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Your Venue, Our Community Our Venue, Your APRIL TO JULY 2020 JULY TO APRIL www.mansfieldpalace.co.uk box office: 01623 633133 /mansfieldpalacetheatre @mansfieldpalace Award winning customer service 2015 Silver 2016 Gold 2017 Platinum 2018 Gold 2019 Gold Welcome... Regular visitors to the Palace Theatre will know that we take great pride in being an extremely well attended and well-used community resource and the programming reflects this excellent balance. I believe that the April to July 2020 season represents this tradition in an exemplary fashion! In addition to a number of dance schools, performing academies and local Who’s who?! schools showing off their talent with pride as well as Heanor Musical Theatre staging For the past 25 years, Andrew has put heart and soul Avenue Q, we have loads of professional companies bringing a feast of varied into his role as manager of the council’s Palace Theatre entertainment. The range is broad with Northern Ballet performing Little Red and Cultural Services. In doing so he has overseen the Riding Hood for little people to Ballet Theatre UK dancing Sense and Sensibility. development of a successful, vibrant theatre and cultural offer that receives rave reviews from far afield. Drama lovers will be treated to Jane Eyre and those who prefer a bit more At Andrew’s core is a genuine passion and commitment sauciness, we have Temptation in the Temple! to culture and the arts and the important role they play in enriching the lives of the communities he serves. There is live music in abundance, from Livewire AC/DC to The Magic of Motown Andrew Tucker This, I believe, acts as the source for the energy and to The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra. enthusiasm that has driven him and the Palace team on over all these years. And if you like to participate from your seat, we have The Wizard of Oz Easter Sadly however, it will soon be time for Andrew to exit stage left and retire. Panto with Bobby Davro and the film of Sing-a-long-a Bohemian Rhapsody. So on behalf of Mansfield District Council, the people of Mansfield, employees and patrons of the theatre and all the production companies, agents and Whether you are young or old, single or part of a large family, we hope that we have cast you have worked with over the years, we wish you well for a long and something to tickle your entertainment taste buds. It is therefore very pleasing for me fulfilled retirement. to end my career as Cultural Services Manager with such variety on offer in this, my final programme, before I retire at the end of the season. I have thoroughly In this your final season, enjoy your final curtain call. Take your final bow, enjoyed over 25 years working in this Theatre with the marvellous team that we Mr Tucker – you’re a tough act to follow! have here to entertain you. David Evans Head of Health and Communities I would like to thank Mansfield District Council for placing their trust in me to take Mansfield District Council responsibility for Cultural Services for so many years and the team for being so incredibly supportive and being key to the successes that we have achieved. SYMBOLS Finally, thank you for being such wonderfully loyal audiences over the decades Booking Fee Included Reduced Booking Fee and I wish you many more happy years of entertainment in this lovely venue. £1.20 per ticket online and at Box Office £1.20 per ticket online and 20p at Box Office Pay Now Save Now / Ticket Offer School Tickets Available Happy theatregoing! Groups Hiring the Theatre Educational Link Block Booking Deals Pre/Post Show Talk Family Ticket Matinee Moments - Morning or Afternoon Performance Andrew Tucker Cultural Services Manager A service provided by pg 16 Cover image: Singalonga Bohemian Rhapsody, 3 “The children loved the audience participation and interaction and the modern dance moves. Lots of happy children who love the pantomime to start their Christmas festivities – thank you”. – Woodthorpe C of E Primary School “We watched Cinderella yesterday and it was fantastic! The staff were lovely and helpful. The panto was brilliant! A real family show, adult humour (the ugly sisters were fab) great songs, vocals and dancing and amazing “BEST pantomime yet, service great, look after the disabled visitors - worth another visit production and costumes… Buttons was later this year, lots going on!” the star of the show. Our girls adored him! Thank you Mansfield Palace Theatre, you – Katrina Finch absolutely lived up to expectations. Definitely a new family Christmas tradition”. – Rebecca Sheppard “Absolutely love this place, fantastic pantomimes every year and plenty of variety “Beautiful theatre and best panto I’ve ever of shows during the year and fantastic value seen. Laughs