SUMMER AUTUMN 2017 Stockport’s Super Cinema and Variety Theatre MERSEY SQUARE BOX OFFICE: 0161 477 7779 STOCKPORT GROUP BOOKINGS: 0843 208 1495 CHESHIRE. SK1 1SP WWW.STOCKPORTPLAZA.CO.UK TED DOAN General Manager On the weekend of October 7th & 8th 1932 a vision was born in Stockport as the doors opened on a sumptuous Art Deco Super Cinema and Variety Theatre that would shine as the regional home for the very best in Big Screen Entertainment, Live Stage, Events and Fine Dining here in the very heart of Stockport and as we celebrate our 85th year of serving you and our community we raise the curtain on yet another season featuring the very best in every style of event for you, your friends and family to enjoy. From satellite screenings, new film titles and classic films including the undisputed Kings of Big Screen Comedy Laurel & Hardy being screened on our birthday weekend, to top touring musicals like All Or Nothing and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Joe McElderry, I believe we definitely have something for everybody in this brochure that you are holding today, and with comedy, ballet, music, family shows and drama all detailed in our season brochure I am sure I will have the chance to welcome you, hopefully in person, to our much loved venue throughout the year. As well as events our beautiful Café retains its title as ‘The Talk of The North’ with a wonderful menu prepared for you from 10am until 4pm on Mondays to Saturdays and if you are looking to celebrate that special family event or wedding do get in touch so that we can make your special event even more special! Finally, I am delighted…oh yes I am!...to announce that the stars of our sensational family pantomime Aladdin have been announced and we are delighted to be welcoming TED ROBBINS back to The Plaza as the hilarious Widow Twanky and BRIAN CAPRON will be joining us as the ‘oh so evil’ Abanazar…Tickets are on sale now for this affordable festive family treat… Patrons of The Plaza: Leslie Phillips CBE; The Right Honourable, The Baroness Bakewell DBE; & Sir Ken Dodd OBE. Show Icon Key ADULTS DRAMA MUSIC COMEDY ONLY FAMILY SILVER DANCE FILM SHOW SCREENING 2 STOCKPORT PLAZA BOX OFFICE: 0161 477 7779 April 2017 ROBIN HOOD - EASTER PANTOMIME Wednesday 5 th April at 2.00pm & 6.00pm Join our heroes Robin Hood and Maid Marian in this arrow- TICKETS slinging, swashbuckling, tights-wearing comedy adventure! £19.00 With an all-star cast, including Britain’s Got Talent Winner CONCESSIONS George Sampson as Robin Hood, children’s TV favourite Dani £17.00 Harmer from CBBC’s Tracy Beaker and Strictly Come Dancing FAMILY as Maid Marian and X-Factor Runner-Up Andy Abraham as the TICKET wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. £65.00 From the team behind The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast GROUP RATES and Peter Pan, Enchanted Entertainment return this Easter with AVAILABLE another fantastic pantomime for all the family. Robin Hood will be packed full of stunning dances, show-stopping songs and heaps of audience participation… Oh yes it will! NT LIVE SCREENING: TWELFTH NIGHT Thursday 6 th April at 7.00pm Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic TICKETS comedy of mistaken identity. £15.00 A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her CONCESSIONS twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her £13.00 own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Simon Godwin (NT Live: Man and Superman, NT Live: The Beaux’ Stratagem) directs this joyous new production with Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Episodes) as a transformed Malvolia. With an ensemble cast that includes Daniel Rigby (Flowers), Tamara Lawrence (Undercover), Doon Mackichan (Smack the Pony) and Daniel Ezra (The Missing). BOOK ONLINE: WWW.STOCKPORTPLAZA.CO.UK 3 April 2017 NORTHERN SOUL LIVE Friday 7 th April at 7.30pm Back by popular demand the amazing Edwin Starr Band with TICKETS Angelo Starr take you through all the Northern Soul, Motown £15.00 and Soul classics such as: Stop Her On Sight, Long After Tonight Is All Over, War, Backstreets, Time, Agent 00 Soul, I Have Faith In You, 25 Miles, Contact, Happy Radio, Higher & Higher, Stand By Me, Dancing In The Street, I’ll Be Around, My Girl, Superstition, Lost Summer Love, Landslide Plus Northern Soul legend Lorraine Silver KOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT & LIVE NATION PRESENTS: COUNT ARTHUR STRONG - THE SOUND OF MUCUS Saturday 8 th April at 8.00pm Using stories and other things that are secret, Count Arthur TICKETS Strong, showbiz legend, pays tribute to one of the best