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Traces
Mon 8th February 2010 - Wed 10th February 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Since taking the Edinburgh Festival by storm in 2007, followed by sell-out seasons in London’s West End, New York, Paris and Montreal, award-winning Traces tours the UK for the first time.
Traces is a high energy, dazzling display of urban acrobatics that combines traditional circus skills with basketball, skateboarding, a mix of street and contemporary dance, traditional theatre, humour and amazing audio visual effects.
Set to a soundtrack that includes hip-hop, rock 'n' roll, blues and classical music, this infectious funky pioneering new brand of circus is a thrill-a-minute that will leave you begging for more.
The five ultra talented performers reveal snippets of their own personal stories throughout the show, drawing the audience in until the dramatic climax leaves them on the edge of their seats willing them to pull off the seemingly impossible.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Eva Cassidy - Over the Rainbow
Thu 11th February 2010 - Thu 11th February 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Over The Rainbow is a compelling award winning musical, which tells the life story of the legendary Eva Cassidy, following her life through dramatic scenes and stunning live renditions of her music including a haunting interpretation of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
This show pays a genuine and heartfelt tribute to a true artist who was not interested in fame and fortune, but wanted nothing more than to create beautiful music.
From its first performance in 2004, Over The Rainbow, has moved people immensely with sell-out performances and standing ovations throughout the UK and Europe.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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That's Amore
Fri 12th February 2010 - Fri 12th February 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Don’t miss this magical evening of top class entertainment celebrating the life and career of the one and only Dean Martin.
Based on Dean’s successful NBC television variety show and his nightclub and theatre act, That’s Amore will feature Mark Adams (The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas) and a live orchestra performing all the hits including Volare, Mambo Italiano, Sway, Memories are made of this, Everybody loves Somebody and of course That’s Amore.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Dreamboats and Petticoats
Mon 15th February 2010 - Sat 20th February 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
The greatest days of your life!
Inspired by the smash hit million selling albums Dreamboats And Petticoats One, Two and Three, comes the sell out sensation Dreamboats And Petticoats The Musical, direct from the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End, featuring some of the greatest hit songs of the Rock ‘n’ Roll era.
Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the team behind Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, The New Statesmen and Shine On Harvey Moon, this new feel-good musical production will give you ‘the greatest time of your life’, taking you back to a time when each passing week brought another classic track.
In 1961 emotions run high as young musicians Norman and Bobby compete to win a national song writing competition – and, more importantly, the attention of the gorgeous Sue! But when Bobby discovers that shy Laura is no slouch on the piano, love and rock ‘n’ roll fame beckons…
Featuring classic tracks from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, and many more, including Let’s Dance, To Know Him Is To Love Him, Shaking All Over, Bobby’s Girl, Three Steps To Heaven, Little Town Flirt, Only Sixteen, Runaround Sue, Happy Birthday Sweet 16, Let It Be Me, Great Pretender, C’mon Everybody, Let’s Twist Again and many more hits from music’s golden era!
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 871 7652
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tue 23rd February 2010 - Sat 13th March 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
The most fantasmagorical stage musical in the history of everything, hits the road in top gear on the 4th year of its high-flying tour.
With a cast and crew of 100 (including ten dogs), sensational sets and stunning special effects, this action-packed adventure is the story of the magical car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, and his two children Jeremy and Jemima, alongside Truly Scrumptious and Grandpa Potts, all try and outwit the dastardly Baron and the famously evil Childcatcher.
Bursting with magical songs including Truly Scrumptious, Toot Sweets, Hushabye Mountain and the Oscar nominated title song, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the production has been nominated for three Olivier Awards, won Best Musical in the 2002 Variety Awards, been nominated for five Tony Awards on Broadway and won the coveted Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Family Show in 2006.
This ravishing award-winning show is guaranteed to be the most exciting theatrical event of the year.
Don't let it take off without you!
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Calendar Girls
Mon 15th March 2010 - Sat 27th March 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Starring: Lynda Bellingham, Gemma Atkinson, Judith Barker, Debbie Chazen, Letitia Dean & Jan Harvey
Calendar Girls has been the fastest selling tour ever and has triumphed in the West End. Now on tour starring Lynda Bellingham with Gemma Atkinson, Judith Barker, Debbie Chazen, Letitia Dean and Jan Harvey.
A group of ordinary women do something extraordinary and spark a global phenomenon when they persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! Based on an inspiring true story, Calendar Girls is quirky, poignant and hilarious. Calendar Girls has sold-out in every Theatre it's visited before opening. Don’t miss out and book today for the show the Daily Mail called 'a marvellous, uplifting night at the theatre.'
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Carmen - Welsh National Opera
Wed 31st March 2010 - Wed 31st March 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Cast includes Patricia Bardon as Carmen, Gwyn Hughes Jones as Don José, David Soar as Escamillo, Sarah-Jane Davies as Micaëla, Henry Waddington as Zuniga, Joanne Boag as Frasquita and Carolyn Dobbin as Mercedes.
Don José’s life was quiet, respectable and law abiding. From the moment he met Carmen his life has unravelled. He is intoxicated by her, blinded by jealousy, pursuing her across Spain and on the run. His jealousy will destroy him and if the cards are telling the truth, it will destroy Carmen too.
Bizet’s most famous creation is full to the brim with instantly recognizable music and paints a mesmerizing picture of a Spain teeming with fascinating characters. Carmen herself is one of the most charismatic and hard to resist characters in opera. For a century and a half audiences the world over have fallen in love with her. Patricia Bardon returns to this production as Carmen with Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones reprising the role of Don José.
Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s production distils Bizet’s masterpiece right down to its essence.
Sung in French with surtitles in English. Please note surtitles are not visible from all areas of the auditorium. Please contact the Box Office for further details.
