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Dateline: 4th July, 2008
News from the South East - July 2008 Each month from now on the BTG's Sheila Connor will be reporting on theatre in the South East. Please send any news items to sheila@britishtheatreguide.info After two very successful summers Chichester Festival Theatre is now well into the swing of things with a superbly touching and comical Funny Girl with rising star Samantha Spiro in the title role, followed by a star-studded The Cherry Orchard, and this week sees Brian Conley leading his seventy six trombones in the big parade in The Music Man (opening on 3rd July), and running in tandem with Six Characters in Search of an Author in the smaller Minerva Theatre – opening 8th July. The theatre restaurant, Brasserie in the Park, is under new management and prides itself on using seasonal produce, organic and locally sourced. It is open for meals before and after the performance, and the upstairs bar opens from 5 pm. for bar snacks. The Guildford Shakespeare Company is now in its third year and going from strength to strength with this year’s Comedy of Errors performed in Guildford’s Castle Grounds until 5th July and As You Like It by the University Lake commencing 17th July until 26th July – Box office 01483 304 384 Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre will be a hive of youthful activity during the summer holidays with a month of drama for all ages. And there’s plenty of term-time action as well. Four weeks of workshops will see the Mill Studio full of young people throughout July and August. And every week ends in a show. Run by the Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre, the first week-long workshop, opening July 28, is aimed at getting people moving. Dance and Movement Fun will tackle a single theme through the week but will use a host of different styles to get everyone moving. There will be a strong physical theatre element to this workshop as the group explores how to express a story with the body as much as with words. It is aimed at 8-13 year olds. Meanwhile the excellent Youth Theatre is performing Oliver from 3rd to 5h July, and the Guildford School of Acting students will be presenting the musical Anything Goes from 11th to 19th July. See the stars of tomorrow today! The New Victoria Theatre, Woking has Slapstix until 5th July, then Evita until 19th, Joe McGann in Fiddler on the Roof until 26th July, and finishes the month with a treat for children (and their parents) Treasure Island. The Hawth at Crawley are very anxious to promote The Elvis Collection starring Billy J. McGregor on 2nd August. They have sent me details five times! Meanwhile their one and two night performances include on 7th July The War of the Vegetables, West Side Story by Tanbridge House School, a Clairvoyance show and various forms of music – Jazz, Blues, reggae, a Neil Diamond tribute band – as well as A Decade of Dance, finally culminating with How to Get Almost Anyone to Want to Sleep with You........say no more! Reporter: Sheila Connor
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