Blackpool Grand School Groups 2023

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THE MAGIC O F THE ATRE

What’s on at EDUCATION | SOCIAL GROUPS

Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Book by Peter Stone.

In the final hours of 14th April 1912 the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and 'the unsinkable ship' slowly sank. It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century. 1517 men, women and children lost their lives.

Based on real people aboard the most legendary ship in the world, Titanic The Musical is a stunning and stirring production focusing on the hopes, dreams and aspirations of her passengers.

The original Broadway production of Titanic The Musical won five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. This stunning production celebrates the 10th anniversary of its London Premiere, where it won sweeping critical acclaim across the board.

Age Guidance 8yrs+

Date Tue 21 to Sat 25 Mar

Time Evenings 7:30pm Thu and Sat Matinee 2:3 0pm

Tickets

Starting from £18.50

Under 18's (Tue to Thu only) £4 off 18 to 26's £13 50 Schools (Thu Matinee only) £18 1894 club, Friends of the Grand and group discounts available.

Accessible Performance

Sat 25 Mar, 2:30pm

THE TRAILER
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DON’T JUST SEE IT. SOLVE IT. Sat 24 June, 2:30pm Mon 19 to Sat 24 Jun Prices starting from £24 Group discounts available Accessible Performance
THE WORLD’S LONGEST-RUNNING PLAY

‘BEST FAMILY THEATRE... CAPTIVATES YOUNG AND OLD’

Join our raggle-taggle band of travelling circus performers as they embark on their most daring feat yet: to recreate the adventures of Phileas Fogg as he sets off on his race around the world.

But wait! Who is this Nellie Bly biting at his heels? We can’t have an actual, real-life woman win this race!

Sit back and enjoy as our skilled performers traverse every country, embrace each character and navigate each mode of transport as fact clashes with fiction in this madcap adventure around the globe. Age Guidance

Starting from £15.50 1894 club, Friends of the Grand and group discounts available.

5yrs+ Tickets
Time Tue to Fri
Thu Matinee
Sat 1
Date Tue 28 Feb to Sat 04 Mar TILTED WIG PRESENTS YORK THEATRE ROYAL’S PRODUCTION FAIRY POWERED PRODUCTIONS THE STAGE REVIEWS HUB
& Directed by JULIET FORSTER
7:30pm
2pm
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by JULES VERNE Adapted
tiltedwigproductions.com @Tiltedwiguk Sat 04 Mar, 1
Accessible Performance
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DIRECTED BY NEIL BETTLES

‘…ITS POWER SPRINGS FROM IT'S ABSOLUTE AUTHENTICITY’ WHAT’S

ON STAGE

Award-winning theatre company, ThickSkin, returns to the stage with an action packed, highly visual production telling the painful yet uplifting true story of an eleven year-old unaccompanied asylum-seeker.

“I don’t know why my Dad let me go, especially when he knew how dangerous, how hard it was… I was too young, too weak to make this journey. I wouldn’t have sent me… He wouldn’t have sent me unless there was a reason.”

In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. He relies on his young wit and charm to make it to the UK. But the fight for survival continues as he clings to his identity and sense of self when he ends up in the British care system.

How Not to Drown shares a story of endurance for a little kid who wasn’t safe or welcome anywhere in the world, performed by an ensemble cast starring Dritan Kastrati himself.

Date Wed 15 to Fri 17 Mar

Time

Evenings 7:3 0pm

Tickets

Starting from £1 5.50

Schools £1 1.50

Ask about out School Workshop opportunities including a copy archive recording of the show.

Accessible Performance

Thu 16 Mar, 7:30pm

thickskintheatre.co.uk | traverse.co.uk

A ThickSkin and Traverse Theatre Company production, supported by Theatre Royal Stratford East. Commissioned by ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre.

Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story.

Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance. This “smart, laugh out loud funny” (Daily Telegraph) show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain. It’s the 1800s. It’s party time. Let the ruthless matchmaking begin.

Date Mon 01 to Sat 6 May

Time Tue to Fri 7:30pm

Matinee 2pm Sat 1pm and 5.30pm

Tickets

Starting from £18.50

Under 26 £1 5.50

1894 Members £3 off

Friends of the Grand and group discounts available.

Accessible Performance

Sat 06 May, 2:30pm

Thu
‘Hilarity, romance, madness and utter theatrical joy. The whole house rose to its feet and cheered and cheered’
Stephen Fry

Julius Caesar; a fast-paced political thriller about a divisive leader who holds awesome power.

Concerned that Caesar poses a threat to democracy, revolutionaries take the violent decision to murder him. They have no plan for what comes next. As the world spins out of control, chaos, horror and superstition rush in to fill the void. Civil war erupts and a new leader must rise: but at what cost?

Date

Tickets

Tue 16 to Sat 20 May

Time Evenings 7:3 0pm

Thu & Sat Matinees 2pm

Accessible Performance

Thu 18 May, 7:30pm

Fri 19 May, 7:30pm

Sat 20 May, 2pm

Starting from £1 5.50

18 to 26s (Excl. Band A) £13.50

1894 club and schools/group discounts available.

Unexpected Twist is the re-telling of the Charles Dickens classic, Oliver Twist, by one of the best-loved figures in the children’s book world, Michael Rosen. Combining two stories in one; Rosen’s story and the Dickens classic that inspired it. Two stories that twist together, unexpectedly!

