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The Midlands Essential Entertainment Guide Midlands Cover - July_24-7 Cover 25/06/2012 16:41 Page 1 MIDLANDS WHAT’S MIDLANDS ON WHAT’S THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE ISSUE 319 JULY 2012 JULY www.whatsonlive.co.uk £1.80 ISSUE 319 JULY 2012 DIRTY DANCING THE DEFINITIVE LISTINGS GUIDE HIT MUSICAL IN TOWN... INSIDE Rhys Darby Kiwi comedian on tour in the region interview inside Patricia Hodge having such fun with Miranda... interview inside PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART What’sOn MAGAZINE GROUP Queen of Reinvention in the Midlands... ISSN 1462-7035 whatson july - GRAND_Layout 1 25/06/2012 14:06 Page 1 Great Theatre at the Grand! TUES 3 - SAT 7 JULY TUES 10 - SAT 14 JULY SUN 15 JULY starring Chris Ellison and Tony Adams A FEELGOOD MUSICAL ROLLERCOASTER FROM THE 50s TO THE 80s! TUES 17 - SAT 21 JULY MON 23 - SAT 28 JULY MON 17 - TUES 18 SEPT Starring LIZA GODDARD SUSAN PENHALIGON Starring Colin Baker and Peter Amory GARETH HALE NORMAN PACE MON 24 - SAT 29 SEPT ALSO BOOKING TUES 9 - SAT 13 OCT SATURDAYSADLER’S WELLS 15 SEPTEMBER PRESENTS SOUTH STAFFS MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE ELVIS YEARS SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER THE CANNON & BALL SHOW FRIDAY 21 - SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER ENGLISH YOUTH BALLET SWAN LAKE SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER SALLY MORGAN MON 1 OCTOBER AN AMATEUR PRODUCTION THE SENSATIONAL 60s EXPERIENCE TUESDAY 2 - SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER John Godber’s BOUNCERS TUE 30 OCT - SAT 3 NOV 42ND STREET SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER - SUNDAY 20 JANUARY BRING NANNY AND THE KIDS TO THE JACK AND THE BEANSTALK RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN CLASSIC! Follow us on @WolvesGrand Like us on Facebook: Wolverhampton Grand Box Office 01902 42 92 12 BOOK ONLINE AT www.grandtheatre.co.uk Contents July_Layout 1 25/06/2012 13:37 Page 1 July 2012 Editor: FEATURES: Davina Evans [email protected] 01743 281708 42nd Street Editorial Assistant: Lauren Wright in Birmingham p27 [email protected] 01743 281708 Sales & Marketing: Jon Cartwright [email protected] 01743 281703 Chris Horton [email protected] 01743 281704 Admin/Subscriptions: Adrian Parker [email protected] 01743 281714 Managing Director: Paul Oliver [email protected] Rhys Darby 01743 281711 interview inside p8 Publisher and CEO: Martin Monahan [email protected] 01743 281710 P.A. to the CEO: Jo Mercer [email protected] 01743 281701 Graphic Designers: Lisa Wassell Chris Atherton Accounts Administrator Dirty Dancing - Eleanor Bergstein's smash-hit musical arrives in Julia Perry Birmingham this month, page 27 [email protected] 01743 281717 Website Development: Jim Pallett News p4 Patricia Hodge Contributors: TO GET THE VERY interview inside Graham Bostock: Theatre p10 Alev Dervish: Music LATEST LISTING Music p13 James Cameron-Wilson: INFORMATION, Film Godiva Awakes Jessica Matthews: VISIT: Comedy p25 celebrations in the city p61 Features whatsonlive.co.uk Head Office: Theatre p27 4/5 Dogpole, Shrewsbury, INCLUDING Shropshire. SY1 1EN BOOKING ONLINE Tel: 01743 281777 p41 Fax: 01743 281744 The Midlands’ most Film/DVD e-mail: [email protected] comprehensive entertainment website Visual Arts p49 Festivals p55 This publication is Follow What’s On on printed on paper from a sustainable source and is p61 produced without the use Events of elemental chlorine. twitter.com/whatsonlive July 2012 We endorse the recycling p77 of our magazine and Clubbing/Gay MTWTFSS would encourage you to Become a fan 1 pass it on to others to p78 read when you have Books/TV 23456 78 finished with it. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 facebook.com/whatsonlive Eating Out p79 ’ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 WhatsOn 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 MAGAZINE GROUP All works appearing in this publication are copyright. It is to be assumed that the copyright for material rests with the magazine unless otherwise stated. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in an electronic system, transmitted in any form or by any 30 31 means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recording or otherwise, without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. News july_Layout 1 25/06/2012 13:38 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Symphony Hall Director awarded OBE In a year that celebrates both the twenty-first birthday of Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, it’s been announced that Andrew Jowett - Director of both Symphony Hall and Town Hall - has been awarded an OBE for his services to music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Commenting on the news, Andrew said: “I’m immensely proud to receive this honour for leading Town Hall and Symphony Hall Birmingham, and it’s particularly appropriate this year, when Symphony Hall is celebrating its twenty-first anniversary. Running