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Dateline: 17th January, 2010 News from the North West
Les Mis to tour to The LowryIt was announced this week that the musical Les Misérables will visit The Lowry in Salford in August for just two weeks as part of its current tour. E-mails were sent out on Wednesday to members of the 'My Lowry' e-mail list for priority bookings for the run from 10 to 21 August. The production opens next week at Manchester's Palace Theatre where – along with its sister theatre the Opera House – most large-scale West End musicals are usually performed when they visit Manchester, and so this high-profile musical production is a major coup for the Salford venue in its tenth anniversary year.
Jupitus & Dennis in Liverpool HairsprayIt has been announced that the Liverpool run of the tour of hit musical Hairspray will star Phill Jupitus in drag as Edna Turnblad and Liverpool comic Les Dennis as his husband Wilbur. Original West End Edna Michael Ball reprises his performance for many stops on the tour including Manchester's Opera House but his other commitments prevent him from playing it for the whole tour. Essex comedian Jupitus finishes his stint in Edna's ample frocks in the West End production later this month, and his recent messages on Twitter suggest he will miss playing the role. Dennis recently got rave reviews for his performance as the dame in the Empire's pantomime production of Peter Pan. The production runs at the Empire from 17 August to 4 September.
Royal Exchange looking for non-speaking 1984 participantsManchester's Royal Exchange Theatre is asking for volunteers to fill non-speaking extra roles in its upcoming production of George Orwell's 1984 directed by Matthew Dunster. The producers are looking for white males between the ages of 18 and 50 years for the production, which runs from 24 February to 27 March; they do not require availability for the whole of the run from any of the participants or any acting experience. There will be a performance workshop on Tuesday 26 January at 6pm for anyone interested in taking part. If you wish to attend the workshop, contact casting.director@royalexchange.co.uk.
YouTube-based dance competition for LEAP 2010The Merseyside Dance Initiative annual showcase LEAP will this year run a dance competition via the popular video-sharing web site YouTube, and the winning dancers will perform in the Community Showcase at Liverpool Playhouse on 6 March. There are two age categories – 14 to 24 years and 25 years and over – and the piece must be accompanied by music, be no longer than three minutes and include one to three people. It can be recorded on a camcorder or mobile 'phone and uploaded to a personal YouTube account and the link to it should be e-mailed to info@mdi.org.uk headed 'You Tube Competition' . The e-mail should also include name, telephone number, age, parental consent if under 16, title of music, and title, length and a description in up to 50 words of the dance. Entries must arrive by Monday 8 February and entrants will be notified of the results by 27 February.
NW productionsLong running West End ghost story The Woman In Black, adapted from the novel by Susan Hill by Stephen Mallatratt, will haunt The Lowry in Salford from 18 to 23 January. Boublil and Schöneberg's popular musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables opens at the Palace Theatre in Manchester this week running from 19 January to 13 February starring John Owen Jones, Earl Carpenter and Gareth Gates. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's adaptation of the classic film Whistle Down the Wind is at Liverpool Empire from 20 to 30 January starring G4's Jonathan Ansell. Morecambe by Tim Whitnall, featuring Bob Golding as comedian Eric Morecambe, is at Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on 21 January. At Contact Theatre in Manchester, Marcus Hercules presents a preview of his script in development Space Dread on 22 January starring Wylie Longmore set in an idyllic, future, post-apocalyptic world where a potential troublemaker is sent back in time to learn the mistakes of the past. Reporter: David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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