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A4 Circle Magazine 71 (04.11.2015)_1-765402593.e$S_Layout 1 09/11/2015 15:26 Page 1 The white horse blakeney for the Friends of Norwich Theatre Royal 71 Enjoy our favourite heart-warming dishes and an exciting range of beers, wines and spirits in the cosy atmosphere of the White Horse. Nestled into Blakeney High Street, this characterful pub is the perfect base for wind-swept walks, and a great place to TOASTTOAST wHile away a few relaxed, indulgent hours. TTOO MATTHEWMATTHEW Mr Kelly on bread-based drama Pop in and see us! JENNIFERJENNIFER ELLISONELLISON Panto baddie talks Christmas DREAMDREAM COMECOME TRUETRUE Owen’s journey 4 High Street, Blakeney Norfolk, NR25 7AL T: 01263 740574 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH adnams.co.uk Matthew Kelly in TToastoast A4 Circle Magazine 71 (04.11.2015)_1-765402593.e$S_Layout 1 09/11/2015 15:26 Page 3 Introduction Peter Wilson MBE DL Chief Executive By the end of November our new We’ve agreed with our friends at The learning and participation centre – Garage that our offers can and should STAGE TWO – will be above ground be complementary. Every individual, level. The construction time is about whether in school or out, whatever Photo: Garlinda Birkbeck Photo: nine months, which means that our the discipline they’re interested in, Arts Courses and Education should be able to find what they’re Department will move in sometime looking for in either – or both – of the next summer. programmes that we and The Garage will be creating. ON I’ve said and written much about our education programme and its Our experience in collaborating with SALE ambitions, but it’s worth reminding The Garage over Matthew Bourne’s NOW ourselves why we’re committing LORD OF THE FLIES taught us the nearly £4 million to this project. huge value of working together to These shows have all make a piece of theatre that – been added to our Norfolk’s young people have a possibly - neither of us could have programme since the historically poor record in school done so well on our own. There will, last brochure was issued grades. They don’t do as well as their I’m sure, be more productions that we in October, and are on sale now by post, online, counterparts in other parts of the UK. can work together on, and we will by phone or in person. They tend to have low ambitions and continue offering individuals from achieve less. They have been The Garage access to Theatre Royal Tues 16 February historically disadvantaged. productions and artists, as well as ADAM HILLS generating off-stage opportunities for Wed 17 February This must change. cross-collaboration. MILKSHAKE! LIVE The Theatre Royal believes it has to The Theatre Royal believes that its Sun 20 March be part of a long-term campaign to own health is intimately bound up KEN DODD reverse this trend. with the health of the other cultural Sun 3 April organisations in Norfolk. We sit on RUSSELL KANE We know that young people who cultural boards, we keep close have an understanding of the creative contact with our colleagues, we work Tues 5 April and collaborative nature of the arts together to ensure that everyone who THE UKULELE tend to do better in Maths and lives and works in Norfolk has the ORCHESTRA OF GB English tests - the employability best possible access to the best Tues 17 - Wed 18 May subjects - as well as History and available art and artists. SANS OBJET Citizenship. They get higher grades. They have a better chance to earn a We share this belief with The Garage, Thur 19 May good living and contribute more to the Writers Centre, the Festival, MAX RICHTER ENSEMBLE society. SeaChange, the Puppet Theatre, the Playhouse, Houghton Hall, the Sat 21 May Put simply, this is why we’re putting Sainsbury Centre, the Castle and LISA FISCHER our stability, our reputation and our every other arts organisation in resources into STAGE TWO. Because Norfolk. we believe that we can help. So that’s the route forwards as I see it, Between now and next summer as we move towards STAGE TWO. there’s a lot of work to be done, partly And if you think that you can help us fundraising but especially in the raise the money that will be needed recruitment of the person who will to clear its costs, please let me know. help to shape the building’s offer, cohere the various strands of our Please join us. educational work, and point the direction forward over the next few theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk/stagetwo years. Circle Magazine November 2015 3 A4 Circle