WHAT’S ON AUTUMN / WINTER 2017 WHAT’S ON AUTUMN / WINTER 2017 Auditorium Contents Appeal The Little Mermaid 4 Thu 21 – Sat 23 September 2017 Beautiful 5 Thank you to everyone who has supported Tue 26 – Sat 30 September 2017 We are delighted to thank our our auditorium appeal so far. Cilla the Musical 6 Mayflower 90 Patrons for supporting Tue 3 – Sat 7 October 2017 our auditorium appeal: Plans are moving forward for our £3.9m Julia Bland, Mrs Rita Boxall, Robert and Dance Show: Rambert 7 refurbishment in 2018, which will see Tue 10 & Wed 11 October 2017 Judith Dowdall, Roger and Tina Harrison, our auditorium repainted, new seating Sally Louise Hillyear Bsc, Amanda and Martyn The Railway Children 8 in our Stalls and Circle, the orchestra pit Thu 12 – Sun 15 October 2017 Hole, Gary and Jane Joyce, Mrs Denise Pope, repositioned, new environmentally-friendly Ian and Linda Ritchie, Cameron & MacKenzie Welsh National Opera 9 LED lighting and accessibility improvements. Ritchie-Cox, Andy and Cindy Taylor, Wed 18 – Sat 21 October 2017 Mr David and Mrs Eva Wilson Dance Show: Acosta Danza 10 This work is essential not just to preserve Mon 23 & Tue 24 October 2017 the building, but to the benefit of over To find out more about becoming All or Nothing 11 500,000 people each year who enjoy an individual or corporate Patron, Fri 27 & Sat 28 October 2017 visiting our theatre. please contact us on: 02380 711834 The Band 12 or [email protected] Tue 31 Oct – Sat 11 November 2017 We need your help toward Legally Blonde 14 the cost of this project We have a fantastic programme of shows Tue 14 – Sat 18 November 2017 running up to June 2018 including Sunset Crazy For You 15 We have secured £2.54 million towards our Boulevard, Miss Saigon, War Horse, The Kite Tue 21 – Sat 25 November 2017 refurbishment so far, but as an unsubsidised Runner and launching the UK tour of Titanic and independent charitable trust we need the Musical to name a few so read on… Nutcracker 16 Wed 29 Nov – Sat 2 December 2017 your help to raise the remaining £1.35 million needed. Kind regards, Slava’s Snow Show 17 Tue 5 – Sat 9 December 2017 Become a Mayflower 90 Patron Snow White 18–19 Fri 15 December 2017 – Sun 7 January 2018 2018 marks our theatre’s 90th birthday. We are Michael Ockwell Family Shows 20 seeking a limited number of Mayflower 90 Chief Executive The Snowman 21 Patrons, who will all receive special membership Wed 10 – Sun 14 January 2018 benefits and join us at an exclusive re-opening Sunset Boulevard 22–23 celebration in September 2018. Tue 16 – Sat 20 January 2018 Hairspray 25 Our Patrons will be amongst the very Mon 22 – Sat 27 January 2018 first people to see our newly refurbished The Sleeping Beauty 26 auditorium, before we re-open to the public. Wed 31 January – Sat 3 February 2018 Fat Friends 27 Mon 5 – Sat 10 February 2018 Tango Moderno 28 How you can help: Tue 13 – Sat 17 February 2018 Miss Saigon 32–33 Wed 21 February – Sat 17 March 2018 Give a general donation, Sponsor a plaque on one Text MAYF10 £10 to 70070 Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella 34 which will be directed to of our new seats, donating to donate £10 to Mayflower Tue 27 – Sat 31 March 2018 the areas in most need £300 for five years Theatre and make a Further 2018 Shows 30–35–44 or £500 for ten difference today Connect 2 Book Online: mayflower.org.uk with us on Box Office: 02380 711811 3 THURSDAY 21 – SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2017 TUESDAY 26 – SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 FRI – SAT 7.30PM & SAT 2PM £39.50 | £34.50 | £32.50 | £29.50 | £20 TUE – SAT 7.30PM & WED, THU & SAT 2PM THU 7.30PM £29.50 | £24.50 | £21 | £19 | £15 £48.50 | £43.50 | £34.50 | £23.50 Following the success of Beauty & the Beast, Northern Ballet returns to Southampton for the world première of The Little Mermaid. When a young mermaid is finally allowed her first glimpse of life beyond the ocean, she is enthralled by what she sees. After falling desperately in love with a man, she will do Photography of West End production End West of Photography anything she can to live a human life. With music played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, this beautiful new ballet will reimagine the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale and take you on ‘A STREAM OF ‘I FELT THE EARTH MOVE a journey beneath the waves. CLASSICS’ UNDER MY FEET’ The Observer Mail On Sunday Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming the Olivier and Tony award®-winning one of the most successful solo acts in popular West End and Broadway show, is coming to music history. Southampton as part of its first ever UK tour! Along the way she wrote the soundtrack to a Long before she was Carole King, the chart- generation, including one of the best-selling topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl albums of all time, Tapestry, and countless with an extraordinary talent. Beautiful tells the classics such as (You Make Me Feel Like) A inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to Natural Woman, Take Good Care of My Baby, stardom, from being part of a hit song-writing You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, It Might as Book a meal before the show call 02380 711833 team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her Well Rain Until September, Up on the Roof, or visit mayflower.org.uk relationship with fellow writers and best friends and The Locomotion. 