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National Clown Theatre present
their Special School Holiday Show:
Buckets Full of Laughter and Gallons of Fun
Wednesday 22nd July 2009
: 1.30pm
ALL TICKETS : £4.50
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The New Dorothy the Dinosaur
Show
Monday 3rd August 2009 :
1st show 10.30am, 2nd show 2.00pm
Dorothy is one of the most endearing and best
loved stars of the smash hit Nick Jr television
show ‘The Wiggles’ and has now been
brought to the theatre stage in her very own fully
interactive live show alongside Captain Feathersword,
Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and several new
friends.
www.dorothythedinosaur.com
TICKETS : £4.50 adults,
£2.50 children
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SPARKS SUMMER SESSIONS
Tuesdays and Thursdays
throughout June, July and August
Junior Sparks - 8 to
11yrs : 5.30pm to 7.00pm
(changing to 2.00pm to 4.00pm during summer
hols)
Senior Sparks - 12
to 17 yrs : 7.00pm to 9.00pm
www.oswaldtwistleplayers.co.uk
ONE OFF PAYMENT OF
£20 FOR ALL SESSIONS
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT GAYLE KNIGHT TEL
01254 387851
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Sparks Present:
The Wind in The Willows
by Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett
Friday 4th & Saturday
5th September 2009 : 7.30pm
Performed by local young people, this engaging
production will charm all ages. Follow the
adventures of Ratty, Toad and Mole as they
laze away their summer days.
ALL TICKETS : £5.00
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Sparks Present:
Tales From The City Zoo
by Bill Highton
Saturday 5th &
Sunday 6th September 2009 : 2.00pm
Performed by Sparks juniors, this play
with music, was written by local man, Bill
Highton and the cast of Sparks.
Graham the Lion, Doris the Crocodile, Eric
the Elephant and Barry the Gorilla are all
happy in their home in the city Zoo but
newcomer Zimba the Chimpanzee isn’t.
Follow the animals adventure as they try
to help Zimba find his way out of the city
zoo and back to his homeland in Africa.
ALL TICKETS : £5.00
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Let's Hang On -
A Tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Friday 18th September 2009
: 7.30pm
Let's Hang On are an amazing live band who perform,
with the greatest of accuracy 'an outstanding
tribute' to the music of Frankie Valli and The
Four Seasons.
The music of Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy
DeVito & Nick Massi was recognised around
the world for it's legendary falsetto lead vocal
and incredible doo-wop harmonies, making these
blue collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks,
who wrote their own songs and invented their own
sound, one of the biggest pop sensations of all
time!
Let's Hang On will take you back to this magical
time in music history. Performing all your favourite
hits - Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Rag Doll,
Walk Like a Man, Dec '63 (Oh What a Night), Can't
Take My Eyes Off You... and many more.
So don't miss this exciting show, guaranteed
to have you singing at the top of your voices
and dancing in the aisles.
www.letshangon.co.uk
TICKETS : £16.00
adults (£14.00 concessions)
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Planet Rabbit Productions
Limited Present:
Bazaar & Rummage
by Sue Townsend
Tuesday 22nd September 2009
: 7.30pm
Gwenda, a neurotic do-gooder and ex-agoraphobic,
leads a self-help group of 3 agoraphobic women
who haven't been able to leave their homes for
many years for a variety of reasons.
They are now venturing out to run a local jumble
sale at the church hall, supervised by Gwenda
and assisted by sensible trainee social worker,
Fliss. While sorting the rummage their fears erupt
and as the day ends their agoraphobia isn't cured
but they leave with the knowledge that they are
not alone in their fears.
A hilarious play written by the writer of Adrian
Mole and Queen & I. Original songs by Nathan
Dawe.
www.planetrabbit.co.uk
ALL TICKETS : £9.00
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As part of Hyndburn’s
Year of Culture,
Leisure in Hyndburn and Hyndburn Borough
Council are proud to present:
CHILDREN'S THEATRE
WEEK
A diverse selection of Theatre and workshops
aimed at children from the age of 2 to 17.
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Horseplay
Saturday 26th September
2009 :
11.00am, 12.30pm, 2.00pm, 3.30pm
Set within a horse's stable, Horseplay
is a magical, multi-sensory world containing
live performer, Niki McCretton, beautiful
props, miniature landscapes, lighting, sound
and images to support children's imaginative
ideas.
