This musical comes with a brilliant pedigree with music by the ABBA boys and lyrics crafted by Sir Tim Rice.
A triumph on Broadway and London’s West End you are guaranteed a great night of musical theatre with this clever take on the game of chess, political rivalry and two men battling for the love of a
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Brassy Ladies’ Band on The Run.
Set in the sixties in a parallel world to the swinging one, a family of sisters set out in a great big adventure in the exclusively alpha-male domain of brass band competitions .
All of the girls have what we now call issues – useless boyfriends, a headbanger father,
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The Foundling is the latest album release from Mary Gauthier.
An abandoned daughter’s heartfelt cry of love from a mother who abandoned her …..and it’s not all sad!
We all want to know what our roots are, and that our mother loved us.
This singer songwriter was ‘given up by her mother shortly after birth’ and has in her words “searched
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There cannot be many of us would have not heard of ‘The Rat Pack’.
Names like Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford , Frank Sinatra and Joey Bishop are the names that spring to mind almost immediately.
It seems however that a certain amount of confusion surrounds others who were also
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If you’re of the age when you can remember sixties songs when they were not reused to sell products on TV then there’s a special treat in store for you at Sunderland Empire.
Inspired by the smash hit million selling albums Dreamboats and Petticoats 1,2 and 3, the West End sell out production of the same name
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If you were a fan of the TV series ‘Just Good Friends’ then no doubt you will be familiar with the character of Vince played by Paul Nicholas.
It often seems that like many other actors these professionals become type cast as a one role person.
Not so for Paul as over the years he has
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If you’re ever in a pub quiz or even ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ‘and you’re asked “Who connects all these artists together, John ,Paul, George ,Ringo, Willy Russell and Gerry Rafferty?.
I can give you the answer providing you share the prize.
She became a well-known face on the British folk circuit of the
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Since going on general sale in March tickets sales for the international tour of the hit musical at Metro Radio Arena have topped 100,000 mark.
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This makes it the biggest selling event ever at the Arena since opening 14 years
The show goes ‘live’ at 8am but as you know you can listen anytime after that at your leisure. He’ll be taking a look at the Hot Billboard Country Songs Charts and in the ‘On This Day’ feature he’ll be taking a look at a chart topper ‘on this day’ (November 21st 1971).
There’s also tracks
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Seamus Cullen as Che and Rachael Wooding as Eva
A new lavish production of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber multi-award winning musical masterpiece Evita comes to the Theatre Royal Newcastle from Monday 22 June – Saturday 4 July. It tells the story of ‘little Eva’, born in deepest poverty, but as a
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