4 Book Online: mayflower.org.uk See page 31 for details. Box Office: 02380 711811 5 TUESDAY 3 – SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 2017 TUESDAY 10 & WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2017 TUE – SAT 7.30PM & SAT 2PM £46.50 | £42.50 | £35.50 | £27.50 TUE & WED 7.30PM WED & THU 2PM £36.50 | £29.50 | £25.50 | £19.50 £34.50 | £27.50 | £15 THE NEW MUSICAL FOR ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART BASED ON THE HIT ‘Exhilarating TELEVISION SERIES and poignant’ The Sunday Times BILL KENWRIGHT & LAURIE MANSFIELD PRESENT BAFTA AWARD WINNING JEFF POPE’S GHOST DANCES THE MUSICAL Christopher Bruce’s masterpiece plus other works THE SPECTACULAR RISE OF ONE OF BRITAIN’S BEST-LOVED ENTERTAINERS OF ALL TIME CILLA – THE MUSICAL is the spectacular The musical score is the ultimate soundtrack to and heart-warming musical adaptation of the hit the 60’s including Cilla’s greatest hits Anyone ITV series by Bafta-Award winner, Jeff Pope Who Had a Heart, Alfie and Something Tells (Philomena, Mrs Biggs and the acclaimed Me, Twist and Shout by the Beatles, California Photo: Anthony Crickmay Little Boy Blue). Dreamin by The Mamas and The Papas’ and Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances, is one of of the 2016 National Dance Award for Modern many more. the most popular works in Rambert’s history. Choreography. Two lovers meet by moonlight, It tells the extraordinary story of the ordinary and a dark secret threatens to tear them apart. girl from Liverpool whose teenage dreams of KARA LILY HAYWORTH plays Cilla. Following It tells stories of love and compassion, as stardom lead her to becoming one of Britain’s weeks of open auditions countrywide, Kara death (in the form of the iconic ‘ghost dancers’) Completing the evening is A Linha Curva, best-loved entertainers of all time. By the age was named as the girl who will step into the interrupts the lives of a series of ordinary Rambert’s colourful, percussion-fuelled party- of just 25 Cilla White would be known as singer Legend’s coveted shoes. Executive Producer people. Visually referencing celebrations of the piece. 28 dancers, four samba drummers and and TV Star Cilla Black, Number One selling and Cilla’s son, Robert Willis, said of Kara: Day of the Dead, and driven by the rhythms of a dazzling light show create a performance of artist and at the fore-front of the Brit-Pop ‘I knew she was the one my mum would traditional Latin American music, it is a moving, infectious energy. music scene. have wanted!’ intensely human work. Running time 2 hours 10 minutes, 2 intervals. DIRECTED BY BILL KENWRIGHT AND BOB TOMSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT WILLIS Also on the programme from Britain’s national DESIGN GARY McCANN SOUND DAN SAMSON dance company is Transfigured Night, winner Post show Q&A Tuesday 10 October Photo: Rex Features Connect with us on See page 31 for details. 6 Book Online: mayflower.org.uk Southampton Sep 2017 brochure image.indd 1 Box Office: 02380 71181113/06/20177 18:13:13 THURSDAY 12 – SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER 2017 WEDNESDAY 18 – SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER 2017 THU – SAT 7PM, SAT 3.30PM, SUN 2.30PM Welsh National Opera returns with two thrilling productions marking the 100th £28.50 | £24.50 | £19.50 anniversary of the Russian Revolution alongside one of the best-loved and most entertaining of all operas in one unforgettable week. Die Fledermaus Johann Strauss II THU 19 OCT 7.15PM & SAT 21 OCT 4PM £49.50 | £46.50 | £41.50 | £32.50 | £23.50 | £15 Join us for a magnificent masquerade ball, with two performances of Johann Strauss II’s sparkling comedy Die Fledermaus featuring some of the most irresistible melodies ever written for stage. Sung in English with surtitles in English. Adapted by Dave Simpson ★★★★★ ‘Imaginative, inventive ‘A triumph. Ideal for and entertaining’ the whole family’ Eugene Onegin From the House Herald Express Manchester Evening News Tchaikovsky of the Dead WED 18 OCT 2017 7PM E.