Initiated by Niki's pony-tale, the children
take over as their play becomes the performance.
Parents and teachers watch the unfolding
story through nooks and crannies in the
stable wall. Horseplay is guaranteed to
thrill children and will please parents
too!
Horseplay has been developed to meet the
new Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum
guidelines and directly meets specified
areas of learning and development through
physical exploration and investigation,
imagination and imaginative play.
Children and parents can stay, ask questions
and play together afterwards.
www.nikimccretton.com
TICKETS : £3.50
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HOOF!
A Horse's Quest for a Herd, Humour and a
Life Without Shoes
Sunday 27th September
2009 : 2.00pm
Stuck in her stable, abandoned by her owner
a lonely pony dreams of a better life. Then
one night the tv remote falls within hoof
reach and a whole new world of cowboy films,
rodeos and adventure is revealed. She starts
to realise that she's no dumb animal and
a quest for life, a herd and humour begins!
A 50 minute show for children aged 3+ and
their families, told with puppets, tap dancing
hooves and nostalgic TV clips of Black Beauty,
Mr Ed and Champion the Wonder Horse.
www.nikimccretton.com
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Val and Halla's Loony
Longboat Legends
Thursday 1st October
2009 : 10.00am
Welcome to the world of Val and Halla and
their loony longboat legends. These two
crazy characters attempt to tell the story
of how Viking influence grew and spread
throughout the world and how they eventually
came to settle in England… but they
can’t do it without plenty of help
from the audience.
By participating in this live show the
children will explore the life and times
of the Viking people; they will become the
heroes and villains of Viking history with
no rehearsal or preparation necessary.
Issues raised in History Unit 6, ‘Why
have people invaded and settled in Britain
in the past?’, History Unit 18 ‘What
was it like to live here in the past?’
and Citizenship Unit 5, ‘Living in
a Diverse World’ are explored in a
highly enjoyable and creative way.
Other areas of the curriculum covered by
the performance, workshop and in the Teacher’s
Pack are geography, ICT, literacy, art &
design and personal, social and health education.
www.markmarkproductions.co.uk
ALL TICKETS : £1.00
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The Story of Odysseus
Thursday 1st October
2009 : 1.30pm
It’s around 1200BC The Trojan War
has been raging for 10 years and is about
to come to an end. How have the main characters
fared? Was Paris a capital soldier? Is Helen
still beautiful? How is Achilles’ heel?
For the great soldier Odysseus the end of
the war marks the beginning of a new 10
year adventure as he sets sail for Ithaca
and home… but things don’t quite
go according to plan!
Odysseus and his men are beset by monsters
and befuddled by Gods on their journey across
the seas and only the children, with a bit
of help from the actors, can see them safely
home.
Participation in this piece of comedy story
theatre will enable the children to explore
what life was like in the ancient Greek
empire as defined in History Unit 14. Issues
from Citizenship Unit 5, ‘Living in
a Diverse World’ are also addressed.
Other areas of the curriculum covered in
the performance and in the Teacher's Pack
include geography, ICT, literacy, art &
design and personal, social and health education.
www.markmarkproductions.co.uk
ALL TICKETS : £1.00
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If you are a school
group and would like to bring a large number
to either of the above shows please contact
Kerry Smith on 01254 380658.
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Banxy, Kno Love Productions
and Makin' Projects Present:
Adventures in Anti-Cool
Sunday 4th October
2009 : 7.00pm
Three knock-out and very individual Hip
Hop theatre performances in the same evening!
Banxy presents his new solo piece Ikky
Wakk - Is Ikky still at the top of the Breakdance
game or has age got the best of him?
KnoLove Productions present their solo
Cool Rules - A fierce uncompromising tale
of pride, fear and hope exploring the explosion
of violence within our young communities.
Using physical lyricism with verbal dexterity
Cool Rules brings you back to gritty urban
reality with a bump.
The whole evening will be topped off with
Adventures in Anti-Cool - A fast and fun
vignette of Hip Hop theatre what ifs, boldly
going where no B’Boy has any right
to be. To seek out new hip hop theatre but
not as we know it by riffing on themes as
diverse as Star Trek, club nights and the
inner nerd.
www.banxy.co.uk
www.makinprojects.co.uk
ALL TICKETS : £2.50
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Freddie Starr
Friday 9th October 2009 :
7.30pm
The madcap comedian Freddie Starr is back on
tour with another unpredictable evening of madness
and mayhem as he brings his own brand of outrageous
humour to the stage.
