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Cailín Deas Productions present Tommy Swarbrigg Promotions present Weighing In Abba Forever Written by Ger Gallagher The smash hit show from last December returns due Weighing-In is a fast-paced comedy about life, to popular request for another night of great songs! love and dieting and how we all need to adjust the It’s Christmas! It’s Party Time! So it must be ABBA! scales to find the right balance. Set in the Easi-Slim Believe it or not, it is forty years since they started diet clinic, we meet the highly driven Pam and the and this terrific show celebrates this fact with a motherly Breda. Both attend the weekly weigh-in loud and proud fanfare! Expect a dazzling, fantastic and strike up an unlikely relationship. Pam has performance including the most iconic hits, Dancing reached her target weight and has only joined up Queen, Mamma Mia, S.O.S, Money, Money, Money, to maintain and brag about the weight she’s lost. The Winner Takes All, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Drama Breda has diligently attended the Easi-Slim meet- Music many MANY more! Get your glad rags on, brush up ings but just can’t manage to win the battle of the on the lyrics, don the dancing boots and come to the Mon Nov 30th - bulge – until Pam comes along to power walk her December best party in town! You’ll be rockin’ in the aisles!!! Sat Dec 5th into shape. With her low-calorie intake and rigorous Wed 2nd “The Finest ABBA voices I have ever heard.” – The Sunday Loose End Studio 8:15pm exercise regime, Pam introduces Breda to life in the Main Auditorium 8pm World fasting lane. €16 & €12 concession “Pacey, tender and packed with laughs, Weighing-In is a €20 & €18 concession Drama Comedy calorie-free treat.” - Sunday Times Route 66 Big Band presents Ballet Ireland presents Route 66 Big Band Live Coppélia Music Children Choreography by Morgann Runacre-Temple in Concert Franz and his reporter fiancée Hildy, are curious Fresh from their recent outstanding success at the about the beautiful girl, Coppélia. Hildy begins to Mill Theatre in Dundrum the fabulous Route 66 16 suspect things are not all that they seem... She and piece Big Band take you on a musical trip from the her friends follow the seemingly perfect starlet, Big Band era right up to the present allowing you arriving at Dr Coppelius’ laboratories. Inside, to relive numbers made famous by Count Basie, they stumble upon a magical and strange world, Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, The Beatles, uncovering secrets that will change them forever! Tina Turner, Joe Dolan, Van Morrison, Adele, Cher Setting the much-loved story at a County Fair, in and many more. Please feel free to join them on the 50s choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple Music the memory train, kick off your shoes and sing Dance (Carmen, Romeo & Juliet), with writer Stella Feehily, along with all these fantastic numbers and they can November December have re-interpreted this witty and pertinent ballet guarantee you will be hoping that the night will inspired by the eternal obsession with youthful Fri 27th never end. This is a great value for money show and Thurs 3rd - Sat 5th Main Auditorium 8pm perfection. With its nod to the movie glamour of Main Auditorium 8pm a real treat not to be missed. Book your seat early to yesteryear, its captivating dance and the charming avoid disappointment. Matinée 5th - 3pm €18 & €16 concession music of Léo Delibes and Tom Lane, Coppélia will €20 & €16 concession enchant and enthral audiences of all ages. Matinée €18 & €16 concession €12 under 12’s evening & matinée Pat Egan Sound Ltd presents Pat Egan Sound Ltd presents Brendan Balfe - Sorry Melanie McCabe sings We’re Off Air The Greatest Divas Live In his new one-man show, Brendan Balfe recalls December 2015 Melanie McCabe, the former X-Factor star, is now some of the personalities and eccentrics who taking the first steps on her journey to becoming became household names in Ireland. His tales of Gay Tallaght – March 2016 a successful concert artist. The Greatest Divas Live Byrne, Mike Murphy, Maurice O’Doherty, Dermot offers Melanie the opportunity to use her wonderful Morgan, and many others, steer just this side of a season of entertainment on your doorstep voice to pay tribute to some of the greatest female the libel laws. He also tells of meeting such diverse singers in recording history. From the “60’s pop personalities as Peggy Lee, Stan Freberg and Jimi queens like Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Hendrix. Brendan not only tells hilarious stories, but Music Diana Ross and Tina Turner, she sings songs of the Drama also plays some actual clips from