchase bids for the 80-year-old Pavilion, scene of the earliest Popplewell variety tri umphs in the town, the debt-rid den owners, Labour-controlled Kyle and ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Roberts' elephant walk escape

... Roberts' elephant walk escape CIRCUS entertainer Bobby Roberts is not to be prosecuted by Blackpool Council for walking his elephant on a Blackpool street. But he has been given a stem warning by the resort's public protection com mittee, which fears the animal could be a danger to the public. Roberts was reported to the council by animal welfare campaigners after he took three year old Indian ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Russian ballet is to go ahead

... Russian ballet is to go ahead By ROBIN DUKE FEARS that a leading Russian ballet company had called off its British tour have been dismissed by its tour promoters. Newcastle-based Now Leisure Marketing said that despite the political turmoil in the USSR, the British tour of Moscow's La Classique Ballet would be going ahead as planned. For a while the company's UK debut visit did appear in ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Muller does all the legwork for Children's Hospice

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review 

Light Entertainment News: Blow to school orchestral shows

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: performance review