Freddie is no stranger to the theatre and is
pleased to be back very live and very dangerous.
Freddie has over the last 40 years established
himself as one of the true comic geniuses of all
time, with his place in the comedy 'Hall of Fame'
now assured he’s back treading the boards,
so come and see the legend in person.
www.freddiestarr.com
ALL TICKETS : £20.00
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Five Star Swing
As seen on BBC TV's “Children in Need”
Sunday 25th October 2009
: 2.30pm
Featuring Simone, from the Ivy Benson Orchestra.
An exciting event with hits you'll know and love
from the Swing era - Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller
through to vocals like "Mr Bojangles"
& "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - plus
foot stomping “Jools Holland” style
Jazz.
“They swing like crazy - Superb !”
Sheila Tracy (BBC)
“...A celebration of classic Swing !”
(Telegraph)
This show boasts multi-instrumentalists and singers
led by Chris Smith - former composer for Herb
Miller (Glenn Miller's brother), BBC Big Band
and the Royal Variety Performance at the London
Palladium.
www.fivestarswing.lgwebdesign.co.uk
TICKETS : £10.50
(£9.50 Concessions)
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An Evening with Mike D'Abo
Saturday 31st October 2009
: 7.30pm
Mike d’Abo first came to fame in 1966 replacing
Paul Jones as lead singer with Manfred Mann. His
voice was featured on 7 consecutive top 10 hits,
including ‘Just Like A Woman’, ‘Semi-Detached
Suburban Mr. James’, ‘Fox On The Run’,
‘Ha! Ha! Said The Clown’, and the memorable
No 1 hit, ‘The Mighty Quinn’.
As a songwriter, he wrote two of the 60s most
enduring classics – ‘Handbags &
Gladrags’ (heard recently as the theme tune
to ‘The Office‘) and ‘Build Me
Up Buttercup’, which remain as popular today,
if not more so, than in their heyday. In the 70s,
he made several solo albums, undertook some acting
roles, and wrote a string of catchy TV jingles,
including ‘A Finger Of Fudge’.
After living in America for several years, he
returned to the UK in the 80s, becoming a radio
presenter for BBC Radio Gloucestershire, Bristol,
and Wiltshire Sound. He still tours with The Manfreds
and with the Mike d’Abo Mighty Quintet. This
show will feature many of Mike’s hits and
entertaining stories about his forty years on
the road...
www.mikedabo.com
TICKETS : £12.00
(£10.00 Concessions)
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Joe Longthorne
Saturday 7th November 2009
: 7.30pm
This talented artist began his career over three
decades ago with appearances on Junior Showtime,
followed by a grounding on the tough Northern
club circuit. His big break came in 1981 when
he was a finalist on London Weekend Television’s
‘Search For A Star’ - this led to appearances
at the London Palladium with Bob Hope and The
Talk Of The Town. A short time later, Joe received
the Variety Club of Britain award as Most Promising
Artiste of the Year. Television specials in the
UK and USA
followed.
Joe’s repertoire of voices is endless and
includes hundreds of the world’s top singers,
however, he is perhaps best known for his impersonation
of Shirley Bassey who has commented, “Joe
can do me better than I can do myself”.
www.joelongthorne.com
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George Critchley for PMA
Productions and Leisure in Hyndburn present:
Sleeping Beauty
Saturday 12th December 2009
: 2.00pm & 7.00pm
Sunday 13th December 2009 : 2.00pm
Friday 18th December 2009 : 7.00pm
Saturday 19th December 2009 : 2.00pm
A magical family pantomime
Featuring The Zoe Taylor Dance Academy (Blackburn).
Written by George Critchley with Musical Direction
by Malcolm Bennett
and Choreography by Karen Heritage
Starring Ria Scott from The Fast Food Rockers
and the Disney Channel as 'Beauty'.
TICKETS : £12.00,
£10.00 (Concessions)
FAMILY TICKET : £36.50 (up to 4 - max 2
adults)
CHILDREN (under 16) : £8.00
GROUP TICKET : £8.50 per person (groups
of 12 or over)
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