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Special Guests Announced For Musical Theatre Double Bill At The Epstein Theatre.

Emma Dears and Olivia Brereton join Roy Locke in Matinee Musical Classics and Music Of The Night coming to Epstein Theatre in October.

Absolute Opera in association with Bill Elms present Matinee Musical Classics and Music Of The Night at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool on Sunday 20 October 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

The shows celebrate the very best West End and Broadway musicals, and feature the most iconic classic musical theatre hits of all time. This new series of must-see musical theatre shows make their debut next month starring Liverpool-based internationally acclaimed classical Tenor, Roy Locke, who will be joined be a special guest West End performer in each show.

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Sweeney Todd, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * * *

Photograph by Marc Brenner, used with kind permission by Everyman Theatre.

Cast: Liam Tobin, Kacey Ainsworth, Emma Dears, Paul Duckworth, Keziah Joseph, Dean Nolan, Bryan Parry, Shiv Rabheru, Mark Rice-Oxley.

Musicians: Tarek Merchant, Daisy Evans, Samantha Norman, Alex Smith.

Sweeney Todd, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(592 words, 1 image, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Downstairs At The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Dears, Helen Sheals.

Music: Greg Palmer.

There are icons and then there are those who, thanks to maybe one performance, one shining brilliant moment captured on film or record, will forever be immortalised, their images seared into the minds of the public, even those who were not born when they tragically passed away, their attitude remaining an engraved line on the monument on how stars are born and their names becoming the epitaph of the age. It is both a warning to how lives can be snatched away and never be truly our own, and it can be the huge embrace of knowing how much a human being can be loved.

Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Downstairs At The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Maria Lovelady, Eithne Browne, Christopher Jordan, Emma Dears, Jake Abraham, Tom Cawte, Roy Carruthers, Phil Hearne.

The taste of 1930s Britain so elegantly captured in Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey is arguably more palpable, more authentic than any text book that might go on at length to describe the after effects of the Great Depression on those caught in its wake and the sacrifice many individuals had to face just to survive; it is genuine, touching, brutal and one that still pervades the modern era and the way its shapes politics today.

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jake Abraham, Eithne Browne, Roy Carruthers, Daniel Davies, Emma Dears, Brian Dodd, Christopher Jordan, Maria Lovelady.

There is a horrible sense of deja vu as one looks around closely in hidden doors and hears the sounds of families at war with themselves that the period known as the Great Depression, the 1930s stumbling block to world peace has been making itself at home for the last few years and nobody has truly noticed. Thankfully the true depths that the world groped around in the dark with during that time has not materialised again but only perhaps good fortune, rather than political reckoning has saved the type of scenes witnessed by the writer Helen Forrester as she grew up impoverished in a city that was fighting for grim survival and without even Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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Full Casting Announced For 2015 Production Of Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

The full cast has been announced for the new stage play of Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey, which tours four Merseyside theatres in the Spring.

The play will visit Liverpool, Southport, St.Helens and New Brighton between 10th March and 23rd April.

The eight-strong cast – a number of whom will play dual roles in the production – features a number of well known and popular Liverpool actors.

The tour opens with a three-week run at the Epstein Theatre Liverpool (10th to 28th March), followed by visits to Southport Theatre (9th to 11th April) and St Helens Theatre Royal (14th to 16th April), and ends with a trip across the River Mersey to the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton (19th to 23rd April).

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Little Atoms In Conversation With Lynda La Plante. St George’s Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is quite something to see a master story teller, a Queen of Crime, on stage being interviewed by arguably a man whose passion for Liverpool, his appetite for culture and ability to hold an audience’s attention singles him out as one of the finest in the city.

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(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Liverpool’s Little Atoms Announce All Female Music Line Up For Their In Conversation With Lynda La Plante.

Little Atom Productions are delighted to announce the first all-female music line-up in their hugely successful Liverpool ‘In Conversation’ series, whose next interview subject is legendary Liverpool crime writer Lynda La Plante at the stunning Concert Room at St George’s Hall on Tuesday 10th September.

The events feature five separate musical acts, each of which performs one of the famous interviewee’s five favourite pieces of music. The series so far has seen acts as varied as a classical guitar rendition of Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army and a 25-strong Baroque choir from Waterloo singing music by Henry Purcell but this will be the first time all five songs are performed entirely by women.

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Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lucy Williamson, Emma Dears.

Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, perhaps two of the biggest names in American show business ever and surely impossible to ever replicate on stage what they have each achieved and the adoration in which they are still held to this day. Whilst Judy Garland’s life was heartbreakingly cut short due to near obscene levels of pressure, Ms Minnelli has been a born survivor despite the huge ruby slippers she had to fill and yet in Judy & Liza it was if the two women had come back together just one more time.

Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)