musicals £22.50 he can remember. Uniquely recreating the salient and poignant moments for your enjoyment. Plus something else. Don’t miss this amazing event. ‘Just get’s funnier and funnier’ The Guardian ‘…never needed to resort to toilet humour or swearing to maintain one and a half hours of pure hilarity’ Manchester Evening News. ‘A relentless blast of comic surprises’ The Times 4 STOCKPORT PLAZA BOX OFFICE: 0161 477 7779 May / June 2017 THE GREEN ROOM AT THE PLAZA: TICKETS £32.50 START TIME MURDER 7.30PM MYSTERY MEALS JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND MAYHEM AT ONE OF OUR UPCOMING MURDER MYSTERY EVENTS! Performed over a three course dinner our suspects give you clues, comedy and of course, a mystifying murder to solve! Guests are invited to witness the scenes of evidence unfold before them and interrogate the suspects as they mingle amongst the diners in order to get to the bottom of the dastardly crime that has occurred. Tickets include an arrival glass of bubbly, 3 course meal and murder mystery entertainment performed by the After Dark Theatre Company. THURSDAY 13TH & FRIDAY 14TH APRIL It’s time to set sail on the most famous ocean going vessel ever built, but you’re not just here to enjoy the opulence and grandeur of the white star line’s flag ship liner. The famous Heart of the Ocean has been stolen and a killer is on the loose. Can you solve the crime before the last lifeboat sails? FRIDAY 28TH JULY Was it the villainous valet, the lethal lord, the horrible heir or the deceitful duchess? Someone has expired on the estate and the killer could be hiding upstairs, downstairs or in the lady’s chamber. Can you fathom the mystery of this manor and discover just who it was who was to the murder born? WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER A Glass of water for Mr Granger! There’s been a made to measure murder in menswear and it’s up to you to get your pants on and solve this mystery. Has someone been tampering with Mr Humphries Trousers? Is Mrs Slocombe’s pussy relevant to the crime? Will the killer be free or will you crack the case… and all do very well? SATURDAY 25TH NOVEMBER Let us transport you back to Victorian England for our Dickensian Christmas Crime. It’s a mystery that can only be solved by travelling to the past, present and future so it’s a good job that the ghost of Christmas Crimes is on hand to help you! SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER It’s time to deck the halls and solve a murder as a killer has sent the gift of murder to Mistletoe Manor this Christmas. Did the butler serve up a course of death? Did the Gardener chop down more than just the tree? Did the Chef cook her ladyship’s goose? Can you solve the crime?! TUESDAY 19TH DECEMBER Ho Ho Ho Oh No! Someone’s got their claws out for Jolly Old Saint Nick! Take a slay ride to Christmas Town with us and try to fathom who has been ignoring elf and safety rules and brought a weapon to work to Kill Kriss Kringle. BOOK ONLINE: WWW.STOCKPORTPLAZA.CO.UK 5 April 2017 YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND - THE MUSIC OF JAMES TAYLOR & CAROLE KING Wednesday 12 th April at 7.30pm From the creators of the smash hit WEST END show ‘The Simon TICKETS & Garfunkel Story’, ‘You’ve Got A Friend’ celebrates two of the £18.00 World’s greatest songwriters of all time - James Taylor and CONCESSIONS Carole King. £17.00 This musical journey intertwines some of the greatest songs ever written including ‘I Feel The Earth Move’, ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’, ‘How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)’, ‘Fire & Rain’, ‘You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman)’ and the beautiful ‘You’ve Got A Friend’. THE BON JOVI EXPERIENCE Friday 14 th April at 7.30pm Bon Jovi …. the greatest stadium rock band of all time is now TICKETS re-created in theatres by the sensational Bon Jovi Experience. £18.50 Lead singer and World’s leading look-alike, Tony Pearce, takes CONCESSIONS on the noteworthy task of emulating the legendary namesake of £16.50 the band Jon Bon Jovi and he does so with ease and panache. The only tribute band in the World to have shared the stage with the real McCoy. This show includes all the hits, Living On A Prayer, You Give Love A Bad Name, Keep The Faith, Bed of Roses, Always, Bad Medicine, It’s My Life and many many more. “The best tribute I have ever seen” Jon Bon Jovi 6 STOCKPORT PLAZA BOX OFFICE: 0161 477 7779 April 2017 ALICE THE MUSICAL Saturday 15 th April at 2.30pm & 7.30pm The ever-curious Alice's journey begins innocently enough TICKETS as she chases the White Rabbit.