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Theatre Drama Music Dance Youth Compass Theatre Sep – Dec 10 A great line up including... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Rocky Horror Picture Show Showstopper! Wendy Cope Band Nights Box Office 01895 673200 Film classicsFilm Compass at Theatre Sun 12 Sep at 2pm Reach for the Sky U Part of Hillingdon’s Battle of Britain celebrations Tickets £3 Tue 14 Sep at 2pm To Kill A Mockingbird PG Tickets £3 Tue 14 Sep at 7.30pm ROCK WEEK Labyrinth U Tickets £5 Tue 7 Sep at 7.30pm Tue 19 Oct at 2pm Sex & Drugs & Rock U Some Like It Hot & Roll 15 Tickets £3 Running time 115 mins Thu 28 Oct at 7.30pm A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and The Color Purple 15 Tickets £5 defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene Tue 16 Nov at 1pm in Britain in the 1970s. A must see film, both for those who lived through the era Gone With The Wind PG and those who appreciate rock and roll (including interval) history. Tickets £3 Thu 9 Sep at 7.30pm Tue 16 Nov at 7.30pm This Is Spinal Tap 15 Tron PG Running time 82 mins See the original prior to the sequel’s release in December A Rob Reiner film featuring Harry All tickets £5 Shearer and Christopher Guest as members of the world’s loudest band - Spinal Tap, who did for Rock n Roll what The Sound of Music did for hills. An essential piece of education for every aspiring rock god. The format has been copied again and again but this is where the Mock/Rock-umentary was born. All tickets £5 September ROCK WEEK Sat 11 Sept at 7.30pm also Fri 17 – Sat 18 Sep 7.45pm Fri 3 Dec at 7.30pm and Sat 18 Sep 3pm Showcase presents Launchpad Band Night Viva Las Vegas It’s rock o’clock...another night of stomping good tunes and stunning An evening of Las Vegas songs from lights! Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Judy Garland Headlining in September: and many other favourites. OfficeBox 673200 01895 www.compasstheatre.co.uk 4 Hours with support from Join us as we celebrate the sounds Post Me to The Stars and sights of the entertainment Nathalie Jane capital of the world. Relive the excitement of the Rat Pack at the 4 Hours are led by their highly Sands Hotel and the dazzle of The energetic front man, Adam Sean Duff, King. Experience the excitement of supported by Tommy Bass and newest the City of Lights where fortunes are member Oli Leonard on drums. won or lost on a roll of the dice or turn of a card. The band have gone from strength to strength since their first live Share a roller coaster ride through performance in 2007 and their Sin City - extravagant, lush, brash and popularity has grown with their bawdy – but always entertaining. unique pop rock style. Tickets £12/£10 concs Available You saw them here first... from Showcase 020 8572 0475 Email [email protected] All tickets £5 September Wed 22 – Sat 25 Sep 7.30pm Tue 28 Sep – Sat 2 Oct 7.45pm and Sat 25 Sep 2.30pm and Sat 2 Oct 2.30pm Hillingdon Musical Society presents Magic Hat Productions presents Fame – The Musical Glorious! By Peter Quilter With music by Stephen Margoshes, lyrics by Jacques Levy, book by Jose In 1940s New York, the singer Fernandez, and based on a concept everyone wanted to see was Florence by David DeSilva, this iconic show Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic includes all of the hits from the film soprano whose pitch and timing including the instantly recognisable were far from perfect. theme tune. The story chronicles the lives of several teenagers attending Glorious! tells the hilarious story of the New York City High School for Florence, her talented pianist, Cosme, the Performing Arts, charting their and her eccentric friends on her ups and downs in their quest to be journey to perform at the prestigious famous actors, singers, dancers, Carnegie Hall. and musicians. In the words of the movie ‘If they’ve really got what it Tickets £12/£10 concs takes, it’s going to take everything £9.50 Opening night they’ve got’. Tickets £12/£10 concs Available from Hillingdon Musical Society on 07890 732244 This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York October Wed 6 – Sat 9 Oct at 7.45pm Wed 13 – Sat 16 Oct at 7.45pm Argosy Players presents The Purple Theatre Company presents Judgement at By Jeeves! Nuremberg By Alan Ayckbourn By Abby Mann Score by Andrew Lloyd Webber Set in 1947, Judgement At What ho! Banjo in hand, Purple Nuremberg centres around a returns to the land of the musical OfficeBox 673200 01895 www.compasstheatre.co.uk military tribunal in