Cinderella: Sunderland Empire
December 12, 2007
Cinderella Sunderland Empire until January 6th
Pantomime has returned to the Sunderland Empire for the first time in a few years with a production of Cinderella that is glitzy, glamorous and great fun.
We still have Cinderella, as the young girl who is put upon by here sisters and cannot return the love shown to her by Buttons as she has met the man of her dreams Prince Charming, if only she could marry him. But as we expect her fairy Godmother sorts it all out and we are left with a happy ending.
In this version of the show we have a real life living legend playing Cinderella’s father Baron Hardup, the 87 year old Mickey Rooney. This is his first pantomime and there was certainly a large part of the audience who were there to see him. While Baron Hardup is a small role in the show , he joined in different scenes and became the cabaret at the princes ball . When he sang in that scene, he said as a passing comment that the song was a favourite of his friend Fred Astaire. Read more
Dickens Of A Time This Christmas
November 14, 2007
This Christmas, Northern Stage brings the most famous ghost story ever told to Stage 1. In a brand new adaptation for children over seven and their families, all the Christmas cheer and spooky goings-on of one of Dickens’ best loved tales gets a colourful lease of life with a classic Northern Stage twist.
A Christmas Carol is the timeless tale of a lesson in the art of charity taught to the original humbug. Ebenezer Scrooge is the meanest man in England. Nothing is closer to his heart than money. On Christmas Eve everyone is full of Christmas cheer – except Scrooge. When he dismisses their festivities and asks his long-suffering clerk, Bob Cratchit, to work on Christmas day, little does he know he is about to learn the true spirit of Christmas from some very unexpected visitors…
An enchanted evening in Sunderland?
November 5, 2007
The Rodgers and Hammerstein score of South Pacific will fill the Sunderland Empire from tomorrow (Nov 6th ) until Saturday. Not only will this score be remembered though, as leading lady Helena Blackman was runner up in the TV show “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria”, which was won by Connie Fisher , the prize being to appear as Maria, in the London Palladium revival of The Sound of Music (of course another Rodgers and Hammerstein score).
In the show we have songs such as I’m Going To Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening and There’s Nothing Like A Dame to keep us tapping our feet and transporting the audience on a dark cold night in Wearside to the sunnier climate of South Pacific.
Portable Panto!
October 28, 2007
Comics, singers and groups talk often of “doing the clubs”, touring around the working men’s clubs, but for the second year running a North East theatre company will be “doing the clubs” this Christmas.
Entertainments agency Beverley Artistes, currently based in South Shields but about to move into new premises, has brought in South Tyneside theatre company KG Productions to write, produce and tour a pantomime around the social clubs of the NE from Northumberland to Teesside.
At the moment, Aladdin has 33 bookings in the four week period from the beginning of December to New Year’s Eve but Beverley’s Paul Taylor confidently expects that number will increase.
Wilde return of Penelope
October 21, 2007
Penelope Keith (TVs The Good Life) is returning to the Theatre Royal in The Importance of Being Ernest , by Oscar Wilde, on October 29th for one week on a pre West End tour.
But she played the same role, Lady Bracknell, when she appeared at the Theatre Royal in March 1991. On that tour her co-stars were the real life husband wife vetrans actors Micheal Denison and Dulcie Gray. Both of these performers were major names in British Theatre and TV with Dulcie having played in over 40 West End Plays, 26 of them opposite her husband.
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