Co-production with Scottish Opera.
Web site: www.milton keynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Abduction from the Seraglio - WNO
Thu 1st April 2010 - Thu 1st April 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Cast includes Andrew Kennedy as Belmonte, Lisette Oropesa as Constanze, Petros Magoulas as Osmin, Claire Ormshaw as Blonde and Wynne Evans as Pedrillo.
Belmonte’s lover Constanze is being held captive by Pasha Selim. If Belmonte is going to rescue Constanze he will have to get past the Pasha’s steward Osmin first. This may not necessarily sound like the premise of a comedy but The Abduction from the Seraglio is one of Mozart’s wittiest and most delightful creations.
The joyous overture suggests a boisterous sense of fun, which is carried right through to the final curtain with stratospheric arias and blissful ensembles along the way. BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize winner Andrew Kennedy performs the role of Belmonte.
James Robinson’s stylish production is irresistibly entertaining, setting the opera on the Orient Express of the 1920s en route from Paris to Istanbul.
Sung in German with surtitles in English. Please note surtitles are not visible from all areas of the auditorium. Please contact the Box Office for further details.
A co-production of Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Minnesota Opera and Opera Pacific.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Tosca - Welsh National Opera
Tue 30th March 2010 - Sat 3rd April 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Cast includes Alwyn Mellor as Floria Tosca, Geraint Dodd as Cavaradossi, Robert Hayward as Scarpia.
No-one is safe in the Rome of 1800. Under Baron Scarpia corruption and suspicion hang over the city, virtue and humanity are cruelly stamped out.
The world of opera singer Floria Tosca is about to be turned upside down. She is suspicious of her lover Mario’s fidelity. Little does she realize that he is at the centre of a struggle that will lead to tragedy. Soon she herself will become the object of Scarpia’s insatiable lust and she will be forced to ask what she has done to deserve this.
Once decried as a 'shabby little shocker', Tosca has become one of the best-loved of all operas. The combination of its fast paced plot, high tension and the poignancy of the great arias Vissi d’arte and E lucevan le stelle ensure that Tosca never fails to enthrall. Michael Blakemore’s period set production of this pulsating thriller promises to set your emotions on a knife-edge.
Sung in Italian with surtitles in English. Please note surtitles are not visible from all areas of the auditorium. Please contact the Box Office for further details.
Co-production with the State Opera of South Australia.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Fascinating Aida
Wed 7th April 2010 - Wed 7th April 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Celebrating over 25 years, and three Laurence Olivier Award nominations for best entertainment, is the hilarious trio Dillie, Adele and Liza.
This ‘auspicious birthday’ edition of Fascinating Aida promises to entertain you with brand-new songs, thrill you with beautiful harmonies and leave you in awe at their intricate rhyming.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Enjoy
Mon 12th April 2010 - Sat 17th April 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Alan Bennett’s rarely performed Enjoy shines a whole new light on Britain’s favourite playwright.
An elderly couple are living in the last back-to-back in Leeds. They’re about to be re-housed in a brand new maisonette, complete with waste-disposal unit and non-slip vinyl flooring. As the bulldozers rumble and homes tumble, a way of life is fast disappearing. But that’s where sentiment bumps into surrealism. When a sociologist comes to observe Wilf and Connie’s daily life, things take a distinctly peculiar turn...
This comedy stars renowned actress Alison Steadman (Abigail’s Party, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and, most recently, Gavin & Stacey)and David Troughton (starring roles with the RSC, Dr Who and A Very Peculiar Practice).
This is a delightful and unexpected side of Alan Bennett: gentle nostalgia and wicked satire in equal measure combine to make this an unmissable evening.
'Richly enjoyable' The Guardian
'The writing, as you’d expect, is pin-sharp' Daily Telegraph
'A piece ahead of its time, downroarious and heartily recommended' Independent
'The one-liners are as blackly hilarious as anything by Joe Orton' Financial Times
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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NBT Peter Pan
Tue 20th April 2010 - Sat 24th April 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
'All children, except one, grow up…'
Fly to Neverland with Peter Pan and Northern Ballet Theatre in this magical ballet for the whole family. Follow Peter, John, Michael, Wendy and Tinkerbell as they soar high in the sky to an enchanted world where wicked Pirates prey on Lost Boys and an adventure lurks around every corner.
JM Barrie’s Peter Pan has delighted children and adults for over a hundred years and NBT’s popular production brings all the charm of this famous story to life. With music by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love), magical puppets, fairies and death-defying feats of flying, this is a perfect treat for young and old.
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: Lucy
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Whistle Down the Wind
Mon 26th April 2010 - Sat 1st May 2010
Location: Milton Keynes Theatre
Starring G4’s Jonathan Ansell
This critically acclaimed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind is set to thrill audiences once again as it returns to Milton Keynes Theatre for one week only.
An extraordinary and uplifting tale about the transforming power of love, Whistle Down the Wind is based on the beloved sixties film starring Hayley Mills, and features numerous multi-award-winning songs, including Boyzone’s international hit, No Matter What.
The bright-eyed and youthful Swallow discovers a mysterious man hiding in her family’s barn. When she asks for his identity the first words he utters are, 'Jesus Christ'. While the rest of the townspeople are searching for a fugitive escaped from jail, Swallow gathers the town’s children who make a pact to protect their new found saviour from the cruelties of the outside world.
Truly inspiring, Whistle Down the Wind shows how powerful love can be when the innocence of childhood collides with the cynicism of the adult world.
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Jim Steinman
Directed by Bill Kenwright
Web site: www.miltonkeynestheatre.com
Contact: 0844 8717652
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Theatre AddressMilton Keynes Theatre,
Marlborough Gate,
Central Milton Keynes
MK9 3NZ
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