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An unusual story of love and loss,
set in the world of Music Hall and
Variety, inspired by the films of
Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. The
Great Tourrinos meet again, having
spent many lonely years apart. Now
reunited, they will entertain us
again with one last turbulent performance
of magic, song, fire – eating,
mind-reading and…memory. This
is a magical tale of a life, lived
between worlds. The two performers
have been described as a tour de
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“Nearly time for Corrie. Got
to make time for Corrie, haven’t
you? You get yourse’n some
sleep, Rose. While you’ve
got the chance, like.” Dark,
harrowing but bleakly funny. Rose
and Daniel come round in a dank
cellar to find themselves tied to
metal bed frames. Their abductor,
Curtis, soon makes himself known
and outlines the horrific fate he
has in store for them. Contains
strong language and adult themes.
Suitable for ages 15+.
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Cameron
Mackintosh is delighted to announce
the exciting new 25th anniversary
production of the World’s
Longest Running Musical, Les Misérables
will be coming to The Lowry in August
2010 for 2 weeks only. Heading a
magnificent new cast is Broadway
and West End star John Owen Jones,
hailed by the New York Post as the
best Jean Valjean since Colm Wilkinson,
and West End stars Earl Carpenter
as Javert and Gareth Gates as Marius.
The legendary score includes the
songs, ‘I Dreamed a Dream’,
‘On My Own’, ‘Stars’,
‘Bring Him Home’, ‘Do
You Hear the People Sing’,
‘One Day More’, ‘Empty
Chairs at Empty Tables’, ‘Master
of the House’ while the new
sets feature spectacular designs
inspired by the paintings of Victor
Hugo. This is a strictly limited
season so don’t miss your
chance to experience this unforgettable
show. Dream the dream and book for
Les Misérables now. There
is a 2pm matinee on the 12th, 14th,
18th and 21st. No Sunday show.
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CORRIE!
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Celebrating
50 Golden years of Britain's longest-running
and most loved soap, the World Premiere
of this brand new comedy play is
not to be missed. Fully endorsed
by ITV, ‘Corrie! is a funny
and affectionate tribute to five
decades of Coronation Street written
by award-winning playwright and
Coronation Street scriptwriter Jonathan
Harvey (Canary, Beautiful Thing,
Closer to Heaven, Gimme Gimme Gimme).‘Corrie!
follows the fortunes of two of Weatherfield's
finest families, the Barlows and
the Platts, and features all your
favourite characters past and present
including; Ena Sharples, Hilda Ogden,
Hayley and Roy, Richard Hillman,
Jack Duckworth, Bet Lynch, Steve,
Karen and Becky and many more. Relive
those magic moments from ‘the
Street’ - see the tram run
over Alan, Tracy kill Charlie, Todd
kiss Nick and Gail marry Brian,
Martin, Richard and Joe! Packed
with surprises live on stage every
night, you never know who might
pop in to the Rovers Return to entertain
you! Corrie! It's right up your
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EXTRA
DATES ADDED BUT THIS TIME PERFORMANING
IN THE LARGE VENUE - THE LYRIC THEATRE!!!
OFFICIAL ITV 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
- LIVE ON STAGE! To celebrate 50
Golden years of Britain's longest-running
and most-loved soap, don't miss
the world premiere of this brand
new comedy fully endorsed by ITV.
Five decades of Coronation Street,
performed live in less than two
hours! Written by award winning
playwright and Coronation Street
scriptwriter Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful
Thing, Gimme Gimee Gimme) Corrie!
the play covers more than 2,000
storylines, including 115 deaths,
37 births and 86 marriages. Watch
the Rovers Return suffer one lorry
crash, two births, one fire and
only two changes of wallpaper. Catch
Weatherfield's finest and see all
your favourite characters including:
Ena Sharples, Hilda Ogden, Percy
Sugden, Alf Roberts, Ken and Deirdre
Barlow, Curly Watts, Richard Hillman,
Karen McDonald, Jack Duckworth,
Bet Lynch, Steve and Becky and many
many more. Relive your favourite
memories from the programme - see
the viaduct collapse, the coach
crash and the tram run over Alan.
