Get ready to meet the staff of ‘Goody 2 Shooz’ as smash hit comedy If The Shoe Fits returns to Liverpool, this time gracing the stage at the city’s Epstein Theatre. The award-winning show will run at the Epstein from the 16th – 20th April and with a fan base ranging from sixteen to sixty returning every year to see their favourite characters and their antics on stage, tickets are expected to be in high demand.
A whirlwind of glitz, glamour and family fun is forecast to hit the St. Helens Theatre Royal on March 30thand last until 7th April bringing audiences an ultimate Easter eggstravaganza in pure panto style. Due to popular demand Regal Entertainments are bringing back their wizardly wonderful production of the timeless classic which will take theatregoers young and old over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road…..that’s right, it’s the welcomed return of everyone’s favourite tale, The Wizard of Oz.
Richard De Vere as Dandini. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
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Cast: Tina Malone, Leanne Campbell, James Waud, Charlie Griffiths, Richard De Vere, Marc Lawlor, Simon Foster, Nick Cochrane, Schnorbitz.
The village of Stoneybroke and its love deprived prince are in need of good fortune and a princess to bring love to its desolate and poor people. They certainly don’t come any poorer than Baroness Hardup and her daughter. It may be a fairytale but for those that go along to the St. Helens Theatre Royal to catch one of the classics of the panto season, the tremendous Cinderella, it will be impossible not to feel touched and elated at the grand piece of theatre on offer.
Liverpool’s Applet Music Productions are delighted to announce that Heart and Soul, a brand new musical set in the city, will make its premiere at the Epstein Theatre next March. Heart and Soul follows the rollercoaster journey of a young woman’s quest for success in the cut-throat music industry, whilst juggling love life and family drama.
This inspirational production is packed with original songs, spanning the genres from motown to rock, dance, ballads and even jazz, entirely written, orchestrated and played by the show’s producers, Liverpool duo Maria Cavanagh and Indra Nathaniel of Applet Music Productions
Eddie John Fortune is one of the new wave of Liverpool actors whose voice is being heard and his reputation enhanced by productions such as Elastic Bridge and Love Me Do (in which he portrayed the city’s legendry Brian Epstein.) He is in rehearsals for the new Keifer Williams play Tongues, directed by his dear friend Joe Shipman, and which will be coming to the theatre next year and in which he will act alongside one of his co-stars from Love Me Do, the impressive Charlie Griffiths. If that wasn’t enough for one man to be getting on with, he is developing his own stand-up comedy character Gwillam Dorey which is about a gay Welshman with a fatal attraction towards Glenn Close.
Picture from Liverpool Daily Post
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2011.
Cast: Micky Finn, Terry O’Shea, Mark Allen, Ruth Laird, Louise Thomas, Laura McEwan, Clair Griffiths, Dave Crosby, Ami-Lee Price, Charlie Griffiths.
For tears, laughter, a genuine dollop of nostalgia and long buried memories, audiences could not go far wrong to catch Brian McCann’s musical play Down Our Street.
Although only running for three days at the Unity Theatre, the play is sold out with no room to spare as audiences were treated to the birth of a town and an industry that supported the growth and presided over some of the bad times that sometimes inevitably follows it.
Originally published on L.S. Media. 2nd August 2012.
Cast: Charlie Griffiths, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Simms, Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Al T. Kossy, Lesley Hughes, Trevor Fleming, James William-Watts, Michael Swift.
When a play is as terrific, expansive and well observed as If The Shoe Fits, then no matter what theatre it is put on at, it is sure to draw the crowds in their numbers and be enjoyed for what it is, a play that really draws on the underbelly of city life, its laughter, its dreams and also its seedier side which is just as much a part of humanity as the bright lights and shopping malls.