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Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, , SW1E 6HQ Tel: 020 7414 3285 Mobile: 07796 378 028 E-mail: [email protected] His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT Colonel Grenadier Guards requests the pleasure of your company on Monday, 11 April 2011 for a Gala Preview of Cameron Mackintosh’s new musical “Betty Blue Eyes” The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards is a Regimental Charity, created in 2008, specifically to help address the welfare needs of soldiers and their families following successive operational tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. To date, The Regiment has lost 10 killed in action and 35 seriously wounded including 7 amputees. As part of its fundraising drive, The Regiment has been offered The Novello Theatre for a Gala Preview performance of Cameron Macintosh’s new musical Betty Blue Eyes, his first original musical in over 10 years. This follows his recent hugely successful productions of Oliver!, My Fair Lady, and the new Les Miserables. The performance will be in the presence of His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, KG, KT, one of the key characters in the musical, who is attending as Colonel Grenadier Guards and Patron of The Colonel’s Fund. To enhance the evening, there is also a post show two course supper, including wine, at The Waldorf Hilton Hotel, next door to the theatre.

Ticket information: Grand Circle including canapés and drinks before the performance and a snack and drink during the interval: £60.00 Dress Circle and Stalls including canapés and drinks before the performance and a snack and drink during the interval: £75.00 Post show supper including wine: £45.00 Post show supper including wine, table of 10 (including 5% discount): £427.50 Also attached is a leaflet from the theatre giving you a little taster of Betty Blue Eyes To book your tickets please print off the booking form and return it with your cheque to the address below.

Itinerary Information: 18:00: Guests arrive at The Novello Theatre, Aldwych, WC2 for canapés and drinks 18:55: Guests move into the auditorium 19:15: Presentation accompanied by The Band of the Grenadier Guards 19:30: Betty Blue Eyes begins 20:30: Interval, including a glass of wine and snack 20:50: Second half of the performance begins 22:00: The performance ends 22:30: Two course post show supper in The Adelphi Suite, Waldorf Hotel, WC2 23.30: Carriages

Contact information: Captain Garth Banks Charlie Birch Reynardson The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards RHQ Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks RHQ Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ 0207 414 3281, 07515 102 201 0207 414 3285, 07796 378 028 [email protected] [email protected] Patron His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT In aid of the Regimental and Battalion Charities of the Grenadier Guards (Registered Charity no. 1062257) Betty Blue Eyes performance information:

elts are being tightened and the country’s long suffering citizens are being told by the government Bthat there will be fair shares for all in return for surviving Austerity Britain. Meanwhile, local officials feather their own nests by taking far more than their own fair share. It is of course 1947 and having won the war Britain seems to have lost the peace and the country is staggering under the burden of acute rationing, unemployment, and the coldest winter for decades. The only bright spark on the horizon is the impending Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Twenty six years ago, and Malcolm Mowbray wove this story into an hilariously funny but sharply observed comic film called , which centred around Betty, an adorable pig, who is being illegally reared to ensure the local dignitaries can celebrate the Royal Wedding with a lavish banquet while the local population make do with spam. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman have brilliantly adapted and expanded this story for the stage and and have written a deliciously infectious, toe-tapping, retro contemporary score. The result is an utterly British musical, full of eccentric characters, such as the strange odd couple, Gilbert – an evangelistic chiropodist, and Joyce – a nobody determined to be somebody; Inspector Wormold - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat; Mother Dear –‘She’s seventy four and ravenous’!; a weird assortment of bullies, spivs, and snobs and of course, our star, Betty the pig. BETTY BLUE EYES is like no musical you will have ever seen!

Source: Cameron Mackintosh Limited

Please detach below and return by post to: Charlie Birch Reynardson, The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards, RHQ Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ or email to: [email protected]

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