See Frank capture Valerie, Tracy
kill Charlie, Todd kiss Nick, and
Gail marry Brian, Martin, Richard
and Joe! All this reduced to two
hours of hilarious mind-boggling
stage craft! Corrie! It's right
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Everyone knows the story Oliver!
Now imagine that story based on
a street gang from Salford. Fagin
is still the leader of the gang
and Ollie is still the unsuspecting
member, Will Fagin review his situation
and turn his back on his history
of crime? Will Ollie be able to
change the youths in the gang? This
much-loved show has been twisted
into a modern street version and
will leave you with an altogether
different opinion of young people
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Dark, ambitious and genuinely thrilling,
Parade is based on the true story
of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner
falsely accused of murdering a young
girl in Atlanta in 1913. With Tony
Awards for book and musical score
and performed by the award-winning
‘Company’, it guarantees
to pack an almighty punch. ‘The
quality of The Company's work is
so high that it makes you wonder
why other theatre groups cannot
achieve similar standards?’
Dave Cunningham, What's on Stage
‘When The Company came to
Manchester, they brought with them
a four-star reputation from London
and a quest to make youth theatre,
at West End standard, less London-centric
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. . ought to be here to stay.’
Kevin Bourke, Manchester Evening
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The
Lowry is absolutely delighted to
welcome Swedish company Cirkus Cirkör,
one of Europe’s top names
in contemporary circus, to the North
West for the very first time. Featuring
eight multi-skilled circus artists,
this family-friendly show is jam-packed
with clowning, acrobatics, juggling,
trapeze aerialists and much more.
Bringing together circus, music
and breathtaking visuals, Inside
Out celebrates the art of circus;
its technical skillfulness and magic.
Accompanied by explosive, wild music
from alternative rock band Iyra’s
Playground, the story follows two
ordinary people whose worlds are
turned upside down when they meet
a circus company of ugly, monstrous
and odd but also magical, funny,
warm and elegant characters. With
phenomenal heart-pounding and jaw-dropping
feats, prepare to be wowed by Cirkus
Cirkör and see what all the
rave reviews are about.
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Mercury Musical Developments is
an organisation dedicated to the
craft of writing book, music and
lyrics for musical theatre. The
Sounds Of England initiative aims
to help writers discover their original
voice. The Lowry will host two original
new thirty minute musicals called
The Signalman and Moving On. The
Signalman Presents the chilling
Victorian ghost story in three short
scenes set over three consecutive
evenings – A gentleman on
vacation in the English countryside
happens upon an isolated signalbox
with mysterious and sinister consequences…
Moving On An Underground Lost Property
man invites us to search though
his shelves of lost items. As he
touches objects he conjures up fragments
of people’s lives echoes of
lives past and present just like
ours. Forgotten, dropped or discarded
under London. Will The Signalman
or Moving On be the next Les Miserables,
Blood Brothers or Billy Elliott?
Come along and find out! Both shows
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David Hoyle co-directs his award
winning, feature film debut and
stars in the title role in this
unsettling tale of an uncle and
his nephew (pornstar Ashley Ryder),
combining a heightened sense of
English normality with the logic
of madness. This
low budget, black comedy is David
Hoyle's feature debut and he is
joined by pornstar Ashley Ryder
as his nephew. Both actors are improvising
their lines which gives the whole
work an edginess, heightened by
the atmosphere of an out-of-season
caravan-park on the Isle of Sheppey.
The banalities of conversation between
uncle and nephew are thrown into
the realms of the utterly unconventional
when we realise that not only are
they involved in a sexual relationship
but there is a sinister reason for
their holiday. We are drawn into
a world of disturbing madness, whose
cracked logic is delivered with
an unnerving avuncular charm.. «
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Now in the UK for the very first
time, don’t miss the sell
out show that has women cheering
on their feet and men gasping with
amazement. Join sassy songstress
Emma Powell and charismatic comedian
Bev Killick and see why over quarter
of a million people Down Under were
blown away with their originality,
audacity and truly jaw aching (and
on occasion, knicker wetting) humour.
