BOX OFFICE 01323 412000 AUTUMN 2016 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk AUGUST - DECEMBER WELCOME TO EASTBOURNE THEATRES You’ve still got time to catch some summer treats with Cats, Night Must Fall and, the theatrical event of the summer, Kiss Me Quickstep all playing in August. CHRIS JORDAN Looking in to the autumn drama delights to tempt you off the Artistic Director, sofa include Simon Williams’ comedy Nobody’s Perfect, Eastbourne Theatres new play A Princess Undone starring Stephanie Beacham and Jason Merrells, the very topical political drama Dead Sheep ❱ 11 ❱ 14 and chilling classic Frankenstein! JUSTIN SAVE THE LAST HAVE YOU VISITED Musical lovers are not forgotten with new Mod musical, All Or LIVE! DANCE FOR ME THE WEBSITE? Nothing, here for just three nights, the timeless Rocky Horror Take a browse through Show and packed with rock n roll classics Save The Last Dance the website today! For Me. Dance fans can enjoy Strictly Come Dancing stars Louis eastbournetheatres.co.uk Smith and Robin Windsor in Keep Dancing and the traditional gives you a complete programme of forthcoming Christmas ballet trip is secured for with a welcome return to the shows plus latest news Russian State Ballet and Opera House presenting Swan Lake, from the theatres and Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. new shows to go on sale. Discover additional A few familiar faces coming to Eastbourne for one-night only information on forthcoming include Brian May & Kerry Ellis, Richard Wilson in I Don’t Believe ❱ 17 shows including production It: An Evening With Victor Meldrew, Des O’Connor, pictures, video trailers, JOSH reviews and much more. Josh Widdicombe, Justin Live and Sean Lock. WIDDICOMBE Download a copy of the We are also very excited about the continuing external latest brochure and link restoration work on the Devonshire Park Theatre and the direct to online booking pages which include new forthcoming refurbishment and redecoration of the foyer area all view from seat pictures, in time for our annual pantomime at the Devonshire Park Theatre! ❱ 22 helping make your Snow white and The Seven Dwarfs is a fairy tale favourite given A PRINCESS decision on where to that special Eastbourne pantomime treatment. Featuring the sit a little easier. UNDONE wonderful Martyn Knight and Tucker, Emmerdale’s Denise Black Go to is this year’s character we love to Boo and Hiss as Snow White’s eastbournetheatres.co.uk and see what shows are arch nemesis, the Wicked Queen. Tickets are selling fast so don’t coming soon! delay book today!! Very best wishes Chris Jordan Artistic Director Eastbourne Theatres ❱ 32 ❱ 39 Box Office Facebook.com/EBTheatres CONTACT US ❱ 01323 412000 (standard rate) RUSSIAN BOB MILLS - [email protected] Follow us @EBTheatres BALLET COMEDY CLUB www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Follow @eastbourne_theatres 2 BOX OFFICE 01323 412000| www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 3 WINTER GARDEN, FLORAL HALL Eastbourne Theatres in association with Kenny Wax present CONGRESS THEATRE the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Sunday 14 August 7.30pm Playing until Sunday 14 August Oldham Coliseum production of THAT’LL BE THE DAY After an incredible three decades of touring, the UK’s No.1 Rock & Roll variety production returns with another brand new summer spectacular! Featuring a fresh new line-up of classic gold hits, spanning the 50’s through to the 80’s, mixed as always, with even more hilarious comedy. ‘This show just gets better and better’ The Telegraph TICKETS £22.50, £25, £26.50 CONGRESS THEATRE Thursday 18 August 7.30pm THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY Direct from its success in London’s West End, a UK tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story is back with a new show for 2016! Using huge projection photographs, original film footage and a live band performing all the hits. AUGUST: Tues 2 – Fri 5, Tues 9 – Sat 13 7.45pm, Wed 3, Fri 5, Sun 7, TICKETS £18.50, £20 Wed 10, Sat 13 & Sun 14 Aug 2.30pm. By Amanda Whittington, Directed by Theresa Heskins (No performances Mon or Sat 6 Aug) CONGRESS THEATRE Ballroom, Blackpool & backstage dramas. Tuesday 30 August 7.30pm Don't miss this final chance to catch the theatrical event of the summer! TICKETS SHOWADDYWADDY 7.45pm £21 ‘The Greatest Rock & Roll Band In The World’ This heart-warming story of dancefloor dreams features a cast 2.30pm £16 is a bold statement but Showaddywaddy has of 15 and some spectacular dance set pieces as we take a look Conc £1.50 off lived up to that title for the last 4 decades! behind the sequins and the glitter balls to glimpse the trials, Groups Buy 10 Tickets Their live show is dynamic and uplifting traumas and triumphs of competitive ballroom dancing. Get 11th Free featuring all of their