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THEATRE GROUP NEWS – 6 FEB 2012

 

THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE CONCERT

THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE CONCERT
SATURDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2012
PHILHARMONIC HALL Tickets £28 Including Transport
NB Must be paid by 27th January 2012 so register at Theatre Desk Tuesday or phone Eileen on 526 1001
In order to celebrate this momentous occasion this wonderful concert has been arranged and we have managed to obtain
Grand Circle seats at an excellent discount.
Presented by Jenni Bond
Former Royal Correspondent and TV Personality
Click here for full details:  Queen’s Jubilee Concert

WONDERFUL TOWN – MARCH 2012 – THE LOWRY

  • We have just obtained 24 seats for the fantastic new show being arranged between
  • THE ROYAL EXCHANGE MANCHESER
  • THE LOWRY THEATRE MANCHESTER
  • THE HALLE ORCHESTRA

Leonard Bernstein’s Musical Comedy

  • WONDERFUL TOWN
  • STARRING CONNIE FISHER
  • Saturday 31st March  2012
  • There will only be 16 performances in Manchester and we have obtained  ‘Early Bird’ priced seats.
  • This means we have to pay for the seats, in full, by 30th June 2011 otherwise we shall be charged another £7-£10.
  • Our price is £33, which includes transport to The Lowry.

BRIDGEWATER HALL – A concert to celebrate a Royal Wedding

MUSIC TO CELEBRATE A ROYAL WEDDING

SUNDAY 17TH APRIL 2011  -  COMMENCING 3.00 P.M.

Tickets £30 which includes transport from Maghull

A concert featuring the Manchester Concert Orchestra and Manchester Chorale plus many guest performers who  will play a wonderful selection of music – a comprehensive list is available on Tuesday mornings or look on the Bridgewater Hall website.

BRIDGEWATER HALL

кожени спалниWe are embarking on a new venture by organising our first  trip to the magnificent Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to see

a performance by Brass Bands.

THE NORTHERN SPRING BRASS ARTS FESTIVAL

Featuring The Black Dyke and Foden’s Brass Bands on Sunday evening 8th May 2011.

The cost will be £27 per head, which includes transport.

If we can sell in excess of 10 tickets we shall receive a 10% discount on the theatre ticket.

THEATRE GROUP UPDATE

THE PHILHARMONIC

GORGEOUS GERSHWIN – TICKETS £24 includes transport

THURSDAY 30th June 2011

THE THREE PHANTOMS

SATURDAY 2nd July  2011 -  TICKETS £24  Includes transport

THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SUMMER POPS

SATURDAY 9th July 2011 – Tickets   £29 Includes Transport

THE PHILHARMONIC

FUTURE EVENTS 2010-11

OCTOBER 2010

Friday 1st A Decade of Great Music Making

Grieg Piano Concerto/Tchaikovsky Selection of Ballet Music/Britten Young Person’s Guide to Music

Saturday 2nd Liverpool Wondrous Place

Liverpool is the only UK City at the 2010 World Expo

in Shanghai. Be the first to hear this amazing ‘one off’

never to be repeated concert featuring The Phil

Orchestra with hits from The Scaffold/OMD

and the Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra.

Thursday 7th Odyssey

Strauss – RosenkavalierWaltzes/Sprach Zarathustra

Schumann(ed.Mahler) Symphony No. 4.

Mahler – Blumine

Saturday 9th John Lennon Song Book

Celebrating the Anniversary of Lennon’s 70th

birthday Featuring the full Symphony Orchestra

and some of The UK’s top vocalists.

Thursday 21st Camina Burana

Featuring the Philharmonic Orchestra/Choir & Youth Choir with Ian Tracy Conductor

Brahams – Liebeslieder Waltzes

Holst – Choral Fantasia

Orff – Camina Burana

November 2010

Thursday 4th Heaven Sent (The Hottest Tickets of the Year)

Mozart – Overture II Seraglio

Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto

Mahler – Symphony No.4

DECEMBER 2010

Thursday 16th Christmas with Carl

Join Carl Davis/The Phil Orchestra/The Liverpool Welsh Choral and Lance Ellington

Great Classics from Bach to Broadway to The Beatles

Highlights from Handel’s Messiah

McCartneys Liverpool Oratorio & Sleigh Ride

Sunday 19th Rudolph on Hope Street – 2.30 p.m.  – Children £8

Join us for this one hour extravaganza for the whole family with audience

participation encouraged. Bring along those red noses and prepare to say hello to Santa

Wednesday 22nd The Spirit of Christmas

Featuring Lesley Garrett as Presenter/Soprano

With The Philharmonic Orchestra/Choir/Youth Choir

The Hall becomes a winter wonderland –

EXPECT A FEW PLEASANT SURPRISES!

Friday 31st New Year’s Eve – Celebrating Sinatra

Be part of the grooviest party in town along with the Phil

JANUARY 2011

Sunday 2nd Peter & The Wolf – Live Music &Film

Children’s tickets £8. See this Oscar winning film accompanied by the

Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on the immense screen

Saturday 8th POLAR - Live Music &Film

A cinematic portrait of the Polar Kingdoms with a unique live orchestral soundtrack

arranged by the Conductor John Harle for the Philharmonic Orchestra.

See it on the immense screen. The performance lasts 75 minutes with no interval.

Thursday 27th Petrenko’s Glorious Rachmaninov

Prokofiev – Suite from Le Pas d’Acier

Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 4

Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 2

APRIL 2011

Saturday 9th The Wedding of Camacho

European Opera Centre at the Phil

Mendelssohn (The Wedding of Camacho)

Vasily Petrenko – Conductor

Ignacio Garcia – Director

Sung in German with English sub-titles

Wednesday 13th Don Quixote

Liste – Mephisto Waltz No.1

Strauss – Don Quixote

Beethoven – Symphony No. 7

Saturday 30th Chaplin’s ‘The Pilgrim’ Live Music & Film

Until you have experienced the immense screen with live accompaniment of the full Orchestra – you have not lived!

Carl Davis conducts the Orchestra also featuring the World Premier of ‘Ballade for Cello’ composed by Carl Davis for the RLPO’s principal cello Jonathan Aasgaard.

MAY 2011

Wednesday 18th Heroes

Tchaikovsky – Suite No.4 Mozartiana

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1

Mozart – Overture for Don Giovani

Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings

JUNE 2011

Friday 10th Petrenko’s Elgar

3 scenes from The Bavarian Highlands

Guilmant Symphony No. 1 for Organ (Ian Tracey)

Elgar Symphony No.2

The RLPO Orchestra & Choir

THE OPERA HOUSE – MANCHESTER

HAIRSPRAY – STARRING MICHAEL BALL

THURSDAY 22ND JULY  – TICKET INC. TRANSPORT    £38

THE LOWRY THEATRE – MANCHESTER

BALLET NATIONAL DE CUBA – WITH CARLOS ACUSTA

THURSDAY 15TH APRIL  – TICKET INC. TRANSPORT   £34

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE – MANCHESTER

A COMEDY OF ERRORS

TUESDAY 20TH APRIL  -   TICKET INC. TRANSPORT   £29

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PYGMALION

WEDNESDAY 12TH MAY    -  TICKET INC. TRANSPORT    £22

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CHARLEY’S AUNT

WEDNESDAY 30TH JUINE   -  TICKET INC. TRANSPORT   £29

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