Magazine 71 (04.11.2015)_1-765402593.e$S_Layout 1 09/11/2015 15:26 Page 5 The natural escape... closer than you think A musical which follows a host Set among the gamblers, era for a show as New York (and of warm-hearted and entertainers and hustlers of beyond) was in a state of flux and Enjoy a great short break or holiday at Kelling Heath, where you can larger-than-life characters who Prohibition-era New York, it sees the things were on the up after the war. choose from woodland lodges, luxury holiday homes and touring pitches. ® inhabit the underbelly of New desperate Nathan Detroit face the “It is about getting into the head of Bookings or brochure 01263 588181 or online www.kellingheath.co.uk THE NATURAL ESCAPE York is on its way to Norwich prospect of his life unravelling the characters in the late Forties Kelling Heath, Weybourne, Holt, Norfolk NR25 7HW Theatre Royal. around him. To start with, he needs which was a time of great excitement money for an illegal dice game fast. and great optimism. The markets Guys and Dolls is set to put Add in relationship problems too. He were going up and up. There were the sass into late Spring as the has been engaged to nightclub mortgages for everyone, houses hit Chichester Festival Theatre singer Miss Adelaide for 14 years were being built, and of course production heads to the city, and she is not going to wait much Broadway shows were the main form and director Gordon longer for him to set the date. of relaxation in this era before Greenberg says people are in television,” he explained. for a treat. As if that is not enough to deal with, along comes notorious gambler Sky And this period holds a great deal of It is exhilarating, Masterson who never turns down the affection for Gordon. Born in Texas heart-warming and will leave chance of a bet, along with and later raised in New York, he you with a feeling of pure kind-hearted missionary Sarah grew up loving the big songs and happiness. That is the view of Brown. stories of Broadway and the some of the national critics entertainment world, remembering who came along to see Guys Nathan decides they could be his the big names like Sid Caesar and and Dolls during its run at financial passport out of his the influence of entertainers like him. Chichester Festival Theatre, problems. He sets Sky the challenge “That period owes a great debt to the venue behind the likes of of romancing the strait-laced Sarah the vaudeville era and also to music Barnum and Singin’ In The Rain. by taking her for dinner. Nothing can hall too,” said Gordon. go wrong, or can it? Now the rest of the country, It must have been a way of life, and a including audiences at The scene is set for this high-energy love of entertainment, that resonated Norwich Theatre Royal, are celebration of those who peopled with Gordon. He was performing in getting the chance to enjoy it. the glittering streets of New York his first Broadway show at the age of where the neon was not as bright as twelve, and after going to Stanford Broadway and you did what you University and the NYU Film School, could to earn a dime, or more. he joined advertising agency J Walter Thompson for a while as a The show premiered in 1950, and producer and director of Circle Magazine November 2015 3 Gordon believes it was an exciting commercials. The lure of theatre Circle Magazine November 2015 5 A4 Circle Magazine 71 (04.11.2015)_1-765402593.e$S_Layout 1 09/11/2015 15:26 Page 7 Sophie Thompson and the hugely production and first class in every experienced West End star Jamie way.” Praise indeed from a very Guys and Dolls Parker. “They are delightful and hard-working company and just lovely, lovely people. Sophie director poised to re-create the Thompson is one of my favourite magic of the much-loved people on the planet. I could not Chichester production on the believe I didn’t realise who she Norwich Theatre Royal stage. proved to be too strong and worked with some of the most was,” he laughed. Broadway beckoned, followed by respected companies in the world television, and then a move into including the Royal Ballet and the And despite the period setting, he directing and writing. Bolshoi, and bought a new believes everyone will get perspective to the production. something from it, including a His vast CV so far includes directing Carlos worked on Havana and smile on their face. Gordon said: and co-writing Irving Berlin’s Holiday Crapshooter Ball, two balletic parts “Young people may not know the Inn which broke box office records of the musical, as Gordon explains.