biggest hits Under The (Apply 7.45pm only) Performed in the atmospheric surroundings of the Winter Moon Of Love, Hey Rock & Roll, When, Blue Garden and on the historic Floral Hall dance floor, this new Under 16s & Students £9 Moon, Pretty Little Angel Eyes and many, play is by Amanda Whittington writer of The Thrill Under 25s £10 many more. of Love and the hugely popular Be My Baby. Friends of Devonshire ★★★★ Park Theatre 25% off 'BOOK TICKETS WITHOUT CONSIDERATION' (Tues eves only) ALFRED HICKLING, THE GUARDIAN TICKETS £19.50 AUGUST 4 BOX OFFICE 01323 412000 | Prices inclusive of booking fee (see p. 42) Prices inclusive of booking fee (see p. 42) | www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 5 DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE CONGRESS THEATRE Friday 19 August – Saturday 3 September Monday 22 – Saturday 27 August An Original Theatre Company and Salisbury Playhouse Production in association with Eastbourne Theatres When charming, smooth-talking Dan arrives unexpectedly at old Mrs Bramson's remote woodland home he soon ingratiates his way into her life and that of her beautiful niece Olivia. But when a local woman goes missing and rumours in the press of a murder surface among the household, fingers begin to point. Has the past finally caught up with Dan and could he really be capable of murder? As the police 'IT’S STILL THE close in, and with the press baying for blood, is anyone safe? CAT’S WHISKERS' This psychological thriller from master playwright Emlyn Williams Tues – Sat 7.45pm THE TIMES has all the tension, atmosphere and suspicion of the best British Wed & Sat 2.30pm mysteries and will leave you on the edge of your seat. Mon – Sat 7.30pm A star cast includes Gwen Taylor (Barbara, Coronation Street Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking 2015 Olivier Thur & Sat 2.30pm TICKETS and Heartbeat), Daragh O'Malley (Sharpe), Niamh McGrady Tues – Sat 7.45pm award nominated musical Cats returns to Eastbourne (Holby City & The Fall) and Will Featherstone (Romeo and Juliet £15.50, £19, £21 following its sell-out run at the London Palladium. for Shakespeare’s Globe and Channel 4’s Fresh Meat). TICKETS Wed & Sat 2.30pm £16 Adapted from TS Eliot’s ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’, Mon – Thur Conc £1.50 off this “groundbreaking musical” (Daily Express) comes together in a £18.50, £24.50, £29.50, £33.50, £36 Groups Buy 10 Tickets sparkling fusion of music, dance and verse, and has now taken on Get 11th Free a new life for a new generation. Fri & Sat (Apply 7.45pm only) £20, £26, £31, On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the £35, £37.50 Under 16s & Students £9 Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent Under 25s £10 leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which of them will go Conc £5 off Friends of Devonshire up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life. Under 16s Half Price Park Theatre 25% off (2 per full price adult) With “timeless music, spectacular sets and a superb cast” (Tues eves only) Groups 10+ £4 off, (Daily Mirror), breathtaking choreography and of course the 20+ £5 off, 50+ £6 off unforgettable Memory, Cats is a magical musical like no other. (All Conc & Disc apply top Gwen Audio described Let Cats thrill you once again, but don't miss out on a seat - 3 prices, Mon – Thur only) Taylor Daragh O'Malley performance. See p42 act fast and book your tickets today! - SEPTEMBER AUGUST TM © 1981 RUG LTD 6 BOX OFFICE 01323 412000 | Prices inclusive of booking fee (see p. 42) Prices inclusive of booking fee (see p. 42) | www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk 7 CONGRESS THEATRE DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE Monday 5 – Wednesday 7 September Wednesday 7 – Saturday 17 September Rock n Roll Productions presents Talking Scarlet presents Tues – Sat 7.45pm Wed 14, Sat 10 & 17 2.30pm TICKETS A classic feel good romantic comedy from Simon Tues – Thur 7.45pm Williams, author of Nobody’s Fool and Double Death. £15.50, £18, £20 'FUNNY FIERY Fri & Sat 7.45pm AND BRAVE… Love Is All Around is a feminist publishing house where Harriet £15.50, £19.50, £21.50 Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction YOU’LL HAVE A Wed & Sat 2.30pm £16 In 1964, a new phenomenon exploded onto ROCKING NIGHT' written by women only. Leonard Loftus is trying to get his book the dingy British streets. It was the essence THE DAILY STAR SUNDAY published, but Harriet keeps sending his manuscripts back because Conc £1.50 off they are the work of a man! Groups Buy 10 Tickets of all that was cool. It was Mod. Get 11th Free When Leonard finally sends a manuscript using the female Mon – Wed 7.30pm (Conc & Groups apply They were working-class free spirits who rode sexy streamlined Italian pseudonym “Myrtle Banbury”, Harriet is impressed.