which four comedy in their upcoming production German judges face the American of “By Jeeves!”, featuring the war crimes court in Nuremberg, much beloved characters of P.G. charged with crimes against Wodehouse’s well-known Jeeves humanity before a panel of three and Wooster chronicles. American judges. Three of the defendants were Nazi thugs but Join us as Bertie Wooster fights one of them was quite different and off confused magistrates, random had been a famous and renowned females bent on dire romantic ends scholar and a man who detested and threatening jelly manufacturers. Hitler and the Nazis. Yet he At the last, there is only one man who remained on the bench under the can guide him and his friends through Third Reich. The American judges the obstacles littering love’s maze…. find themselves having to choose With a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, between patriotism and justice while and book by Alan Ayckbourn, Purple passing judgement on moral crimes promises you a night of laughter and committed within the law. merriment for all the family! Tickets £12/£10 concs Tickets £12.50/£10.50 concs This amateur production has been arranged through the kind permission of the Really Useful Group. October Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct at 7.30pm Sun 31 Oct at 12.15pm Proscenium presents Scenic Route and Compass Theatre presents King Lear Children’s Show By William Shakespeare You Beautiful Ewe King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. It is the story of a ‘A delightful, witty and stylish journey to self-knowledge. A tale of production… It is bonkers. But it works. a father and three daughters and a It really works… ‘ test of love; of a father and two sons; Adam Taylor, Rogues and Vagabonds and of a loyal and faithful servant. Our characters go on a search that Baahber- shopping sheep tell this involves hardship, physical and fiesty, contemporary fairytale of life mental pain and elemental weather. and love on Butterfield Farm. Brad, the new ram on the block, grapples In the end Shakespeare’s imagination with the weighty task of keeping a reveals to us all the complexities and crooning wolf at bay, whilst Floss is wonder of human nature. the young ewe who stands by her ram when everything gets…well…hairy. All tickets £10 With a zealously knitting farmer’s daughter and a jealous older sister, Baabs, to contend with, the journey is not always smooth, but this quirky musical for children will have all ages enchanted. All tickets £6.50 October/November Sun 24 Oct from 12-4pm Wed 10 – Sat 13 Nov at 8.00pm Uxbridge High Street Players 2 presents BigFest 2010: The Drowsy Chaperone By Martin, McKellar, Lambert and Once Upon a Morrison High Street The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical It’s that time again…everyone’s within a comedy and is designed as a favourite arts extravaganza, BigFest, spoof of the old musicals. A mousy, OfficeBox 673200 01895 www.compasstheatre.co.uk returns this year with its usual mix agoraphobic Broadway fanatic, of the beautiful, the bold and the seeking to cure his “non-specific downright bizarre. sadness”, listens to a recording of a fictional 1928 musical comedy, The This year’s event has a special Drowsy Chaperone. As he listens to look and theme. Come and meet this rare recording, he is transported characters from your favourite into the musical. The characters fairy tales trying to adjust to life in appear in his dingy apartment, and Uxbridge! It’s not much fun being a it is transformed into an impressive knight in shining armour when there’s Broadway set with seashell footlights, no-one to rescue, and since when sparkling furniture, painted did Hansel and Gretel get to help out backdrops, and glitzy costumes. with the building of the Gingerbread House…? Tickets £12/£10 concs With the usual mix of street theatre, dance, music and much more, come and live happily ever afternoon at this year’s BigFest! Monster Week Sun 31 Oct at 7.30pm Thu 4 Nov at 7.30pm The Rocky Horror Little Shop of Horrors PG Running time 94 mins Picture Show 15 Running time 100 mins Frank Oz’s 1986 film version of the hit Broadway musical starring Rick Don’t dream it; be it! Feel free to dress Moranis, Steve Martin and a host of up or down and enjoy particip..p.. great cameos. A nerdish florist finds pating. If ever you’ve found the sight his chance for success and romance of fishnet stockings worn by men or with the help of a giant man-eating women intriguing then this is the one plant who demands to be fed.