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WHERE BIG THINGS HAPPEN WHAT'S ON JAN – APR 2020 BOX OFFICE 01263 822347 www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com Debbie Thompson, The Welcome Sheringham Little Theatre Director Hello and welcome to spring 2020! Richard Digance and John Tams join us again for musical feasts, together with Dreamcast My favourite season as it celebrates fresh ideas productions ‘Merci pour la Musique’ and Paul Hub and new beginnings. We bring you a whole Amer’s ‘Trip Wyre and The Hazards’. host of new work, including a wonderfully funny one woman show, ‘I Amdram’, which I saw at We have lots of excellent live screenings The Edinburgh Festival and loved! We present including the highly-acclaimed production of Hub a world premiere of a new opera ‘Mankind’ by ‘Present Laughter’ and ‘Swan Lake’. Come and enjoy some renowned composer, Michael Finnissy and a family piece called ‘The Origin of Species’. There will be more of your favourite cinema freshly-made food releases to come! Our Easter youth musical is the classic ‘Guys in our friendly café – and Dolls’ which will have us all rocking, A spring bundle to entertain and delight you. Sponsored by: whether in a boat or not! No chance to sit menus to suit all ages. down! We also play host to a wonderful Night Enjoy! at the Musicals which showcases the fantastic talent of our local young adult performers. Best wishes, fEast Theatre celebrate their 10th Anniversary with a revival of the brilliant ‘Canada Boys’ and Rupert Mason returns with his ‘Gothic Tales’. Hub We have a new play based on the life of Agatha Debbie Thompson, Theatre Director Christie and a piece celebrating the Hollywood greats Judy Garland and Bette Davis. P.S. Remember to keep up to date with Funded by: additional screenings and new films by checking out our regular film leaflets. 2 Box office 01263 822347 Online www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com 3 BALLET SCREENING FILM MUSIC BALLET SCREENING THEATRE COPPELIA JUDY A CHARITY EVENING WITH THE SLEEPING BEAUTY DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE AND ROYAL OPERA HOUSE RICHARD DIGANCE & ANTO MORRA ROYAL OPERA HOUSE OTHER GOTHIC TALES In fond DECKCHAIR PRODUCTIONS REDHEART THEATRE Sat 11 Jan Tue 14 Jan Sun 19 Jan Wed 22 Jan Sat 25 Jan 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.15pm 7.30pm Suitable for ages 12 yrs + memoryWe dedicate this season to the late, great Julian High. Julian was a huge supporter Featuring the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Stars: Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell A regular visitor to the theatre over the past This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been An Evening of Gothic Horror! SLT regular Rupert of The Little Theatre and he will be greatly Director: Rupert Goold few years, Richard Digance has kindly agreed delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. Mason returns with a trio of classic Victorian tales. missed. As you look around the Hub bar A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Certificate: 12A to give a charity concert to help raise funds for A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal you will see all the lovely West End show Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – Running time: 1hr 58mins Glendon House Care Home in nearby Overstrand, Ballet both in its new home after World War II A sceptical young man spends a night in a haunted posters that Julian donated. He trod the a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls. in order that they can purchase a special piece of and as a world-class company. Sixty years later, in room to prove there are no such things as ghosts in boards here and was a very talented Thirty years after starring in 'The Wizard of Oz', equipment known as a Tovertafel which is designed 2006, the original staging was revived, returning The Red Room by H G Wells. performer. In more recent years he The intricate choreography is set to Delibes’ beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in to stimulate patients suffering from dementia. Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering A lonely railway worker is visited by a mysterious delightful score and shows off the technical London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of costumes to the stage. entertained audiences in the Hub with his spectral figure inThe Signalman by Charles Dickens. hilarious anecdotes and naughty jokes. precision and comedic timing of the whole the Town nightclub. Richard has invited local singer-songwriter and Company. 