Shona and her class are studying the book, Oliver Twist. She’s the new girl in school and is finding it hard to stay out of trouble – much like Oliver himself! When she’s given a new phone by a stranger, she begins to suspect there’s something unusual about the new boys she’s met.

This thrilling production is brought to vivid life by The Children’s Theatre Partnership, whose shows have included Animal Farm, Holes and The Jungle Book. Directed by James Dacre Rosen’s novel is adapted for the stage by BAFTA award winning playwright Roy Williams with original music by rising R&B star Yaya Bey and BAC Beatbox Academy’s Conrad Murray.

Age Guidance 8yrs+

Date Tue 23 to Sat 27 May

Time Tue 7pm Wed 10:30am

Thu 10:30am and 2pm

Fri 7pm

Sat 2:30pm and 7pm

Tickets

Starting from £15 50

Under 26s £1 5.50

Schools £1 5.50

Groups 8+ £1 5.50

Accessible Performance

Sat 27 May, 2:30pm

From the writer of Peter Pan, this delicious farce was such a sensation in its day that it gave its name to the UK’s most loved chocolates.

Phoebe Throssel runs a school for unruly children on Quality Street.

Ten years since a tearful goodbye, an old flame returns from fighting Napoleon. But the look of disappointment on Captain Valentine’s face when he greets an older, less glamorous Phoebe, spurs our determined heroine to action.

She becomes the wild and sparkling Miss Livvy, a younger alter-ego who soon beguiles the clueless Captain. As their romance is rekindled, can she juggle both personas? Or will the deception scandalise the town and wreck any future with the man she loves?

Northern Broadsides revive their hit regency comedy, stirring in a good helping of Yorkshire wit from the retired workers of the Halifax factory where Quality Street have been proudly made since 1936. Think Bridgerton meets Inside the Factory.

Date Tue 27 Jun to Sat 01 Jul

Time Tue to Sat 7:30pm Thu and Sat Matinees 2pm

Tickets

Starting from £15 50 Schools (Tue to Fri) £15 50

Accessible Performance

Sat 01 July, 2:30pm

THE BEST IN FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Starting from

0 Family ticket (Of 4) £80 Groups 10+ £15.5 0 1894 Members £3 off (Family ticket and 1894 Members offer available on top 2 price band only)

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WHAT'S ON JANUARY Spirit of the Dance Wed 18 Jan Waterloo – The Best of ABBA Fri 20 Jan Vampires Rock – Ghost Train Sat 21 Jan The Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Tue 24 Jan Blackpool and Fylde Children’s Pantomime Fri 27 to Sun 29 Jan FEBRUARY Come What May Wed 01 Feb Puccini’s La Boheme Thu 02 Feb Jon Richardson: The Knitwit Fri 03 & Sat 04 Feb Sing-a-long-a Encanto Sun 05 Feb Tap Factory Tue 07 Feb The Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular Wed 08 Feb Buffy Revamped Sat 11 Feb One Night in Texas Sun 12 Feb The Rocky Horror Show Mon 13 to Sat 18 Feb Chicago Blues Brothers Sun 19 Feb The Sound of Springsteen Sun 26 Feb Around the World in 80 Days Tue 28 Feb to Sat 4 Mar MARCH Sunday Night at the Grand Sun 05 Mar Sandgrown Shakespeare Tue 07 to Thu 09 Mar Giovanni Pernice – Made in Italy Fri 10 Mar The Carpenters Story Sat 11 Mar Beyond the Barricade Sun 12 Mar Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Tue 14 Mar How Not To Drown Wed 15 to Fri 17 Mar The Illegal Eagles Sun 19 Mar Titanic The Musical Tue 21 to Sat 25 Mar Blackpool Symphony Orchestra Sun 26 Mar Irish Annie’s Mon 27 Mar Queenz – The Show with Balls Tue 28 Mar Tales from Acorn Wood Wed 29 & Thu 30 Mar Queen Rhapsody Fri 31 Mar APRIL Islands in the Stream Sat 01 Apr Shrek The Musical Wed 5 to Sat 08 Apr Rock Icons Mon 10 Apr Menopause the Musical 2 Wed 12 Apr Dreamboys Thu 13 Apr ELO Again Fri 14 Apr Fireman Sam Sat 15 Apr Absolue Reggae Thu 20 Apr Northern Ballet Ugly Duckling Fri 21 Apr An Evening of Burlesque Sat 22 Apr Sun Records The Concert Sun 23 Apr Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story Tue 23 to Sat 29 Apr Big Girls Don’t Cry Sun 30 Apr blackpooloperaticplayers.com @BOP1953 Tickets Starting from £22 65+ £2 off Under 18's £20 Family of 3* / of 4* £57/£75 Group discounts and early bird offers available *Discount applied at basket, at least one under 18. See website for full T&C's. Time :30pm 7 Evenings Thu to Sat Matinee 2pm Date Wed 05 to Sat 08 Apr IT’S SIMPLY SHREKTACULAR! Music by Jeanine Tesori Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture & the book by William Steig Originally produced on Broadway by DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk BLACKPOOL OPERATIC PLAYERS PRESENTS Date & Time Sun 05 Feb 1pm Tickets £18.50 Under 18s £15 Sing-a-long-a Encanto @Grand_Theatre 01253 290 190 blackpoolgrand.co.uk
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