from the first minute. Buttons for money”. was first class and the rest were just excellent – Ange Arnold 10 out of 10. If you’re still not sure book it now”. – Paul Wileman “Very interactive for children with lots of shouting encouraged. Very child-friendly with laughshelpful for the staff”.adults too. Very “First panto experience @MansfieldPalace for my little one and WOW! Hats off to @adammosscomedy. Absolutely fantastic – Hollywell Primary School, Kimberley entertainer for both the kids and adults. Definitely booking for next year. Also a great performance from– Lee @Olivia_5 Metcalf and @jm10blb”. “Fantastic night at Mansfield Theatre with the family. Cinderella was amazing, the cast, “Panto Cinderella. Just been to watch the music were the best. We never stopped laughing and listening to my 8 year old Cinderella, me, my wife and daughter. 7 granddaughter laughing out loud is December with Melanie Walters absolutely what it is all about. Well done Mansfield brilliant very funny, we all enjoyed the show we will be back next year”. Adam Moss as Buttons fantastic, we have been to many pantos with big stars but I – Catherine Havenhand never laughed so much as today, great Saturday afternoon entertainment loved it”. – Saco7 4 SUNDAY 19 APRIL SUNDAY 26 APRIL Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £25.20 All Seats Time: 2.00pm and 6.00pm Duration: Approx. 2hrs 20mins Palace Theatre, Main Stage Tickets: £20.70 Full / £18.70 Concs. / On their way they meet a Scarecrow who needs a Venue: £73.80 Family of Four / brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Block Bookers 10+ £1 off / Block Bookers of 20+ £2 off Lion who desperately needs courage. Will the Herman’s Hermits, are one of the biggest selling bands wonderful Wizard of Oz be able to help them before of the 60s, not just in the UK, but around the World. Duration: Approx. 2hrs 20mins the Wicked Witch of the West captures them in her From their early beginnings, the band have chalked Venue: Palace Theatre, Main Stage dungeon? up 23 hit singles, 10 hit albums, appeared in 3 major movies and to date they have sold in excess of 75 million Come and join in the fun over the rainbow as records worldwide. Join us for a fantastic all-new Easter pantomime version Enchanted Entertainment present a wonderful Hits include; There’s A Kind Of Hush, Silhouettes, of The Wizard of Oz with Kansas farm-girl Dorothy and Easter pantomime version of L. Frank Baum’s Can’t You Hear My Heart Beat, Wonderful World, A Must her pet dog Toto. This magical adventure is suitable for much-loved fairy tale. Packed with brilliant dance To Avoid, Mrs Brown You’ve Gotta Lovely Daughter, and all ages. Watch in amazement as they are picked up by routines, well known pop songs, lots of audience many more. a tornado and carried off to the magical Land of Oz. With participation and plenty of laughter for all the family! help from their new friends the Munchkins, they travel to Rolling Back The 60’s sees Herman’s Hermits embarking the Emerald City where the great Wizard of Oz lives. on their Solo 55th Anniversary Tour. An evening of nostalgia, song and laughter. 5 TUESDAY 5 MAY WEDNESDAY 6 MAY TUESDAY 12 MAY Time: 7.30pm Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £18.20 Full / £17.20 Concs. / Tickets: £25.00 Full / £24.00 Concs. £13.20 Child / £54.80 Family of Four / Duration: Approx. 2 hours 20 mins Schools £8.20 each / Pay Now Save Now: Venue: Palace Theatre, Main Stage Save £2 if paid for by 28.3.20 Duration: Approx. 2hrs 30mins In this latest production, Lee Memphis King portrays Venue: Palace Theatre, Main Stage Elvis Presley at his peak celebrating the iconic ‘Vegas Years’ from 1969 - 1977. Resplendent in the A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark most authentic costumes from Elvis’s performance and secrets, Jane Eyre tells the thrilling story of an orphan an orchestra backing this incredible performer, prepare 11.30am, 1.30pm and girl and her journey from a childhood of loneliness and to be taken back in time to see Elvis in the way it was. Time: cruelty to a life at Thornfield Hall and an unlikely 4.30pm (relaxed performance) relationship with the mysterious Mr Rochester. Falling in This brand new production is dedicated entirely to the Tickets: £6.70 Full / £5.45 Child love, she gradually uncovers a hidden past to the gloomy, ‘Vegas Years’ when Elvis would perform in Las Vegas Duration: 40 mins (no interval) forbidding Thornfield Hall, a terrible secret that forces her and tour throughout the US and Canada - the definitive Venue: Palace Theatre, Main Stage to make a heart-wrenching choice. record of these performances are contained in the films Elvis - That’s the Way It Is, Elvis On Tour and the Don’t miss Blackeyed Theatre’s brand new stage Aloha from Hawaii concert.