2019 winner of the ‘Folk on the Pier’ showcase Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s enchanting score and And thirdly, a new adaptation of The Strange Julian was a champion of new talent and While there, she reminisces with friends and fans Anto Morra to support on the night. All profits from Marius Petipa’s original choreography beautifully Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by award-winning Osbert Lancaster’s designs bring a colourful and begins a whirlwind romance with musician this concert will be donated to ‘Glendon House combine with sections created for The Royal he would relish each youth production playwright Justin Butcher. Exploring the essential storybook world to life in this treat for the whole Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Amenities Fund’. Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and and urge others to support them too. It disturbing insight of Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark family. Christopher Wheeldon. fable - man’s seemingly inexorable attraction to the seems fitting then that this spring season “Renee Zellweger gives the performance of a of fresh beginnings will be produced in taboo, the lawless and the destructive - the unlived lifetime in Garland biopic”. The Independent This ballet is sure to cast its spell over anyone who dimensions of the human psyche. memory of a wonderful man who will sees it. be fondly remembered by all our staff, Guaranteed to send a chill down the spine! volunteers and customers. Tickets £16 Students/Under 16s £13.50 Tickets £8 Students/Under 16s £5 Tickets £16 Tickets £16 Students/Under 16s £13.50 Tickets £14 Students/Under 16s £10 4 Box office 01263 822347 Online www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com 5 JAZZ @ THE HUB THEATRE NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE (PRE-RECORDED) OPERA SCREENING MUSIC AND SONG AMATEUR THEATRE SWING DE PARIS I, AMDRAM PRESENT LAUGHTER LA BOHEME MERCI POUR LA MUSIQUE TAKING STEPS HANNAH MAXWELL – BY NOËL COWARD ROYAL OPERA HOUSE DREAMCAST PRODUCTIONS CSODS PRESENTED BY CREATIVE ARTS EAST Sun 26 Jan Fri 31 Jan Sat 1 Feb Wed 5 Feb Sat 8 Feb Wed 12 – Sat 15 Feb 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Wed - Sat, 2.30pm matinee on Sat 15 The blueprint for the band is in the Django In this solo performance, Hannah Maxwell makes a Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris The effortless charm of Charles Aznavour, exotic CSODS is proud to present this hectic and hilarious Rheinhardt tradition. It also reflects more recent prodigal’s return to the musty vibrancy of amateur Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical beauty of Josephine Baker, the breathtaking epics farce by master playwright Alan Ayckbourn. development but the emphasis remains on swing. dramatics – her family’s consuming passion for 89 comedy Present Laughter. arias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of of Jacques Brel, gentle comedy of Charles Trenet years and four generations. Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter, and a poignant and the power and passion of Edith Piaf brought When tongue-tied solicitor Tristram has to oversee You can expect classic Django tunes such as As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star final scene over which the composer himself wept. us some of the most successful and popular songs the sale of a dilapidated country house (said to “Minor Swing” and “Nuages” alongside many jazz Weaving storytelling, stand-up, live art and a actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of of the 20th century, firmly planted into the hearts be haunted by a deceased prostitute) he soon standards that have been adapted to the style. manageable amount of musical theatre references, spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating Richard Jones’s character-led production perfectly of English-speaking audiences. realises he’s in way over his head; not only with I,AmDram traces the distance between queer, quirky identity crisis as his many and various relationships captures La Bohème’s mixture of comedy, romance the scheming builder Leslie Bainbridge, but with The band is led by the virtuosic and propulsive London and the rehearsal halls of Home Counties compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining and tragedy, with striking designs by Stewart Laing. Dreamcast Productions continue their love affair his difficult, alcoholic client Roland Crabbe. That suburbia. The piece was initially developed in 2017 playing of Nigel Wheeler on solo guitar and the days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, with iconic French singers in 'Merci Pour La same night, Roland’s wife Elizabeth has called over through Starting Blocks, the artist development swinging melodies of Mark Jolley on violin. They panic and soul-searching. The cast features some of the greatest interpreters Musique', a musical odyssey of famous songs, and her unwilling brother Mark for support as she’s programme at Camden People’s Theatre - where it are accompanied by Louis Coates on rhythm guitar of Puccini’s bohemian lovers performing today, as their sometimes unexpected continental origins. packing to leave her husband. Misunderstandings returned in May 2018 for a sell-out run.