these two world- renowned concert halls is an absolute joy and privilege. In accepting this honour, I do so on behalf of everyone who’s helped make the venues a major force on the national and international music scene, connecting over half a million people to music every year.” Science museum unveils latest addition... A new addition to Birmingham’s award-winning Thinktank has now opened to the public. The interactive Thinktank Science Garden features forty-two exhibits and fun zones, and provides an imaginative space for families to explore themes of engineering, mechanics and trans- Andrew Jowett portation. The first project of its kind in the UK, the Science Garden’s inventive features include an eight metre-high clanging ‘Terminus’ machine, a human-sized hamster wheel and an elasticated squirter. The new attraction is hosting a programme of events and activities to Goodbye to a local legend... keep children entertained throughout the forthcoming school holidays. Acclaimed Birmingham-based jazz musician Andy Hamilton died last month at the age of ninety-four. Jamaican-born Hamilton, who Midnight charity walk returns Birmingham museum moved to Birmingham just after the Second This September sees the return of the reopens to the public World War, was a hugely popular figure on the Acorns Midnight Walk, a 10km female-only Midlands’ entertainment scene, and had con- walking event that raises much-needed Birmingham’s acclaimed Soho House re- tinued to perform until shortly before his death. funds for Birmingham’s Acorns Children’s opens its doors to the public this month fol- He was a regular at the Bearwood Corks Club Hospice. Organisers are currently recruiting lowing a major redevelopment. The former and also made frequent appearances at ven- local ladies to take part in the walk, which home of industrialist and Lunar Society ues in the city, including Symphony Hall. starts and finishes in the city’s Victoria founder member Matthew Boulton has had Saxophonist Andy was seventy-two years of Square, taking in the Bullring, the Jewellery several of its rooms restored to their former age before he recorded his first album, and Quarter, St Philips Cathedral and glory, with a few surprises having been was made an MBE in 2008. Brindleyplace along the way. Call: 0844 984 unearthed along the way - including the 0405, or visit: www.acorns.org.uk/midnight- exposure of two previously hidden fire- walk to find out how you can become places. The Soho Sphinxes, which formed involved. part of Matthew Boulton’s original garden designs, have also been returned to the Dickens’ classic at The Alex house for the first time in two hundred years. A new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is to show in Birmingham this autumn, prior to a West End run. In a year that celebrates the Victorian author’s bicentenary, Jo Clifford’s new ver- sion of the famous novel brings some of soapland’s favourite faces to the Midlands, with Jack Ellis (Coronation Street), Chris Ellison (The Bill) and Paula Wilcox (Emmerdale) heading the cast. Great Expectations runs at the New Alexandra Andy Hamilton Theatre from 9 to 13 October. Soho House 4 www.whatsonlive.co.uk News july_Layout 1 25/06/2012 13:38 Page 2 New theatre production to launch Worcester venture The Hive, Europe’s first joint university and public library, officially opens its doors to the public this month. The £60million develop- ment will house more than twenty-six thou- sand records of historic sites and buildings, twelve miles of original documents, a chil- dren’s library and creative space, perform- ance areas, conferencing facilities and infor- mal meeting places. Worcestershire-based theatre company Vamos will be the first per- formers to appear at the venue when they present Offal Tales! (6 and 7 July), a prome- nade production celebrating not only The Hive but also its history as Worcester’s cat- tle market. The site will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh on 11 July. Cats to feature in new season... Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s acclaimed musical Cats forms part of the Autumn/Winter season line-up at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre. A fusion of fantasy, drama and romance, Cats is one of the longest-running shows ever to grace the West End stage, and returns to the Grand for the first time in over a decade. Other highlights in the venue’s Autumn/Winter pro- gramme include Beverley Callard, Ray Quinn, Joe McGann and Jess Robinson in the Olivier Award-winning comedy Little Voice; former Three Degrees singer Sheila Ferguson and The Hive Loose Women’s Jane McDonald in the disco musical Daddy Cool; Duncan Preston in Alan Ayckbourn’s Haunting Julia; Marti Webb and Dave Willetts in 42nd Street; the Hip Hop musi- cal Some Like It Hot; children’s favourite Angelina Ballerina The Mousical; and Sherrie Lesley Joseph announced for Hewson alongside Keith Harris and Orville in a six-week panto run of Jack And The Hippodrome pantomime Beanstalk.
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