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The North West Premiere Of A Christmas Carol-The Musical Is Coming To The Royal Court Theatre This November.

Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel of the same name, the yuletide musical follows the well-known story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future – and of course not forgetting poor Tiny Tim.

A Christmas Carol – The Musical is being staged for five performances only, from 7th to 10th November, and will include two afternoon shows over the weekend dates.

Director Karen Partington said, “Our 70 strong cast, including 20 local children, will be bringing this traditional festive tale to life in spectacular fashion. We’re excited to be using the theatre’s unique 9m revolving stage, and combined with our live band, big dance numbers and colourful costumes, the show promises to be a magical night out for all the family.”

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Award-Winning Comedian Brings New Show To Warrington’s Parr Hall In 2020.

Rob Brydon will be touring the country next spring with his new show Songs & Stories and will be calling in at Warrington’s Parr Hall on March 19th.

This is the first time that the Welsh comedian has created a show that includes songs and music as well as his acclaimed wit and comedy.

With songs from Sondheim to Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Paul Simon to Tom Waits and almost everything in between, audiences can expect Rob’s usual warmth and humour as well as some of his famed gallery of voices.

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Free Will And Friendship Explored At Scale As What We Did Next Brings Nick Payne’s Play Constellation To The Stage.

Liverpool’s What We Did Next is proud to present Nick Payne’s Constellations.

It’s a play about free will and friendship; it’s about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey.

Meet Marianne and Roland. A couple destined to be together. And to be apart. To get back together. To never see each other again. To become soul mates. To become strangers. This powerful, intelligent play invites you to explore one relationship with infinite possibilities.

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Sweet Announce The Perfect Gift To Unwrap This December At Warrington Parr Hall.

Photograph used with the kind permission of MP Promotions.

Following their sold-out ‘Still Got the Rock’ European Tour legendary 70’s rock band Sweet embark upon the perfect Christmas gift for their U.K. fans, a 16-date nationwide tour from November 28th until December 21st,. The tour will be calling in at Warrington’s Parr Hall on the 6th December.

By the early 70’s The Sweet were arguably the hottest ticket in town with a string of top ten records in the U.K. and Europe including Blockbuster, Hellraiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage and The Sixteens.

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David Essex To Return To The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall As part Of 2020 U.K. Tour.

Internationally renowned singer, composer and actor David Essex has announced his first major tour in over four years. The 18 date U.K. tour taking place in October 2020, including a night at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Saturday 10th October, will see him perform much loved hits spanning over his entire repertoire.

David first shot to fame when he went to an audition for the London production of the musical Godspell and was chosen by enthusiastic U.S. producers for the role of Jesus. He received major awards and some ecstatic reviews which saw him lead a cast at the Roundhouse and then at the West End for two years.

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Slade Return To Liverpool This November As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Slade on tour and coming to Liverpool this November. Photograph used with kind permission by MP Promotions.

On Friday 22nd November, long-standing favourites of British music, Slade, return to Liverpool as part of a U.K. tour which starts at the city’s Arts Club and which will go on through the rest of the month and onwards toward Christmas across cities such as Salisbury, Glasgow, London, Newcastle and Birmingham.

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Sharon Colpman’s Start Square Comes To The Hope Street Theatre This November.

An annoying eerie parrot is the unlikely driving force in a new black comedy thriller dealing with domestic violence.

Start Square is penned by Sharon Colpman, the creator and Executive Producer of “Make it Write”, a group dedicated to staging new plays. It delves into the lonely world of Arthur Watt haunted by the domestic violence of a past marriage. He throws the dice to try to win life’s game of Snakes and Ladders but where will it lead?

“I am looking at domestic violence in an elderly relationship and domestic violence against men,” explains Sharon.

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Paul Heaton And Jacqui Abbott To Release New Album In 2020 And Will Come To Liverpool As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott will release their fourth studio album Manchester Calling on Virgin EMI on 6th March 2020. Manchester Calling boasts all the hallmarks of Heaton’s beautifully bittersweet song writing – effortlessly catchy melodies allied with an everyman’s biting exasperation at the modern world alongside some truly heartfelt love songs.

Produced by long-time collaborator John Williams who produced both Housemartins’ albums and the previous three Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott albums –What Have We Become (’14), Wisdom, Laughter & Lines (’15), and Crooked Calypso (’17)  – the record was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Salford, Manchester. As is Paul Heaton’s habit the lyrics were written in various locations in North Holland and Belgium while the music was composed in a hotel in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria and in Limburg An Der Lahn in Germany.

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Heaven 17 Return To Liverpool In 2020 As They Celebrate 40 Years Of Great Pop Classics.

Heaven 17 are to perform their much-loved greatest hits and highlights from the last 40 years across the U.K. throughout November and December 2020, including a night at the Liverpool Academy on Hotham Street on Friday 11th December 2020.

Hailing from Sheffield, Synth Pop Masters Heaven 17 are one of the most important British post-punk bands.  Taking their name from the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange, Heaven 17 grew out of the experimental production outfit the British Electric Foundation, itself an offshoot of the electro-pop outfit Human League. In 1981 Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the Human League, recruited vocalist Glenn Gregory and Heaven 17 was born. A critically acclaimed album Penthouse and Pavement followed the same year.

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Picture This: Three Plays Drawn From Liverpool Life Comes To The Hope Street Theatre This November.

This November, the debut show from Pique Niche Productions is coming to The Hope Street Theatre. Picture This showcases 3 brand new plays from Liverpool based writers. Each play is inspired by art: whether that be landscapes of the city’s inimitable waterfront or an abstract painting of a woman with an iguana for a necklace! The stories explore family life and relationships ranging from the romantic to the dysfunctional, and all told with a classic Scouse sense of humour.

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