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Hitting The Road Again In 2020 Due To Overwhelming Demand; Grease Returns To The Liverpool Empire Theatre.

Following a highly acclaimed U.K. and Ireland tour in 2019, the first new production in 25 years of Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey’s iconic musical Grease will tour the U.K. again in 2020, directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. Dan Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger in the International Tour of Cats, Link in the U.K. Tour of Hairspray and Pepper in Mamma Mia! in the West End) will reprise the role of Danny Zuko, with further casting to be announced.

The tour will play the Liverpool Empire Theatre from Monday 29th June to Saturday 4th July 2020. On sale now with tickets available from just £13.

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West End Smash Hit Musical SIX To Visit The Playhouse In 2020.

A musical about the six wives of Henry VIII that has wowed audiences in the West End will visit the Playhouse in March 2020.

SIX puts Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boelyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleaves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr centre stage, as the wives transform into pop princesses to tell their own tale. The production visits the Playhouse from 3rd-7th March 2020 for eight performances.

Co-directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, SIX remixes five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves, but their lipstick is rebellious red.

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Legendary Progressive Rock Band Yes Announce An Evening Of Music At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall As Part Of U.K. Tour.

YES, one of the most innovative of all prog-rock bands, and true legends of the genre, have announced an eight date U.K. tour for May and June of 2020. The Album Series 2020 Tour will feature their 1974 Relayer album in its entirety together with a selection of other classic YES favourites. An extensive European tour will be announced soon.

This tour, which will come to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday 26th May, follows their 2018 highly successful #YES50 Anniversary tour and again features the line-up of Steve Howe (guitars), Alan White (drums), Geoff Downes (keyboards), Billy Sherwood (bass guitar and backing vocals), Jon Davison (vocals) and Jay Schellen (additional drums and percussion).

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Wille & The Bandits Announce 2020 U.K. Tour, With An Eagerly Awaited Return To Liverpool On Saturday 29th February.

Following the release of their critically acclaimed album Paths, Wille & The Bandits return to tour the U.K. from February to April 2020. Dates include Manchester (28th February), Glasgow (7th March), Cardiff (14th March) and London (20th March). General on-sale date for tickets is Friday October 4th.

The band’s latest album Paths encapsulates the excitement and gusto of rock and roll. The album is a breath of fresh air challenging the listener while embracing technology and instrumental possibilities that are afforded to musicians in current times.

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Calexico And Iron & Wine Come To Liverpool This November As Part Of November U.K. Tour.

Calexico and Iron & Wine first made an artistic connection with In the Reins, the 2005 E.P. that brought Sam Beam, Joey Burns and John Convertino together. The acclaimed collaboration introduced both acts to wider audiences and broadened Beam’s artistic horizons, but it was the shared experience of touring together in the tradition of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue that cemented their bond. Their metaphorical roads diverged in the years that followed, but they kept in touch and cross-pollinated where they could. But although they often talked about rekindling their collaboration in the studio and on the stage, it wasn’t until last year that their schedules aligned.

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Box Of Tricks To Stage Their New Play Under Three Moons At The Unity Theatre.

Following their hugely successful touring productions of Narvik, Plastic Figurines and most recently SparkPlug, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks are set to visit Liverpool’s Unity Theatre from the 9th-12th October  at 7.30pm  with Under Three Moons, Daniel Kanaber’s new play that explores how men relate to each other today, who they are and how they live – and the spaces between.

Spanning half a lifetime, Under Three Moons takes place on three nights across three decades of two friends’ lives. From a school trip to France as teenagers, to a surf shack in their twenties, to Christmas in their thirties, Mike and Paul meet up and talk into the night. From boyhood to manhood to fatherhood, these are the nights they share.

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Girls Don’t Play Guitars- The Untold Story Of The World’s First All Girl Rock And Roll Group Comes To The Royal Court From Friday 4th October.

Liverpool’s Royal Court’s new musical opens at the end of this week. Get ready for Girls Don’t Play Guitars by Ian Salmon!

The Liverbirds burst onto the Liverpool music scene in 1963, playing at the Cavern Club then off to Hamburg’s famous Star Club for a three-year residency. They met John Lennon as they were just starting out and he dismissed them with “Girls don’t play guitars”.

The hard-rocking quartet, consisting of vocalist-guitarist Valerie Gell, guitarist-vocalist Pamela Birch, bassist-vocalist Mary McGlory and drummer Sylvia Saunders, was the World’s first all-girl rock and roll group.

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The Promise Of Something Different As Knee Deep In Promises Comes To The Royal Court Studio Space.

What do you do when your mum dies and you’ve promised to do “something different” for her funeral? That is the problem that Dean is facing in Knee Deep In Promises at Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio.

Starring Debbie Brannan (Cilla, Coronation Street), Lewis Bray (Cartoonopolis) and Sharon Byatt (Bread, Blood Brothers) and directed by Paul Goetzee, the play is a bitter-sweet story about how difficult it can be to live a simple life.

The script is another one that was developed through the theatre’s programme to promote new writing – Stage Write. It is the third Stage Write play this year following Masquerade and Pig and there are more promised for 2020.

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Spandau Ballet Star Martin Kemp To Spin The Decks With Hits Of The 80s This Autumn In Warrington.

Are you ready to party?   This 80’s night is selling out across the U.K.! Dust off those dancing shoes and spread the word far and wide that Martin Kemp will be turning the clock back to the 1980s for a very special night at Warrington Parr Hall!

Spandau Ballet sold millions of records worldwide.   Martin is a huge television personality starring in the likes of The Krays & Eastenders alongside his famous role in Spandau Ballet.   Martin also starred on the West End in the hit musical Chicago whilst still finding time to appear in Channel 4s Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.

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Liverpool’s Playhouse Theatre To Host Enchanting Film Turned Musical Amélie On Final Dates Of U.K. Tour.

The striking stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed, BAFTA award-winning film Amelie will make its final stop at the Liverpool Playhouse, following a mammoth U.K. tour.

The production visits Liverpool for eight performances from 14th-19th October, before embarking on a tour across the globe.

Amelie The Musical tells the story of an astonishing young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind. She secretly improvises small but extraordinary acts of kindness that bring happiness to those around her. However, when a chance at love comes her way, she realises that to find her own contentment she’ll have to risk everything and say what’s in her heart.

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