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Royal Albert Hall Box Office Staff Learn Klingon

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Royal Albert Hall Box Office Staff Learn Klingon

Box Office staff at the Royal Albert Hall have undertaken a crash course in Klingon, ahead of the venue’s ‘Star Trek – In Concert’ and ‘Star Trek Beyond – In Concert’ events in June. Employees were asked to take classes in the ‘language’ after the Hall announced it would give two free tickets to anyone ordering in Klingon. The Royal Albert Hall called in one of the world’s foremost experts in Klingon, Alex Greene, to help the team master the warrior language. Lucy Noble, Artistic Director at the Royal Albert Hall, said: “Star Trek is a timeless classic with a huge cult following. We wanted to celebrate it and reward real Trekkies with this opportunity to win free tickets for those booking in Klingon. “I think the Box Office probably thought I was joking when we asked them to take Klingon lessons. But now they are chatting regularly in Klingon, … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Sheila Hancock and Bill Milner in Harold and Maude

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Harold and Maude at Charing Cross Theatre

As Harold and Maude starts previewing at Charing Cross Theatre starring Sheila Hancock and Bill Milner we bring you Darren Bell’s great production photos. Harold and Maude is an idiosyncratic romantic fable told though the eyes of the most unlikely pairing: a compulsive, self-destructive young man and a devil-may-care, septuagenarian bohemian. Dame Marjorie “Maude” Chardin (Sheila Hancock), is a free spirit who wears her hair in braids, believes in living each day to its fullest, and “trying something new every day”. Harold Parker Chasen (Bill Milner) is an 18-year-old man who is obsessed with death, attends funerals of strangers for entertainment and stages elaborate fake suicides. Through meeting Maude at a funeral, he discovers joy in living for the first time. Part dark comedy and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with ones that separate people by class, gender and age. Olivier Award-winning … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Joe Pasquale in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em UK Tour

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Some MOthers Do 'Ave 'Em

Joe Pasquale takes on the iconic role of Frank Spencer in the Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em UK Tour. Take a look at Scott Rylander’s great production images. Based on the original TV comedy series by Raymond Allen, the stage adaptation of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em is written and directed by Guy Unsworth and stars Joe Pasquale as the loveable but accident-prone Frank Spencer, Sarah Earnshaw as Betty, Susie Blake as Mrs Fisher, Moray Treadwell as Mr Luscombe/Mr Worthington, David Shaw-Parker as Father O’Hara and Chris Kiely as Desmond/Constable. SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM TOUR SCHEDULE      

Casting Announced for An Officer And A Gentleman UK Tour

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An Officer And A Gentleman UK Tour

Casting has been announced for An Officer And A Gentleman UK Tour which opens in April at the Leicester Curve.     Director of An Officer And A Gentleman and Artistic Director of the Curve has announced that Emma Williams will play ‘Paula Pokrifiki’, Jonny Fines is ‘Zack Mayo’, Ray Shell as ‘Foley’, Ian Macintosh as ‘Sid Worley’ and Jessica Daley as ‘Lynette Pomeroy’. View the tour schedule here. Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director of Curve and Director of ‘An Officer and Gentleman – The Musical’ said today “Douglas Day Stewart wrote An Officer and a Gentleman in response to his time serving in the American Air Force and the challenges he faced during training. It is a visceral, uncompromising and ultimately tender portrait of the these personal experiences and the lives of folk living near the training facility in the early 1980s. “We are proud to have assembled such an … Read more

INTERVIEW: Charlie Clements on The Case Of The Frightened Lady

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Charlie Clements The Case Of The Frightened Lady

Former EastEnders star Charlie Clement tells us about new stage thriller The Case of The Frightened Lady now touring the UK How would you describe The Case Of The Frightened Lady? It is a tense thriller that all takes place in the stately home of Lord and Lady Lebanon. The play kicks off with a lavish fancy dress party celebrating the Restoration of Charles II. But something happens, and two police officers, Tanner and Totti, who I play, arrive to investigate. People end up dead and nobody knows who’s done it. There are always people moving and there are always people listening, so it creates this constant air of suspicion. Basically everyone has a motive to be the killer. I’ve always enjoyed thrillers and old school whodunits, so the opportunity to be in one of those was really exciting. What’s your character, Totti, like? He is 37 and he came … Read more

Tom Chambers is just Crazy For You!

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You can’t beat some glorious Gershwin and the composer has no greater fan than Tom Chambers who is fulfilling a teenage dream by starring in the musical Crazy For You. By the time the curtain came down on a production of Crazy For You in the early Nineties, a 15-year-old Tom Chambers knew his heart lay in performing. “It was the very first live musical I ever saw on stage and it just filled me with so much entertainment and wonder. It was amazing to see what they did with the theatre space and how the story was told. It was the only bit of theatre which truly inspired me,” he recalled. And in a career which has featured a number of crazy twists of fate as well as some fantastic roles, Tom is relishing the chance to recapture that teenage dream and this time play the lead role in … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Shrek UK Tour 2018 – Production Images and New Trailer

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Shrek UK Tour 2018

STOP PRESS: A new tour of Shrek the musical has been announced for 2023. (7/6/23) Shrek the musical UK Tour 2018 has released a great new trailer for the show and a series of great production photos. Shrek the musical is now touring the UK and Ireland until January 2019 with a cast starring Steffan Harri as Shrek, Call The Midwife star Laura Main as Princess Fiona, who shares the role with actor and recording artist Amelia Lily at selected venues whilst filming continues on the new BBC series, Marcus Ayton as Shrek’s wisecracking sidekick Donkey and Samuel Holmes as the pint-sized villain Lord Farquaad. The company of fairy-tale characters includes Adam Baker, Ethan Bradshaw, Michael Carolan, Joseph Dockree, Will Hawksworth, Sarah-Louise Jones, Reece Kerridge, Thomas Lee Kidd, Amy Oxley, Jemma Revell, Lucinda Shaw, Sam Stones, Adam Taylor, Jennifer Tierney, Sophie Wallis, Francesca Williams, Laura Wilson and Kevin Yates. FIND … Read more