Join our bosom buddies for an evening
that’s part musical, part
stand up, part theatre and part
cabaret, and you’ll be busting
to tell your friends about the feel-good
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RHOD
GILBERT & THE CAT WHO LOOKED LIKE
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7.30pm |
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Following
last year’s sell-out tour
and sensational performances on
‘The Royal Variety Performance’,
‘Live At The Apollo’,
and ‘Michael Mcintyre’s
Comedy Roadshow’, the Welsh
Wonder is back on the road with
a brand new show. Last year, he
punched a shop-assistant over the
duvet tog-rating system and went
berserk over a mince pie. Stung
by accusations that he over-reacts,
this year Rhod sets out on an emotional
rollercoaster of a journey to discover
the truth. Is he, as he believes,
a visionary in a sea of closed minds,
or has he, as everyone else believes,
got anger-management problems? Total
sell-out, Edinburgh 2005-2008. If.
Comedy Nominee 2008. One of the
hottest names in stand-up today.
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I, Julian Clary, have done for mincing
what Michael Flatley did for Irish
dancing. But has the bottom fallen
out of the homosexual meat market?
I must tour my kingdom to find out…
In these difficult times I feel
I should go and comfort my people
in the provinces. My friend Damien
tells me the men are very hard up
in Sheffield. I only hope I’m
not too late. I’m 50. The
shame of it. This will be an intimate
evening – a celebration, no
less, of my twenty-five years in
the camp spotlight: how I got there
and why I refuse to leave. Come
and see me before they put me in
a home for tired old knackers.
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Part love story, part magic show,
Love and Other Magic Tricks reveals
the smoke and mirrors between a
couple as they search for that delicate
balance between love and need. Inspired
by the magical realism of Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, the comical strangeness
of Kafka and the longing of Edward
Hopper, the debut show from standnotamazed
brings to life a world where anything
can happen. The cast features international
performance artists Maya Politaki
and award-winning contemporary magician
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Join James as he returns with his
brand new stand-up comedy show mixed
with funny songs about life, sausages
and how superheroes go to the toilet.
This brilliant stand-up show for
kids is a must-see, filled with
songs, gags and silly stories. Some
artists go to the desert to write
songs. James went to Essex - the
nice part (with windows). Accompanied
by a piano teacher he found in a
forest this is a show is like no
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Join us for an evening of dazzling
music and hilarious banter from
Billy Mitchell (former singer with
Lindisfarne) and Bob Fox (one of
North-Eastern England’s finest
singer-guitarists). Both are fine
individual singers and together
they are masters of vocal harmony.
Billy and Bob are also talented
instrumentalists and accompany themselves
on six- and twelve-string guitars
and mandolins. Having cherry-picked
from their wide-ranging repertoires,
this North-Eastern flavoured show
features songs (including several
Lindisfarne classics) celebrating
the richness of life on both sides
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6th to Saturday 18th September 2010 -
7.30pm |
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Featuring some of the most famous
and inspiring stage music ever written,
including the classic songs Don’t
Cry For Me Argentina, On This Night
Of A Thousand Stars, Oh What A Circus,
You Must Love Me and Another Suitcase
In Another Hall, Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s extraordinary
musical Evita arrives at The Lowry.
Bringing to life the dynamic, larger-than-life
persona of Eva Peron, wife of former
Argentine dictator Juan Peron, Evita
tells the story from her young and
ambitious beginnings to the enormous
wealth and power she gained and
her ultimate rise to sainthood.
With more than 20 major awards to
its credit, including the Oscar-winning
film version starring Madonna and
Antonio Banderas, and featuring
one of the most coveted roles in
musical theatre, this brand new
production of the smash hit show
truly promises to be ‘the
theatrical event of the year.’
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experience is back for a 3rd time to the
lowry for you to enjoy - book now or miss
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Featuring the best gags and a great
meal, this pitch-perfect ‘13th
episode' of the TV series is face-achingly
funny. Basil is manic, Sybil domineering,
and Manuel hopelessly language-challenged.
Everything that can wrong does in
some beautifully controlled chaos.
This is ‘total immersion’
interactive comedy theatre: you,
the audience, are the diners and
the cast your warring waiters…But
please, don’t mention the
war!’