programmes, as well as the unintended mistakes, or “Bloopers’, that one and only Barbara Streisand, the soul and blues December November of Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. Classic songs every broadcaster is prone to. Irish radio wasn’t as Sun 29th like Walk on By, Son Of A Preacher Man, Simply The Sun 6th serious as it sounded. Behind the solemn sound of Civic Main Auditorium 8pm Best and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and many Main Auditorium 8pm serious programmes, there was some hilarity and Theatre many more. laughter. €20 & €18 concession & €20 & €18 concession “Brendan Balfe- a National Treasure” civictheatre.ie for groups of 10 or more - Sunday Independent Dublin Gospel Choir presents Jackie Johnston Agency presents Causeway Productions present Dublin Gospel Choir Dickie Rock Aladdin Dickie Rock is one of Ireland’s most famous sons and Poor Widow Lola Twankey is having a bad day in her Christmas Celebration recognised singers. He has been performing and laundry. That useless son of hers is off messing with Returning to the Civic in December, The Dublin packing out venues throughout Ireland and Europe that other brat Aladdin and there is a ton of washing Gospel Choir is probably the only act in the world for over fifty years and is still going as strong as to be done. Aladdin has seen the beautiful Princess to have collaborated with artists as diverse as John ever! Even after all this time, he cannot leave the Jasmin and says he is going to marry her (even Legend, Riverdance, Rod Stewart, The Chieftains stage without performing some of his number one though he hasn’t a penny!). And Jafar, the scheming and Ennio Morricone. Having formed in the mid singles, which include; There’s Always Me (1963) and villain, has found out about a certain magic lamp 1990’s – they are the only gospel artists to break From the Candy Store on the Corner (1964). During his and will stop at nothing to get his hands on it – but into the Top 20 Irish Charts, and the only act to play time with the Miami Showband, Dickie attracted mysteriously the only person who can find it is The Main Stage every year at Electric Picnic. Their Music Music the kind of mass hysteria normally reserved for Panto a certain lad in town. Smile. It’s the Causeway show contains the most uplifting and powerful boybands like Westlife. Dickie has no intention Productions annual panto. Oh yes it is! December gospel choir arrangements with seasonal songs to December of slowing down and has just finished recording Sun Dec 20th - Tues 8th send you home full of the joys of Christmas! Fri 11th his new album. So join Dickie for a great night of Sun Jan 3rd “An annual must-see of Electric Picnic – who’d have thought Main Auditorium 8pm entertainment. see website for dates Main Auditorium 8pm gospel would be this cool?” - Irish Times €18 & €16 concession €20 & times €12 - all tickets Maria Schweppe present Liberties College presents Pat Egan Sound Ltd presents Aprés Match Henry VI part III O’Holy Night with Red Following the recent success of Après Match of the Written by William Shakespeare Hurley & His Musicians Day, on RTÉ2, Ireland’s premier league comedy Directed by Neville Style Red Hurley needs no introduction to Irish audiences. team, Aprés Match, is coming to play a home game Believed to have been written in 1591, this history A star for over 40 years with 8 No. 1 singles to his in a town near you! Expect your favourite football play is set during the reign of King Henry VI of name, Red has toured and entertained audiences all pundits; Eamon Dunphy, Liam Brady and Kenny England. It focuses on the horrors of conflict with a over the world. For this special Christmas show Red Cunningham and some other loved and not so once ordered nation thrown into chaos and & his musicians will perform their interpretation well loved characters including; George Hook, barbarism as families are torn apart and moral codes of such seasonal classic as Silent Night, Away In A Paul Durkan, Joan Burton, Mary O’ Rourke, Alex are subverted in the pursuit of revenge and power. Manger, White Christmas, Rudolph The Red Nosed Ferguson, Martin O’ Neill, Giovanni Trappatoni, Gay Reindeer, O Holy Night, Chestnuts Roasting On An Byrne, Johnny Giles, Gunther, Sky Sports News and the inimitable John Delaney. There’ll be an exclusive Drama Music Open Fire, When A Child Is Born and many others. Red Comedy will also sing a selection of his favourite spiritual hits performance from Ireland’s top tenors, not The December December such as Something Inside So Strong, How Great Thou January Three Tenors or The Irish Tenors or The Celtic Tenors Tues 8th - Sat 12th Sun 13th Art, The Living Years and many more.