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What’s On WIRRAL ● THE Port Sunlight Players present fantasy comedy Wyrd Sisters at Port Sunlight’s Gladstone Theatre from Thursday, October 9Saturday, October 11. Tickets are £6/5, available from the theatre box office on 643 8757 and 334 3040. ● MERSEYSIDE Blues band Joey Shields and The Wheels are the guests of Blue C at Blues On The Rock, Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, on Sunday, October 12. Admission is £3 and the show is from 1-4pm. For more information call 709 5484. ● MARI Wilson performs at Pacific Road next Tuesday (October 14). The show starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £16, available from the box office on 647 0752. ● VOCALIZE Singing Group is performing Songs from Stage and Screen at Vale Park, New righton, on Saturday, October 11. The event starts at 2.30pm and will feature songs from Evita, Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, and Grease. ● MORETON Community Players present Thank You for the Music on Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 at Moreton Methodist Church Hall. Tickets are £5/£4. Pay at the door or book by calling 488 5075/606 9493. ● THE Big Easy Jazz Band play on the third Sunday of every month at Melrose Hall, Melrose Avenue, Hoylake. For more information call Terry Perry on 334 7147. ● BOOKINGS are now being taken for Sleeping Beauty, the 2008 pantomime at the all-new Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton. Performances are from December 22 to January 11. Until the new Floral box office opens tickets can be purchased from Pacific Road Arts Centre on 647 0752. ● MERSEY Basin Week begins in on Sunday, October 12 with a guided walk from Seacome Ferry along the promenade to Vale Park, looking at the historical aspects of New Brighton. This will be followed by a light lunch in Vale House, then sea shanties and songs of the sea performed by local musicians George and Gill Peckham, Roger Parker, residents at Manor Folk Club, Withens Lane, where there is a singers’ night starting at 8.30pm.
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Wirral News Group ● Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Do anything to see this classic show!
● Cast members of a production of Oliver at Port Sunlight
Musical treat is promised
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HE popular musical Oliver! is being brought to the Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight by Wallasey Operatic Society.
The group has been rehearsing since the beginning of August and promises to have the audience singing and dancing in the aisles by the time they perform. The cast is made up of 17 principals, 22 chorus members and 11 children who have
By CARRIE CATTERALL been working hard to create a spectacular show. The British musical which is loosely based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens has become even more popular this year with the help of the BBC’s I’d Do Anything. Director Iain Lewis said: “The television show really boosted the amount of people auditioning for our version of Oliver! this year which gave us a greater choice when casting. “We now have an extremely talented group of actors, some of whom are award winners.” Rachel Cureton, who plays
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Nancy in the show, won the National Operatic and Dramatic Association North West Award for best actress in a musical last year. She is joined by seven-yearold Harrison Shoemark and eight-year-old Callum Craine playing Oliver, with Lee Abbate and Dominic Melluish sharing the part of Dodger. With the entire cast blasting out songs like Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two, I’d do Anything plus many more, this show is bound to entertain. Each year Wallasey Operatic Society has one major show, a cabaret and a concert party.
Iain said: “We are really looking forward to our show and hope the public will support us. “In November 2010 we will be back at the new Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, performing Thoroughly Modern Millie.” You can see Oliver! at the Gladstone Theatre from Wednesday, October 22 to Saturday, October 25 at 7.30pm or at the 2.30pm Saturday matinee. Call 632 3640 or 643 8757 for tickets priced £12 or £10 for concessions. To audition for next year’s show, call 639 4016.
Focus On
Band to go global
WIRRAL Community Wind Band is going global this Saturday! The band is in concert at Pacific Road Arts Centre in Birkenhead with “Global Variations”, an evening featuring music from around the world. The USA will be represented by a Sousa march and music from the musical Chicago, with an Up-Country Tune arranged by Percy Grainger for Australia. French favourites will be the traditional Shepherd’s Song and highlights from the Moulin Rouge film score. The event will be conducted by the band’s musical director David Straughan. A spokesman for the band said: “Add in other film and show music from Miss Saigon, A Bridge Too Far and Schindler’s List, amongst others, and you have an evening of scintillating music from around the world.” Wirral Community Wind Band was formed in September 1987 with just eight musicians and now has more than 40 members. The band’s first concert took place at Oldershaw School, Wallasey and other highlights over the years include competing in the National Concert Band Festival and two joint concerts with Bolton Chamber Choir. The band is no stranger to Pacific Road after performing a string of concerts at the venue over the last few years, including a “Stage and Screen” themed concert in 2005. ● Global Variations is at Pacific Road this Saturday (October 11), starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 (£5 concessions), available from 647 0752 or www.pacificroad.co.uk For more information about the band visit www.wcwband.co.uk