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Remember
your school days? The dreaded detentions,
soggy semolina, snogging behind
the bike sheds and break-time bust-ups?!
Well prepare to be catapulted back
to the classroom and take a raw
and riotous look at life in a typical
British school, in this classic
comedy from BAFTA winner John Godber.
Meet the staff; the trendy young
Drama teacher making his shaky debut;
the Deputy Head who rules the school
with an iron rod; the gentle Humanities
teacher who is desperate for a quiet
life; Doug, the grumpy old Caretaker,
and the Headmistress – a boisterous
battleaxe and some-time Amateur
Dramatics star! And prepare yourselves
for the pupils; a wayward mob of
disruptive delinquents - determined
to wreck havoc, hormones and horror
throughout the school!Nostalgia,
mischief and mayhem reign supreme
in this classic classroom drama!
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Following the critically acclaimed
Mile End (The Lowry, 2008), Analogue
return with this immersive experience
for one audience member at a time.
An intimate encounter in a darkened
room between yourself and your reflection.
You are a lecturer driving a passenger
home on a cold Halloween night.
You are the passenger sitting anxiously
in the back seat. You are both simultaneously;
the performer and the audience.
You are in the headlights of a past
that is catching up with you...
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Join scottish born, Danny Bhoy,
one of the best selling comedians
at the Edinburgh Festival, repeatedly
selling over 12,000 tickets in just
3 weeks. This is hardly surprising
for one of the now top selling comedians
in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
His unique brand of observational
humour, and natural gift for storytelling
has captured the hearts and minds
of fans around the globe, and his
popularity continues to rise at
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Set at the height of the Great War
this sweeping play follows the lives
of two young footballing heroes
from the tenements of Dublin through
the battlefields of France, and
their return home. The Silver Tassie,
one of Sean O’Casey’s
greatest plays, is a thrilling spectacle
using all the resources of the theatre;
farce, humour, movement and music.
For this production Druid has put
together one of their biggest ever
company of actors. Tony Award-winner
Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19,
including some of Ireland’s
leading actors, for what will mark
Druid’s fourth visit to The
Lowry in just under two years. Druid,
winner of 12 major theatre awards
in 2009 including Best Visiting
Production (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
and Best Visiting Actor at the 2009
Manchester Evening News Awards,
return to The Lowry with a production
you simply won’t want to miss.
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Set in Little Hulton, Salford, Territory
observes a group of boys spending
an evening in the local woods. When
one of the boys brings his older,
successful brother to join them,
the status within the group is challenged.
With varied characters and a dramatic
narrative, Territory is a touching
and humourous reminder of what it
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Britain’s national contemporary
dance company returns to its partner
venue with a brand new programme
of imaginative, ambitious and high
quality dance. This
autumn, Rambert is delighted to
première its exciting new
work Awakenings. A collaboration
between theatrical choreographer
Aletta Collins and celebrated American
composer Tobias Picker, this is
the first dance interpretation of
Oliver Sacks’ book of the
same name, made famous by the 1990
Hollywood film starring Robin Williams
and Robert De Niro. Awakenings is
a beautiful piece of dance full
of high emotion, energy and drama.
Christopher Bruce’s award-winning
and uplifting Hush and Merce Cunningham’s
RainForest complete the bill. With
22 of the world’s finest dancers
and incredible live music from the
Rambert Orchestra, the company continues
to be at the very heart of British
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In 1812 a scandal rocked the Croom
household in Derbyshire. A sexual
liaison, possibly involving Lord
Byron, apparently ended in a fatal
duel. Two hundred years later, a
pushy academic and a popular historian
are trying to uncover the house’s
true history. Landscape gardening,
Newtonian physics, classicism versus
romanticism and chaos theory are
all part of this comic literary
detective story, which is both an
exuberant celebration of the unpredictability
of love and sex, and a poignant
study of change and decay. Arcadia’s
wit, elegance and sheer exuberance
have made it a modern classic. Manchester
Library Theatre Company lead production
sponsor Manchester Airport Group.
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0844 815 4873 |
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is a 2.30pm matinee on Thursdays and
Saturdays. No Sunday shows. |
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lowry
theatre restaurants •
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